Development of the interdisciplinary master program on Computational Linguistics at Central Asian universities Erasmus Project

Project Title

Development of the interdisciplinary master program on Computational Linguistics at Central Asian universities

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The project is developed under the initiatives of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Computational Linguistics as interdisciplinary educational program does not exist in the partner countries, though as a research area it has been developed since beginning of 2000. Computational Linguistics is crucial for development of high information technologies, absolutely necessary for the industrial, social and civilizational progress. These technologies are in progress almost everywhere in the world but at different speed in the concerned countries. Despite of a number of software working with recognition of a number of world languages; the Kazakh and Uzbek languages still drop out. Thus it is practically impossible for the world community to retrieve any information in Uzbek or Kazakh. The aim of the project is to develop the master program curriculum and to enrich KZ & UZ universities’ capabilities to enhance access to higher education with blended learning in computational linguistics master program for students with linguistics and computational science background. To achieve this aim it is planned to establish and maintain strong collaboration between linguistics and computational technology in HEI; blended learning pedagogical skills for enhancing computational and linguistic competencies of master students; building the capacity to network effective inter-universities collaboration in the joint researches in linguistics and computer technology. It means that the academic staff from linguist and IT field will be trained. Moreover, the academic materials on new interdisciplinary master courses, NLP tools, online course, e-books and methodological books will be developed for teaching with blended learning under EU supervision.As a result the students will be able to access learning materials, teacher interaction with digital tools. New NLP tools for Uzbek and Kazakh languages will be obtained.

Project Website

http://erasmus-class.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 761450 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO
• ALISHER NAVOIY NOMIDAGI TOSHKENT DAVLAT O’ZBEK TILI VA ADABIYOTI UNIVERSITETI
• AL-XORAZMIY NOMLI URGANCH DAVLAT UNIVERSITETI
• L.N. GUMILYOV EURASIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
• SAMARKAND STATE INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
• MIRZO ULUG’BEK NOMIDAGI O’ZBEKISTONMILLIY UNIVERSITETI
• UNIWERSYTET IM. ADAMA MICKIEWICZA W POZNANIU