18 August: fyi -- PhD funding, UK
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PhD Research Studentship on Evaluation of Semantic Web Technologies
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
Closing date is 7.09.2009
Required start date: October 2009 or soon thereafter
** please note the studentship is reserved to UK and European candidates
only ** Non-EU candidates can be considered only if they have lived in
Europe for more than 3 years on a non-student visa
Semantic technologies are at the heart of the future Web providing ways to
express knowledge and data so that it can be properly exploited. The
successful candidate will study for a PhD as part of a 3-year EU-funded
project entitled "Semantic Evaluation at Large Scale (SEALS)"
http://www.seals-project.eu/. The goal of the SEALS project is to provide
an independent, open, scalable, extensible and sustainable infrastructure
(the SEALS Platform) that allows the remote evaluation of semantic
technologies thereby providing an objective comparison of the different
existing semantic technologies. This will allow researchers and users to
effectively compare the available technologies, helping them to select
appropriate technologies and advancing the state of the art through
continuous evaluation.
The PhD topic will be in the area of semantic search tool evaluation. As
part of a team, the student will investigate new metrics for assessing the
interoperability, scalability, usability, etc. of state of the art tools
developed by the international semantic web community. The student will
also be involved in the organisation and running of two public, worldwide
evaluation campaigns which will be used to create semantic technology
roadmaps identifying sets of efficient and compatible tools for developing
large-scale semantic applications.
More information about the project is available at: http://www.seals-project.eu/
The successful candidate will study within the Organisations, Information
and Knowledge (OAK) Group which is part of the Department of Computer
Science at the University of Sheffield. More information about the OAK
group is available at: http://oak.dcs.shef.ac.uk/
Candidates should hold at a first or upper second honours degree or
masters degree in Computer Science or a related discipline. The candidate
should have excellent computer programming skills (including Java);
analytic, presentational, communication and effective interpersonal skills;
ability to work effectively within the research team, and a proven capacity
to work to and meet deadlines.
The studentship is for a period of three years, subject to satisfactory
progress and provides payment of tuition fees at the UK/EU rate plus an
annual stipend at the rate of ?13,290 for 2009-2010.
Informal enquiries may be directed to Prof. Fabio Ciravegna
(f.ciravegna@dcs.shef.ac.uk) AND Dr. Stuart Wrigley
(s.wrigley@dcs.shef.ac.uk).
The closing date is 1.09.2009
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Professor Fabio Ciravegna,
Director of Research & Innovation in the Digital World,
The University of Sheffield
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Professor of Language and Knowledge Technologies,
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield,
Regent Court, 211 Portobello, S1 4DP, Sheffield, UK
Tel:+44(0)114-22.21940, Fax:+44(0)114-22.21810
www: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~fabio/
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