[Students-l] Fwd: [Sigmetrics] Several funded PhD positions at the Knowledge Media institute, UK

[Michel Menou]

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Subject: 	[Sigmetrics] Several funded PhD positions at the Knowledge 
Media institute, UK
Date: 	Tue, 21 Mar 2017 08:53:52 +0000
From: 	Petr.Knoth <petr.knoth at open.ac.uk>



Apologies for cross-posting.

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Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) - http://kmi.open.ac.uk/ 


Stipend: £14,553 per year net plus fee bursary, Ref: 9668 



The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) is a leading research centre 
associated with the Open University. Research in KMi focuses on web & 
data science, natural language processing, information retrieval, 
digital libraries, machine learning and their applications to solve 
real-world problems. One of the application areas of a particular 
interest is scholarly communication & Open Science.

We are currently offering fully-funded PhD studentships commencing in 
October 2017. Applications are invited from UK, EU and international 
students for full-time, 3-year study.

Deadlines for applications (with a fully developed research proposal): 
10^th April, 2017

Available topics:

- Large-scale information extraction from unstructured textual resources 
- https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=76758&LID=3843

- Discovering facts to support or refute claims - 
https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=76757&LID=3843

- Identifying and predicting research & innovation by mining text - 
https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=76759&LID=3843

- Reproducibility of text and data mining workflows - 
https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=84691&LID=3843

- Large-scale real-time aggregation and synchronization of web & 
knowledge resources - 
https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=84692&LID=3843

- Towards Effective Open Science Workflows - 
https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=84744&LID=3843

- Investigating the impact of Open Science practices on scientific 
research - 
https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=84745&LID=3843

-- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an 
exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland 
(SC 038302). The Open University is authorised and regulated by the 
Financial Conduct Authority.
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