Language and Communication Technologies University of the Basque Country

Overview

It offers education and training opportunities for the next generations of leaders in research and innovation. It 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.

The main objective of this Language and Communication Technologies master's degree from  University of the Basque Country, is to analyse language and to get to know the existing techniques and applications for computer language processing, with a double orientation, both research and professional in the field of language technologies.

Career Opportunities

• Research in areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP): machine translation, sentiment analysis, statistical language modelling, computational linguistics, text mining.

• Professionals in fields related to language engineering, language industries and information and communication technologies (ICT) such as the following: 

• Deep learning techniques from big data.

• Development of electronic linguistic resources: e.g. dictionaries, thesauri, ontologies, lexical databases, linguistic corpora.

• Development of computer-assisted learning systems for e-learning and conversational systems with user-oriented adaptive ability such as smart chatbots.

• Semantic knowledge representation and managing from the web.

• Specialist in machine translation or speech processing.

• Research in companies: e.g. Google, Microsoft, IBM, Elhuyar, Vicomtech.