[Corpora-List] Jobs: Doctoral scholarships in information technology / computer science, Darmstadt, Germany

[Torsten Zesch]

Subject to a close co-operation with the German Institute for 
International Educational Research and Educational Information (DIPF) in 
Frankfurt am Main, a member of the Leibniz Association, the Technical 
University of Darmstadt is offering 

Doctoral scholarships in information technology / computer science 

The regular maximum duration of funding is 36 months. Scholarships are 
granted for completing a doctoral thesis in information 
technology/computer science focusing on text or data mining, automatic 
language processing, computer science or a related topic in the field of 
"Knowledge Discovery in Scientific Publications". Successful candidates 
will be granted 1,400 Euros per month. The postgraduate program is due 
to start on February 1st, 2013. Scholarships will be appointed 
subsequent to the signature of both contracting institutions. The 
program will be located at the DIPF in Frankfurt (Main). 

A growing amount of scientific literature is ubiquitously available on 
the worldwide web. Research concerning this fact is guided by the idea 
of an intelligent identification and analysis of structures and trends 
in scientific texts on all scales, enabling completely new, previously 
unforeseen forms of scientific research on the web. Full texts of 
publications, including new forms of scientific Web 2.0 publication, 
will provide the basis, together with their manifold networking via 
citations, authoring structures and the linguistic and semantic 
knowledge that is to be intelligently extracted from the texts. The 
envisaged topic requires intensive research on innovative information 
technology methods, e.g. regarding querying, indexing, discovering 
knowledge and preparing knowledge on the web. Implicit knowledge 
contained in scientific literature is thus tapped and rendered usable. 
Priority will be given to the field of educational research as the 
target domain. To this end, the DIPF offers excellent opportunities for 
a close co-operation with subsequent users. Possible fields of research 
are: Retrieval and networking of scientific literature on the web; 
semantic modeling and extracting Information; automatic classification 
and linking of publications by topic or methods; personalized 
information processing; assessment of quality, impact, research 
reputation of publications, authors and research groups; recognition and 
analysis of trends and interdisciplinary research connections. 

The program will bring together the disciplines of "Knowledge 
Engineering", "Algorithmics", "Language Technology", "Ubiquitous 
Knowledge Processing", "Knowledge Mining and Assessment" (Department of 
Computer Science, TU Darmstadt) and the working groups for "Information 
Management", "Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing", "Knowledge Mining and 
Assessment" (Information Center for Education, DIPF ). The concept for 
supervision strongly relies on close contacts between postgraduate 
students and their supervisors, regular joint meetings, co-supervision 
by professors and senior researchers from the disciplines and a lively 
exchange in the research and qualification program. Furthermore, the 
program strives to publish research findings at leading scientific 
conferences and provide its software freely accessible as open source 
product. 

Requirements for application Excellently qualified graduates from the 
disciplines of computer science/information technology, automatic 
language processing, information science and related studies are invited 
to apply. Successful candidates are expected to possess very good 
programming skills in Java, to work independently, demonstrate their 
personal commitment, team and communication skills as well as a 
readiness to cooperate. Experience in scientific work, e.g. automatic 
language processing, machine learning and network-based processes and 
information processing methods would be appreciated. Women are expressly 
invited to submit their application. According to the pursuant legal 
requirements, applicants with disabilities will be preferably treated in 
the appointment procedure. Candidates from abroad are encouraged to 
apply. 

The Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt [1] regularly ranks 
among the top in Germany. Among its distinguishing features are its 
research initiative "Knowledge Discovery on the Web" [2] focusing on 
powerful language technology procedures, text mining, machine learning 
and scalable infrastructures for assessing and aggregating knowledge. As 
a scientific institute belonging to the Leibniz Association, the DIPF 
[3] targets top-class basic research as well as innovative scientific 
services. Education is addressed as an area with high visibility and 
significance. The DIPF is currently establishing a research priority 
domain for educational information science, by joining competencies with 
computer scientists at TU Darmstadt. In this context, the doctoral 
program will constitute a central element. 

Please submit your application by November 28, 2011. Applications should 
include a letter of motivation, CV and details regarding previous 
scientific work, certifications of studies and work, including the 
graduate thesis and possibly electronic publications. Applications 
should be sent to Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych and Prof. Dr. Marc Rittberger 
, e-mail: phd-application (at) ukp (dot) informatik (dot) tu-darmstadt 
(dot) de. 

[1] https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ 
[2] http://www.werc.tu-darmstadt.de/ 
[3] http://www.dipf.de/ 


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