Study programme Digital Linguistics

The Digital Linguistics (DigiLing, Digitální lingvistika) is a Joint Degree programme, i.e. the Master's degree is jointly sponsored by three partner universities:

• Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics and Faculty of Arts, Brno
• University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Lubljana, Slovenia
• University of Zagreb, multiple faculties, Zagreb, Croatia

Joint information is available on ​digiling.university.

The study programme combines computer science education with humanities/linguistics education, builds on, complements and interconnects the bachelor's studies of both disciplines.

Contacts

For any questions or problems in relation to the programme, you can contact the programme guarantor ​doc.Ales Horak or the co-guarantor at the Faculty of Arts ​dr.Hana Zizkova.

Useful links

• ​https://digiling.university/ - web site of the whole programme consortium
• ​https://www.fi.muni.cz/admission/mgr/digital-linguistics.html.en - programme page at FI MU
• ​https://www.fi.muni.cz/catalogue-current/?program=nmgr_diglin_cz&lang=en - programme catalogue
• ​https://nlp.fi.muni.cz/cs/DigiLing - MU Brno DigiLing page in Czech with additional information about the programme for the MU students
• ​https://nlp.fi.muni.cz/en/DigiLing - this page in English with additional information about the programme for the mobility semester students from Ljubljana or Zagreb

3rd semester in MU Brno

The ECTS requirements depend on your home university. Usually in DigiLing, the program requires to gain at least 30 ECTS credits from the mobility semester.

When you come to Brno, you shall follow the syllabus displayed in the ​above mentioned programme catalogue or a summary table ​DigiLing-syllabus-MU-update2025, sheet 3 semester-nonCZ.

So, you have to take two obligatory courses

​IA161 Natural Language Processing in Practice
​PLIN055 Project from corpus and computational linguistics

and choose

    3 courses from:

        PA164 Machine learning and natural language processing
        PA220 Database systems for data analytics
        PLIN035 Computational Lexicography
        PLIN064 Introduction to Digital Humanities
        PV061 Machine Translation
        PV021 Neural Networks
        CJBB184 Language Typology
        CJJ63 Psycholinguistics
        PV251 Visualization
        IV111 Probability in Computer Science
        IV029 Introduction to Transparent Intensional Logic

    2 courses from:

        PB106 Corpus Linguistic Project
        PLIN081 Advanced machine learning methods
        PV277 Programming Applications for Social Robots
        PLIN075 Linguistic Webinar

and we recommend the NLP lab seminar, see https://nlp.fi.muni.cz/en/NLPSeminar

so as for PLIN055 - you have to take this one and two other project courses.

the courses starting with PLIN or CJ are at the Faculty of Arts,
the other courses (PA*, PB*, PV*, I*) are at the Faculty of Informatics.

you can also take any other courses listed at

    https://is.muni.cz/predmety/?lang=en&volby=obdobi:podzim+2025@jazyky:eng@fakulta:1433@hledtext:P+OR+I@hledkod:1

the listed course credits are the basic ones. you have to look at
each course information to find out its "Recommended Type of
Completion" and add one credit if it is "k (colloquium)" or two
credits if "zk (examination)".

always read carefully the course Prerequisites. e.g. for the
courses

    https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/autumn2025/PA164
    https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/autumn2025/PV021

they list

    The basics of machine learning (e.g. IB031), computational
    linguistics (e.g. PA153) and neural networks (e.g. PV021), is
    assumed.

    Recommended: knowledge corresponding to the courses IB031,
    MB152, and MB153.

so you shall search for the mentioned courses

    https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/IB031
    https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/PA153
    https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/MB152
    https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/MB153

and check whether you know what is listed there.
I think that PA164 and PV021 are for a student with computer
science background.