2 December: fyi -- research studentships, Erasmus Mundus
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Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS for overseas and non-overseas students
http://lct-master.org
For applicants of Category A, the deadline for submitting applications is
8th January 2010
For applicants of Category B, the deadline for submitting applications is
15th April 2010
Category A = non European and special window
Category B = European and other than A
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The following consortium of Universities:
1. Saarland University in Saarbruecken, Germany (coordinator)
2. Free University of Bozen - Bolzano, Italy
3. University of Malta
4. University of Nancy 2, France
5. Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
6. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
7. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
8. The University of Melbourne, Australia
are offering the Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies
(LCT; http://lct-master.org) under the auspices of the Erasmus Mundus
Program of the European Union
(http://ec.europa.eu/education/external-relation-programmes/doc72_en.htm).
The Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Language and Communication
Technologies is an international distributed Master of Science course. The
program involves studying one year at one of the Universities of the
consortium, and completing the second year with a stay in one of the other
partner Universities. After this, the student will obtain two degrees at
the level of Masters with legal value in each of the countries of issue.
The Program in Brief
Objectives: The Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Language and
Communication Technologies provides students with profound knowledge and
insight into the various disciplines that contribute to the methods of
language and communication technologies and it strengthens their ability to
work according to scientific methods. Moreover, the students acquire
practice-oriented knowledge by choosing appropriate combinations of modules
in Language Technology, Computational and Theoretical Linguistics, and
Computer Science. As such, the Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in LCT is
designed to meet the demands of industry and research in the rapidly
growing area of Language Technology. It offers education and training
opportunities for future generations of leaders in research and innovation.
Duration: 2 years (120 ECTS credits)
Language of instruction: English
Summary of Study Programme: The course consists of compulsory core modules,
as well as elective advanced modules in Language Technology and Computer
Science, optionally complemented by a project, and completed by a Masters
dissertation.
Application Deadlines: Applications to the LCT and the Erasmus Mundus
Scholarships scheme for the academic years 2010-2012 commence on the 15th
of August 2009 and can be made online at
http://lct-master.org/registration/index.php?authorsInstructions=1
Deadline for Category A (non European and special window) students:
8th January 2010
Deadline for Category B (European and other than Category A) students:
15th April 2010
Study Requirements
All applicants must satisfy the following study requirements:
1. a Bachelor degree or equivalent in the area of (Computational)
Linguistics, Language Technology, Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science,
Mathematics,
Artificial Intelligence, or other relevant disciplines.
2. Proficiency in English (for non-native speakers) must be certified by
one of the following (for more details, please check
http://lct-master.org/index.php?id=prerequisites):
a. TOEFL score of at least 250 (computer-based test) or 575 (paper-based test).
b. Cambridge Proficiency Exam - pass
c. IELTS - > 6.5
d. Possession of a first degree taught in English
e. Internet-based TOEFL score: 79
Please, note that applicants from countries where English is not the only
native language do need one of the certificates mentioned above.
For detailed info on applications, please, check the web pages:
http://lct-master.org/index.php?id=deadlines
For further information please contact Dr. Valia Kordoni.
Program coordinators:
Prof. Hans Uszkoreit (hansu at coli.uni-sb.de)
Dr. Valia Kordoni (kordoni at coli.uni-sb.de)
Further contacts can be found at: http://lct-master.org/index.php?id=ap
Application Web Address:
http://lct-master.org/registration/index.php?authorsInstructions=1
Contact Information:
PD Dr. Valia Kordoni
kordoni at coli.uni-sb.de
Phone:+49 (0)681 302 4682
Fax:+49 (0)681 302 4700
PD Dr. Valia Kordoni, Computational Linguistics-Saarland University, P.O.
Box 15 11 50, 66041 Saarbruecken, Germany and LT-Lab DFKI GmbH
Tel: +49 681 302 4682
Fax: +49 681 302 4700
E-mail: kordoni@coli.uni-sb.de
http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~kordoni/
http://www.lct-master.org/
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