[Sigia-l] Position Opening: Research Assistant in Information Retrieval & Text Mining

[Christina Lioma]

Hello, 

I would be grateful if you could distribute the following announcement. 
Apologies for cross-postings.

Many Thanks,

Christina Lioma


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Research Assistant
Information Retrieval and Semantic Technologies

Department of Computing Science
Faculty of Information and Mathematical Sciences

Salary £23,002 - £25,889

REF No: 13170/DPO/A3

Large collaborative scientific projects (particularly in astronomy and particle physics) require users to search for information located in distributed stores, described using various distinct metadata models.

This multidisciplinary project aims to apply established AI and Knowledge Engineering work, including Data Mining and Semantic Technologies, to develop a novel peer-to-peer solution to this problem. The work will extend the successful Terrier information retrieval platform (http://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/terrier  ) and its corresponding tools, developed at the University of Glasgow, with semantic web tools and techniques.

The candidate will be responsible for implementation, and driving standardisation in the appropriate forums in the context of an EPSRC project (EP/E01142X/1). The post is available for 18 months in the first instance.

For further details, see http://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/explicator/   Informal enquiries to Iadh Ounis, ounis at dcs.gla.ac.uk    (Tel: +44 141 330 5652); Norman Gray, norman at astro.gla.ac.uk; or Paul Millar p.millar at physics.gla.ac.uk.

For an application pack, please see our website at http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/humanresources/recruit/25apr_13170.htm    or write quoting Ref 13170/DPO/A3 to Jacqui Brannan, Computing Science Department, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, jacqui at dcs.gla.ac.uk.

Closing date: 25th April 2007 

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Research Assistant
Information Retrieval and Text Mining

Department of Computing Science
Faculty of Information and Mathematical Sciences

Salary £23,002 - £25,889

REF No: 13171/DPO/A3

The researcher will be responsible for the development of information retrieval and data mining techniques on large-scale biomedical texts. Specifically, you will be required to develop appropriate distributed retrieval techniques for biomedical texts (under the direction of the investigators), implement retrieval techniques on OCR documents, develop retrieval techniques to identify relevant passages in a document, and develop data mining techniques to highlight useful information from these passages, with the intention to facilitate the population of a database, implement a number of demonstrator systems and conduct evaluations of the system.

The work will be implemented on top of the state-of-the-art Terrier information retrieval platform (http://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/terrier   ). It will be done within the context of a collaborative European project (SIMAP). This post is available for 18 months in the first instance.

For further details, see http://www.simap-project.org/    Informal enquiries to Iadh Ounis, ounis at dcs.gla.ac.uk    (Tel: +44 141 330 5652); or David Gilbert, drg at dcs.gla.ac.uk;

For an application pack, please see our website at http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/humanresources/recruit/25apr_13171.htm   or write quoting Ref 13171/DPO/A3 to Jacqui Brannan, Computing Science Department, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, jacqui at dcs.gla.ac.uk

Closing date: 25th April 2007
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