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Open PhD position on Textual Knowledge Resources (NLP / IR / ML) at Data and Web Science Group in Mannheim

Country/Region : Germany

Website : http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de

Description

The Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing Group at the University of Mannheim invite applications for
ONE PHD STUDENT IN STATISTICAL NLP / IR / MACHINE LEARNING
The student is expected to contribute to a project on Knowledge Consolidation and Organization for Query-specific Wikipedia Construction under the principal investigator Laura Dietz. The goal of the research project is to make information on the Web accessible in a Wikipedia-like form through a query-driven interaction paradigm. This research requires a combination of methods from information retrieval and automatic text understanding to provide the user with a synthesis of the information through summarization, sub-topic identification, and article organization.
We are particularly interested in candidates with a background in one or several of the following areas:
* statistical text processing (e.g., automatic summarization, event extraction and ordering)
* machine learning
* knowledge base construction
* information retrieval
* distributed large-scale processing
Applicants must have a Masters degree (or obtain it in the near future) in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing or Machine Learning with previous research experience in information retrieval and human language technologies is a plus. The successful candidate is expected work under limited supervision, and publish papers at top level conferences and journals and collaborate with other members of the research group.
Duration: initially one year (starting in Spring 2016) with possible extension of three years.
Salary range: according to German public scale TV-L 13 100% (full time, commensurate with experience and qualifications).
Please submit your application per e-mail (queripidia-jobs-AT-uni-mannheim.de) as a single PDF. This PDF should include a short research statement, CV, copy of university degrees, a list of publications and published software and contact details of three references. All applications sent before January 6, 2016 will receive full consideration. The position remains open until filled.
The Data and Web Science Group is a joint lab of several professors covering diverse topics on managing, integrating and mining large-amounts of heterogeneous information within enterprise and open Web contexts. Further information about the group can be found at http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/ .
The University of Mannheim is committed to increase the percentage of female scientists and encourages female applicants to apply. Among candidates of equal aptitude and qualifications, a person with disabilities will be given preference.
Please contact Laura Dietz (queripidia-jobs-AT-uni-mannheim.de) for informal enquiries.

Last modified: 2015-11-23 17:27:25