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Passing of Gosse Bouma
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Gosse Bouma.
Gosse was a valued member of the LCT community and served for many years as the local study coordinator at the University of Groningen. We are very grateful for his valuable contributions to LCT which helped shape the program over the years.
Gosse will be remembered by the LCT community as a thoughtful, considerate and kind colleague, mentor, and friend. He will be deeply missed.
If you would like to share your memories of Gosse or your condolences, you can do so via this online registry.
Application Opening
Dear prospective applicants,
Thank you for your interest in the Language and Communication Technologies (LCT) Master's Programme.
Unfortunately, the LCT Master's Programme will not continue in its current form, and there are currently no plans to admit new applicants.
We sincerely appreciate the interest and enthusiasm shown by prospective students from around the world. While we are disappointed that we cannot welcome a new cohort, we wish you every success in finding another Master's programme that supports your academic and professional goals.
Although the programme is coming to an end, the LCT community remains active. We warmly invite you to stay connected with us through our LinkedIn community, where you can keep in touch with alumni, partners, and members of the LCT network.
Thank you once again for your interest in LCT. We wish you all the best for your future studies and career.
Best regards,
The LCT Team
Unfortunately, we will not be opening a call for applications for the 2026 intake. The LCT Consortium plans to apply for new Erasmus Mundus funding next year, and there is a possibility that the program will resume in 2027. If you remain interested in the LCT program, please check our website in about a year for updates.
The application form for the intake 2025 is now closed. Thank you all for your interest! The results will be available by mid-April via email and in your personal account on the application platform.
The intake 2025 will be for self-funding students only. The application form will be open in December and the deadline will be February 28 at 23:59 PM, Central European Time. More information is available here.
The intake 2024 will be for self-funding students only. The application form will be open on December 4 and the deadline will be March 1 at 23.59 PM, Central European Time. More information is available here.
Application for intake 2023 is now OPEN. All correct, timely, and complete applications will be considered for the Erasmus Mundus scholarship. The deadline for intake 2023 is published here.
Application on a self-funding basis is now open. The deadline is 15 April 2021.
Intake 2021 Application open
Application is now OPEN for intake 2021, for European and non-European applicants. The application form is found here.
Intake 2020 Application open
Application is now OPEN for intake 2020, for European and non-European applicants. The application form is found here: Here
LCT Annual Meetings
We’d like to share this year’s Annual Meeting program with you; you can access it here. We look forward to welcoming you in Nancy on June 18 and 19, 2026.
The LCT Annual Meeting 2026 will be held on June 18-19 in Nancy, France. Our host will be the University of Lorraine. All alumni are invited to participate; the meeting is mandatory for currently enrolled students.
The LCT Annual Meeting 2025 will be held on June 26-27 in Prague. Our host will be Charles University. All alumni are invited to participate; the meeting is mandatory for currently enrolled students.
The LCT Annual Meeting 2024 will be held on June 17-18. Our host will be the University of Trento. All alumni are invited to participate; the meeting is mandatory for currently enrolled students.
The LCT Annual Meeting 2023 will be held on June 19-20. Our host university will be the University of Malta. All alumni are invited to participate; the meeting is mandatory for currently enrolled students.
The LCT Annual Meeting 2022 will be held on June 23-24, 2022. Our host will be the University of the Basque Country, although it is not yet known whether this will be a hybrid/physical meeting, or online only. All alumni are invited to participate; the meeting is mandatory for currently enrolled students. More information will be published here as it becomes available.
LCT Annual Meeting 2021 will be held in virtual form, taking place on June 24-25. The hosting institution will be the University of Groningen. More information will be published here as planning progresses.
Published : 2020-06-22
The 2020 Annual Meeting will take place in virtual form on 25 and 26 June, the event page is found here.
Physical meeting CANCELLED. The Annual Meeting 2020, scheduled for June, 2020 in Saarbrücken, has been cancelled due to the current public health situation. As an alternative, we will schedule some virtual events, more details will be published as they become available.
Miscellaneous
We are proud to announce that the paper "When your Rich Cousin Has the Right Connections: Unsupervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction for Related Data-Imbalanced Languages." by Niyati Bafna, Cristina España-Bonet, Josef van Genabith, Benoît Sagot and Rachel Bawden has won the best student paper award at LREC-Coling 2024. Niyati is an LCT graduate of the intake 2020 and currently she is doing her PhD at the Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing.
Congratulations to Niyati Bafna and her co-authors!
Host: University of the Basque Country
Webinars in Language Technology: HiTZ (Basque Center for Language Technology: http://hitz.eus) will be hosting a seminar every month. The inaugural webinar was given by Eduard Hovy (CMU). Follow this link for more information: http://www.hitz.eus/en/webinars
Carlos Diez Sanchez, an LCT alumnus of intake 2015, has filed a patent application in the USA with the title USING A JOINT DISTRIBUTIONAL SEMANTIC SYSTEM TO CORRECT REDUNDANT SEMANTIC VERB FRAMES. Inventors: Yunyao Li, Carlos Fernando Diez Sánchez, Marie Louise Elizabeth van der Plas
Congratulations to all!
Congratulations to all!
Simon Preissner and Aurélie Herbelot. To be Fair: a Case for
Cognitively-Inspired Models of Meaning
(http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2481/paper59.pdf)
Clic-it 2019 (6th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics),
November 13-15 Bari (http://clic2019.di.uniba.it/index_en.html) the annual conference run by AILC (http://www.ai-lc.it/en/) Clic-it Best Paper has been awarded to Simon, an LCT student of intake 2018, and
Aurélie for the originality of their work. Congratulations!