The aim of the study is to prepare graduates for work in research, development and application deployment of systems using natural language processing, both written (eg information systems, information retrieval, machine translation, written document support) and spoken (dictated text transcription systems) , use of voice commands, phone applications, dialogue systems, speech synthesis). Graduates will acquire knowledge of symbolic and statistical algorithms and methods of machine learning especially for automatic processing of natural language.

The aim of the Computational Linguistics programme is prepare students for research in the area of natural language processing and the development of applications dealing with both written and spoken language. Examples of such applications are systems of information retrieval, machine translation, grammar checking, text summarization and information extraction, automatic speech recognition, voice control, spoken dialogue systems, and speech synthesis.