Career Perspective
On graduating, you will have extensive knowledge of the most modern, state-of-the-art applications in the field of information and language technology. Developments in this discipline are unstoppable, creating a growing need for specialists. At the same time, the number of graduates with a unique HAIT training background is relatively small. As a consequence, it will be easy to find an interesting job, either in the Netherlands or abroad.
In companies and institutions, your position will often be that of team leader. You will be managing programmers, and talking to clients to get a clear view of their problems in making their information available. You will find people who can test a new system, and supervise the whole development process from beginning to end. In some organizations, your job will have some consultancy characteristics, while in others you will be more likely to be engaged in developing long-term solutions.
Further Specialization
After the Master's specialization, you will be able to specialize further as an academic researcher. This means you will predominantly be engaged in new technologies that have not yet been picked up by companies. Your activities will include developing and testing computer models. You may also carry out research on handling bottlenecks, such as speech recognition within speech and language technology. That way, you will help raise the discipline to a higher level.
Where to find a job!
To give you a better idea where you can do a work placement, or where you might be working after you have graduated, we give you a number of examples of companies and institutes operating in the field of HAIT.
Companies
| Traslán | machine translation |
| Powerset / Bing SF Labs | information recommendation, question answering |
| eBay Research Labs | information search |
| PARC | natural language processing |
AskNow Solutions
 |
question answering, information recommendation |
| Textkernel | text mining, information extraction |
| Teezir | search engines, expert finding, opinion mining |
| Irion Technologies | multilingual information retrieval |
| Q-Go | interaction management |
| WiseGuys | web crawling, web mining |
| GridLine
|
terminology |
| ZyLab | document management |
Institutes
| Koninklijke Bibliotheek | digital heritage |
| DANS | information management for humanities and social sciences |
| Beeld en Geluid
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media archives |
More information about developments and companies in this sector
| Taalunieversum
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policy on the Dutch language |
| NOTaS
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Dutch Organisation for Language and Speech Technology |
Nederlands / Dutch