Right to Information (RTI) Awareness Programme - People's Movement for Good Governance

Friends,

To empower citizens and to bring Good Governance, HDPS is organizing an Awareness Programme on the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005 on 5th of April 2015 at 10 am sharp at Maharashtra Mandal, above NMR Scan Centre, Club Road, Hubballi. Citizens are requested to register for the program by contacting Santosh P. Nargund (9916135836 / spnargund@yahoo.com), R.S.Patilkulkarni (9482532192). Please see the attached document for details. The Facebook Event Calendar  link is https://www.facebook.com/events/1561326040784662/

Citizens across the nation have used RTI to expose corruption and bring Good Governance! Citizens of Hubballi-Dharwad now have the CHOICE to make use of this opportunity to bring real difference to their surroundings and the City OR remain silent spectators. The awareness programme will help Citizens understand:

•  What is RTI… How to use RTI effectively… How to write good RTI applications….?
•  What to do if authorities refuse information…?
• How to compel authorities to do the work for which they are appointed by paying public money…?
• How to Bring Good Governance by people's participation and use of tools like RTI…?

Citizens can register themselves as Members of HDPS at the venue and contribute their bit to the progress of the City.

Please visit/join Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/HDPSAC/ to know more about HDPS.... 

If you found this mail useful in the campaign for good governance and fighting corruption, please forward this information to your contacts.

Jai Hind! 

Santosh P. Nargund

Hubballi-Dharwad Pragati Sankalp

                        - By the People, For the People

Cell: 9916135836 

Research Fellow in Information Retrieval

Research Fellow in Information Retrieval (Ref C44374)

Institute for Innovation Design & Sustainability

We are seeking to employ a highly motivated research fellow in the field of information retrieval for cutting edge aspects of news and political science, which is funded for an initial period of 18 months. You will be based in the IDEAS Research Institute and School of Computing Science & Digital Media at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen.

The proposed research is a continuation of work from a large European (FP7) project, SocialSensor, that focuses on aspects of news, elections, and political engagement. This novel research in information retrieval builds on our work and the interest around the Scottish Referendum that involved a unique collaboration with journalists and colleagues in political science and media journalism. Our algorithms have been ranked as top performing according to benchmarking initiatives. The project will maintain and extend a platform for real-time indexing and search of text and multimedia information in the social web. The work will also focus on context-aware retrieval, and large data analysis of social media content.

The Digital Technologies theme in the IDEAS Research Institute is recognised as one of the strongest research units across the University with particularly strong performance in knowledge exchange activity. The project is based within the Smart Information Systems Group which has a long standing track record of research in search algorithms and technologies. The recent launch of the Smart Data Technologies Centre enhances this research profile. The Institute also benefits from being co-located with one of the three hubs of the Scottish Government funded Data Lab Innovation Centre (along with Edinburgh and Glasgow). We are also a founding member of SICSA (the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance). Other relevant research activities/areas with strong links to RGU include OGIC (Oil & Gas Innovation Centre) and Censis (Innovation Centre for Sensor and Imaging Systems), providing a rich platform for interacting with the oil & gas industry in the North Sea and data gathering and analysis activities.

Robert Gordon University is one of the top modern universities in the UK, with a track record of dynamic leadership and a reputation as an innovative and ambitious university. We have an established record of industry engagement, an outstanding record for teaching and learning, and one of the UK's best graduate employment records with 97.7% of our undergraduates in work or further study within six months.

Collaborators on the research work include: CERTH, Yahoo, Alcatel-Lucent, IBM, Deutsche-Welle, DFKI, JCP, City University London, University of Koblenz, ATC, University of Klagenfurt, and the Scottish Youth Parliament.

In this post you will develop and maintain algorithms based on text retrieval, techniques, social indexing, and user's context. You will create and implement these in a context aware and real-time multimedia retrieval system. You will be involved in integrating these with the research of project collaborators. The project will build upon current state-of-art multimedia retrieval techniques, collections, relevant open-source initiatives, and evaluation methods.

Further information about the research area can be found at:

http://www.rgu.ac.uk/research/research-home/institute-for-innovation-design-and-sustainability/digital-technologies/smart-information-systems/socialsensor/socialsensor

For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Ayse Goker: a.s.goker@rgu.ac.uk

For full advert, and description of post see:
http://www4.rgu.ac.uk/jobs/disp_details_ps.cfm?RJ_ID=44374&lDisplayed=44254,44294,44094,44394,44215,44234,44374,44334,44255

Closing Date: 02 April 2015

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Ayse Goker
Professor of Computational Systems
School of Computing and Digital Media / IDEAS Research Institute
Robert Gordon University
Riverside East, Garthdee Road,
Aberdeen AB10 7GJ
Email: a.s.goker@rgu.ac.uk
http://www.rgu.ac.uk/dmstaff/goker-ayse

Robert Gordon University is the top university for graduate jobs in  the UK HESA 4 July 2013

Robert Gordon University, a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC 013781.

This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender.  Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Robert Gordon University.  Thank you.

Post-doctoral research opportunity at the University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia is offering a postdoctoral research fellow position with a 2-year appointment funded by the Australian Research Council. The chief investigators for this project are Professor Justin Zobel and Associate Professor Karin Verspoor in the Department of Computing and Information Systems in the Melbourne School of Engineering.

The successful applicant will participate in the development of methods for evaluating data quality in bioinformatics databases. The project will apply text mining, information retrieval, and natural language processing strategies to identify supporting evidence for structured database facts in the biomedical literature. The position is located in the Department of Computing and Information Systems in the Melbourne School of Engineering and will be expected to be an active member of the Department, collaborating with other researchers. The University offers a leading and robust research environment that is internationally engaged and recognised, community focused, and with many outstanding areas of research strength.

The University plan seeks to increase the diversity of the workforce and the representation of women in areas they have been traditionally under-represented. The School is seeking to increase the representation of women in the academic workforce across engineering disciplines, and strongly encourages applications from suitably qualified female candidates.

Applications must be submitted through the University web site, job number 0038943: http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/885611/research-fellow.

Please note the closing date of 07 April 2015. All enquiries to Karin Verspoor (karin.verspoor@unimelb.edu.au).

Openings for Google APP Experts

Openings for Google APP Experts

Position is in Chennai

We are Looking for Expert Trainer For Google Apps Trainers,

Any Bright Student / Intern's From your College and or industry experts in this domain on regular either full time or part time, we are open, preferably fluent in English , ability to prove themselves, with exceptional presentation & articulation skills,

Interested students may add their name as comments and send resume to ravindra.dastikop@gmail.com

IUCEE Virtual Academy: “Internet of Things”; Ravindra Dastikop

IUCEE Virtual Academy: “Internet of Things”; Ravindra Dastikop

Thu, Mar 19, 2015 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM IST

Registration URL: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8412103244750491138

Abstract:

Internet of Things ( IoT) is establishing a new world order. It is connecting " things" the way Internet connected people. In terms of size and impact, Internet of Things represents a new order of magnitude by connecting billions of devices, objects and more and creating a smarter world. 

In this first webinar of 5- part series a general introduction to Internet of Things is provided- meaning, scope, definition and trends. It will be followed up by the following sessions 

2. Web Architecure for Internet of Things 

3. Will IoT be secure enough 

4. Applications of IoT 

5. Research Directions for IoT 

Presenter: 

Ravindra Dastikop 

Professor , Computer Science 

SDM College of Engineering , Dharwad

CLEF Lab - Call for Participation - Living Labs for IR Evaluation (LL4IR)

The Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation (LL4IR) CLEF Lab

September, 2015, Toulouse, France

http://living-labs.net/clef-lab/

Register at:  http://clef2015-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/registrationForm.php

[Registration closes: 30 April, 2015]

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This lab provides a benchmarking platform for researchers to evaluate their ranking systems in a live setting with real users in their natural task environments. The lab acts as a proxy between commercial organizations (live environments) and lab participants (experimental systems).

The lab focuses on three use-cases (using a shared API): 

Task 1: product search (on the REGIO JÁTÉK e-commerce site)

Task 2: local domain search (on the University of Amsterdam's website)

Task 3: web search (through Seznam, a major commercial web search engine)

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What is in it for you as a lab participant?

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- Access to privileged commercial data (click through, etc.).

- Access to new static TREC-style collections.

- Access to the living labs evaluation environments.

- Opportunity to test your IR systems on real live systems with real live users.

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Current Important dates

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31 Mar, 2015:  Training period ends

1-15 Apr, 2015:  Uploading test runs

15 Apr, 2015:  Testing period begins

15 May, 2015:  Testing period ends

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Further Information

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Further information is available on the lab website (http://living-labs.net/clef-lab/) or by emailing the lab organisers.

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Lab Organisers

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Krisztian Balog – University of Stavanger, Norway (krisztian.balog (at) uis.no)

Liadh Kelly – Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (liadh.kelly (at) tcd.ie)

Anne Schuth – University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (anne.schuth (at) uva.nl)

PhD-level Researchers in Language Technology or Computational Linguistics

The newly established Research Training Group "Adaptive Information Preparation from Heterogeneous Sources" (AIPHES) at the Technische Universität Darmstadt and at the Ruprecht -Karls- University Heidelberg is filling several positions for three years, starting as soon as possible: 

PhD-level Researchers in Language Technology or Computational Linguistics 

The positions provide the opportunity to obtain a doctoral degree with an emphasis within one of the following guiding themes: 

A3: Opinion and Sentiment - extrapropositional aspects of discourse (Univ. of Heidelberg) 
B1: Structured summaries of complex contents (TU Darmstadt) 
B2: Content selection based on linked lexical resources (TU Darmstadt) 
D1: Multi-level models of information quality in online scenarios (TU Darmstadt) 
D2: Manual and Automatic Quality Assessment of Summaries from Heterogeneous Sources (TU Darmstadt) 
The funding follows the guidelines of the DFG, and the positions are paid according to the E13 public service pay scale. 

The goal of AIPHES is to conduct innovative research on multi-document summarization in a cross-disciplinary context. To that end, methods in computational linguistics, natural language processing, machine learning, network analysis, and automated quality assessment will be developed. AIPHES will investigate a novel summarization scenario for information preparation from heterogeneous sources. There will be close interaction with end users who prepare textual documents in an online editorial office, and who should therefore profit from the results of AIPHES. In-depth knowledge in one of the above areas is desirable but not a prerequisite. 

Participating research groups at the Technische Universität Darmstadt are Knowledge Engineering (Prof. Fürnkranz), Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (Prof. Gurevych, Dr. Eckle-Kohler), Algorithmics (Prof. Weihe), Language Technology (Prof. Biemann), Multimedia Communications (Dr. Rensing). Participants at the Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg are the Institute for Computational Linguistics (Prof. Frank) and the Natural Language Processing Group (Prof. Strube) of Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS). Cooperating partners are the Institute for Communication and Media of the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt and other partners in the area of online media. 

AIPHES will emphasize close contact between students and their advisors, have regular joint meetings, a co-supervision by professors and younger scientists in the research groups, and an intensive exchange as part of the research and qualification program. The training group has the goal of publishing its results at leading scientific conferences and will actively support its doctoral researchers in this endeavor. The software that will be developed in the course of AIPHES should be put under the open source Apache Software License 2.0 if possible. Moreover, the research papers and datasets should be published with open access models. 

Prerequisites 
We are looking for exceptionally qualified candidates with a degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related study program. We expect ability to work independently, personal commitment, team and communication abilities, as well as the willingness to cooperate in a multi-disciplinary team. Desirable is experience in scientific work. Applicants should be able to work with German-language texts, and, if necessary, to acquire German language skills during the training program. We specifically invite applications of women. Among those equally qualified, handicapped applicants will receive preferential consideration. International applications are particularly encouraged. 

The Department of Computer Science of TU Darmstadt is regularly ranked among the top ones in respective rankings of German universities. Its unique research initiative "Knowledge Discovery in the Web" emphasizes natural language processing, text mining, machine learning, as well as scalable infrastructures for assessment and aggregation of knowledge. The Institute for Computational Linguistics (ICL) of the Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg is one of the large centers for computational linguistics both in Germany and internationally. The ICL and the NLP department of the HITS jointly run the graduate program "Semantic Processing" with an integrated research training group "Coherence in language processing: Semantics beyond the sentence", which has a close connection to the topics in computational linguistics of AIPHES. 

Applications should include 

a motivational letter that refers to one of the above listed guiding themes, 
a CV with information about the applicant's scientific work, 
certifications of study and work experience, 
as well as a thesis or other publications in electronic form. 
They should be submitted until March 23th, 2015 to the spokesperson of the research training group, Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych (Fachbereich Informatik, Hochschulstr. 10, 64289 Darmstadt) using the e-mail address apply-for-aiphes(a-t)ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de. The interviews may start any time. The positions are open until filled. 

Important: CSIR National Eligibility Test 2015

Hello Sir,

CSIR is holding the National Eligibility Test (NET) for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Lectureship (LS) tentatively on 21 June 2015.Even 6th Sem students can Apply for More details you can ask students to reach us.

As faculty and mentors it becomes our duty to bring in this awareness among young engineers for helping them brighten their career path.

We also request you to motivate and encourage your students to take advantage of this program for their better future.

We are happy to inform you that students who are interested genuinely in the GATE Classroom Coaching  but are financially weak, we will offer them total fee concession.Kindly let us know if you have such students. 

GATEETC has ventured into reaching out maximum engineering students for providing them all necessary guidance in building their career.

Kindly Forward This to Student Community.  

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GATEETC.

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Near 3rd Railway Gate, 

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Open Position: Postdoctoral Researcher in Emotion Analysis

Open Position: Postdoctoral Researcher in Emotion Analysis 

The Unit for Natural Language Processing [1] of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics [2] at the National University of Ireland, Galway [3], invites applications for a postdoctoral position in emotion analysis. 

The position is mainly associated with the EU funded project MixedEmotions, which will implement an integrated Big Linked Data platform for emotion analysis across heterogeneous data sources, languages and modalities. The MixedEmotions platform will provide an integrated solution for: i) large-scale emotion analysis and fusion on heterogeneous, multilingual, text, speech, video and social media data streams, leveraging open access and proprietary data sources, exploiting also social context by leveraging social network graphs; ii) semantic-level emotion information aggregation and integration through robust extraction of social semantic knowledge graphs for emotion analysis along multidimensional clusters. The platform will be developed and evaluated in the context of three cross-domain Pilot Projects that are representative of a variety of data analytics markets: Social TV, Brand Reputation Management, and Call Centre Operations.

The open position will be concerned primarily with the text mining aspects of the project, in particular emotion analysis from and across text in multiple languages. Candidates should have a PhD degree in a relevant field of study with an emphasis on areas such as text mining, natural language processing, computational linguistics, machine learning etc. The position is for a fixed period of up to 24 months with the possibility of extension, depending on successful acquisition of project funding in which the selected candidate will be expected to actively participate. 

The successful applicant will be required to travel to project meetings at various locations in Europe, and will need to collaborate and cooperate with other project partners, from various disciplines. 

Salary range: €37k – €42k per annum, (commensurate with qualifications and experience)

Please send your application (CV, cover letter, both in PDF only) before the closing date of March 22nd, 2015 to Dr. Paul Buitelaar: paul.buitelaar@insight-centre.org
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Research Fellow in Information Retrieval

Research Fellow in Information Retrieval (Ref C44374)


Institute for Innovation Design & Sustainability

We are seeking to employ a highly motivated research fellow in the field of information retrieval for cutting edge aspects of news and political science, which is funded for an initial period of 18 months. You will be based in the IDEAS Research Institute and School of Computing Science & Digital Media at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen.

The proposed research is a continuation of work from a large European (FP7) project, SocialSensor, that focuses on aspects of news, elections, and political engagement. This novel research in information retrieval builds on our work and the interest around the Scottish Referendum that involved a unique collaboration with journalists and colleagues in political science and media journalism. Our algorithms have been ranked as top performing according to benchmarking initiatives. The project will maintain and extend a platform for real-time indexing and search of text and multimedia information in the social web. The work will also focus on context-aware retrieval, and large data analysis of social media content.

The Digital Technologies theme in the IDEAS Research Institute is recognised as one of the strongest research units across the University with particularly strong performance in knowledge exchange activity. The project is based within the Smart Information Systems Group which has a long standing track record of research in search algorithms and technologies. The recent launch of the Smart Data Technologies Centre enhances this research profile. The Institute also benefits from being co-located with one of the three hubs of the Scottish Government funded Data Lab Innovation Centre (along with Edinburgh and Glasgow). We are also a founding member of SICSA (the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance). Other relevant research activities/areas with strong links to RGU include OGIC (Oil & Gas Innovation Centre) and Censis (Innovation Centre for Sensor and Imaging Systems), providing a rich platform for interacting with the oil & gas industry in the North Sea and data gathering and analysis activities.

Robert Gordon University is one of the top modern universities in the UK, with a track record of dynamic leadership and a reputation as an innovative and ambitious university. We have an established record of industry engagement, an outstanding record for teaching and learning, and one of the UK's best graduate employment records with 97.7% of our undergraduates in work or further study within six months.

Collaborators on the research work include: CERTH, Yahoo, Alcatel-Lucent, IBM, Deutsche-Welle, DFKI, JCP, City University London, University of Koblenz, ATC, University of Klagenfurt, and the Scottish Youth Parliament.

In this post you will develop and maintain algorithms based on text retrieval, techniques, social indexing, and user's context. You will create and implement these in a context aware and real-time multimedia retrieval system. You will be involved in integrating these with the research of project collaborators. The project will build upon current state-of-art multimedia retrieval techniques, collections, relevant open-source initiatives, and evaluation methods.

Further information about the research area can be found at:

http://www.rgu.ac.uk/research/research-home/institute-for-innovation-design-and-sustainability/digital-technologies/smart-information-systems/socialsensor/socialsensor

For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Ayse Goker: a.s.goker@rgu.ac.uk

For full advert, and description of post see:
http://www4.rgu.ac.uk/jobs/disp_details_ps.cfm?RJ_ID=44374&lDisplayed=44254,44294,44094,44394,44215,44234,44374,44334,44255

Closing Date: 02 April 2015

---------------------------------

Ayse Goker
Professor of Computational Systems
School of Computing and Digital Media / IDEAS Research Institute
Robert Gordon University
Riverside East, Garthdee Road,
Aberdeen AB10 7GJ
Email: a.s.goker@rgu.ac.uk
http://www.rgu.ac.uk/dmstaff/goker-ayse

Robert Gordon University is the top university for graduate jobs in  the UK HESA 4 July 2013

Robert Gordon University, a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC 013781.

This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender.  Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Robert Gordon University.  Thank you.