1. Details of the study

The Master programme has a length of 4 semesters, which means a quantity of 120 ECTS points, whereat the study will be organized . The students must follow courses in at least two partner universities and a minimum of 30% of the total ECTS have to be acquired from each partner university.

A prerequisite for obtaining the certificate in our Master in Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing, is to write a dissertation in one of the two offered specializations. The dissertation should be supervised by professors from the different partner universities.

The structure of the Master is defined along the lines of the EU masters in Language and Speech (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/emasters) and it is described in the Table1.

The topics 1 to 7 will be covered by different courses, if necessary also by different university partners. The cited “credit points” correspond to the minimal performances the students have to get in a subject area to verify the success. The advantage of this system is that every university partner can depend on already existing courses, that means avoiding the employment of an additional teacher.

Due to this, Table1 shows the distribution of the current courses to the partner universities.

For every topic (1-7) both basic - and advanced-courses are offered.

The Master's program offers two specializations:

• Knowledge presentation and language comprehension.
• Signal language processing.

The students must complete advanced seminars in the specialization chosen. The dissertation has to be part of the specialization too.

In the beginning only some courses will be offered in English language for not English speaking countries. This quantity of these will be increased courses during the master's program period. For the others courses, e-learning modules or bibliography in English will be also provided.

The e-learnig modules are not an alternative, but an aid thought for the foreign students.