MA/MS in Information Science

Groningen's Information Science track teaches students to build and evaluate intelligent applications such as smart search engines, automatic translation systems, and conversational agents, aimed at those drawn to artificial intelligence and language technology. Students learn to process unstructured data such as text automatically and to identify which machine learning techniques are suited to particular problems within information science, alongside taking part in shared tasks that involve working in a group on a difficult language-technology problem. Methods from artificial intelligence are applied to real-world cases including translation for languages with limited digital resources, the semantic web, detecting hate speech, and building smarter user interfaces. Building on knowledge from a prior bachelor's degree, the track develops independent research ability alongside programming, analytical, and presentation skills, and sits as a specialisation within the Communication and Information Sciences master's, with all teaching delivered in English.