Detailed programme by subject

This professional focus trains students in language industry tools (spell-checking, speech recognition, machine translation, document management, etc.). With its strong business focus, this specialization welcomes guest researchers (from academia and business).

For further information: https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/cental (https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/cental)

The professional focus "Linguistics and its Applications for a Multilingual Society" (LAMUSO) puts the emphasis on language-related challenges and issues in contemporary multilingual societies. The emphasis is put on uses of language in context, especially in multilingual contexts, and on related methods, models and applications in linguistic research. This focus provides a combination of fundamental courses in various areas of linguistics combined with practice-oriented modules in different fields of activity. This focus can be followed entirely in English, entirely in French or in a combination of English and French. The multilingual character of the training can be strengthened through Dutch, German or Spanish linguistics course in the options and optionnal courses.

Access to high-level training in scientific research is also provided thanks to the strong collaboration between the linguistics programme and several top research centres hosted by the research Institute for Language and Communication.

Students enrolled in the LAMUSO professional focus are encouraged to apply for an Erasmus grant to cover a period of study at a university offering an interesting range of linguistics courses.

• Germany: Erlangen (Nuremberg), Giessen, Regensburg
• Spain: Barcelona, Zaragoza
• France: Université de Paris, Grenoble-Alpes ; Toulouse
• Greece: Patras
• Italy: Venice
• Netherlands: Leiden, Nijmegen ; Utrecht
• Norway: Oslo
• United Kingdom: Birmingham
• Switzerland: Basel, Bern, Fribourg, Geneva

Recommended as a complement to the LAMUSO professional focus.

Computer science prerequisites recommended in addition to the professional focus in Natural Language Processing, for those who do not have an equivalent background. Students wishing to follow these courses should contact the teachers concerned at the beginning of the academic year. Several courses are organised at the KU Leuven.

INEO is an option offered in 30 Master programmes, in 9 faculties of UCLouvain. It involves the completion of an interfaculty dissertation (in teams) on a business creation project. Access to this option (as well as to each of the courses) is limited to students selected by application. All information on https://uclouvain.be/en/study/ineo (https://uclouvain.be/en/study/ineo).

The digital has transformed our lives and culture to the extent to which everything takes place nowadays in “digital space,” as our own space, time, and existence are all deeply digitalized. In the “culture of connectivity,” the digital is ubiquitous, we are, one way or another, always online, while technology is no longer just ‘at hand’, but already intimately infiltrating and fusing with our thoughts, our sensations, and even our bodies.

The Digital Culture and Ethics Option offers courses focusing on such profound changes brought about by the digital in all walks of life and academic disciplines alike. It invites the students to reflect critically and creatively on the resulting large-scale evolutions and equips them with the right skills and tools for approaching their subject matters from cutting-edge and presently much needed, genuinely effective and encompassing perspectives.

The topics and practical applications taught in this option also open up the scope of our specialized fields to wider cross-disciplinary viewpoints, thus making us ready to be professionally versatile and successful in a deeply transformed digital world.

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Students complete their program with courses from the above options.