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Human Aspects of Information Technology

Information SessionWednesday, June 20

Tilburg University

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HAIT Information Session

• 12:30-13:30• HAIT: The details

> Courses> Admission

• After HAIT> Job prospects

• Demos• Questions

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HAIT

Human Aspects of Information Technology

courses

search engines

information retrieval

recommendation systems

web 2.0

social tagging

wikisblogs

profile courses

skills

natural language processing

speech technologydialogue systems

text miningweb mining

thesis

Erasmus

knowledge representationknowledge management

ontologiesthesauruslogic

job market

startup

ICT company

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HAIT: first semester

Profile courses:1. Information

search, retrieval, and recommendation

2. Dialogue and interface

3. Natural language processing

4. Text mining

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OZV. Programming (3 ECTS), Scripting (3 ECTS)

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HAIT Semester 1, Block 1

• Information search, retrieval, and recommendation>Taught by: Toine Bogers and Hans Paijmans>Keywords: search engines, information

retrieval, recommendation systems, question-answering systems, social tagging, blog mining

• Dialogue and Interface >Taught by: Simon Keizer and Harry Bunt>Keywords: spoken dialogue systems,

multimodal interaction, human factors

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HAIT Semester 1, Block 2

• Natural Language Processing>Taught by: Sander Canisius>Keywords: language technology, parsing,

lexical semantics, spelling correction, speech synthesis, speech recognition

• Text Mining >Taught by: Antal van den Bosch and Walter

Daelemans>Keywords: information extraction,

intelligence, web mining, knowledge discovery

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HAIT Semester 1: Skills

• Programming>Taught by: Erik Tjong Kim Sang >Programming basics and principles,

using Perl and in a computer room

• Scripting>Taught by: Hans Paijmans >Pipelining; Unix shell and command line

tools; software engineering basics

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HAIT: second semester

1. Profile course (elective):• Knowledge representation and management

2. Master thesis (24 ECTS)

Alternative:• Spend second semester at the University

of Antwerp, supported by Erasmus> Do one or two Master’s courses

• Computational models of language understanding

• Computational psycholinguistics> Perform thesis research

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HAIT Sem 1 Block 1

• Knowledge Representation and Management>Elective course>Taught by: Jan de Vuijst and Elias

Thijsse>Keywords: Logic, semantics, knowledge

management, ontologies, semantic web

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HAIT Master Thesis

• Participate in ongoing research projects at the Dept. of Communication and Information Sciences> Recommendation systems, social tagging,

information retrieval: Toine Bogers> Text mining, ontologies, cultural heritage: Marieke

van Erp, Piroska Lendvai, Hans Paijmans> Spelling correction: Martin Reynaert, Herman

Stehouwer> Dialogue systems: Piroska Lendvai, Simon Keizer,

Jeroen Geertzen> Machine translation: Antal van den Bosch

• Research internship at a company, with UvT supervisor

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Admission

• Bachelor CIW> Minor: Computing for

the humanities• Premasters HAIT

> 2007: BDM as well• Master CIW

• Other Master’s diploma?> Admission form> Deadline: July 1

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Premaster HAIT

• Admission> Informatica> Information science> Information services and

management> …

• Program> First semester: digital

heritage, philosophy, statistics, cognition, English

> Second semester: user interface design, text analysis, media use, methodology, research skills

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Job prospects• Industry

> Small and large ICT companies

> Media companies> Knowledge-

intensive industries

• NGO’s> Libraries,

archives, museums

• Academy> Ph.D. student

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Contact

• Information:> http://www.uvt.nl/hait

• Coordinator:> Antal van den Bosch> Antal.vdnBosch@uvt.nl

• Internationalization / Erasmus:> Denise Lindenau