SIG Teaching: Bergen
The Department of Linguistics and Comparative Literature offers a bachelors program in Language (Språk) with Computational Linguistics (Datalingvistikk) as a specialization, and a masters program in Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (Datalingvistikk og språkteknologi). The degrees bear the same names as the programs.
The department currently has three professors in computational linguistics, two professors in linguistics, and one lecturer, so six permanent academic staff, plus one postdoc and two
PhD fellows. At masters level, we currently have only two students in the computational linguistics and language technology program, but more students in linguistics and language studies are taking selected courses from the computational linguistics curriculum, and we almost always have foreign students as well.
All masters degrees give access to
PhD studies, without differentiation.
The Department of Information Science and Media Studies, in cooperation with linguistics, philosophy, psychology and computer science, offers an interdisciplinary bachelors program in Cognitive Science (Kognitiv Vitenskap).
AKSIS (a department of Unifob) is a research unit which offers technical support for language technology, as well as additional courses and training.
Areas of expertise
LFG, grammars, treebanks, machine learning of language, terminology, machine translation, lexical semantics.
Experience in distant learning
No distant learning courses are offered at present. In cooperation with Intermedia, in the context of an EU project, we are currently developing distance learning courses. These courses are bilingual (English and Norwegian).
Courses offered at masters level
- LING301 Philosophy of science for linguists (5 credits)
- DASP302 Statistical methods (10 credits)
- DASP303 Computer modeling of language (15 credits)
- DASP304 Language technology applications (15 credits)
- DASP307 Academic writing for linguists (5 credits)
- DASP350 Masters thesis (60 credits)
The following courses at intermediate level can also be incorporated in masters programmes:
- DASP201 Grammars and computational tools (15 credits)
- DASP202 Semantic and pragmatic processing (10 credits)
- DASP203 Lexicons and wordnets (5 credits)
These courses are taught in English or Norwegian, depending on audience.