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University of Manchester- School of Computer Science-- National Centre for Text Mining
Applications are invited for one post of Research Associate in Text
Mining for a period of 12 months. The post is available immediately.
The candidate will work for a collaborative project between NaCTeM
www.nactem.ac.uk , MIMAS and the Intute Repository Search project. The
aim is to develop a semantic search service using NaCTeM's text mining
tools which will allow to link and expose repositories to search
technologies based on text mining.
The successful candidate will be part of the growing team of text
miners associated with both NaCTeM which is hosted by the School of
Computer Science and located in the Manchester Interdisciplinary
Biocentre (http://www.mib.ac.uk).
Applicants should have: an MSc or equivalent in a Computer Science
related area and a good first degree or equivalent (minimum 2:1) in an
area relevant to the job description; excellent software engineering
skills and the ability to develop algorithms and software for
information retrieval and text mining systems; the ability to produce
experiments for text mining applications using large data sets;
excellent knowledge of information retrieval; excellent knowledge of
C, C++, Java, XML, Windows, Linux and Web Services.
Further details are available at: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=133088
Please quote reference: EPS/80156
Closing date: 25 March 2008
Informal enquiries to Sophia.Ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk
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Dr Sophia Ananiadou, Reader in Text Mining, School of Computer Science
Director, National Centre for Text Mining, www.nactem.ac.uk
Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, www.mib.ac.uk,
University of Manchester
131 Princess Street, M7 1DN
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/sophia.ananiadou/
sophia.ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk
tel: +44 161 306 3092
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