[Eurchap] Fwd: [Asis-l] Call for two post-doc researcher positions at the University of Padua (hard deadline 28 December 2011)

[M.J. Menou]

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Subject: 	[Asis-l] Call for two post-doc researcher positions at the
University of Padua (hard deadline 28 December 2011)
Date: 	Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:49:45 +0100
From: 	Laura Adami <adami at dei.unipd.it>
To: 	asis-l at asis.org



The Information Management Systems (IMS) Research Group
(http://ims.dei.unipd.it/) at the Department of Information Engineering
(http://www.dei.unipd.it/wdyn/index.php?lingua=en) of the University of
Padua (http://www.unipd.it/index_en.htm), Italy, invites applications
for two 18 months post-doctoral researcher positions in the experimental
evaluation of information systems.

The positions are both partially tied to the PROMISE (Participative
Research labOratory for Multimedia and Multimedia Information Systems
Evaluation) Network of Excellence (http://www.promise-noe.eu/)
co-financed by the European Commission.  The work of the post-doc
researchers will be supervised by Dr. Nicola Ferro (Coordinator of the
PROMISE Network of Excellence,
http://ims.dei.unipd.it/websites/archive/ims2009/members/ferro/).


Position 1:
*Design and Development of Component-based Evaluation Methodologies for
Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Systems*

http://www.dei.unipd.it/wdyn/?IDsezione=7316

The research activities concern the study and development, in the
context of the PROMISE project, of innovative methodologies to carry out
a component-based evaluation of multilingual and multimodal information
access systems in order to assess the contribution of each component to
the overall performances.



Position 2:
*Design and Development of Knowledge Management and Semantic Tools for
Information Retrieval Experimental Evaluation*

http://www.dei.unipd.it/wdyn/?IDsezione=7317

The research activities concern the study and development, in the
context of the PROMISE project, of innovative tools for knowledge
management and semantics in order to describe the scientific data
produces by experimental evaluation of information retrieval systems and
to make the accessible and re-usable.


The researcher will join an energetic and highly collaborative team of
computer scientists. Tasks will include developing new algorithms and
architectures; their prototyping and analysis; and, scientific
publishing of the results.

About the University and the City
==========================

Probably best known as the city of Saint Anthony or as the economic
capital of Veneto, Padova (Padua) is also one of the most important art
cities in Italy. It is a pleasant historical city, home to one of the
oldest (dating back to 1222) and most prestigious Universities in
Europe. Little more than 400 years ago, Galileo came here as a Professor
of Mathematics to spend, in his own words, "the 18 best years of my
entire life." Bologna, Verona, Florence, Milan, Rome and Turin are all
conveniently reachable by train.
Padova is known also for hosting the oldest botanical garden of Europe.
The most important monuments of the town were realized between the 13th
century and the 15th century, the most extraordinary economic and
cultural period, which left an indelible mark on the town: the medieval
city walls, the great civil and religious buildings, and the University.


About the Positions:
===============

The official hiring procedure will be conducted at a Department level
and the candidate's competencies will be evaluated by a commission
nominated by the Department of Information Engineering of the University
of Padua.
The positions offer:

   * A full-time appointment for a period of 18 months, starting by
     February 2012 (however other start times could be considered);
   * Euro 21,304 (twenty-one thousand three hundred and four) gross
     salary per year;
   * a comfortable and functional work station at the Department of
     Information Engineering;
   * free access to laboratories, libraries and facilities of the
     University of Padua.


Requirements
===========

   * Ph.D. in computer science, or related fields and two years of
     experience after the PhD;
   * experience with database systems and/or information retrieval systems;
   * fluent in Java and Web-Programming;
   * have a good command of oral and written English (some knowledge of
     Italian is desirable, but not required);
   * good analytical, technical, and problem solving skills;
   * good teamwork and organizational skills.


The following competencies are considered a plus:

   * Web Services design and development: e.g. REpresentational State
     Transfer (REST), JavaScript, Asyncronous JavaScript with XML (AJAX),
     Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
   * Metadata schemes, generation and systems.
   * XML and related technologies: e.g. XPath, XQuery, XML Schema, and XSLT.



Application details:
===============

Applications must be sent /strictly following/ /the instructions/
reported in the two links below:

   * Position 1:
     *Design and Development of Component-based Evaluation Methodologies
     for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Systems
     http://www.dei.unipd.it/wdyn/?IDsezione=7316*


   * Position 2:
     *Design and Development of Knowledge Management and Semantic Tools
     for Information Retrieval Experimental Evaluation
     http://www.dei.unipd.it/wdyn/?IDsezione=7317*



The *HARD DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF THE SUBMISSIONS IS 28 DECEMBER 2011*.

For more information contact Laura Adami (adami at dei.unipd.it
<mailto:adami at dei.unipd.it>).
Please note that the applications must be submitted to the address
indicated in the instructions and not to Laura Adami.


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