Universität Hamburg, FB Informatik (UHH)

Contact person: Prof. Dr. Walther v. Hahn (AB. NatS)

Vogt-Kölln Straße 30, 22527 Hamburg, Germany

Tel: +4940428832434

Fax: +4940428832515

e-mail: vhahn@informatik.uni-hamburg.de

http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~vhahn

Role:

Role:

• Coordination, collective curriculum vitae development, distribution and marketing
• Teaching program for the Module theoretical linguistics, Natural language processing, Cognitive models for speech and Language processing, Language engineering applications, Programming languages.
• Advanced courses in the main points: Knowledge presentation and language comprehension.
• Coordination of the dissertation in Information Retrieval, Information extraction, machine translation, Knowledge presentation.

Courses offered:

Module	CP	Courses	Semester	European Master equivalence
Theoretical Linguistics	9 ECTS each one(6 weekly contact hours)	1*	WS or SS	Module 1
Natural Language Processing	9 ECTS each one(6 weekly contact hours)	-Speech Recognition -Machine translation -Dialog Systems for spoken language -Speech and gesture -Text summarization -Information extraction from text 2*	WS or SS WS or SS WS or SS WS or SS WS or SS WS or SS	Module 7 Module 7 Module 7 Module 7 Module 7 Module 7
Cognitive Models for Speech and Language Processing	Still in process
Programming Languages	9 ECTS each one(6 weekly contact hours)	3*	WS or SS	Module 8
Project	12 ECTS (8 contact hours)	Students are expected to cooperatively develop system solutions for ambitious processing tasks. Usually this project work corresponds to potential master thesis themes.	WS or SS
Dissertation			WS08

1* It is part of the teaching programm of the department of German linguistic.
The choice of the courses is still under discussion.

2* Optional courses will be offered during the winter or the summer term.
A maximum of 3 courses may be taken in each semester.
At least one of these courses :
Speech Recognition, Dialog Systems for spoken language, Information extraction .
will be offered every semester:

3* The courses are part of the regular teaching programme of the department of informatics
which is currently subject to an accreditation procedure under the framework of the Washington Accord.
Therefore this programme can be guarantedd at least for the next five years and
will be offered annually.