19 January: fyi -- research, Aberdeen
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Position Type
Full-time
Closing Date
10 Feb 2012
University Grade Structure
Grade 6
Salary From
£29,972
Salary To
£32,751
Job Summary
Digital Economy is an RCUK cross-council programme, aimed at realising
the transformational impact of ICT for all aspects of business,
society and economy. The dot.rural Digital Economy Hub at the
University of Aberdeen is one of three large multi-disciplinary
research hubs funded through this programme, and commenced its
activities in October 2009.
The Hub award to Aberdeen is worth £11.8M and will fund five years of
activity. The Hub brings together a large team of researchers (70+)
working in and across the disciplines of computer science,
communications engineering, transport, health, social sciences and
environmental sciences. For further details, see: www.dotrural.ac.uk
To support our ambitious research programme we are looking to appoint
a postdoctoral research fellow to work in the area of intelligent
language/ multimodal interfaces. The Research Fellow will help develop
and be responsible for natural language generation (NLG) based and
other creative forms of on-line communication in a research project on
effective communication of river water levels to the public, as well
as contributing to interfaces of similar kinds needed for other
projects related to natural resource conservation.
The successful candidate will have a good knowledge of natural
language processing techniques or multimodal interfaces (at the PhD
level). They will have some knowledge of NLG and a desire to learn
more. The candidate will have a PhD or be about to complete a PhD in
Computer Science/ Artificial Intelligence or a relevant
discipline. Enthusiasm for digital technology and innovation relevant
to society and the economy is essential as is the ability to work in a
cross-disciplinary team including colleagues in computer science and
engineering. The ability to use GIS would be an advantage.
As this post is externally funded it is available for a period of 2.5 years.
For more details
Go to: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/index.php
Click on "External Applicants"
Enter the Post Reference Number 1228867 and click "Search"
For informal queries, write to yaji.sripada@abdn.ac.uk or c.mellish@abdn.ac.uk
The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.
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