Linguistics: Language and AI

Language and AI is trying to extract knowledge and information from text by using software and AI methodologies. Since most big data is text, Language and AI is extremely relevant for all fields of knowledge.

Language and AI is about finding information in very large amounts of text. In the master Language and AI you will learn to do that, using linguistic knowledge, specialized software and AI methodologies like Machine Learning. Although Language and AI is grounded in linguistics, computer science and AI, it is extremely relevant for almost all fields of knowledge.

You probably never realized, but most big data is textual and the amount of digital text is rapidly growing and will continue to do so in the future. Although language is very accessible for humans, this is not the case for machines. That massive amount of information is very valuable, but hard to explore! And that is where Language and AI comes in.