[Corpora-List] Two PhD students 'Adaptive Information Extraction over Time', Nijmegen, The Netherlands

[Antal van den Bosch]

Two PhD students Adaptive Information Extraction over Time (ADNEXT)

Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, offers two PhD positions in the Dutch national project Infiniti (http://www.project-infiniti.nl), part of COMMIT (http://www.commit-nl.nl/). The programme brings together research in text analytics, search engines optimization, parallel computing, database technology, interaction in context, embedded systems and knowledge technology.

http://www.ru.nl/vacatures/details/details_vacature_0?recid=505608

The challenge

In dynamic domains such as news, texts contain many new events, and introduce a relatively high proportion of new entities. Adaptation to novelty in text is a prerequisite for successful deployment of text analytics technologies, to fuel systems further along the line, such as news recommender systems and semantic search technologies. Adaptation to novel events in news is naturally linked to the dynamics of social media. Beyond detecting trending topics the project aims at the detection of higher-level patterns in media that are indicative of possible future events.

For the ADNEXT project, a cooperation between the Communication and Information Sciences department and Centre for Language Studies of the Faculty of Arts at Radboud University Nijmegen and the Netherlands National News Agency (ANP), we seek two PhD students to approach the problem from two directions. From the first technological perspective we try to find out how we can deal with adaptation to novel events and prediction of future events in time through (social) media; the second perspective is on the higher-level (and changing) dynamics of what makes an event a news event. The research will take place in Nijmegen, with active participation from project partner ANP.

PhD position 1, "Adapting to novelty and time in text analytics": You should have a MSc or MA degree in computational linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, or an equivalent degree. You should have good programming skills. Affinity with text analytics, natural language processing, and machine learning are desirable. 

PhD position 2: "The changing dynamics of news": You should have a MA or MSc degree in communication science, journalism, computational linguistics, or an equivalent academic degree. You should have academic-level knowledge of digital media and an affinity with web/text analytics technologies. Programming skills are desirable. 

You must be a team player and must have good written and verbal communication skills. Knowledge of and some level of proficiency in Dutch is a plus as much of the data used in the project will be Dutch.

Further information on salary, employment conditions, and details on how to submit your application:

http://www.ru.nl/vacatures/details/details_vacature_0?recid=505608

For more information, contact Antal van den Bosch / a.vandenbosch at let.ru.nl

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Antal van den Bosch a.vandenbosch at let.ru.nl
Center for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen


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