European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies


Detailed Study Program at FUB

Academic year 2006-2007

In the Academic Year 2006-2007, students who choose to spend their first year at FUB will be offered the courses below. At their second year they can take the Language Technology courses at any of the partner universities.

1st year (2006-2007)
Winter SemesterCreditsSummer SemesterCredits
Theory of Computing8 Human Computer Interaction4
Advanced Statistics 4Advanced Algorithms4
Data Warehousing and Data Mining 8 Digital Libraries 4
Programming Languages 4 Computational Logic 4
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence 4 Computational Linguistics 4
Text Processing4 Introduction to Linguistics 4
   Knowledge Representation4

The students who come studying at FUB in their second year will have to select the courses to attend together with the local coordinator of the EM in LCT on the base of the parter university where they have spent their first year.

Students can take up till 15 credits for a project in LCT. The project can be considered as the preliminary work to be carried out for the MSc thesis which consists of 30 credits. Both the project and the thesis can be accomplished under the supervision of staff at either FUB, or ITC-irst or CELI, or in co-supervision with staff from the partner university choosen as second university. Possible topics are listed here.

Based on the student CV, the coordinator of the European Master in LCT at FUB might require the student to take a course on General Skills.

If students have already taken any of the courses listed above, they can choose among the courses offered in other Programs at the Free University of Bozen Bolzano. A list of suggested courses can be found here. The selection of these courses must be discussed with the coordinator of the European Master in LCT at FUB.