Digital Linguistics Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU)

Overview

This program reveals the models of language theory, Big Data analysis, theory and practice of machine translation, algorithms for automatic text improvement. 

The Digital Linguistics students from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) experiment with the phenomenon of speech, voice recognition, automated text analysis, develop digital language guides and other pioneering technologies.

Key facts

• analysis of modern achievements of science and advanced technologies in research work;
• strategy to apply new information technologies in humanities with the means of intellectual data analysis and machine learning, computational linguistics and knowledge representation;
• research activities in logical and algorithmic intelligent systems;
• presentation of research results in report forms, abstracts, publications and public discussions;
• development of human-machine and machine-to-machine interaction system, algorithms and methods for machine translation;
• analysis in speech recognition and extraction of named entities;
• creation of question-answer systems;
• development of systems to facilitate communication for people with disabilities.

Career opportunities: