Master's Degree Program

Multilingual Technologies

Multilingual Technologies

part-time

 

Multilingual Technologies

Multilingual Technologies combines language and IT. This Master's degree program, which is unique in Austria, is offered in cooperation with the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Vienna and is aimed at all those who already have a Bachelor's degree in engineering or translation science and are interested in language technologies as well as multilingual solutions and concepts. The interdisciplinary character of the degree program qualifies students for future-oriented professional fields, for example in language technology or in the field of machine translation.

Department
Engineering
Topic
Technologies

Highlights

  • Interdisciplinary character

  • Future-oriented professional field

  • Master's degree program unique in Austria

     

    Facts

    Final degree

    Master of Science (MSc)

    Duration of course
    4 Semesters
    Organisational form
    part-time

    Tuition fee pro semester

    € 363,361

    + ÖH premium + contribution2

    ECTS
    120 ECTS
    Language of instruction
    English

    Application Winter semester 2024/25

    06. November 2023 - 30. April 2024

    Study places

    30

    1 Tuition fees for students from third countries € 727,- per semester

    2 for additional study expenses (currently up to € 83,- depending on degree program and year)

    Before the studies

    You already have a Bachelor’s degree in engineering or in translation studies and are interested in language technologies as well as multilingual solutions and concepts. With this joint Master’s degree of FH Campus Wien and the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Vienna, you can combine your knowledge of language and IT in a future-oriented education and training profile.

    Why you should study with us

    Participate in interdisciplinary student or research projects

    This way, fun and experience are guaranteed!

    Practical training on campus

    Modern laboratory equipment and high-tech research facilities enable practice-oriented teaching.

    Unique job opportunities


    Obtain additional certificates while still studying and increase your market value.

    Admission to the Master's degree program Multilingual Technologies requires a Bachelor's degree in a relevant subject (e.g. Computer Science and Digital Communications of FH Campus Wien or Transcultural Communication of the University of Vienna) as well as the following subject-specific knowledge:

    • a. Basic knowledge of language technologies and technical communication
    • b. Basics of computer science, basic methods and tools of software engineering

    Knowledge listed under a) is fulfilled by the Bachelor's degree program Transcultural Communication or the completion of the extension curriculum Language Technologies and Technical Communication at the Center for Translation Studies. Knowledge listed under b) is fulfilled by the Bachelor's degree program Computer Science and Digital Communications or the completion of the  extension curriculum Computer Science  (for students of the University of Vienna) at FH Campus Wien.

    Information for applicants with non-Austrian (school) certificates
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    Your application is submitted via the online application form.

    You will need the following documents for your online application:

    •     Birth certificate
    •     Proof of citizenship/passport
    •     University degree (certificate of bachelor or diploma degree / equivalent foreign certificate)
    •     Transcript of Records
    •     Proof of extension curriculum
    •     Letter of motivation in English
    •     Proof of English language proficiency (minimum level B2)
    •     Short curriculum vitae
    •     Translation of foreign language documents

    Please note:
    It is not possible to save incomplete online applications. You must complete your application in one session. Your application will be valid as soon as you upload all of the required documents and certificates. In the event that some documents (e.g. references) are not available at the time you apply, you may submit these later via e-mail, mail or in person by no later than the start of the degree program.

    Admission procedure: the admission procedure includes an interview with members of the admission committee (representatives of the University of Vienna and FH Campus Wien). This interview will take place online until further notice. You will receive the date for the admission procedure from the secretary's office.

    • Objective
      It is our objective to offer a study place to those persons who complete the admission procedure with the best results. The test procedures are oriented towards the skills required for the intended profession.
    • Procedure
      In the interview, you will answer some basic subject-specific questions, some questions about yourself, and explain your motivation for choosing the program (duration: approx. 30 minutes). If you have not yet reached the required entry level for the degree program, you will receive recommendations after admission on how best to prepare yourself in a subject-specific way.
    • Criteria
      The admission criteria are based on performance only. You will receive points for the oral interview, which will determine the ranking of the candidates. Geographical assignments of the applicants have no influence on the admission. The admission requirements must be met. The entire process as well as all test results and evaluations of the admission procedure are documented and archived in a comprehensible manner.

    During the studies

    This Master's degree program, which is unique in Austria and also innovative by international standards, focuses on language technologies, methods for their generation and use, and on language resources. It has a strong interdisciplinary character due to the combination of translational, transcultural, computer science and linguistic disciplines. 

    The joint Master's degree program will be based in the Department Engineering of FH Campus Wien and the Center for Translation Studies of the University of Vienna. It thus combines the special profile elements, professional strengths and scientific expertise of both institutions to create a future-oriented interdisciplinary education and training profile.

    Along with qualifications for basic research, you will acquire skills in applied research. Students gain knowledge of basic concepts of language technologies and language resources with a special focus on multilingual solutions and concepts, as well as comprehensive methodological knowledge and practical skills in current research techniques. In addition, students acquire specialized expertise in one area of language technologies, e.g. translation technologies or multilingual information extraction.

    Curriculum

    Module Language Technologies
    3 SWS
    6 ECTS
    Introduction to Computational Linguistics | ILV

    Introduction to Computational Linguistics | ILV

    3 SWS   6 ECTS

    Content

    • Introduction to the concepts and directions of traditional linguistics
    • Classical tasks of computational linguistics
    • Presentation of different methods for language processing from tokenization to sentiment analysis
    • Different NLP systems and computational linguistic analysis models
    • Discussion of the current state of research and further research ideas
    • Practical introduction to basic methods of automatic language processing

    Teaching method

    Lecture, practical exercises, presentations, discussions, feedback.

    Examination

    Continuous assessment: Written final examination, ongoing delivery of implementations, presentations.

    Literature

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    3 SWS
    6 ECTS
    Module Machine Learning Fundamentals for Language Processing
    5 SWS
    10 ECTS
    Introduction to Machine Learning for Language Processing | ILV

    Introduction to Machine Learning for Language Processing | ILV

    3 SWS   6 ECTS

    Content

    • ML definition, application areas and classification of ML algorithms (Supervised, Unsupervised, Reinforcement Learning)
    • Classical ML algorithms: kNN, Decision Trees, Naïve Bayes, NN, SVM, Ensamble Learning and Random Forest
    • Typical approach to ML projects: Define requirements, collect, filter and represent data, define and extract features, deploy algorithms and evaluate their performance, improve iterative ML pipeline.
    • Introduction to Deep Learning: CNN, RNN, Generative Networks

    Teaching method

    Theory transfer in class, discussion of practical examples, own ML-project

    Examination

    Continuous assessment: Participation in discussions, elaboration of exercise examples, own ML-project, written exam

    Literature

    • Bishop, C. M. (2007). Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. Springer.
    • Duda, R. O., Hart, P. E., & Stork, D. G. (2012). Pattern classification. John Wiley & Sons.
    • Géron, A. (2019). Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems. O'Reilly Media.
    • Mitchell, T. (1997). Machine Learning. McGraw-Hill.
    • Theodoridis, S. (2008). Pattern Recognition. Elsevier.

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    3 SWS
    6 ECTS
    Statistical Methods for Language Processing | ILV

    Statistical Methods for Language Processing | ILV

    2 SWS   4 ECTS

    Content

    • Probability
    • Analyzing, filtering and visualizing data
    • Testing hypotheses
    • Statistical estimators
    • Experiment Design
    • Approach to statistical projects

    Teaching method

    Theory transfer in class, discussion of practical examples, own project

    Examination

    Continuous assessment: Activity in lectures and exercises: Participation in discussions, elaboration of exercise examples, own statistical project, written exam.

    Literature

    • Hand, D., Mannila, H., & Smyth, P. (2001). Principles of data mining. MIT Press.
    • Hastie, T., Tibshirani, R., & Friedman, J. (2009). The elements of statistical learning: data mining, inference, and prediction. Springer Science & Business Media.
    • Hogg, R. V., Tanis, E. A., & Zimmerman, D. L. (2010). Probability and statistical inference. Pearson/Prentice Hall.

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    2 SWS
    4 ECTS
    Module Multilingual Communication
    4 SWS
    8 ECTS
    Multilingual and Crosslingual Methods and Language Resources | VO

    Multilingual and Crosslingual Methods and Language Resources | VO

    2 SWS   4 ECTS

    Content

    • Different types of language resources (terminology, lexicon, controlled vocabulary, thesaurus etc.).
    • Methods for representing, creating, disseminating and using multilingual language resources, including the Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD) approach and linguistic Data Science in general.
    • Multilingual and cross-lingual methods for improving communication using language resources and computational linguistic approaches.
    • Practical examples from the field of LLOD

    Teaching method

    Lecture/lecture, discussion, case solutions.

    Examination

    Final exam: Final Written Exam.

    Literature

    • Ammar, W., Mulcaire, G., Tsvetkov, Y., Lample, G., Dyer, C., & Smith, N. A. (2016). Massively multilingual word embeddings. arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.01925.
    • Bosque-Gil, J., Gracia, J., Montiel-Ponsoda, E., & Gómez-Pérez, A. (2018). Models to represent linguistic linked data. Natural Language Engineering, 24(6), 811-859.
    • Chiarcos, C., McCrae, J., Cimiano, P., & Fellbaum, C. (2013). Towards open data for linguistics: Linguistic linked data. In New Trends of Research in Ontologies and Lexical Resources (pp. 7-25). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
    • Cimiano, P., Chiarcos, C., McCrae, J. P., & Gracia, J. (2020). Linguistic Linked Data in Digital Humanities. In Linguistic Linked Data (pp. 229-262). Springer, Cham.
    • Forkel, R. (2014). The cross-linguistic linked data project. In 3rd Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics: Multilingual Knowledge Resources and Natural Language Processing (p. 61).
    • McCrae, J. P., Moran, S., Hellmann, S., & Brümmer, M. (2015). Multilingual linked data. Semantic Web, 6(4), 315-317.
    • McCrae, J. P., Bosque-Gil, J., Gracia, J., Buitelaar, P., & Cimiano, P. (2017). The Ontolex-Lemon model: development and applications. In Proceedings of eLex 2017 conference (pp. 19-21).
    • Ruder, S., Vulić, I., & Søgaard, A. (2019). A survey of cross-lingual word embedding models. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 65, 569-631.

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    2 SWS
    4 ECTS
    Translation Technologies | VO

    Translation Technologies | VO

    2 SWS   4 ECTS

    Content

    • Introduction to different types of translation technologies from computer assisted translation (CAT) to automated machine translation.
    • Critical analysis of the perception of different technologies in the company and advantages and disadvantages of each technology
    • Overview of different tools and available systems in each technology
    • Overview of the current state of research and interesting open research questions in this larger topic area
    • Insights into methods of quality improvement from pre- and post-editing to the revision process in translation
    • Practical work with a system of computer-aided translation

    Teaching method

    Lecture/lecture, practical exercises, discussions, feedback, case solutions.

    Examination

    Continuous assessment: Written final exam, practical exercises, presentations.

    Literature

    • Baker, M., & Saldanha, G. (2019). Routledge encyclopedia of translation studies. Routledge.
    • Bowker, L. (2014). Computer-aided translation: translator training. In Routledge encyclopedia of translation technology (pp. 126-142). Routledge.
    • Gambier, Y., & Van Doorslaer, L. (Eds.). (2010). Handbook of translation studies (Vol. 1). John Benjamins Publishing.
    • Jakobsen, A. L., & Mesa-Lao, B. (Eds.). (2017). Translation in transition: between cognition, computing and technology (Vol. 133). John Benjamins Publishing Company.

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    2 SWS
    4 ECTS
    Module Software Development for Language Technologies
    3 SWS
    6 ECTS
    Programming and Algorithms for Language Technologies | VO

    Programming and Algorithms for Language Technologies | VO

    1 SWS   2 ECTS

    Content

    This course teaches programming concepts using the Python programming language. Knowledge of basic concepts and elemental programming experience are prerequisites. Fundamentals are repeated at the beginning of the course.
    Techniques like Debugging and Tools like Git for Version control are discussed.
    In addition, the following topics are discussed:
     * Data structures
     * Regular expressoins and search algorithms (A* algorithm, Beam search, ...)
     * Usage of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), JSON, XML
     * Basics of Information Retrieval

    Teaching method

    Lecture/Talk.

    Examination

    Continuous assessment: Partial performances in the form of individual work, group work and presentations.

    Oral Final Exam.

    Literature

    • Brooks, A. T. (2019). Python for Beginners: A Smarter Way to Learn Python in 5 Days and Remember it Longer. With Easy Step by Step Guidance and Hands on Examples. Arthur T. Books.
    • Chan, J. (2017). Learn Python in One Day and Learn It Well. Python for Beginners with Hands-on Project (Learn Coding Fast with Hands-On Project Book 1). CreateSpace Independent Publishing.
    • Lacey, N. (2019). Python by Example: Learning to Program in 150 Challenges. Cambridge University Press.
    • Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press. 2008.

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    1 SWS
    2 ECTS
    Programming and Algorithms for Language Technologies | UE

    Programming and Algorithms for Language Technologies | UE

    2 SWS   4 ECTS

    Content

    This course teaches basic concepts of object-oriented programming using the Python programming language. Concepts of programming languages such as control structures, elementary data types, data structures, classes, objects and functions are taught. Furthermore, the design of programs, their analysis and techniques for debugging, tracing and testing are taught.

    The course covers the following topics in particular:

    • Basics of programming
    • Variables and data types
    • Operators
    • Control structures
    • Error handling
    • Basics of object orientation
    • Sorting algorithms
    • Search algorithms

    Teaching method

    Small group work, practical exercises, presentation of results.

    Examination

    Continuous assessment: Partial performances in the form of group work and presentations.

    Literature

    • Brooks, A. T. (2019). Python for Beginners: A Smarter Way to Learn Python in 5 Days and Remember it Longer. With Easy Step by Step Guidance and Hands on Examples. Arthur T. Books.
    • Chan, J. (2017). Learn Python in One Day and Learn It Well. Python for Beginners with Hands-on Project (Learn Coding Fast with Hands-On Project Book 1). CreateSpace Independent Publishing.
    • Lacey, N. (2019). Python by Example: Learning to Program in 150 Challenges. Cambridge University Press.

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    2 SWS
    4 ECTS

    Module Applied Machine Learning for Language Processing

    Applied Machine Learning for Language Processing

    3 SWS   6 ECTS

    Examination

    : Participation in discussions, elaboration of exercise examples, own DL project, written exam

    3 SWS
    6 ECTS
    Machine Learning Methods for Language Processing | VO

    Machine Learning Methods for Language Processing | VO

    1 SWS   2 ECTS

    Content

    • Critical analysis of classical ML algorithms.
    • Standard DL algorithms: CNN, RNN, Generative Networks
    • Modern DL architectures for Natural Language Processing (NLP): Attention, Transformer, GPT, BERT etc.
    • Applications of ML in general and DL in particular to NLP: text understanding, translation, speech and text generation, web search, knowledge generation
    • Limitations of DL

    Teaching method

    Theoretical lessons, discussion of practical examples, own DL-project

    Examination

    Module exam

    Literature

    • Chollet, F. (2018). Deep Learning mit Python und Keras: Das Praxis-Handbuch vom Entwickler der Keras-Bibliothek. MITP-Verlags GmbH & Co. KG.
    • Géron, A. (2019). Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems. O'Reilly Media.
    • Goodfellow, I., Bengio, Y., & Courville, A. (2016). Deep learning. MIT press.

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    1 SWS
    2 ECTS
    Machine Learning Methods for Language Processing | UE

    Machine Learning Methods for Language Processing | UE

    2 SWS   4 ECTS

    Content

    • Critical analysis of classical ML algorithms.
    • Standard DL algorithms: CNN, RNN, Generative Networks
    • Modern DL architectures for Natural Language Processing (NLP): Attention, Transformer, GPT, BERT etc.
    • Applications of ML in general and DL in particular to NLP: text understanding, translation, speech and text generation, web search, knowledge generation
    • Limitations of DL

    Teaching method

    Theoretical lessons, discussion of practical examples, own DL-project

    Examination

    Module exam

    Literature

    • Chollet, F. (2018). Deep Learning mit Python und Keras: Das Praxis-Handbuch vom Entwickler der Keras-Bibliothek. MITP-Verlags GmbH & Co. KG.
    • Géron, A. (2019). Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems. O'Reilly Media.
    • Goodfellow, I., Bengio, Y., & Courville, A. (2016). Deep learning. MIT press.

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    2 SWS
    4 ECTS
    Module Information Management for Language Data
    5 SWS
    10 ECTS
    Information Design for Language Data | ILV

    Information Design for Language Data | ILV

    2 SWS   4 ECTS

    Content

    • Basics of information design
    • Target group oriented design of media and information
    • Design development on the basis of cognitive science principles
    • Basics of Gestalt and perception psychology
    • Methods of information design for different media
    • Applications in web, virtual and augmented reality etc.

    Teaching method

    Teaching theory in class, interdisciplinary lecture series, discussion of practical examples; own information design project.

    Examination

    Continuous assessment: Partial performance through active participation in discussions and the elaboration of exercise examples, own information design project, written examination.

    Literature

    • Coates, K. & Ellison, A. (2014). Introduction to Information Design. Laurence King Publishing.
    • Katz, J. (2012). Designing Information: Human Factors and Common Sense in Information Design. John Wiley & Sons.
    • Weber, W. (2007). Kompendium Informationsdesign, Springer:  Heidelberg, Berlin.
    • Pontis S., Babwahsingh M. (2023), Information Design Unbound, Bloomsbury Publishing.

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    2 SWS
    4 ECTS
    Information Extraction and Retrieval for Multilingual Natural Language Data | ILV

    Information Extraction and Retrieval for Multilingual Natural Language Data | ILV

    3 SWS   6 ECTS

    Content

    • Retrieval models: boolean, vector space, probabilistic.
    • Representation of content: Free text search, documentation languages, special logics, indexing, etc.).
    • Machine-Learning-concepts and techniques: clustering, classification
    • Deep Learning in Information Retrieval
    • Web Retrieval: Link Analysis, Crawling, Search Engines

    Teaching method

    Theory transfer in class, discussion of practical examples; own IR project

    Examination

    Continuous assessment: Partial performance through active participation in discussions and the elaboration of exercise examples, own IR project, written examination.

    Literature

    • Baeza-Yates, R. & Ribeiro-Neto, B. (2011). Modern information retrieval: The concepts and technology behind search. Addison Wesley.
    • Croft, B., Metzler, D. & Strohman, T. (2009). Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice. Addison-Wesley.
    • Manning,  C.D., Raghavan, P. & Schütze, H. (2008). Introduction to Information Retrieval. Cambridge University Press.

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    3 SWS
    6 ECTS
    Module Language Technologies
    3 SWS
    6 ECTS
    Speech Technologies | ILV

    Speech Technologies | ILV

    3 SWS   6 ECTS

    Content

    • Speech Technologies and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
    • Fundamentals of Phonetics and Phonology
    • Neural Networks for Speech Technologies
    • Introduction to dialogue systems
    • Practical introduction to ASR and speech-to-speech systems

    Teaching method

    Lecture, practical exercises, presentations, discussions, feedback.

    Examination

    Final exam: Written final examination, partial performance in the form of practical exercises.

    Literature

    • Bishop, C. M. (2006). Pattern recognition and machine learning. Springer.
    • Duda, R. O., Hart, P. E., & Stork, D. G. (1973). Pattern classification and scene analysis (Vol. 3). New York: Wiley.
    • Huang, X., Acero, A., Hon, H. W., & Foreword By-Reddy, R. (2001). Spoken language processing: A guide to theory, algorithm, and system development. Prentice hall PTR.
    • Levinson, S. E. (2005). Mathematical models for speech technology. John Wiley.
    • Vetterli, M., Kovačević, J., & Goyal, V. K. (2014). Foundations of signal processing. Cambridge University Press.

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    3 SWS
    6 ECTS
    Module Machine Translation
    3 SWS
    5 ECTS
    Basics in Machine Translation | ILV

    Basics in Machine Translation | ILV

    3 SWS   5 ECTS

    Content

    • Introduction to the different approaches of machine translation from statistical to rule-based to neural and hybrid approaches.
    • Introduction to basic concepts and algorithms of statistical machine translation
    • Introduction to basic concepts and algorithms of neural machine translation
    • Critical analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of individual systems as well as the goal and purpose of the respective approaches
    • Basic knowledge of machine translation evaluation methods
    • Practical introduction to concrete translation models

    Teaching method

    Lecture/lecture, practical exercises, work assignments, discussions, feedback, case solutions.

    Examination

    Continuous assessment: Written final exam, practical exercises, presentations.

    Literature

    • Bahdanau, D., Cho, K., and Bengio, Y. (2015). Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate. InInternational Conference on Learning Representations
    • Goldberg, Y. (2016). A primer on neural network models for natural language processing. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 57, 345-420.
    • Goodfellow, I., Bengio, Y., & Courville, A. (2016). Deep learning. MIT press.
    • Kenny, D. (2018). Machine translation. In The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Philosophy (pp. 428-445). Routledge.
    • Koehn, P. (2009). Statistical machine translation. Cambridge University Press.
    • Papineni, K., Roukos, S., Ward, T., & Zhu, W. J. (2002, July). BLEU: a method for automatic evaluation of machine translation. In Proceedings of the 40th annual meeting on association for computational linguistics (pp. 311-318). Association for Computational Linguistics.
    • Sutskever, I., Vinyals, O. & Le, Q. V. (2014). Sequence to sequence learning with neural networks. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 3104–3112.

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    3 SWS
    5 ECTS
    Module Multilingual Communication
    2 SWS
    3 ECTS
    Transcultural Communication | VO

    Transcultural Communication | VO

    2 SWS   3 ECTS

    Content

    • Transcultural communication from the perspective of different disciplines (with a focus on translation studies)
    • communication science basics intra-, inter- and multilingual barriers and transculturality
    • online collaborative translation as transcultural communication
    • conceptual issues and problems
    • technology assessment and ethical considerations
    • transcultural communication and translation in teams

    Teaching method

    Lecture/lecture, discussion, case studies.

    Examination

    Final exam: Final Written Exam.

    Literature

    • Ishida, Toru (ed), Culture and Computing. Computing and Communication for Crosscultural Interaction, Berlin / Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2010.
    • Jiménez-Crespo, M. A. (2017). Crowdsourcing and online collaborative translations: Expanding the limits of translation studies (Vol. 131). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
    • Milhouse, V. H., Asante, M. K., & Nwosu, P. O. (2001). Transcultural realities. Sage.
    • Welsch, W. (1999). Transculturality: The puzzling form of cultures today. Spaces of culture: City, nation, world, 13(7), 194-213.

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    2 SWS
    3 ECTS

    Module Applied Software Engineering for Computational Linguists
    5 SWS
    10 ECTS
    Human-Computer Interaction for Computational Linguists | ILV

    Human-Computer Interaction for Computational Linguists | ILV

    2 SWS   4 ECTS

    Content

    • Psychological aspects of HCI
    • Usability
    • User research
    • Benchmarking usability
    • Interaction design
    • Prototyping
    • Usability research and testing methods
    • Usability in practice

    Teaching method

    Case studies, practical exercises, lecture

    Examination

    Continuous assessment: Case studies, group exercise, written final exam.

    Literature

    • Cooper, A. Reimann, R., Cronon, D. & Noessel, C. (2014). The Essentials of Interaction Design. Wiley, 4th Edition.
    • Shneiderman, B. (2016). Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction. Global Edition.

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    2 SWS
    4 ECTS
    Software Engineering for Language Technologies | ILV

    Software Engineering for Language Technologies | ILV

    3 SWS   6 ECTS

    Content

    Organizational possibilities for structuring software development in the form of process models, such as the waterfall model, spiral model and agile models, are presented. The technical aspects of software engineering focus on the creation of object-oriented systems and their modelling in the field of machine learning.

    The course covers the following topics in particular:

    • requirements engineering
    • use cases
    • High Level Design
    • Software engineering aspects in the area of machine learning
    • Selected UML diagrams
    • Process models

    Teaching method

    Blended learning, guest lectures, experiential learning, coaching

    Examination

    Continuous assessment: Group work, written final exam.

    Literature

    • Sommerville, I. (2015). Software Engineering. Pearson Education Limited, 10th Edition.
    • Stephens, R. (2015). Beginning Software Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, 1st Edition.

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    3 SWS
    6 ECTS
    Module Machine Translation
    3 SWS
    5 ECTS
    Advanced Machine Translation | ILV

    Advanced Machine Translation | ILV

    3 SWS   5 ECTS

    Content

    • Theoretical elaboration of different architectures in the field of neural machine translation.
    • Theoretical overview of the current state of research and interesting current research topics, e.g. machine translation with only little available training data
    • Critical discussion of advantages and disadvantages of the respective systems
    • Analysis and discussion of current practice regarding the application of machine translation systems in companies
    • Practical development of concrete current models of neural machine translation as well as their evaluation methods

    Teaching method

    Lecture/lecture, practical exercises, work assignments, discussions, feedback, case solutions.

    Examination

    Continuous assessment: Written final exam, practical exercises, presentations.

    Literature

    • Gehring, J., Auli, M., Grangier, D., Yarats, D., and Dauphin, Y. N. (2017). Convolutional sequence to sequence learning.arXivpreprint arXiv:1705.03122.
    • Minh-Thang Luong Neural Machine Translation Ph.D. Dissertation, 2016. github.com/lmthang/thesis/blob/master/thesis.pdf [Stand: 30.03.2020]
    • Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A. N., Kaiser, L. u., & Polosukhin, I. (2017). Attentionis all you need. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 5998–6008.

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    3 SWS
    5 ECTS
    Module Research Design and Academic Writing
    2 SWS
    5 ECTS
    Academic Writing | ILV

    Academic Writing | ILV

    2 SWS   5 ECTS

    Content

    • Systematic research and reception of scientific works
    • Correct citation
    • Language register: formal vs. informal
    • academic terminology and phrasing
    • Structure of a paragraph
    • Structure of a scientific paper
    • Linguistic presentation of the chosen method, achieved results and resulting discussion
    • describing statistical and qualitative data

    Teaching method

    Writing and research exercises, correction tasks, feedback, discussion, problem-based learning.

    Examination

    Final exam: Writing and research exercises, written seminar paper.

    Literature

    • Macgilchrist, Felicitas (2014) Academic writing. Vol. 4087, UTB.
    • Mautner, Gerlinde (2019) Wissenschaftliches Englisch: stilsicher schreiben in Studium und Wissenschaft. Vol. 3444. UTB.
    • Swales, J. M., & Feak, C. B. (2012). Academic writing for graduate students: Essential tasks and skills (Vol. 3). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
    • Voss, Rödiger (2018) Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten: ... leicht verständlich!. UTB.

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    2 SWS
    5 ECTS
    (10 ECTS of your choice)
    Module Internship FH Campus Wien
    2 SWS
    10 ECTS
    Internship FH Campus Wien | PR

    Internship FH Campus Wien | PR

    2 SWS   10 ECTS

    Content

    Students complete an internship (PR), 10 ECTS, 2 SWS (examination-immanent) or alternatively a research project, 10 ECTS, 2 SWS (examination-immanent).

    The internship requires approx. 225 hours, the internship report approx. 25 hours.

    The choice of internship or research project must be approved in advance by the director of studies.

    It is strongly recommended to complete a professional internship. If no internship place is available, a smaller research project as described above can be completed under the guidance of a supervisor.

    Teaching method

    Professional internship

    Examination

    Final exam: Submission of an internship report.

    Literature

    -

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    2 SWS
    10 ECTS
    Module Internship Universität Wien
    2 SWS
    10 ECTS
    Internship Universität Wien | PR

    Internship Universität Wien | PR

    2 SWS   10 ECTS

    Content

    Students complete an internship (PR), 10 ECTS, 2 SWS (examination-immanent) or alternatively a research project, 10 ECTS, 2 SWS (examination-immanent).

    The internship requires approx. 225 hours, the internship report approx. 25 hours.

    The choice of the internship or the research project must be approved in advance by the director of studies.

    It is strongly recommended to complete a professional internship. If no internship place is available, a smaller research project as described above can be completed under the guidance of a supervisor.

    Teaching method

    Professional internship

    Examination

    Final exam: Submission of an internship report.

    Literature

    -

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    2 SWS
    10 ECTS

    Module IT Management for Computational Linguists
    2 SWS
    4 ECTS
    Data Protection and Privacy for Computational Linguists | ILV

    Data Protection and Privacy for Computational Linguists | ILV

    1 SWS   2 ECTS

    Content

    • Introduction to the Austrian and European legal system
    • Introduction to data protection law
    • Protection of privacy and general protection of personality
    • Principles of processing personal data
    • Roles under data protection law
    • Data subject rights and obligations of the processor
    • Insight into data security concepts
    • Privacy by Design and Privacy by Default
    • E-Privacy
    • Basics of cyber security
    • Tasks and powers of the data protection supervisory authority and procedural aspects

    Teaching method

    • Theory transfer in lectures
    • Discussion of practical examples

    Examination

    Continuous assessment: - Activities during lectures and exercises: Participation in discussions

    - Participation

    - Written examination

    Literature

    Forgó (Hrsg.), Grundriss Datenschutzrecht (2018).

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    1 SWS
    2 ECTS
    IT Project Management for Computational Linguists | ILV

    IT Project Management for Computational Linguists | ILV

    1 SWS   2 ECTS

    Content

    Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities in order to meet project requirements. The project manager is responsible for meeting the expectations of the stakeholders in the project.

    The course covers in particular the following contents:

    • The immersion in the knowledge areas of project management (for example: Integration management, time management, cost management, quality management and risk management).
    • Project management across cultural boundaries
    • The management of virtual teams
    • Legal aspects in IT projects

    Teaching method

    Case studies, lecture

    Examination

    Continuous assessment: Written final examination, preparation of a case study.

    Literature

    • Forgó, N., Mosing, M. W. & Otto, G. (2012). Informationsrecht. Springer.
    • Kerzner, H. (2017). Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling. Wiley, 12th edition.
    • Project Management Institute (2017). A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. Pmbok Guides, 6th edition.

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    1 SWS
    2 ECTS
    Module Master's Thesis
    22 ECTS
    Master's Finals | AP

    Master's Finals | AP

    0 SWS   2 ECTS

    Content

    - Presentation and discussion of the final thesis
    - subject discussion

    The defensio consists of the presentation and defence of the Master's thesis as well as an examination on its scientific environment and an examination covering a further examination subject from the compulsory modules which is to be substantially distinguished from the environment of the Master's thesis.

    Teaching method

    Independent development

    Examination

    Final exam: Master exam

    Literature

    Je nach Thema der Abschlussarbeit bzw. vorgegebene Literatur für die Prüfungsfragen

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    2 ECTS
    Master's Thesis | MT

    Master's Thesis | MT

    0 SWS   20 ECTS

    Content

    • Independent work on a subject relevant topic based on the technical topics of the compulsory elective modules in the third semester at an academic level under the supervision of a supervisor
    • Elaboration of the master thesis

    Teaching method

    Independent work supported by coaching

    Examination

    Final exam: Seminar paper

    Literature

    Abhängig vom gewählten Thema

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    20 ECTS
    Module Research Design and Academic Writing
    2 SWS
    4 ECTS
    Master Kolloquium | SE

    Master Kolloquium | SE

    2 SWS   4 ECTS

    Content

    • Refresher course on research methodology
    • Refresher and consolidation of good practice in scientific work
    • Presentation techniques and types for scientific work
    • Methods for the preparation of a master thesis concept

    Teaching method

    Group work, discussion, presentation, feedback, interactive lecture with practical exercises.

    Examination

    Continuous assessment: Oral presentation, written work in the form of an exposé.

    Literature

    • Baur, N., & Blasius, J. (Eds.). (2014). Handbuch Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung. Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer VS.
    • Flick, U. (2011). Qualitative Sozialforschung: Eine Einführung. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt.
    • Hug, T., & Poscheschnik, G. (2014). Empirisch forschen (Vol. 3357). UTB.
    • Häder, M. (2010). Empirische Sozialforschung. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
    • Mayring, P. (2010). Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse. Grundlagen und Techniken, 11. Aufl. Beltz.
    • Kuckartz, Udo (2016) Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse. Methoden, Praxis, Computerunterstützung. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa.

    Teaching language

    Englisch

    2 SWS
    4 ECTS

    Number of teaching weeks:
    18 weeks per semester

    Class Schedule at the FH Campus Wien:
    Fridays (full day), occasionally Saturdays (full day).

    Electives
    Selection and participation according to available places. There may be separate admission procedures.


    After graduation

    As a graduate of this program, a wide range of occupational fields and career opportunities are open to you. Find out here where your path can take you.

    These subject-specific competences as well as the acquired interdisciplinary and methodological competences qualify graduates for careers in the scientific as well as in the private sector. Depending on the personal specialization, various professional fields open up. The interdisciplinary character of the program qualifies students for various working areas: IT sector, consulting and human resources development.

    • language, translation and localization industry

    • language technology in the sense of language and text processing and translation technology

    • transcultural knowledge organization

    • language resource management

    • machine translation

      • multilingual product management

      • multilingual information processing

      • multilingual human-computer interaction

      • usability and data science


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