Faculty of Informatics

University of the Basque Country

LCT at the University of the Basque Country
Available courses and information on thesis submission

At the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), the EM-LCT program is hosted by the IXA research group (http://ixa.eus) and HiTZ, the Basque Center for Language Technology (http://www.hitz.eus). The key cornerstones in our program are Applied Natural language processing and understanding (NLP/NLU), together with advanced data science, mainly applied to text but also to speech. Available study units range from advanced computer science to multi-disciplinary natural language processing, putting emphasis on experimentation but without leaving aside linguistic aspects. Our academic staff is notable for its commitment to research and for awakening research interest in our students. Researchers from 6 departments are involved in the teaching program leading to a wide range of expertise that translate into alternative multi-disciplinary possibilities for the master thesis. Classes are small, enabling close interaction. The Computer Science Faculty is located in San Sebastian, a green city by the sea at the feet of the Pyrenees that hosts several companies and technological institutes dealing with NLP. Our areas of expertise include: advanced deep neural machine translation, multi-modal natural language understanding, speech processing and speech generation, acquisition and annotation of language resources, NLP for lesser-resourced language like Basque.