Language Technology

Language technology, or computational linguistics, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the computational modelling of natural language. Research is driven both by the theoretical goal of understanding human language and by practical applications involving natural language processing, such as chatbots and systems for automatic translation and summarisation. Recent progress in language technology is to a large extent due to developments in machine learning, especially deep learning, and the field is currently being reshaped by the emergence of large language models and generative AI.

Education in Language Technology at Uppsala University can be found in the second and third cycles. The International Master’s Programme in Language Technology admits students with a background in language studies, computational linguistics or computer science. The programme includes courses on mathematics, programming and machine learning, as well as specialised courses on natural language processing and subfields like information retrieval and machine translation. Some of these courses are also offered as freestanding courses. The programme prepares students for a career in industry as well as a research career in the academic world. Uppsala University also has a PhD programme in computational linguistics.