LATER: Language Technology Erasmus Mundus Programme

Summary description

"LATER" focuses on promoting world-wide European higher education in the fields of Computational Linguistics and Language Technology via the high-quality master programmes of the university departments which participate in the .LATER. consortium: the Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics (CoLi) of Saarland University (co-ordinator), the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (UFAL) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague, the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence of the University of Malta, and the Department of Computational Linguistics of the Faculty of Modern Languages at the Copenhagen Business School. Specifically, .LATER. focuses on making European higher education in Computational Linguistics and Language Technology attractive to students and scholars from third countries. To this end, and in order to enable dissemination of master programmes and courses in Computational Linguistics and Language Technology and attract third-country students, .LATER. provides for the organisation of workshops and conferences, as well as the development of distance learning tools, and distance education modules.