Job: Scholarship in Lexical Semantics and Multi-view Clustering, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:02:17 +0000
From: Gaël Dias <ddg at di.ubi.pt>
Message-ID: <4CD1CDD9.3080704 at di.ubi.pt>

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   Scholarship in Lexical Semantics and Multi-view Clustering

                    Master or PhD Student

     Centre of Human Language Technology and Bioinformatics
                  University of Beira Interior
                           Portugal

                         - 11 months -

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Description:
The Centre of Human Language Technology and Bioinformatics of the
University of Beira Interior (http://hultig.di.ubi.pt) is advertising
a 11 months scholarship for a PhD or excellent Master student in
Informatics, Computer Science or Applied Mathematics. The selected
candidate will work on the VIPACCESS project (Ubiquitous Web Access
for Visually Impaired People) in collaboration with the University of
Orléans in France and the University of Santiago de Compostela in
Spain. In particular, research on Lexical Semantics, Distributional
Analysis and Multi-view Clustering will be endeavored.


Tasks to be developed:
First, the candidate will have to apply new informative similarity
measures to automatically extracted TOEFL-like test cases to extract
candidate synonyms or hypernyms/hyponyms.

Second, a multi-view clustering process will have to be experimented
to extract synonyms or hypernyms/hyponyms candidates. This work will
be done in collaboration with the University of Orléans in France.

After these first studies are ready, the candidate will have to apply
a new unsupervised methodology to extract multilingual synonyms or
hypernyms/hyponyms pairs. This work will be done in collaboration with
the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

Salary:
The scholarship amount is 980 euros/month (minimum salary in Portugal
is around 400 euros).

Starting Date:
The position is supposed to start on the 10th of January 2011.

To apply:
Interested applicants must send a Curriculum Vitae and a letter of
motivation by email to the Head of the Centre Dr. Gaël Dias
(http://www.di.ubi.pt/~ddg) at ddg at di.ubi.pt. Latest day for receipt
of applications is Monday, 15th November, 2010.

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Gaël Harry Dias, PhD              | Assistant Professor
Centre for HLT and Bioinformatics | [www.di.ubi.pt/~ddg]
Department of Computer Science    | [ddg at di.ubi.pt]
University of Beira Interior      | [Tel: +351 275 319 891]
6201-001 - Covilhã - PORTUGAL     | [Fax: +351 275 319 899]
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