[Corpora-List] Internship on Semantic Technologies for Expert Finding at DERI, NUI Galway

[Georgeta Bordea]

Internship on Semantic Technologies for Expert Finding

The Unit for Natural Language Processing (http://nlp.deri.ie/) at the 
Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI: http://www.deri.ie/) of the 
National University of Ireland, Galway invites applications for an 
internship in Semantic Technologies for Expert Finding. Internships are 
aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students.

The successful applicant will assist in further development of the 
Saffron project (http://saffron.deri.ie), an expert profiling system 
that uses scientific publications and additional resources such as the 
Linked Open Data cloud as sources for expertise evidence.

The ideal applicant will have strong skills in software development 
(preferably Java), database technologies (SQL) and web services. A 
background in Natural Language Processing or a related area will be of 
advantage, as well as experience in any of the following areas: 
Information Extraction, Word Sense Disambiguation, Machine Learning and 
Semantic Web technologies (RDF, SPARQL).

The closing date for applications is 15th February 2011.

Further details about the post and instructions on how to apply are 
available from http://nlp.deri.ie/jobs/expertfinding.

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