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<P>Two Open Positions: Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Engineer</P>
<P>Employer: Yahoo! Research (Barcelona) - Fundació Barcelona-Media</P>
<P>Location: Barcelona, Spain</P>
<P>Start date: January 1st, 2009</P>
<P>Duration: 3 years, full time.</P>
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<P>Yahoo! Research Barcelona and Fundació Barcelona-Media are looking to hire a
Postdoctoral Fellow and a Research Engineer. The persons employed for these
positions will research, develop and implement new and innovative algorithms for
search and navigation.</P>
<P>These tasks are motivated by LivingKnowledge, a new EU project in the Future
and Emerging Technologies program. The project starts on February 1st 2009 and
has a duration of three years. LivingKnowledge focuses on the diversity of
knowledge, e.g., cultural backgrounds, schools of thought, or geographical
contexts all drive different judgments, assessments, and opinions on the same
facts. Time and evolution add a further dimension making diversity an intrinsic
and unavoidable property of knowledge. The vision inspiring LivingKnowledge is
to consider diversity an asset and make it traceable, understandable and
exploitable, with the goal to improve navigation and search in very large
multimodal datasets. Within LivingKnowledge, Yahoo! Research Barcelona (in a
joint project with Fundació Barcelona-Media) is responsible for research and
implementation of the search components, and for implementing one or several
demonstrators.</P>
<P>The research and development work will focus on some of these aspects:</P>
<P>* Document representation, ranking functions and interaction models that
incorporate diversity in several aspects, e.g., bias, opinions and the temporal
dimension.</P>
<P>* Entity Retrieval and Browsing incorporating temporal aspects as well as
aspects of opinion, consensus, etc.</P>
<P>* Novelty detection, opinion mining, bias detection.</P>
<P>* Efficient indexing and ranking algorithms for the above tasks.</P>
<P>The work will be developed under the supervision of Hugo Zaragoza and Ricardo
Baeza-Yates, jointly at the Yahoo! Research (Barcelona) laboratory (</FONT><A
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<P>Required Skills/Qualifications for the Postdoctoral position:</P>
<P>* Ph.D. in Computer Science.</P>
<P>* Strong research track record on computational linguistics, machine
learning, and/or information retrieval. Candidates that have experience in
sentence/entity/temporal retrieval, opinion mining, or novelty detection are
preferred.</P>
<P>* Knowledge of the Spanish language is not required.</P>
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<P>Required Skills/Qualifications for the Research Engineer:</P>
<P>* Degree in Computer Science.</P>
<P>* Strong programming skills.</P>
<P>* Knowledge of Web technologies: JavaScript, PHP, Tomcat, XML.</P>
<P>* Experience in Research & Development projects.</P>
<P>* Knowledge of the Spanish language is not required.</P>
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<P>To apply, send your CV (indicating the names of three referees) to hugoz at
yahoo-inc .com with the title "LivingKnowledge Application".</P>
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