LCT News

Intake 2024 Application open
Published : 2023-12-04
Application for intake 2024 is now OPEN. This intake is for self-funding students only. The deadline for application is March 1 at 23.59 PM, Central European Time. More information is available here.
Announcement of the intake 2024
Published : 2023-11-04
The intake 2024 will be for self-funding students only. The application form will be open on December 4 and the deadline will be March 1 at 23.59 PM, Central European Time. More information is available here.
Intake 2023 Application open
Published : 2023-03-29
A late application round for intake 2023 on a self-funding basis ONLY, (no Erasmus Mundus scholarship) is now open on 29.03.2022 and will close on 12.04.2022 at 23.59 PM, Central European Summer Time. Apply here.
Intake 2023 Application open
Published : 2022-10-02
Application for intake 2023 is now OPEN. All correct, timely, and complete applications will be considered for the Erasmus Mundus scholarship. The deadline for intake 2023 is published here.
SELF-FUNDING APPLICATIONS:
Published : 2022-03-21
A late application round for intake 2022 on a self-funding basis ONLY, (no Erasmus Mundus scholarship) is planned to open on 29.03.2022 and will close on 10.04.2022 at 23.59 PM, Central European Summer Time.
LCT Annual meeting 2022
Published : 2022-02-02
The LCT Annual Meeting 2022 will be held on June 23-24, 2022. Our host will be the University of the Basque Country, although it is not yet known whether this will be a hybrid/physical meeting, or online only. All alumni are invited to participate; the meeting is mandatory for currently enrolled students. More information will be published here as it becomes available.
Summer School 2022
Published : 2022-02-02
The LCT Summer School will be held on August 29 - September 02, 2022. The host will be Saarland University, although it is not yet known whether this event will be held in a hybrid/physical form, or online only. The Summer School is mandatory for all incoming students (intake 2022) and for all students transiting to year 2. More information will be published here as planning progresses.
Application Opening
Published : 2021-10-01
Application for intake 2022 is now OPEN. All correct, timely, and complete applications will be considered for the Erasmus Mundus scholarship. The deadline for intake 2022 is published here.

NB: The planned update of the application form will be implemented at a later time. Therefore, it is not necessary to delay your application. Please proceed to complete the application using the current application form, observing the published deadline.
Application opening
Published : 2021-03-31
Application on a self-funding basis is now open. The deadline is 15 April 2021.
LCT Annual Meeting 2021
Published : 2021-03-19
The meeting will be held in virtual form, taking place on June 24-25. The hosting institution will be the University of Groningen. More information will be published here as planning progresses.
Online Class
Published : 2021-03-19
Host: University of Lorraine
Online class about neural Natural Language Generation which was developed for the ALPS winter school: https://members.loria.fr/CGardent/alps.html
Webinar
Published : 2021-03-19
Host: University of the Basque Country
Webinars in Language Technology:
HiTZ (Basque Center for Language Technology: http://hitz.eus) will be hosting a seminar every month. The inaugural webinar was given by Eduard Hovy (CMU). Follow this link for more information: http://www.hitz.eus/en/webinars
Intake 2021 Application open
Published : 2020-09-29
Application is now OPEN for intake 2021, for European and non-European applicants. The application form is found here: Here
The 2020 Annual Meeting:
Published : 2020-06-22
The 2020 Annual Meeting will take place in virtual form on 25 and 26 June, the event page is found here.
LCT Alumnus Patent:
Published : 2020-06-15
Carlos Diez Sanchez, an LCT alumnus of intake 2015, has filed a patent application in the USA with the title USING A JOINT DISTRIBUTIONAL SEMANTIC SYSTEM TO CORRECT REDUNDANT SEMANTIC VERB FRAMES. Inventors: Yunyao Li, Carlos Fernando Diez Sánchez, Marie Louise Elizabeth van der Plas
Congratulations to all!
Annual Meeting 2020:
Published : 2020-04-07
Physical meeting CANCELLED. The Annual Meeting 2020, scheduled for June, 2020 in Saarbrücken, has been cancelled due to the current public health situation. As an alternative, we will schedule some virtual events, more details will be published as they become available.
Opening application for self-financing students
Published : 2020-03-16
Application for intake 2020 on a self-financing basis (NO Erasmus Mundus scholarship) will open by March 23, 2020 and close on April 15, 2020. Results of the self-financing selection will be announced by the end of April, 2020.
LCT Annual Meeting 2020:
Published : 2020-01-15
The annual meeting for 2020 will be held in Saarbrücken, Germany, on June 25-26. All current students will attend, all alumni are welcome to join. More information will be available soon.
Best paper award for LCT student:
Published : 2019-12-10
Simon Preissner and Aurélie Herbelot. To be Fair: a Case for
Cognitively-Inspired Models of Meaning
(http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2481/paper59.pdf)
Clic-it 2019 (6th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics),
November 13-15 Bari (http://clic2019.di.uniba.it/index_en.html) the annual conference run by AILC (http://www.ai-lc.it/en/) Clic-it Best Paper has been awarded to Simon, an LCT student of intake 2018, and
Aurélie for the originality of their work. Congratulations!
Deadline Extension
Published : 2019-11-11
The deadline for LCT application has been extended to 16.02.2020.
Intake 2020 Application open
Published : 2019-10-14
Application is now OPEN for intake 2020, for European and non-European applicants. The application form is found here: Here
European Masters LCT: Erasmus Mundus funding granted
Published : 2019-07-16
The European Union has granted a third funding period to the LCT European Masters Program. Beginning with intake 2020, the program will offer Erasmus Mundus scholarships for both European and non-European students. The grant will fund 4 intakes of students, until 2025. Application for intake 2020 will open near the end of September, 2019. The Erasmus Mundus program falls within the Erasmus+ program of the European Union.
LCT Annual Meeting at Charles University
Published : 2019-07-03
Thank you to everyone who attended the annual meeting and contributed to making it a success. Congratulations to all graduates, and also to Dan Kondratyuk, recipient of the Best Poster award.
LCT Annual Meeting for 2019
Published : 2019-05-30
The LCT Annual Meeting for 2019 will take place at Charles University (Czech Republic) on June 20th and 21st, 2019. The meeting will include the graduation ceremony of intake 2016, all graduates and alumni are welcome to attend. More information is available on the LCT home page, here: https://lct-master.org/contents_2014/annualMeeting2019.php
Angeliki Lazaridou publications
Published : 2019-02-06
Angeliki Lazaridou (https://www.linkedin.com/in/angeliki-lazaridou-1a287322/?originalSubdomain=uk), a class of 2012 LCT alumna who graduated from Saarland University and the University of Lorraine, now working at DeepMind, published 6 first-author publications at leading ML and NLP conferences in 2018 according to Marek Rei’s study, here: http://www.marekrei.com/blog/ml-and-nlp-publications-in-2018/ Congratulations!
Annual Meeting 2019
Published : 2019-01-28
The LCT Annual Meeting for 2019 will take place at Charles University (Czech Republic) on June 20th and 21st, 2019. The meeting will include the graduation ceremony of intake 2016, all graduates and alumni are welcome to attend. More information will be published on the LCT home page at a later time.
Application for intake 2019 is now open.
Published : 2018-09-27
Application for intake 2019 is open now. Deadline for application for non Europeans is February 15, 2019. Application for European candidates is open until May 15, 2019.
Application for intake 2019 will open near the end of September, 2018
Published : 2018-08-18
The deadline will be announced later, and will be set for sometime in early 2019.
The LCT annual meeting and graduation ceremony 2018.
Published : 2018-01-10
The LCT annual meeting and graduation ceremony 2018 will be held from June 27-29, 2018 at the University of Lorraine in Nancy, France. All alumni are welcome to join. More information will be published at a later time on the LCT home page.
Adam Liska is joining Spotify as a research engineer.
Published : 2017-12-14
Adam Liska, a graduate of LCT intake 2011, is joining Spotify as a research engineer. Congratulations!
Application for intake 2018 is open now.
Published : 2017-12-07
Application for intake 2018 is open now. Deadline for application for non Europeans is February 15, 2018. Application for European candidates is open until May 15, 2018
Application to LCT intake 2017 is now.
Published : 2017-03-14
Application to LCT intake 2017 is now open for applications on a self-funding basis. Deadline for application is April 30, 2017
The Annual Meeting for 2017
Published : 2017-02-24
The Annual Meeting for 2017 will take place on Malta from May 24-25. All alumni are welcome to join. More information will be published here: LCT Annual Meeting for 2017
Application for LCT intake 2017 is now open
Published : 2016-09-26
Application for intake 2017 is now open until January 8, 2017. Any complete and timely applications received during this round will automatically be considered for the Erasmus Mundus scholarship.
Barbara Plank, a graduate of the first LCT intake
Published : 2016-08-25
Barbara Plank, a graduate of the first LCT intake, being given flowers at the 2016 ESSLLI in Italy. Also present are current LCT students along with current and former LCT partner local coordinators.
Application for intake 2017 will open by the end of September.
Published : 2016-07-28
Application for intake 2017 will open by the end of September, 2016. Any complete and correct application received in this application round will be automatically considered for the Erasmus Mundus scholarship.
Application to the LCT program for intake 2016 on a self-funding basis is now open.
Published : 2016-03-10
Preliminary notifications for intake 2016
Published : 2016-02-22
Preliminary notifications for intake 2016 and for Erasmus Mundus scholarship nominations will be sent near the end of February/beginning of March 2016.
The LCT Annual Meeting for 2016
Published : 2015-11-30
The LCT annual meeting for 2016 will be held on June 9th and 10th at the University of the Basque Country. More information will be available soon on the "Events" page.
Intake 2016: regional scholarships
Published : 2015-11-19
For intake 2016, applicants from certain areas may be eligible for a regional Erasmus Mundus scholarship, check here for details.
Application for LCT intake 2016 is now open
Published : 2015-09-10
Tuur Leeuwenberg, studying his second year student of LCT at UdS is presenting a paper.
Published : 2015-06-11
Tuur Leeuwenberg, studying his second year student of LCT at UdS is presenting a paper "Exploring Pattern Structures of Syntactic Trees for Relation Extraction" at the conference on Formal Concept Analysis ( here ).
Erasmus Mundus visiting scholars program
Published : 2015-05-05
Professor Lluis Marquez, Qatar Computing Research Institute, will visit The University of the Basque Country (EHU) in June 2015. Professor Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia, will visit Saarland University in June/July 2015. Professor Michael White, Ohio State University, will visit Saarland University in July/August 2015.
The LCT Annual Meeting for 2015.
Published : 2015-01-23
The LCT Annual Meeting for 2015 will be held in Groningen, Netherlands, on June 8th and 9th, 2015. All current students and alumni are welcome to attend! More details will be published on the LCT home page under "Events".
Erasmus Mundus scholarship for intake 2015 is now closed.
Published : 2015-01-13
Application for the Erasmus Mundus scholarship for intake 2015 is now closed. Registration will re-open in March for application to intake 2015 as a self-financing student.
Erasmus Mundus scholarship is now open for intake 2015
Published : 2014-10-07
Application for the Erasmus Mundus scholarship is now open for intake 2015.
Xuchen Yao, an alumnus of LCT course 2010, has completed his PhD.
Published : 2014-07-30
Xuchen Yao, an alumnus of LCT course 2010, has completed his PhD at Johns Hopkins University. His dissertation is titled "Feature-driven Question Answering with Natural Language Alignment". Congratulations!
Prof. Tim Baldwin from the University of Melbourne is visiting COLI
Published : 2014-07-03
Prof. Tim Baldwin from the University of Melbourne is visiting COLI, Saarland University as an EMMC LCT scholar July 3-22 2014. Contact him directly to make an appointment. Welcome!
The Annual LCT Gathering 2014.
Published : 2014-04-08
The Annual LCT Gathering 2014 will take place in Trento, Italy, June 12-13 2014. All alumni and current students are welcome.
Sergio Duarte Torres, has completed his PhD.
Published : 2014-04-08
An alumnus of the LCT intake 2007, Sergio Duarte Torres, has completed his PhD at the University of Twente with the designation cum laude. Congratulations!
The Annual LCT Gathering 2013.
Published : 2013-03-04
The Annual LCT Gathering 2013 will take place in Saarbrücken, July 11-12 2013
The application for the EACEA funding for course edition 2013 has been submitted.
Published : 2013-02-28
The application for the EACEA funding for course edition 2013 has been submitted. This means that the EM-scholarship candidates have been nominated and now we are now waiting for an approval. All applicants have by now been informed of their status resulting from the selection process.
The EMMC LCT student Maryia Koleva held her Master Thesis Colloquium at COLI.
Published : 2013-01-30
The EMMC LCT student Maryia Koleva held her Master Thesis Colloquium at COLI, Saarland University: "Towards Adaptation of NLP Tools for Closely-Related Bantu Languages: Building a Part-Of-Speech Tagger for Zulu". Congratulations!
Final state exams and thesis defenses.
Published : 2013-01-29
Final state exams and thesis defenses took place last week at the Charles University in Prague. EMMC LCT students Milos Stanojevic and Milos Ercegovcevic defended their master thesis, Maria Ximena Gutiérrez Vasques defended her master thesis and passed her state examination. Congratulations!
Dr. Aline Villavicencio is visiting COLI.
Published : 2013-01-10
Dr. Aline Villavicencio is visiting COLI, Saarland University as an EMMC LCT scholar for several weeks. Contact Aline directly to make an appointment. Welcome!
The deadline for scholarship applications for start in fall 2013 has passed.
Published : 2013-01-07
The deadline for scholarship applications for start in fall 2013 has passed. 600 applications were received. See application assessment and selection schedule for what's next.