<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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Mining, INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "></span></font></p>


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INESC-ID invites expressions of interest<b> </b>from potential PhD candidates
in Computer Science, Informatics Engineering or Computational Linguistics, with
strong background in Machine Learning, for a research
fellowship in Opinion Mining.</font></span></p>

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normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> </font></span></b></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">The grant is for a period of 6 months (eventually
renewable for</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; "> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">up to 12 months) and the selected candidate will be
working in the REACTION - Retrieval, Extraction, and Aggregation Computing
Technology for Integrating and Organizing News – project (</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a href="http://xldb.fc.ul.pt/wiki/Reaction" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;color:#0000CC">http://xldb.fc.ul.pt/wiki/Reaction</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">), at INESC-ID.</span></font></p>


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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">REACTION</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; "> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">is a Strategic Research and development project in
Interactive and Advanced Digital Media, funded by the <a href="http://utaustinportugal.org/" target="_blank" title="http://utaustinportugal.org"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
color:#3366BB">CoLab</span></a>, UT Austin | Portugal International
Collaboraboratory for Emerging Technologies</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; "> <span style="background:white">(</span></span><span style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a href="http://www.utaustinportugal.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;color:#0000CC;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">http://www.utaustinportugal.org/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">).</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; "> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><br>

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JOB DESCRIPTION</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "></span></font></p>


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normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">1. Summary: </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">The research activities involve the development of
machine learning techniques for</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; "> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">classifying text form different genres, including
news, blogs and micro-blogs, mining opinions from social media (e.g. news comments
and tweets) about news topics and personalities, and detecting information
flow.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; "> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">For further information about the context of this work, see the project web page: </span><span style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a href="http://xldb.fc.ul.pt/wiki/Reaction" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;color:#0000CC;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">http://xldb.fc.ul.pt/wiki/Reaction</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "></span></font></p>


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2. Salary: <br>
The grant amount is 980 Euros per month (tax free), according to the BI
scholarship stipends defined by FCT (</span><span style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a href="http://alfa.fct.mctes.pt/apoios/bolsas/valores.phtml.en" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;color:#0000CC;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">http://alfa.fct.mctes.pt/apoios/bolsas/valores.phtml.en</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">).<br>

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3. How to apply: <br>
Interested candidates should send their Curriculum Vitae and a motivation
letter by email to Prof. Mário J. Silva at </span><span style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a href="mailto:mjs@inesc-id.pt" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;color:#0000CC;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">mjs@inesc-id.pt</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">.</span></font></p>