[Corpora-List] Programmer and (fully funded) PhD student positions in Amsterdam

[Krisztian Balog]

The Information and Language Processing Systems group at the  
University of Amsterdam has vacancies for one scientific programmer  
and two fully funded PhD students; all are 4-year positions. The  
vacancies are funded by the FOX and Bridge projects. Within the  
Foundations of XML (FOX) project the University of Amsterdam is  
responsible for the integration of navigational/structural queries and  
text search queries. The main research challenge is to deal with the  
uncertainty caused by methods from Information Retrieval, and the  
ranking of answers by relevance to a query. The programmer and PhD  
student to be employed on the Building Rich Links to Enable Television  
History Research (Bridge) project will develop innovative ways of  
creating meaningful links between dynamically expanding archived  
television data and other information sources; the links are text- 
based and centered around entities, themes and events.

For more information, please visit the group's home page at http://ilps.science.uva.nl 
, where you will find short project descriptions and links to the  
University's official vacancy site with application details. The  
deadline for applications is March 23, 2009.


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