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How can a computer be taught to play jeopardy? What does it take for Google Translate to be able to translate Chinese texts into Maltese? How can Gmail or Outlook be made to write emails automatically?
These are all examples of applications, the development of which requires not only technical innovation, but also deep knowledge and intelligent treatment of human languages.
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Human Language Technology is an area of research, study and development concerned with the relationship between human language and machines. The terms Human Language Technology (HLT) and Natural language Processing (NLP) are often used interchangeably, with the former emphasising more explicitly the technological aspect of language processing (for more information, click here).
Within this area, the Institute of Linguistics is currently offering the following courses:
Undergraduate:
Postgraduate:
MSc in Language and Computation
16 October 2018
https://www.um.edu.mt/linguistics/human_language_technology
