Presentation of new study courses - invitation to study!

The soon available study courses and modules (starting with spring semester of 2024) were presented at the event by Inguna Skadiņa, professor of the Faculty of Computer Science, Jana Kuzmina, associate professor of the Faculty of Humanities and RTU Professor Marina Platonova. Research aspects were also presented by Normunds Grūzītis, associate professor of LU MII, and Dr.sc.comp, co-founder of the company "Tilde". Andrejs Vasiļjevs.

Inguna Skadiņa reveals that starting next week (spring study semester), new study courses are available at the Faculty of Computer Science of the University of Latvia, as part of the new study module Language technology module. 

• Fundamentals of Natural Language Processing DatZ1373 (Prof. I. Skadiņa, assoc. prof., Dr. dat. N. Grūzītis) on Wednesdays 12:30-14:10

• Fundamentals of deep machine learning DatZ3299 (Assoc. prof. P. Paikens) on Fridays 12:30-14:10

According to Jana Kuzmina, in the spring semester study courses and modules will be available at the Faculty of Humanities of LU at various study levels and programs:

Latvian BSP and English, European languages and business studies BSP study courses

• Digital Opportunities for Language Acquisition and Research (Valo3533) (doc. I. Urbanoviča)

• Introduction to Applied Linguistics and Language Technologies (Valo4298) (Assoc. prof. Z. Vinčela, Assoc. prof. J. Kuzmina, prof. Gunta Roziņa)

Marina Platonova presented the new study courses that will be available in the spring semester at the Riga Technical University. Study courses and modules will be available even to non-RTU students thanks to the MOOC platform!

• Computerized semantics and pragmatics (Tatyana Hramova, Tatyana Smirnova, Zane Senko, Oksana Ivanova, Alina Vagele-Kricina, Tatyana Menise, Marina Platonova)

• Multimodal digital semiotics (Tatyana Menise, Tatyana Smirnova, Tatyana Hramova, Marina Platonova, Alina Vagele-Kricina, Oksana Ivanova, Zane Senko)

• Digital sentiment analysis (Tatyana Hramova, Tatyana Smirnova, Zane Senko, Oksana Ivanova, Alina Vagele-Kricina, Tatyana Menise, Marina Platonova)

We invite you to apply for study courses now!

The study course presentations were followed by the presentations of Normunds Grūzītis and Andrejs Vasiļjevs on natural language processing research. Presentations highlighted how national language resources and language models and toolkits are helping language technology research, as well as the large use of language models and technologies are an asset for localizing learning materials, as well as other topics.

At the end of the event, led by Daina Jāņkalne, a panel discussion was held, during which the presenters  talked about language technologies in Latvia - about public interest in it, various risks of AI, new study courses and other topics.

Check out the photo gallery of the event here. Pictures can be used with reference to the photographer (Jānis Brencis).

Thank you to everyone who was present or watched this event remotely! Also, we want to thank the representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science, the representative office of the European Commission in Latvia, the Latvian Association of Information and Communication Technologies, the University of Latvia, the Riga Technical University and the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Latvia, who spoke at the event and gave words of encouragement!

The Language Technology Initiative is a project in which representatives of the following organizations and institutions are a part of: University of Latvia, Riga Technical University, Riga Stradiņš University, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the University of Latvia, Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia and TILDE.

The project "Language Technology Initiative" (No. 2.3.1.1.i.0/1/22/I/CFLA/002) is financed by the European Union Recovery and Resilience Mechanism investment and the State budget.