Study programme characteristics and graduate profile
The aim of the bachelor’s study programme is to provide graduates with a combination of theoretical knowledge and practical skills from two fields of study (informatics and philology) at a level of synthesis, with an emphasis on the key themes of both disciplines and a focus on artificial intelligence and the processing of English language. It offers fundamental knowledge in both areas, enabling graduates to tackle practical problems in human–machine communication and interaction, such as modern speech technologies and natural language processing.
The study programme is inherently interdisciplinary, as it links language with technology. The graduate profile includes two distinct sets of skills and competences. Graduates develop knowledge and skills in linguistics and linguistic analysis, and learn how languages function in the abstract. They can later apply this knowledge in designing and developing computational systems for automating linguistic analysis. At the same time, students acquire knowledge of methods used in automated natural language processing, as well as in information encoding and representation, the mathematical principles of natural language processing, programming languages, algorithms, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Graduate opportunities
Graduates have wide-ranging career opportunities across virtually all areas of society. Their employment is not limited to informatics and philology as such: they can work as IT specialists and linguists in every sector of economic practice. Graduates may pursue careers as IT and language specialists (text proofreaders and editors, data analysts, programmers, localisation engineers) in fields focused on speech processing, automatic text generation, text analysis, and the development of more advanced tools for large-scale text analysis. The knowledge, skills and competences acquired can also be applied in entrepreneurial activities.
Most graduates are expected to continue developing specialised knowledge, skills and competences at the master’s level. The follow-up study programme Artificial Intelligence – Natural Language Processing (Mgr.) will be launched in the next academic year.