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Sunday, December 29, 2013

Senior C++ Software Engineer - Cloud Computing Start Up

C++ Software Engineer - C++, Obective C, JavaScript, HTML, SASS, HTTP, Linux, Node.js, MySQL, JSON, XML, FTP Server, UNIX, Batch Processing, Sencha ExtJs, Cloud Technology

Derivatives Cloud Technology Start Up. City of London.

£50,000 - £65,000


A Derivatives Cloud Technology Start Up is looking for a C++ Software Engineer who will be only the second technologist within the firm.

This firm started early this year and have already had significant interest in the product that they have created. They need to hire a C++ Software Engineer (JavaScript, HTTP, ObjectiveC) who will be the second in command behind the CTO. You will need to be a strong technologist, love technology and be willingly to bet involved in all aspects of development within the firm.
You will be building a highly innovative cloud platform that will be targeted at the Financial Industry, specifically derivatives trading. This is the opportunity for you to get involved in a Start Up that already has customers lined up and a significant financial backing. You will be developing software in C++ and JavaScript, helping to set up a network and helping to make important strategic decisions within the firm.
The C++ Software Engineer (JavaScript, HTTP, ObjectiveC) will ideally have experience of:
  • C++ or ObjectiveC development experience
  • Strong knowledge of JavaScript
  • Experience with Networking such as HTTP
  • MySQL experience
  • Knowledge of Unix Shell Scripts
  • Multi-Threading Experience
  • Web Sockets Experience
Please get in touch with Tom Kemp at Harrington Starr for more information.

C++ Software Engineer - C++, Obective C, JavaScript, HTML, SASS, HTTP, Linux, Node.js, MySQL, JSON, XML, FTP Server, UNIX, Batch Processing, Sencha ExtJs, Cloud Technology
For more information see here

Faculty positions at ShanghaiTech University

Faculty positions at ShanghaiTech:
http://jobs.shanghaitech.edu.cn/job.asp?id=20

On behalf of the School of Information Science and Technology at the
Newly FOUNDED ShanghaiTech University, we would like to send you our
second School newsletter.

Our University is inaugurated to tackle the Science and Engineering
education challenges in China for sustaining the future economic
development. Our goal is to build a world-class, small scale, highly
reputable, and OPEN university in China, particularly in the vibrant
area of Shanghai.

If you know anyone interested in our faculty position, either as a
tenured/tenure-track, or visiting and sabbatical, please do not hesitate
to contact us. We welcome academics in all cutting edge of information
science and technology to join us in this history making venture.

Please help us build this brand new school by dispersing our recruitment
need to your friends, your students, and your colleagues. If your
institution is interested in working with us, we are completely open to
such suggestions.

Sincerely,

School of Information Science and Technology
ShanghaiTech Univeristy
sist@shanghaitech.edu.cn <mailto:sist@shanghaitech.edu.cn>
http://www.shanghaitech.edu.cn


Friday, December 27, 2013

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Data Science


Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Data Science

University of Sheffield - Information School

Job Reference Number: UOS007752 
Department: Faculty of Social Sciences
Salary: 
Lecturer, Grade 8: £37,756 to £45,053 per annum with potential to progress to £50,688.
Senior Lecturer, Grade 9: £47,787 to £53,765 per annum with potential to progress to £62,306.
Closing Date: 15 January 2014
Summary:
The Information School at the University of Sheffield is recognised nationally and internationally for its world-class research, excellence in teaching, and the achievements of its graduates. It is the leader in its field in the UK, consistently ranked number one in every national Research Assessment Exercise since 1986 and is a member of the international iSchools organisation, a group of leading cognate schools established to promote the role of the information field in shaping the future of the global information society.
We are currently investing in a strategic appointment in the area of Data Science designed to enhance and expand our exceptionally strong research and teaching in areas such as data mining and analysis, information retrieval, open data, information policy and governance, and social media research. The appointee will make a strong contribution to the further development of our research activities, to the delivery of our new postgraduate programme in Data Science, and to supervision of research students.
A PhD (or equivalent) in a relevant field, a well-established or developing research profile, and proven teaching ability or very strong potential, are essential for this appointment, which will be made at either Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level as appropriate. The successful candidate's research and teaching expertise will complement that of existing staff and will be in one or more of the following areas of Data Science (but not limited to): data mining, data visualisation, business analytics and the practical application of data mining techniques to aid decision making within an organisation.
We welcome applications from ambitious, highly motivated and talented individuals with research expertise that will complement and strengthen our existing research profile, and who will be keen to play an active role in enhancing the School's national and international reputation for research and teaching excellence and innovation.
It is anticipated that interviews and other selection action will be held during the first week in February. To find out more about the job and apply online go to: www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs. If you would like to discuss the post before applying the please contact Dr. Paul Clough (p.d.clough@sheffield.ac.uk).

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Dr. Paul Clough (Senior Lecturer)

Information School
University of Sheffield
Regent Court
Sheffield S1 4DP
Tel: +44 (0)114 2222664
Fax: +44 (0)114 2780300
Email: p.d.clough@sheffield.ac.uk
Web: http://ir.shef.ac.uk/cloughie/
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Postdoctoral Fellow - Natural Language Processing and Semantic Technologies

. Join our team at CSIRO - Australia's premier science & technology research organisation!
. Excellent development opportunity within a large multi-faceted organisation
. Contribute to the project developing novel software-based tools that provide clinical decision support from medical narratives

The position:

CSIRO Computational Informatics (CCI) are currently looking for a motivated PhD graduate who is enthusiastic about making a hands-on contribution to solving the research challenges found in natural language processing, electronic health records, semantic data management, data mining and data analysis.

The Health Data and Semantics team is a world class team of computer scientists and research engineers at CCI. The team is a key contributor to the Health Data Management and Semantics research program at the Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC - http://aehrc.com/), an unincorporated joint venture between CSIRO and the Queensland Government. The research program focuses on technology which improves the use and effectiveness of routinely collected health data. We are seeking a candidate to join the team in developing novel software-based tools that provide clinical decision support from medical narratives.

Specifically you will:
. Contribute to the health data natural language processing and semantics program; . Develop innovative concepts, theories, tools and techniques related to the processing of health data; . Obtain ethical and legislative approval for use of health data; . Evaluate the effectiveness of computational informatics solutions through qualitative and quantitative analysis; . Publish scientific results in leading clinical and technical journals and conferences; . Continue to enhance CSIRO's research reputation for integrated and multi-disciplinary science related to clinical language processing and health data semantics by solving real issues and making a difference to external partners and stakeholders.

Location:    Brisbane, QLD
Salary:        $78K to $88K p.a. plus up to 15.4% superannuation
Tenure:       3 Year Term
Ref No.:       Q13/04699

To be considered you will hold a PhD in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent field.
You will also have:
. The ability to investigate issues of complex and ill-defined problems and develop appropriate responses by adapting/creating and testing alternative solutions; . Demonstrated knowledge and skills in natural language processing (e.g. information extraction, information retrieval, machine learning) and/or semantic data processing; . Well-developed written and verbal communication skills, for example, publications in academic environments such as scientific journals/conference proceedings, experience presenting and demonstrating at conferences, industry exhibitions, internal training seminars; . Proven ability to work independently and as part of a team to prototype research ideas and develop them into demonstration and/or proof of concept systems. In addition, a demonstrated ability to interact with external/internal collaborators and stakeholders.

Owing to terms of the fellowship, candidates must not have more than 3 years of relevant Postdoctoral experience.

About CSIRO:
Australia is founding its future on science and innovation. Its national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), is a powerhouse of ideas, technologies and skills for building prosperity, growth, health and sustainability. It serves governments, industries, business and communities.

Our Business Unit:
At CSIRO Computational Informatics (CCI) our researchers work in partnership to address key challenges across the information and decision making value chain - particularly those related to enhancing Australia's productivity and efficiency across critical sectors of its economy. CCI researchers are undertaking a central and leading role in addressing the global trends that will change the way we live. For further information go to our website: http://www.csiro.au/CCI

Applications close 5th January 2014 (11:30pm Brisbane time).

Click on the link below to access the full position description and selection criteria.

http://csiro.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm?event=jobs.checkJobDetailsNewApplication&returnToEvent=jobs.processJobSearch&jobid=01ed0e27-6192-2dab-105d-7742a5088c7a&CurATC=EXT&CurBID=62afb35d-9273-4a11-8dcc-9db401354197&jobsListKey=e514cd4b-f3fc-4646-aef7-bd1d25eb3fda&persistVariables=CurATC,CurBID,jobsListKey&lid=13094570007


Anthony Nguyen, PhD

Research Stream Leader | Health Services Theme, Digital Productivity and Services Flagship Research Project Leader | The Australian e-Health Research Centre Senior Research Scientist | CSIRO Computational Informatics

E anthony.nguyen@csiro.au T +61 7 3253 3637 M +61 (0)433 119 805
Address: Level 5 - UQ Health Sciences Building 901/16, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston, Qld 4029, Australia www.csiro.au |www.csiro.au/HealthServices |www.aehrc.com

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Thursday, December 26, 2013

Opportunity for 2014 Science Graduates to be a part of TCS!



Dear Sir / Madam

Greetings from Tata Consultancy Services!!

TCS is hiring Science graduates from 2014 batch.

Please find below the screen shot for eligibility criteria and refer to the attachment which explains how to register candidate's profile for DT reference number.

Kindly communicate this to your arts and science department to have maximum participation.





Sunday, December 22, 2013

.Scholarship Exam 2013-14: Winter Fast-Track Batches


We are happy to announce the Innobuzz Scholarship Exam 2013-14 for Winter Fast-Track Batches starting at all Innobuzz Centers in India. So, make full use of your Winter Break and add a new skill set in your Information Technology Repertoire. This is an opportunity to test your skills against the very best amongst your peer group. Also, you get an opportunity to earn Scholarship on all our Training Programs for Winter Fast-Track Batches by simply taking this Test. The Scholarship offered is based on the performance in the Test. Get started to avail the offer and let your career shine this forthcoming year.

Click here to take the Test Now!

Last Date to take the Examination is 31st December, 2013

Benefits:
  • Win up to 30% Scholarship.
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Open Positions: Social Media Coordinator And Writers Needed

As we move into a new year, MovieViral looks to expand its ranks with a brand new position and a few more writers. Get the details after the break.

Contributing Writers: First of all, are looking for a few contributing writers. This requires you to write at least one article per week. We have a couple of weekly articles that need a new writer, so you could do just that.
Social Media Coordinator: A brand new position at MovieViral. This person will be in charge of our social media accounts and work on expanding our brand through our online presence. This person would also write our Social Media Monthly feature.
Please note that at this moment, none of these positions are paying, but the perks are pretty sweet. This includes exclusive press access to conventions, film festivals, film screenings, and more. You may be allowed to keep swag acquired that is not used for promotional purposes. This is also a great résumé builder and opportunity to network with individuals in the industry. for more details see here

Thursday, December 19, 2013

2 PhD positions in Computational Social Science at GESIS Cologne

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We are seeking to fill two PhD positions in the department Computational Social Science at GESIS in Cologne, Germany.

The GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences is an internationally active research and service  institute belonging to the Leibniz Association in Germany. It is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Federal States.

Our research offices in Cologne are offering 2 PhD positions in Computational Social Science (TV-L 13, 75%, initially for 4 years)

in collaboration with the Web-Science and Web Technology (WeST) Institute at University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

http://www.gesis.org/en/institute/gesis-scientificdepartments/
computational-social-science/

The department for Computational Social Science is looking for computer scientists with experience in one or several of the following fields:

    data mining and natural language processing
    machine learning, classification & clustering
    network analysis, and –algorithms
    statistical modeling of user behavior

The candidate is expected to conduct cutting-edge applied research in one or several of the following domains:

    Social computation and computational social science
    Social network analysis and social media
    Web-Science and Web-related research
    Data mining and knowledge discovery

The candidate should have completed (or should soon complete) a MSc in Computer Science or a related discipline and have strong programming skills. The ideal candidate has first experience in independently designing and conducting research and publishing results in conferences and journals. The open positions are intended to serve as a platform for promising young researchers (i) to strengthen and develop their own research profile and (ii) to conduct and publish highly competitive research.

GESIS offers an exciting environment for interdisciplinary and competitive research on the intersection between computer- and social sciences. GESIS is a research and service organization that provides a research-driven infrastructure for the social sciences and closely collaborates with computer science and social science departments at top universities in Europe and Northern America. Strong candidates can qualify for extensive allowances for research visits and collaborations with partnering universities. Cologne is a culturally diverse and vibrant city (the 4th largest city in Germany with about 1 Mio. people) in the heart of Europe attracting young and creative people from all over the world.

For more information and details, please feel free to contact Prof. Dr. Markus Strohmaier at strohmaier@uni-koblenz.de or markus.strohmaier@gesis.org.

GESIS guarantees that guidelines regarding employment laws for the disabled and handicapped as well as laws and regulations governing part-time employment will be observed. GESIS is an equal opportunity employer and is certified by the European work & family audit.

We only process online applications. Please apply here until the position is filled.
https://www.hidden-professionals.de/HP/P_shorts/Now_Candid.aspx?jo=67682
(Select English)

The job ID is:CSS-01
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WWW2014 - CFP on BIG (BigData Innovators Gathering) 2014

The 23rd International World Wide Web Conference,
April 7-11, 2014
Seoul, Korea

Co-located Event News

*** BIG 2014 CFP ***

The BigData Innovators Gathering (BIG) will bring together academic
and industry leaders in the big data space to share the state of the
art and its successful application in business. The two-day gathering
will consist of keynotes from visionaries in the field, panels on hot
topics, and contributed talks on successes and best practices.

BIG 2014 will be co-located with WWW2014 in Seoul, Korea, April 7-8,
2014, http://www2014.kr <http://www2014.kr/> .

We will have two great keynote speakers:

* Chris Volinsky, AVP from AT&T,
* Amr Awadallah, CTO and co-founder of Cloudera.

Call for Panel, Presentation and Demonstration Proposals

Submissions due: January 10, 2014
Notifications of acceptance: February 7, 2014

We invite proposals for contributed talks, demonstrations and panels
that highlight novel developments in the foundations, infrastructure,
applications and implications of big data. Proposals should be limited
to two pages and will be judged on the basis of thought leadership,
technical novelty and application potential; pure corporate or product
marketing is discouraged. Speculative work or significant works in
progress are acceptable, but should be grounded in an important
application and should specifically address the challenges associated
with the large data sets of today. Accepted presentations are to be
delivered in person by one of the authors of the proposal, at the BIG
2014 conference in Seoul,April 7-8, 2014.

For more details, visit the BIG 2014 website: http://big2014.org
<http://big2014.org/>

BIG 2014 Chairs:

Ben Hamner, Kaggle
Ronny Lempel, Yahoo!

BIG 2014 Steering Committee:

Andrei Broder, Google
Robin Chen, AT&T
Chin-Wan Chung, KAIST
Sue Moon, KAIST
Alessandro Panconesi, Sapienza - University of Rome
Prabhakar Raghavan, Google
Kyuseok Shim, Seoul National University

BIG 2014 Program Committee:

Sihem Amer-Yahia, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Sourangshu Bhattacharya, IIT Kharagpur
Edward Bortnikov, Yahoo Labs
Carlos Castillo, Qatar Computing Researc Institute
Mario Faria, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Junlan Feng, China Mobile Research
Michael Franklin, UC Berkeley
Ron Karidi, Outbrain
David Konopnicki, IBM Research
Patty Kostkova, University College London
Edo Liberty, Yahoo Labs
Jimmy Lin, University of Maryland
Shiding Lin, Baidu
Jun-Ki Min, Korea University of Technology and Education
Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore
Kira Radinsky, SalesPredict
Carlos Scheidegger, AT&T
Pavel Serdyukov, Yandex
David Ayman Shamma, Yahoo Labs
Dan Sturman, Google
Chris Volinsky, AT&T

Publicity Chair: Alice Oh, KAIST
****************

Also visit please visit
http://www2014.wwwconference.org/ for more information about WWW2014.

For inquiries, please email to "www2014 at www2014 dot kr"
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

PhD position on Search and Recommendation of Rich Data

The University of Amsterdam is looking for a versatile, highly motivated PhD candidate on searching and recommending information in the heritage domain.  The positions are part of the EU-FP7 funded project on "Material EncounterS with Cultural Heritage" (meSch) as part of an international consortium.

* Position: Search and Recommendation of Museum Data
  Vacancy number: 13-402

The candidate will contribute to the technical infrastructure of meSch, and work on search and recommendation on rich museum data; enriching and linking data to external (re)sources; customization and personalization; and transaction log analysis.

* Requirements

- A research oriented master's degree (MSc or MA);
- a strong background in: i) information retrieval, especially search and recommendation, ii) semi-structured data, semantic annotation, and linked data, iii) interactive information access;
- solid programming skills are a must; and
- research experience or demonstrable interest in cultural and scientific heritage is a definite advantage.

* Job Description

The candidate is expected to:
- complete and defend a PhD thesis within the official appointment duration;
- regularly present intermediate research results at international workshops and conferences, and publish them in proceedings and journals;
- collaborate with the other researchers in the meSch project and in the university;
- participate in the organization of research activities and events at the Allard Pierson Museum such as exhibitions, conferences, workshops and joint publications;
- assist in teaching activities.

* Application

The position is fully funded (full time, three years). Applications should include a letter of motivation, a detailed curriculum vitae, a publication list, and two letters of reference. Please submit your application before 12 January 2014 to <materialencounters@gmail.com 




WWW 2014 BigScholar Workshop


CALL FOR PAPERS

BigScholar 2014
The First WWW Workshop on Big Scholarly Data: Towards the Web of Scholars
Seoul, Korea, April 8, 2014
http://dutphonelab.org/bigscholar/
A workshop of WWW 2014 (The 23rd International World Wide Web Conference): http://www2014.kr/

Researchers worldwide are currently producing more and more scholarly data of various types such as papers, books, patents, etc. Such data are big data by nature. For example, the DBLP Computer Science Bibliography provides bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings. Additionally, DBLP indexes more than 2.3 million articles records containing title, pages, years and authors' information, etc. Concurrently, scholars are associated with various academic activities such as conferences, workshops, congresses, peer review, and so on. Such scenarios have motivated us to explore the Web of Scholars in the context of big scholarly data on a global scale. It is imperative and vital for researchers to drive their knowledge towards the innovative generation of values from Big Scholarly Data. The emerging worldwide Web of Scholars demands a re-evaluation of existing techniques, such as data mining, recommender systems, and social network analysis. Furthermore, there is a demand for novel ways of developing algorithms, methods and techniques to foster the analysis and interpretation of social environments such as academic collaboration networks.

The BigScholar 2014 workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners working on Big Scholarly Data to discuss what are emerging research issues and how to explore the Web of Scholars. Several core challenges, such as the tools and methods for analyzing and mining scholarly data will be the main center of discussions at the workshop. The goal is to contribute to the birth of a community having a shared interest around the Web of Scholars and exploring it using data mining, recommender systems, social network analysis and other appropriate technologies.

The workshop will be a half-day workshop. The format of the workshop will include one invited talk (keynote), research and position paper presentations, and one discussion panel. The workshop will be held on April 8, 2014 in Seoul, Korea, in conjunction with the 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2014).

We will explore promising areas of research in big scholarly data, with a focus on the rapidly emerging field of the Web of Scholars. This workshop also seeks to answer noteworthy research questions such as:
 - How to connect scholars on the web?
 - How to facilitate collaboration among scholars?
 - How to find the experts in a particular field?
Researchers are welcome to submit their papers that address these questions above and other topics below which may include, but are not limited to:
 - Academic social network analysis
 - Scientific recommendation
 - Methods and tools for analyzing big scholarly data
 - Indexing, searching, and mining scholarly data
 - Connecting scholars using a Web approach
 - Platforms and services for the Web of Scholars
 - Web tools and techniques for big scholarly data
 - Paradigms to promote scientific collaboration
 - Scientific trends prediction
 - Applications, use cases, and evaluations of big scholarly data

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper Submission Deadline: Jan 14, 2014
Author Notification: Feb 4, 2014
Final Manuscript: Feb 12, 2014

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
Authors are invited to submit original papers that must not have been submitted to or published in any other workshop, conference, or journal. The workshop will accept full papers describing completed work, work-in-progress papers with preliminary results, as well as position papers reporting inspiring and intriguing new ideas. 

All submitted papers must:
* be written in English;
* contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses;
* be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt;
* be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size;
* occupy no more than six pages, including the abstract, references, and appendices.
It is the authors' responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format.
Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the Program Committee and be evaluated for originality, quality and appropriateness to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted papers must present their work at the workshop. All accepted and presented papers will be published in the Companion Proceedings of the WWW conference, through the ACM Digital Library. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in special issues of SCI-index international journals.

Please submit your paper here:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigscholar2014

Organizers:
Feng Xia, Dalian University of Technology, China
Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA

Contact Info:
Email: bigscholar@googlegroups.com

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Post-doctoral researcher, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore


The Natural Language Processing group in the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore has two open positions for post-doctoral researchers in the areas of clinical natural language processing (NLP), ontology learning and text mining.

One position aims at developing new clinical NLP applications for electronic medical records (EMRs) of Singapore hospitals, dealing with such issues as syntactic/semantic parser adaptation for the Singaporean EMRs and semantic similarity measurement. It involves applying scientific, technical and software engineering skills to conduct research on natural language processing, ontology engineering, and/or clinical informatics.

The other position is funded by Rolls-Royce, and aims at developing novel methods for ontology learning, ontology-based text mining for speech recognition results, and semantic indexing and search and the development of prototypes demonstrating the successful application of the research. It involves applying scientific, technical and software engineering skills to conduct research on ontology engineering and text mining in collaboration with the speech recognition group at NTU.

/Required Qualifications/

A Ph. D. in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, or a related discipline with specialization in natural language processing, ontology engineering, and/or clinical informatics. Independent research experiences are expected.

/How to apply/

Please send your resume and a cover letter to
Jung-jae Kim
E-mail: jungjae.kim@ntu.edu.sg
Homepage: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/jungjae.kim/

The positions will be open until filled.
Date: 11 December 2013 


PhD Fellowship

The School of Information Studies at Syracuse University is pleased to announce the availability of fellowships to support study in our PhD program.  We are particularly interested in applicants with research interests in the following areas:  Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Machine Learning.  We have active research projects in these areas and need talented PhD students to advance our research agenda.

Applicants should have training in one or more of our areas of interest, should have good technical skills, including good programming skills (C/C++, Python, Java), and should have a good command of spoken and written English.  Research experience is highly desirable.  Candidates with either a Bachelor's or a Master's degree will be considered.

Our application deadline is January 3rd, 2014.  More information about our PhD program and application procedures can be found at http://ischool.syr.edu/future/doctoral/phd.aspx.

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

PhD position in Semantic Entity Search


The University of Stavanger invites applications for a three-year doctorate scholarship in Information Technology, at the Faculty of Science and Technology, in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, beginning September 1, 2014.
Project: Semantic Entity Search
Semantic search refers to the idea that the search engine understands the concepts, meaning and intent behind the query that the user enters into the search box, and provides rich and focused responses (as opposed to merely a list of documents). Entities, such as people, organizations or products, play a central role in this context; they reflect the way humans think and organize information. We can observe that major search engines (like Google or Apple's SIRI) are becoming "smarter" day by day in recognizing specific types of objects (for example, locations, events or celebrities); yet, true semantic search has still a long way to go.
This project aims to develop a theoretically sound and computationally efficient framework for entity-oriented information access: the search and discovery of entities and relationships between entities. A key element to a successful approach is the combination of massive volumes of structured and unstructured information from the Document Web and the Data Web, respectively. Successful candidates will be expected to conduct research, design, develop, and deploy state-of-art, scalable information retrieval, information extraction and machine learning techniques for innovative entity-oriented search applications. The project will include both theoretical and empirical explorations, where lab-based results will be evaluated in 'live' environments with real users.

Qualifications: M.Sc. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Mathematics or related fields by the appointment date. Good written and spoken command of English. Research experience or a track record of project based work, demonstrable interest in the domain, solid programming skills (particularly Java), and experience in manipulating and analyzing large data sets (esp. using Hadoop) are a clear plus.
The research fellow is salaried according to the State Salary Code, l.pl 17.515, code 1017, LR 20, ltr 50, of NOK 421 100,- per annum.
Details and application instructions can be found at http://www.uis.no/job-opportunities/vacant-positions/research-fellow-in-information-technology-article81903-9803.html.

Application deadline: January 11, 2014.

Questions may be sent to krisztian.balog@uis.no

--
Krisztian Balog - Associate Professor - University of Stavanger


Monday, December 9, 2013

EACL 2014 Student Research Workshop, Final Call for Papers

EACL 2014 STUDENT RESEARCH WORKSHOP, FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

The Submission deadline is Friday, 13 December 2013; 11:59pm CET

The 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Gothenburg, Sweden
26-30 April 2014
http://eacl2014.org/


I. General Invitation for Submissions
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EACL 2014 continues the tradition of providing a forum for student researchers who are investigating various areas related to Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for student participants to present their work and receive valuable feedback from the international research community as well as from selected panelists - experienced researchers who will prepare in-depth comments and questions in advance of the presentation. The workshop's goal is to aid students at multiple stages of their education: from those in the final stages of undergraduate training to those active with graduate thesis research.

We invite papers in two separate categories:

1. Thesis/Research Proposals: This category is appropriate for students who wish to get feedback on the progress of their thesis work and broader ideas from the field in order to identify the most promising directions for the remaining thesis work.

2. Research Papers: Most appropriate for students who are new to academic conferences. Papers in this category can describe completed original work or work in progress with preliminary results.

Topics relevant to the workshop aim to cover all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, including, but not limited to (in alphabetical order):

- Cognitive modeling of language processing and psycholinguistics
- Dialogue and interactive systems
- Discourse, coreference and pragmatics
- Evaluation methods
- Information retrieval
- Language resources
- Lexical semantics and ontologies
- Machine translation: methods, applications and evaluation
- Multilinguality in NLP
- NLP applications
- NLP and creativity
- NLP for low-resource languages
- NLP for the Web and social media
- Question answering
- Semantics
- Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and text classification
- Spoken language processing
- Statistical and Machine Learning methods in NLP
- Summarization and generation
- Syntax and parsing
- Tagging and chunking
- Text mining and information extraction
- Word segmentation

Subject to the availability of established researcher volunteers, each accepted paper will be assigned a mentor, an experienced researcher who will provide feedback on the work to the student at the conference. Details on this service will be provided in the acceptance notification.


II. Submission guidelines
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A) Submission requirements

1. Thesis/Research Proposals may contain previously published work and must include specific research directions. They may also be in the style of a position paper that surveys and critiques existing literature, but must suggest future research directions. Proposals may only have one author, who must be a student.

2. Research Papers must describe original completed work or work in progress. Since the main purpose of presenting at the workshop is to exchange ideas with other researchers and to receive helpful feedback for further development of the work, papers should clearly indicate directions for future research wherever appropriate. The first author of multi-author papers must be a student, but additional co-authors need not be students. Research Papers are eligible for this workshop only if they have not been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Students who have already presented at a past ACL/EACL/NAACL Student Research Workshop may not submit to this track as a first author (though they may still be a co-author, or the first author of a Thesis/Research Proposal). These students are instead encouraged to submit their work to the main conference or to the Thesis Proposal track. During submission, students must clearly indicate whether a paper has been submitted to another conference or workshop. Double submissions to the EACL main conference and the Student Research Workshop are not allowed. One student can only submit one paper to the Research Papers track as the first author.

B) Submission procedure

Both paper and proposal submissions to the EACL 2014 Student Research Workshop should follow the standard two-column format of the EACL 2014 proceedings and they must be submitted as a PDF file. Authors are strongly recommended to use the style files from the conference web site. The style files are available here:

- http://www.eacl2014.org/files/eacl-2014-styles.zip

All submissions may consist of up to nine (9) pages of content only. Any number of additional pages containing references is allowed.

The reviewing process will be double-blind; therefore, please ensure that the paper does not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Further guidelines are provided in the template style files.  References to your own work in thesis proposals should also be anonymized. You may for example write it as "in X (2000) we showed", etc. and do not add your papers in the reference list. Authors should not use other anonymous citations in both research papers and thesis proposals, and should not include any acknowledgments. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

The deadline for submission has been extended to 11:59pm CET on Friday, 13 December 2013. Submission will be electronic using the paper submission web page:

- https://www.softconf.com/eacl2014/srw/

Papers will be presented orally or as posters during the main EACL conference as determined by the program committee. Decisions on presentation format will be based on the nature rather than the quality of the work. There will be no distinction in the proceedings between long papers presented orally and as posters.

C) Multiple-submission policy

Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must indicate this at submission time. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at EACL SRW 2014 must notify the program chairs whether the paper will be presented. All accepted papers must be presented at the workshop in order for them to appear in the proceedings. We will not accept for publication or presentation papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. Double submissions to the EACL main conference and the Student Research Workshop are not allowed, and the authors must ensure that these submissions do not overlap significantly (> 50%) with each other in content or results.

D) Reviewing procedure

The reviewing of the papers will be double-blind. Reviewing will be managed by the Student Workshop Co-Chairs and a team of reviewers. Each submission will be matched with a mixed panel of student and senior researchers for review. The final acceptance decision will be based on the results of the review.


III. Important dates
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- Submission deadline has been extended to: 13 December 2013
- Notification of acceptance: 20 January 2014
- Camera-ready submission deadline: 17 February 2014
- Conference dates: 26-30 April 2014

(The workshop will be held during the main conference, in a mode similar to the conference's regular sessions. The exact format will be decided by the workshop co-chairs and conference chairs.)


IV. Student Research Workshop Committee
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Student chairs:
- Desmond Elliott (University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Konstantina Garoufi (University of Potsdam, Germany)
- Douwe Kiela (University of Cambridge, UK)
- Ivan Vulić (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Faculty advisor:
- Sebastian Padó (University of Stuttgart, Germany)

Contact information:
- students@eacl.org



Friday, December 6, 2013

Faculty Position - UC Berkeley School of Information




Information Organization - Associate or Full Professor

Job #JPF00257 https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/apply/JPF00257
  • School of Information - School of Information

Recruitment Period

Open Nov 25, 2013 through Jan 24, 2014

Description

The School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a tenured faculty position at the Full or Associate Professor level, with an expected start date of July 2014, in the field of Information Organization.
Candidates for this position should have a demonstrated record of research in information organization and retrieval. This could include a focus on one or more of the following areas: conceptual modeling of information systems; computational approaches to cognition; semantic representation; vocabulary and metadata design; classification and standardization; category learning at scale; and practical computational processes for analyzing information in both textual and non-textual formats.
A successful candidate will possess appropriate technical expertise and research excellence, and be committed to working on issues related to information and/or information system design and development in a multidisciplinary setting. Relevant professional or industry experience, including hands-on experience with large-scale collections, is also desirable.
Qualifications include a doctoral degree or equivalent in a related discipline (such as cognitive science, computer science, linguistics, psychology) or professional field (information science, digital humanities). The successful applicant will be expected to establish a high quality research program and to teach both graduate courses in his/her area of specialty as well as to provide service to the School and University.
The School of Information is the most recently formed school on the Berkeley campus. We are a multidisciplinary professional school. Our faculty members come from diverse fields, including political science, sociology, economics, law, engineering, computer science, media arts and design, and information science. We share a commitment to building a new field of scholarship and practice that addresses the design of new genres of information, information systems, and media, information policy and ethics, and the relationships among information/ information systems and individuals, organizations, and society.
Our master's graduates are employed in corporations and start-ups as well as government and non-profit organizations. Their jobs typically involve information design and architecture, user-centered design, document engineering, project management, consulting, web-based information services, and information policy and science. Graduates of our Ph.D. program have taken positions in places such as the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, and Microsoft Research. We also offer undergraduate courses in fields such as search engines, new media, and the history of information.
Letters of recommendation will be solicited from the references of the finalists. All letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. Please arrange for letters of recommendation to be uploaded directly by recommenders. Please refer potential referees, including when letters are provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service or career center), to the UC Berkeley statement of confidentiality: http://apo.chance.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html.
Questions may be sent to dean@ischool.berkeley.edu.
The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. We are interested in candidates who will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity in higher education through their teaching, research, and service. UC Berkeley is committed to addressing the family needs of faculty, including dual-career couples and single parents. For more information see http://calcierge.berkeley.edu/.

--   =============================================================================  Ray R. Larson  Professor  School of Information  University of California, Berkeley  102 South Hall #4600  Berkeley, California 94720-4600    Email: ray@ischool.berkeley.edu  Phone: (510)642-6046  Fax:   (510)642-5814  =============================================================================  

.Professor of Intelligent Systems - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

The University of Dublin, Trinity College, invites applications for a full-time permanent Professor of Intelligent Systems in the Discipline of Intelligent Systems, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Faculty of Engineering, Mathematics and Science. The successful candidate will be expected to provide strong academic leadership in research, teaching and supervision.

The successful candidate will be an internationally recognised scholar in at least two of the following three research areas: (i) knowledge and data engineering, (ii) content analytics, and (iii) user interaction, related to the Centre for Global Intelligent Content (CNGL). The successful candidate must also have experience in bringing together research across these and related areas. The successful candidate will provide a leading interdisciplinary role across the School and College, including TCD research themes (in particular Intelligent Content and Communications). An internationally recognised research profile, with a demonstrated ability to raise research funding and a proven capacity to collaborate with industry in domains such as (but not limited to) business, cultural entertainment, education, health, telecommunications and utilities is essential. An excellent track record in teaching and supervision is required.

The post offers an exciting opportunity to provide innovative academic leadership in research and teaching in Intelligent Systems, and to exercise a leading role in building up the academic activity of the School.

This position is tenable from 1st September, 2014.
Please note: Applications will only be accepted by e-recruitment and further information can be obtained at: https://jobs.tcd.ie

Preferred closing date for receipt of completed applications is noon on Friday, 31st January 2014.
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.Job openings at the Department of Computational Perception, JKU Linz, Austria


PostDoc Position in  Social Media Mining/Multimedia Retrieval/Recommender Systems/UIs, InfoVis, HCI
in the FWF project
               Social Media Mining for Multimodal Music Retrieval

More Information:
http://www.cp.jku.at/research/projects/P25655/open_position_postdoc.html

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PhD Student Position in
 Music Information Retrieval/Web Mining/Information Extraction/Machine Learning

in the EU FP7 project
        GiantSteps: Seven League Boots for Music Creation and Performance
More Information:
http://www.cp.jku.at/research/projects/GiantSteps/open_position_phdstudent.html

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PhD Student Position in
 Music Information Retrieval/Music Signal Processing/Machine Learning/Web Mining

in the EU FP7 project
  PHENICX: Performances as Highly Enriched aNd Interactive Concert eXperiences
More Information:
http://www.cp.jku.at/research/projects/PHENICX/open_position_phdstudent.html

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All positions are to be filled as soon as possible.

If you are interested in one or more of the positions or have any questions,
please contact:

markus.schedl@jku.at,
peter.knees@jku.at and/or
marko.tkalcic@jku.at


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Dr. Peter Knees
Assistant Professor
Department of Computational Perception     Tel: +43 732 2468 4711
Johannes Kepler University Linz            Fax: +43 732 2468 4705
Altenberger Str. 69                            peter.knees@jku.at
4040 Linz, Austria              http://www.cp.jku.at/people/knees

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Monday, December 2, 2013

Job Opening: Senior Research Officer in Human Language Technology/Computational Linguistics at the University of Essex


A Senior Research Officer position in Human Language Technology is
available in the Language and Computation Group at the University of
Essex, School of Computer Science and Engineering.

The position is supported by the SENSEI research project, supported by
the European Commission as part of FP7. SENSEI is a multi-site,
multi-disciplinary project involving researchers in language
processing and journalism and industrial partners in the call centre,
social media monitoring and news media businesses, taking advantage of
automatically extracted semantic and discourse information. The
project aims to develop novel methods to extract, summarize/aggregate
and present information from very large volumes of conversational
data, specifically, transcriptions of call centre conversations and
reader comment in on-line news.

Essex's primary responsibilities in the project will be in the area of
multilingual coreference resolution, entity disambiguation, and
summarization. We are therefore looking for candidates with a a strong
background in human language technology (HLT)/computational
linguistics (CL) and in-depth knowledge of machine learning techniques
as used in HLT/CL. Strong programming skills in Java are also
essential. Experience with some or all of the following specific
sub-areas in HLT/CL is highly desirable: coreference resolution and
entity disambiguation, information extraction/text mining and
summarisation. Experience with creating annotated corpora is also
desirable. The successful candidate will have a strong
publication track records, commensurate with their level of
experience, and experience with multi-site collaborative projects.

The Language and Computation Group at the University of Essex:

                      http://lac.essex.ac.uk

is one of the best known HLT/CL teams in the UK, with an international
reputation in information extraction (in particular coreference and
entity disambiguation), information retrieval, summarization, and
multilingual HLT.  The University is located in a beautiful area of
the country, with easy access to London and to the rest of Europe
through Stansted airport.

The position will be for a minimum of 30 months, starting from as soon
as possible from January 1st, 2014. The salary will be in the range
£30,000 - £33,000 per annum depending on experience.

To apply, please go online at:

                      http://www.essex.ac.uk/vacancies

and then search for Job Reference RE165. Please note that the deadline
for application is pretty soon, on

                      December 15th.

For further information, please contact Massimo Poesio
(poesio@essex.ac.uk).