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Human Aspects of Information Technology

Human Aspects of Information Technology. Information Session Wednesday, June 20 Tilburg University. HAIT Information Session. 12:30-13:30 HAIT: The details Courses Admission After HAIT Job prospects Demos Questions. HAIT. thesis. social tagging. recommendation systems. Erasmus.

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Human Aspects of Information Technology

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  1. Human Aspects of Information Technology Information Session Wednesday, June 20 Tilburg University

  2. HAIT Information Session • 12:30-13:30 • HAIT: The details • Courses • Admission • After HAIT • Job prospects • Demos • Questions

  3. HAIT thesis social tagging recommendation systems Erasmus wikis blogs skills search engines profile courses web 2.0 courses information retrieval job market ICT company Human Aspects of Information Technology startup text mining natural language processing web mining dialogue systems speech technology knowledge management knowledge representation ontologies thesaurus logic

  4. HAIT: first semester Profile courses: • Information search, retrieval, and recommendation • Dialogue and interface • Natural language processing • Text mining OZV. Programming (3 ECTS), Scripting (3 ECTS)

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. HAIT: second semester • Profile course (elective): • Knowledge representation and management • 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. Job prospects • Industry • Small and large ICT companies • Media companies • Knowledge-intensive industries • NGO’s • Libraries, archives, museums • Academy • Ph.D. student

  14. Contact • Information: • http://www.uvt.nl/hait • Coordinator: • Antal van den Bosch • Antal.vdnBosch@uvt.nl • Internationalization / Erasmus: • Denise Lindenau

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