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MA Natural Language Processing (TAL) at INALCO

INALCO, France

Programme overview

Master co-accredited with Sorbonne Nouvelle University and Paris Nanterre training students in the methods and tools of natural language processing, the language side of artificial intelligence, especially for the languages of Inalco. Three M2 tracks: Research and Development; Multilingual Engineering; Translation Technologies and Multilingual Data Processing.

Faculty: Direction de la scolarite  |  Department: TAL  |  Duration: 2 years  |  Study mode: full-time (French)  |  Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France

What you will study

M1 common core shared with the three universities: IT management of multilingualism, programming and supervised project, parallel and comparable corpora, computing and phonetics, text statistics, structured documents, syntax, databases for linguists. In M2 all classes are at Inalco; a 6-month internship and a research dissertation (25 per cent of the final assessment).

Career pathways

Academic careers in NLP, NLP scientist and data scientist roles, and machine translation and post-editing.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Applications for M1 go through Mon Master (17 February to 16 March 2026; complementary phase 19 to 25 June 2026); direct M2 entry for external candidates uses eCandidat1 (17 February to 16 March 2026).

Domestic applicants: EUR 255 a year (2026-2027). EU/EEA rate (full rate; reduced rate 167 EUR in specific cases). National registration fee (droits d'inscription), including 34 EUR library and 23 EUR file fees. CVEC (105 EUR) is separate and not included. Source

International applicants: EUR 3,950 a year (2026-2027). Non-EU/EEA rate (full rate; reduced rate 2,633 EUR in specific cases). National registration fee (droits d'inscription), including 34 EUR library and 23 EUR file fees. CVEC (105 EUR) is separate and not included. Source

Duration: 2 years

Apply through the official page: https://www.inalco.fr/candidatures

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