Handbook

Language technology is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the scientific study of how we employ computers to analyse, produce, and use human language in the form of text and speech. In this course, you will examine the fundamental topics and applications of language technology which will enable you to understand and situate its contemporary uses across the Internet and in cutting-edge research and development contexts, including machine translation and artificial intelligence. You will also learn to use a range of language technology tools with immediate applications that will enable you to conduct your own investigations into a growing body of diverse language data available on the Internet, including new and social media. As this is an introductory and interdisciplinary course, a background in linguistics or computer science is not required.