[Corpora-List] Call for Expressions of Interest: Research Fellowship in Opinion Mining, INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal

[Paula Carvalho]

*Research Fellowship in Opinion Mining, INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal*


INESC-ID invites expressions of interest* *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.

* *

The grant is for a period of 6 months (eventually renewable for 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 (http://xldb.fc.ul.pt/wiki/Reaction), at
INESC-ID.



REACTION is a Strategic Research and development project in Interactive and
Advanced Digital Media, funded by the CoLab <http://utaustinportugal.org/>,
UT Austin | Portugal International Collaboraboratory for Emerging
Technologies (http://www.utaustinportugal.org/).

JOB DESCRIPTION


1. Summary:

The research activities involve the development of machine learning
techniques for 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.
 For further information about the context of this work, see the project web
page: http://xldb.fc.ul.pt/wiki/Reaction.


2. Salary:
The grant amount is 980 Euros per month (tax free), according to the BI
scholarship stipends defined by FCT (
http://alfa.fct.mctes.pt/apoios/bolsas/valores.phtml.en).

3. How to apply:
Interested candidates should send their Curriculum Vitae and a motivation
letter by email to Prof. Mário J. Silva at mjs at inesc-id.pt.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/corpora/attachments/20110929/9135c197/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
_______________________________________________
UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora
Corpora mailing list
Corpora at uib.no
http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora