[Students-l] Fwd. [Air-L] 3-year interdisciplinary PhD Scholarship at UNMC

[M.J. Menou]

> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:07:45 +0800
> From: Tessa Houghton <tessajadehoughton at gmail.com>
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-L] 3-year interdisciplinary PhD Scholarship at UNMC
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> Dear AoIR folk,
>
> Please distribute this PhD scholarship opportunity widely; a fully-funded
> interdisciplinary 3-year PhD project open to international applicants,
> living in sunny Malaysia and working with a truly diverse team of academics.
>
>>  *Knowledge mining for community integration in a research value chain *
>>
>> *Project description:*
>>
>> This project will involved mining a large corpus of natural language (e.g.
>> documents and discussion forums), taken from across the CFFRC value chain,
>> for ideas. These will then be codified to allow them to be archived and
>> propagated across different communities, with different vocabularies and
>> cultural values. Cutting edge AI techniques and pattern recognition will be
>> used to identify these ?ideas? (possibly as memes), which are expressed as
>> collections of words and phrases within a given context.
>>
>> This research will seek to define an idea (which will require
>> consideration of the philosophy of knowledge), and express this in terms of
>> vocabulary and context.  A tool will be developed that uses techniques such
>> as neural computation to identify areas of similarity in parts of the CFFRC
>> corpus, which will represent ideas that may then be archived and made
>> available to other communities. The inherent capabilities of neural
>> computation to classify (e.g. multi-layered perceptrons) and compare (e.g.
>> associative memories) information will provide a powerful tool to detecting
>> and analyse these ideas. This will be innovative research into the
>> automation of knowledge management, and it will also provide a useful tool
>> for CFFRC- facilitating the exchange of ideas across communities.
>>
>> The successful candidate will have a strong background in computer science
>> and must have excellent programming skills, a sound knowledge of database
>> theory and practice and some experience of web development. In addition to
>> this some knowledge of or interest in one or more of the following areas
>> would be highly desirable: AI techniques; information retrieval; HCI and/or
>> human factors; linguistics (ideally computational linguistics); social
>> networks and the philosophy of information and knowledge
>>
> More details can be found here:
> http://www.nottingham.edu.my/CFFRC/StudentProjects/Knowledge-mining-for-community-integration-in-a-research-value-chain.aspx
>
> *The University of Nottingham, described by The Sunday Times University
> Guide 2011 as ?the embodiment of the modern international university?, has
> award-winning campuses in the United Kingdom, China and Malaysia. It is
> ranked in the UK's Top 10 and the World's Top 75 universities by the
> Shanghai Jiao Tong (SJTU) and the QS World University Rankings, placing it
> in the top 1% of all universities worldwide. In 2011 it climbed rankings
> published in the Complete University Guide, the Guardian University Guide,
> and The Times Good University Guide. *
>
> Best wishes,
> Tessa
> -----------------------------
>
> Dr Tessa J. Houghton<http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Modern-Languages/People/tessa.houghton>
>
> Assistant Professor in Media and Communication
> School of Modern Languages and Cultures
> The University of Nottingham Malaysia
> Campus<http://www.nottingham.edu.my/index.aspx>
> Malaysia
>
> ph:         +60 3 8924 8704
> e:           tessa.houghton at nottingham.edu.my <tessa.houghton at gmail.com>
> twitter:   @TidgeH <https://twitter.com/#%21/TidgeH>
>



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