Ask HN: German Universities for Masters in Computer Science
I am BS computer science with two years of development experience in Java, Python and Ruby with multiple frameworks and platforms. I am planing to study Master's but i can't afford much so Pakistan and Germany are my options. Problem with Pakistani universities is that they really didn't focus on research also option of specialization in Information Retrial or Natural Language Processing is not there so don't want to be there. Would you recommend me to study Masters from German university keeping in mind i want to have specialization in Natural Language Processing or Information Retrial. Suggestion by universities name if any will be highly appreciated. If there is any other university/institute where NLP and IR specialization are offered in Masters please do comment.
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The TU9 could be a starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TU9
In computer science, Karlsruhe, Aachen and the TU Munich (TU -- there are three universities in Munich) are the most prestigious, although I've always percepted alumni from those three as being somewhat snobbish.
When it comes to computational linguistics, Saarbrücken is probably the very best, but Stuttgart (my alma mater) is also really good.
In case of Munich look for the 'computer linguistics' department http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/ueber_uns/index.html The http://www.en.uni-muenchen.de/about_lmu/contact/int_office/i... department coordinates helping foreign students. The 'Fachschaft" is the student body if you want direct access to well connected students that currently study there https://fachschaft.cis.uni-muenchen.de/
For NLP and Information Retrieval, University Stuttgart and University of Saarland. And for part time software engineering jobs are also available with better hourly rate than any other HiWi (Student job). By the way, learning German (at least basics) will take you a long way.
A good information portal about this is PIGAS ( http://www.pigas.org ) p.s. shameless plug
Email me if you need help about this, I studied in RWTH Aachen and Heidelberg Universities.
RWTH Aachen may be a good choice. I had a colleague that studied there. http://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/
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Do you speak German? Otherwise I would recommend small post-soviet countries: Estonia, Slovakia...
Germany might not be the best country for NLP/IR but following universities are my recommendation Technische Universität Darmstadt, RWTH Aachen University
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