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  <Title>Language Technology from a European Perspective</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> One of the projects approved for funding (and the only one in the field of language technology) in the 2004 call is called LATER - Language Technology Erasmus Mundus [2].</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> LATER falls under action 4 of the program and hence addresses the need to enhance the attractiveness of European higher education in Language  Technology and Communication (LCT). This need will be met through dissemination of the combined LCT-related expertise in of a consortium of Universities whose members are as follows Saarland University in Saarbruecken (CoLi) The Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics (CoLi) of Saarland University (coordinator) has an excellent international reputation for graduate training in Language Technologies, and for leading-edge basic research in this area. CoLi offers a new M.Sc. program in Language Science and Technology [3]. This is an active program of basic, applied and cognitive research, which combines with state-of-the-art facilities to provide students with a rich and stimulating environment for their research. Moreover, CoLi offers a European Ph.D. program in Language Technology and Cognitive Systems. In the past 15 years, CoLi has provided postgraduate research training to 100 early-stage researchers [4].</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Charles University, Prague (UFAL) The Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (UFAL) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague offers a five-year master program in Computer Science with several specialized branches. One of the branches of this program is the masters in Computational and Formal Linguistics [7]. It focuses mainly on the following four topics: formal description of natural language, grammars and automata in linguistics, methods of artificial intelligence in linguistics, as well as methods of automatic natural language processing.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> University of Malta (UoM) The Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Malta, established in 1993, teaches both Bachelors and Masters degree programs. The 4-year BSc. (Hons) scheme include several streams relevant to Language Technology including NLP and Computational Linguistics itself, Information Retrieval, Semantic Web, Internet and Agent technologies. The Department also runs a, one-year research oriented M.Sc. program [10]. The areas of specialization include the development of computational tools, techniques and resources for Maltese, the only semitic language to enjoy official EU status.</Paragraph>
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Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
The Department of Computational Linguistics
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      <Paragraph position="0"> is part of the Faculty of Modern Languages at the Copenhagen Business School. The Department is actively involved in research in the following four core fields: formal descriptions of the Danish language, modeling of knowledge relevant for LSP, LSP databases, and Machine Translation. Embedded in this context is the Master of Language Administration (MLA) [9] that the Department of Computational Linguistics of the Copenhagen Business School offers in co-operation with the University of Southern Denmark in Roskilde</Paragraph>
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