Postdoctoral or Research Fellow in Biomedical Text Mining

Postdoctoral or Research Fellow in Biomedical Text Mining
Faculty of Medicine CENTRE FOR HEALTH INFORMATICS
http://www.chi.unsw.edu.au
UNSW Sydney Australia

We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated and experienced researcher, as a postdoctoral or research fellow in the Centre for Health Informatics, with a background in computational linguistics, computer science or a related area to develop and evaluate advanced text mining techniques and apply them in knowledge management applications in the biomedical domain.

The Centre for Health Informatics is Australia's largest academic health informatics research group conducting fundamental and applied research focusing on the design, evaluation and application of decision-support technologies for healthcare and the biosciences. The Centre is located at the University of New South Wales and collaborates with researchers in computer science, health services research and with industry and the public and private sectors.

This position offers an outstanding opportunity to work in a unique multi-disciplinary research environment encompassing information, communication, cognitive and organisational science to support health service and biomedical innovation.

Requirements for the position are:

• A PhD in Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science or a related area.
• A track record of publication in the peer reviewed literature.
• Skills in one or more of the following areas: text mining, information extraction, named entity and relation extraction, computational lexicon development, text categorization, automatic text
• summarization, information retrieval.
• Preferably a strong track record and experience in statistical machine learning approaches to natural language processing.
• Excellent programming skills (Java/Python/Perl/C++).
• Knowledge of research experimental methods; ability to develop, implement prototypes and validate algorithms.
• Good oral and written communication skills; ability to produce oral presentations and written
• technical reports of publishable quality.
• Demonstrated skills in working in a team and desire to coach junior researchers and students.

The position is for two years full time with the possibility of extension depending on further funding. This opportunity offers much flexibility in supporting individual career development, including the commencement of new initiatives. A part-time appointment may be considered.

FIXED TERM: This is a fixed term position available until June 2009. The salary range is: Postdoctoral Fellow (Level A) $50,014 - $66,686; Research Fellow - Level B $70,028 - $82,554 (plus up to 9% employer superannuation plus leave loading), depending on qualifications and experience. The salary includes a superable UNSW academic loading of $3,000 per annum payable to academic staff (pro rata for fractional academic staff). A part-time appointment may be considered..

Please direct any enquiries to Dr Grace Chung on 02 9385 9016 or by e-mail on graceyc@unsw.edu.au.

Applications close 29 February 2008.

Eight Ph.D. Fellowships in Linguistics, 2008

Eight Ph.D. Fellowships in Linguistics, 2008
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The Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG) announces the
eight fellowships for study leading to Ph.D. degrees in Linguistics.

http://www.let.rug.nl/~nerbonne/clcg/phd-2008/

Two-Year Lecturer Position

Two-Year Lecturer Position (Universitaire Docent)
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The department of Humanities Computing (Alfa-Informatica) at the
University of Groningen is seeking a temporary:

Lecturer (Universitair Docent)
Full-time position for two years

http://www.let.rug.nl/nerbonne/clcg/ud-ik-2008/

Research Posts in Semantic Web Services

The Knowledge Media Institute at The Open University needs Research Assistants and Research Associates to undertake research in Semantic Web Services within our EU-funded projects: LUISA, (http://luisa.atosorigin.es/www/index.php) with focus is on shifting e-Learning from a learning objects-based paradigm to a paradigm based on Semantic Web Services; and SOA4ALL (http://www.soa4all.org) which aims to combine SWS technology with the principles underlying Web and Web 2.0 to create a web of billions of services. All of our work will be centred on our framework and implemented infrastructure for developing Semantic Web Services, IRS-III (http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/irs/ ).

You will be considered according to qualifications and experience. A Research Assistant requires a Masters qualification or equivalent post-graduate experience and a Research Associate requires a PhD qualification or equivalent experience.

For detailed information and how to apply go to http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/, call the KMi Recruitment Coordinator on +44 (0) 1908 654774 or email quoting either the appropriate reference number (4363 for Research Assistant or 4255 for Research Associate)

Salary: £25,134.00 - £32,796.00

Closing date: 15th Feb 2008

Senior Researcher in Bio-text Mining

Senior Researcher in Bio-text Mining

National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM)
School of Computer Science
University of Manchester, UK

We are looking for one senior researcher in text mining to work for a new project at NaCTeM (www.nactem.ac.uk) in text mining for systems biology (ONDEX project http://ondex.sourceforge.net/ ). The post is available immediately and for a duration of three years. The successful candidate will be appointed at Research Fellow level (salary £33,779 - £41,545 p.a) and will be part of the growing team of researchers associated with NaCTeM which is hosted by the School of Computer Science.

Essential skills: a good first degree and a PhD in an area relevant to text mining as well as excellent software engineering skills. The ability to develop algorithms and software for NLP/TM systems and to produce experiments for text mining applications using large data sets. Excellent knowledge of natural language processing/text mining using machine learning techniques and in particular named entity recognition, parsing, information extraction; excellent knowledge of C, C++, Java, XML, Windows, Linux and Web Services. A strong publication record is a must. Experience with biomedical text mining would be an advantage.

Informal enquiries should be made to Dr Sophia Ananiadou, Sophia.Ananiadou[at]manchester.ac.uk

Closing date for applications: 8th February 2008

Further details are available at: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=130141

Please quote reference: EPS/80023

Oferta de beca de investigacion predoctoral

La Junta de Andalucia, a traves de la Consejeria de Innovacion, Ciencia y Empresa, ofrece una plaza de personal investigador en formacion (PIF) asociada al proyecto de investigacion de excelencia "Algoritmos Eficientes para Busqueda Heuristica Multicriterio" (P07-TIC-03018).

* Perfil: el trabajo a desarrollar es adecuado para titulados en Ingenieria Informatica, Ingenieria de Telecomunicaciones, y Licenciados en Matematicas.

* Finalidad: El personal seleccionado se incorporara por un periodo de cuatro años al 'Grupo de Investigacion y Aplicaciones en Inteligencia Artificial' del Departamento de Lenguajes y Ciencias de la Computacion de la Universidad de Malaga (España). En dicho periodo trabajara en la realizacion de su tesis doctoral.

* Plazo de solicitud: Hasta el dia 1 de febrero de 2008. Las solicitudes se tramitaran electronicamente a traves de la pagina Web de la Consejeria de Innovacion, Ciencia y Empresa,
http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/innovacioncienciayempresa (enlaces 'Incentivos'>'Becas proyectos de Investigacion de excelencia 2007'))

* Convocatoria: Resolucion de 27 de septiembre de 2007 (publicada en BOJA numero 12, de 17 de enero de 2008, paginas 6-17),
http://boja.cica.es/2008/boletin_2008_12.pdf

* Requisitos: los requisitos detallados se encuentran en la resolucion de 15 de marzo de 2007 (BOJA numero 63, de 29 de marzo de 2007, Articulo 33, pg. 19),
http://boja.cica.es/2007/boletin_2007_63.pdf

* Breve resumen del proyecto:

La ‘busqueda heuristica’ es la principal hipotesis de la Inteligencia Artificial simbolica para explicar el fenomeno de la resolucion de problemas. La resolucion de muchos problemas reales puede modelarse mediante un proceso de busqueda en un grafo. Por este motivo, el estudio de los algoritmos de busqueda en grafos asi como la incorporacion de conocimiento heuristico para mejorar su eficiencia es un campo de estudio central en Inteligencia Artificial.

En este proyecto abordamos el analisis y desarrollo de algoritmos y metodos de busqueda en grafos con multiples criterios para la resolucion de problemas. El objetivo fundamental es aumentar el rango y complejidad de los problemas resolubles en la practica.

Las aplicaciones de la busqueda multicriterio incluyen varios problemas importantes de la Inteligencia Artificial, como la generacion de trayectorias de robot, el planeamiento de rutas, la generacion de planes de accion, el diseño arquitectonico y de carreteras, o los sistemas de coordinacion y negociacion.


* Contacto: Aquellos candidatos que deseen mas informacion sobre el proyecto pueden ponerse en contacto mediante correo electronico con Lorenzo Mandow (lawrence@lcc.uma.es).

PostDoc job in Planning under Uncertainty

PostDoc job in Planning under Uncertainty

A postdoctoral research grant is available at the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR) of the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon. The topic of the grant is planning under uncertainty in the context of multi-robot search and rescue. The goal is to develop methodology and algorithms for heterogeneous teams of robots involved in urban search-and-rescue tasks. Planning in such scenarios requires agents to handle uncertainty in acting, sensing as well as communication.
Decentralized partially observable Markov decision processes form a state-of-the-art formal approach for multiagent planning, and we intend to apply them to multi-robot search-and-rescue tasks. More details can be found at http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~mtjspaan/decpucs/ .

ISR-Lisbon is a research institute of the Instituto Superior Técnico, the oldest and largest engineering school in Portugal. ISR-Lisbon has a long standing tradition of research and development and offers a modern and enthusiastic research environment with strong interdisciplinary and international links.

The grant has duration of (a maximum of) two years, and candidates should have obtained a relevant PhD degree (e.g., Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical Engineering). The ideal candidate has expertise in Markov decision processes and multiagent/multi-robot systems. Applications should include CV, a statement of research interests and two recommendation letters, and be sent to Dr. Matthijs Spaan at mtjspaan@isr.ist.utl.pt or fax: +351-21-8418291, who can also be contacted for more information. Application deadline is February 7, 2008.

Position in Innovative Agents Architectures

Position in Innovative Agents Architectures at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria!


Today's distributed physical systems, e.g., for automated manufacturing or logistics have to deal with increasing complexity and a need to adapt to rapidly changing environments. Traditional hierarchical and centralized approaches are not adequate for control of such distributed systems and can fail due to insufficient capabilities to cope with high degree of complexity and practical requirements for robustness and flexibility. A useful approach for decentralized control is to employ autonomous software agents. This approach can be used in distributed physical systems by assigning software agents to physical components. Given an ontology of the "world" surrounding the agent and its assigned physical component, the agent is provided with a real-time representation of its environment built from sensor data and communication with other agents. In the course of the project, an innovative architecture for such agents as well as an agent platform should be developed.

Candidates should have a degree in computer science or software engineering and have knowledge or strong interests in artificial intelligence, agent-based system and ontologies.


For application and further Information please contact Prof. Herman Kaindl (kaindl@ict.tuwien.ac.at) or Edin Arnautovic (arnautovic@ict.tuwien.ac.at).

Researcher Positions in Text Processing for Biomedical Applications

Researcher / Senior Researcher Positions in Text and Language
Processing for Biomedical Applications

NICTA Victoria Research Laboratory
Melbourne, Australia

National ICT Australia (NICTA) is looking to fill research positions for a new project in Text and Language Processing for Biomedical Applications. Appointments may be made at the Researcher or at the Senior Researcher level. Appointments are for at least 2 years, potentially renewable for a 3rd year, to commence in 2008. Remuneration is at an internationally competitive level.

To apply and to view full Position Descriptions, go to http://nicta.com.au/about/careers
For further information or any enquiries, contact Dr. Lawrence Cavedon at lawrence.cavedon@nicta.com.au .

Closing date is February 15, 2008.

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The appointee will work with NICTA research staff, engineering staff, University of Melbourne faculty and postgraduate students, and external biomedical collaborators (especially within Melbourne's Bio21 precinct) to develop new techniques in information access and presentation, document processing, and text mining, with application to the biomedical research and clinical domain. Expected outcomes will include fundamental research, publications in high-impact venues, development of novel IP, and prototype systems and demonstrators (developed together with engineering staff). Other duties will include working with external biomedical partners to understand and respond to needs, and supervision of University of Melbourne research students.

Key requirements and selection criteria for the positions include:

• a PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, or a related discipline;
• a strong track record of publication in respected journals and international conferences;
• demonstrated expertise in a research area related to the goals of the project, including: information retrieval, natural language processing, question answering, human computer interaction in an IR setting, parsing, named entity recognition and resolution, text summarisation, ontology building / integration, system efficiency;
• good interpersonal skills and a demonstrated commitment to working collaboratively in a research team and delivering on team goals;
• excellent communication skills in a variety of contexts, including presentation of research and liasing with external collaborators;
• a strong interest in collaborating with external domain partners to understand their needs and to jointly develop solutions;
• applicants to the Senior Researcher level are expected to have demonstrated ability to craft a research agenda and to effectively supervise junior staff and research students.

Other desirable skills and selection criteria include:

• previous experience in the biomedical domain;
• programming skills in a variety of languages, including C/C++, Java,Python, Perl;
• demonstrated experience in statistical techniques to NLP and/or experimental design and analysis for computer science research;
• an interest in developing Intellectual Property that may lead to commercial development by NICTA.

National ICT Australia (NICTA) is Australia's ICT Research Centre of Excellence. NICTA aims to bring together world-class researchers and professional staff, enhance their skills, and build a culture of entrepreneurship and achievement in use-inspired research that will build Australia's ICT capacity. See http://www.nicta.com.au for more information.

NICTA's Victoria Research Laboratory (VRL) is housed on the University of Melbourne campus, in the Parkville precinct of Melbourne, and within walking distance to one of the world's richest congregation of biomedical hospitals and research institutions. NICTA VRL has made a strong commitment to developing its Bioiformatics research program;
the Snr/Researcher will be encouraged to work with researchers from the wider Bioinformatics team, as well as the other researchers on this specific project. VRL has establised partnerships with a number of Melbourne's leading biomedical research institutions and biomedical projects with international profile; further collaborative partnerships are constantly being developed.

Robotics Faculty Position at Oregon State University

The School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (MIME) at Oregon State University seeks applications for a tenure-track position in the broad area of robotics. The appointment may be made either at the Assistant or Associate professor level depending on the qualifications of the applicant. Applicants must have earned a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related area, and demonstrated the ability to: perform and/or direct innovative research in robotics; communicate and teach effectively; and attract the necessary funding to sustain an innovative research program.

The successful candidate is expected to have a strong research record the specific area of robotics, as well as possess broad interdisciplinary knowledge in related areas such as dynamics, control, vision, mechatronics, and biological systems. There is strong potential for collaboration with current faculty on ongoing projects in the School (e.g., multi-robot coordination, walking robots, UAVs and understanding bat flight) as well as with other groups at Oregon State University (e.g., the Artificial Intelligence group in the School of EECS and the
Design group in MIME). This position offers the unique opportunity to not only lead and participate in exciting research, but also to help shape the direction of robotics research at Oregon State University.

To review posting and apply, go to http://oregonstate.edu/jobs (posting number 0001823). For full consideration, apply by February 29, 2008. OSU is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and has a policy of being responsive to dual-career needs.

3rd SIPTA School on Imprecise Probabilities

3rd SIPTA School on Imprecise Probabilities: 1st announcement

[All our apologies for cross-posting.]

Third school of the Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA), July 2-8, 2008, Montpellier, France.

Dear colleagues,

The Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA) organizes the 3rd edition of its school in Montpellier, France, during 2-8 July 2008, the local organization being handled by the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Robotique et de Microelectronique (LIRMM) of the university of Montpellier. The city of Montpellier is located in the south of France, on the Mediterranean coast, and the school will be held at the Centre Regional de Documentation Pedagogique, which is located in the very centre of Montpellier.

The aim of SIPTA schools is to introduce interested students and researchers with the basics of imprecise probability topics, both theoretical and applied. Some of the best specialists in different aspects of imprecise probabilities lecture, during one week time, on the main concepts and techniques associated to their area of expertise, in a friendly environment favouring interactions between participants.

Topics & Lecturers

Imprecise probability is used as a generic term to cover all mathematical or statistical models which measure chance or uncertainty without sharp numerical probabilities. Imprecise probability models are needed in inference problems where the relevant information is scarce, vague or conflicting, and in decision problems where preferences may also be incomplete. The topics covered this year will include:

Coherent lower previsions (Enrique Miranda, Spain, and Gert De Cooman, Belgium)
Predictive inference: from Bayesian inference to Imprecise Probability (Jean-Marc Bernard, France)
Imprecise immediate predictions (Gert De Cooman, Belgium)
Independence concepts in Imprecise Probability (Fabio Cozman, Brazil)
Possibility theory (Didier Dubois, France)
Algorithms & approximation methods for Imprecise Probability (Fabio Cozman, Brazil)
Game-theoretic probability and its link with Imprecise Probability (Glenn Shafer, USA)

The final program should be announced shortly on the summer school website.

Pre-registration

Since the number of participants is limited, we recommend you to inform us of your intention to participate to the school as soon as possible, by pre-registering by means of a simple reply to this email, indicating your name, email, status and affiliation, or by filling the pre-registration form at the school website.

More information is available at the school website:

http://www.lirmm.fr/SIPTASchool08/

We are looking forward to meeting you in Montpellier. We also welcome you to circulate this announcement around you.


Best regards,

Jean-Marc Bernard
Kevin Loquin
(for the scientific and organizing committees)

Text and Language Processing for Biomedical Applications

Researcher / Senior Researcher Positions in
Text and Language Processing for Biomedical Applications

NICTA Victoria Research Laboratory
Melbourne, Australia

National ICT Australia (NICTA) is looking to fill research positions for a new project in Text and Language Processing for Biomedical Applications. Appointments may be made at the Researcher or at the Senior Researcher level. Appointments are for at least 2 years, potentially renewable for a 3rd year, to commence in 2008. Remuneration is at an internationally competitive level.

To apply and to view full Position Descriptions, go to http://nicta.com.au/about/careers. For further information or any enquiries, contact Dr. Lawrence Cavedon at lawrence.cavedon@nicta.com.au .

Closing date is February 15, 2008.

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The appointee will work with NICTA research staff, engineering staff, University of Melbourne faculty and postgraduate students, and external biomedical collaborators (especially within Melbourne's Bio21 precinct) to develop new techniques in information access and presentation, document processing, and text mining, with application to the biomedical research and clinical domain. Expected outcomes will include fundamental research, publications in high-impact venues, development of novel IP, and prototype systems and demonstrators (developed together with engineering staff). Other duties will include working with external biomedical partners to understand and respond to needs, and supervision of University of Melbourne research students.

Key requirements and selection criteria for the positions include:

• a PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, or a related discipline;
• a strong track record of publication in respected journals and international conferences;
• demonstrated expertise in a research area related to the goals of the project, including: information retrieval, natural language processing, question answering, human computer interaction in an IR setting, parsing, named entity recognition and resolution, text summarisation, ontology building / integration, system efficiency;
• good interpersonal skills and a demonstrated commitment to working collaboratively in a research team and delivering on team goals;
• excellent communication skills in a variety of contexts, including presentation of research and liasing with external collaborators;
• a strong interest in collaborating with external domain partners to understand their needs and to jointly develop solutions;
• applicants to the Senior Researcher level are expected to have demonstrated ability to craft a research agenda and to effectively supervise junior staff and research students.

Other desirable skills and selection criteria include:

• previous experience in the biomedical domain;
• programming skills in a variety of languages, including C/C++, Java, Python, Perl;
• demonstrated experience in statistical techniques to NLP and/or experimental design and analysis for computer science research;
• an interest in developing Intellectual Property that may lead to commercial development by NICTA.

National ICT Australia (NICTA) is Australia's ICT Research Centre of Excellence. NICTA aims to bring together world-class researchers and professional staff, enhance their skills, and build a culture of entrepreneurship and achievement in use-inspired research that will build Australia's ICT capacity.

See http://www.nicta.com.au for more information.

NICTA's Victoria Research Laboratory (VRL) is housed on the University of Melbourne campus, in the Parkville precinct of Melbourne, and within walking distance to one of the world's richest congregation of biomedical hospitals and research institutions. NICTA VRL has made a strong commitment to developing its Bioiformatics research program; the Snr/Researcher will be encouraged to work with researchers from the wider Bioinformatics team, as well as the other researchers on this specific project. VRL has establised partnerships with a number of Melbourne's leading biomedical research institutions and biomedical projects with international profile; further collaborative partnerships are constantly being developed.

Postdoctoral Position at INRIA Nancy (France)

Postdoctoral Position at INRIA Nancy (France)

Field: Computational Linguistics

Topic: Surface realisation and large scale over-generation detection

Deadline for application: February 15, 2008.

Starting Date: 01 November 2008

Employer: INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer
Science) Nancy Grand Est (France)

Job Description: The Lorraine Laboratory of IT Research and its Applications (Nancy, France) has a position for a Postdoctoral fellow to work on the development of a surface realiser for French.

Applicants must have a ** recent doctoral degree ** (PhD viva held in may 2007 or later) or defend their PhD before the end of 2008. They must have expertise in an area relevant to the project (linguistics, computational linguistics, computer science), strong hands-on experience in Natural Language Processing and a particular interest in NL generation. A good knowledge of Haskell is a necessity.

Further particulars and details of how to apply are available at:

http://www.loria.fr/~gardent

The official closing date is February 15, 2007, but applications will be processed until the position is filled.

Contact: Claire Gardent <claire.gardent@loria.fr>

Scientist and developer positions available at Eurobios

Eurobios is the world leader in commercialising the science of complexity and complex adaptive systems. We build sophisticated software in Java using the Eclipse rich client platform. These software products provide robust, powerful optimisation and modelling solutions for our client's logistics, supply chain, inventory management, route optimisation needs. Our solutions produce optimised routes to serve more than 5 million people each day.

These exciting products combine cutting edge algorithms (many powerful complexity science-based techniques including agent-based modelling, learning heuristics, multi-objective optimisation, and data mining) with sophisticated analysis, mapping, graphing capabilities, and integration with 3rd party products such as Google Earth.

At Eurobios, we combine the intellectual excitement of academia with the resources and practical concerns of business and industry. If you would enjoy this creative and fast-paced environment, we welcome your application for employment. We have done some truly exciting and innovative work for clients such as Unilever, Post Denmark, BP, SCA Packaging, Italian Railways, Peugeot, Biffa, Serco, etc.

We are looking for highly intelligent individuals with a good level of scientific and/or software engineering skills. The ideal candidates will of course have everything, but working at Eurobios is a learning experience and we will readily hire individuals with the a good balanced skillset and the right aptitude. The skills we look for are:

- Masters or PhD in relevant scientific area (computer science, or applied area of mathematics, physics, economics)
- Understanding of combinatorial optimisation algorithms and techniques.
- Excellent software engineering skills, preferably in Java.
- An understanding of software design, UML, unit testing.
- Good knowledge of Eclipse RCP, EMF, databases, uDig, BIRT technologies
- Experience with supply chain modelling, route optimisaton and similar problems (far beyond the TSP)

If you can demonstrate 4 or more of these abilities, then please apply! In all positions a crucial skill is the ability to prototype software very quickly and then translate that prototype into production-quality software over a longer period of time. Finally, the ability to work in a team of scientists, developers, and business analysts is essential, as is the ability to communicate complex ideas in a clear, interesting way, to a mixed audience. A small amount of travel will be required, usually in the UK/Europe, and fluency in other European languages is of benefit, but certainly not essential.

All of our team have demonstrated outstanding results working both self-motivated and alone, and the ability to operate efficiently and effectively in a collaborative team environment.

We are a successful, independent, growing company based in London and Paris. We are looking for exceptional candidates to further that success. The current open positions are based in London (although we would be flexible to the opportunity to move to Paris in the future).

Initial salary is in the £25-£38k range, depending on experience and skills, with possible bonuses for outstanding performance. Health insurance and pension plan are also provided.

To apply, please send a cover letter describing why you believe you would make a strong candidate for Eurobios, a CV and a document of no more than two pages describing one recent project of yours in terms that can be understood by the non-expert. We aim to hire 1-2 candidates asap, potentially followed by others later in the year.

Contact:
vince.darley@eurobios.com

No recruitment consultants please. Applications must contain more than just a CV - those without an appropriate cover letter will not be accepted.

Vince Darley
CEO, Eurobios UK Ltd
Tel: +44 (0)207 947 3275
Mobile: +44 (0) 794 154 8527
www.eurobios.com

ACL 2008 Student Research Workshop

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ACL 2008 Student Research Workshop
June 15-20, 2008, Columbus Ohio

*** Final Call for Papers, Deadline: January 10, 2008! ***

URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/acl08/srw.html
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1. General Invitation for Submissions

The Student Research Workshop is an established tradition at ACL conferences. The workshop provides a venue for student researchers investigating topics in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing to present their work and receive feedback. Participants will have the opportunity to receive feedback from a general audience as well as from panelists; the panelists are experienced researchers who will prepare in-depth comments and questions in advance of the presentation.

We would like to invite student researchers to submit their work to the workshop. Since this workshop is an excellent opportunity to ask for suggestions, to receive useful feedback and to run your ideas by an international audience of researchers, the emphasis of the workshop will be on work in progress. The research being presented can come from any topic area within computational linguistics including, but not limited to, the following topic areas:

• pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon
• phonetics, phonology and morphology
• linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language
• information retrieval, information extraction, question answering
• summarization and paraphrasing
• speech recognition, speech synthesis
• corpus-based language modeling
• multi-lingual processing, machine translation, translation aids
• spoken and written natural language interfaces, dialogue systems
• multi-modal language processing, multimedia systems
• message and narrative understanding systems

2. Submission Requirements

The emphasis of the workshop is on original and unpublished research. The papers should describe original work in progress. Students who have settled on their thesis direction but still have significant research left to do are particularly encouraged to submit their papers.

Since the main purpose of presenting at the workshop is to exchange ideas with other researchers and to receive helpful feedback for further development of the work, papers should clearly indicate directions for future research wherever appropriate. All authors of multi-author papers must be students. Papers submitted for this workshop are eligible only if they have not been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Students who have already presented at an ACL/EACL/NAACL Student Research
Workshop may not submit to this workshop. They should submit their papers to the main conference instead. It must be indicated if a paper has been submitted to another conference or workshop.

3. Submission Procedure

Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed six (6) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for this year's conference. These files are available at ling.ohio-state.edu/acl08/stylefiles.html. A description of the format is available there in case you are unable to use these style files directly. All submissions must be electronic. Please use the submission page to submit your paper.

4. Reviewing Procedure

Reviewing of papers submitted to the Student Workshop will be managed by the Student Workshop Co-Chairs, with the assistance of a team of reviewers. Each submission will be matched with a mixed panel of student and senior researchers for review. The final acceptance
decision will be based on the results of the review. Note that reviewing of papers will be double-blind; therefore, please make sure your paper shows the title, but no author information. You should likewise not have any self identifying references anywhere in the paper submitted for review. For example, rather than this: ''We showed previously (Smith, 2001), ...'', use citations such as: ''Smith (2001) previously showed ...''.

5. Schedule

The papers must be submitted no later than midnight, January 10th, 2008 . No papers received after January 10th, 2008 will be accepted. Acknowledgment will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) on February 28th, 2008. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice.

Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline: January 10, 2008
Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2008
Camera-ready paper submission deadline: April 14, 2008
Conference date: June 15-20, 2008
(The workshop will be held during the main conference)

6. Contact Information

If you need to contact the Co-Chairs of the Student Workshop, please
use: acl08srw@ling.osu.edu. An e-mail sent to this address will be
forwarded to all Co-Chairs.

Ebru Arisoy (Speech Co-Chair)
Bogazici University,
Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey

Wolfgang Maier (NLP Co-Chair)
University of Tuebingen
Tuebingen, Germany

Keisuke Inoue (IR Co-Chair)
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York, USA

Tenure junior research position for 2008

Tenure junior research position for 2008
http://www.limsi.fr/tlp/postes07.html
[Application deadline 09-JAN-08 23:59 Paris time]

CR2 position 48/03 in section 48 (Communication sciences) Information systems, multimedia and multilingual documents, knowledge industry.

Job description

The candidate will conduct research in the field of information processing with application to multimedia and multilingual documents. The main research direction will be the development of models and algorithms for automatic structuring, indexing, enrichment and extraction of knowledge from speech data in a multilingual context. It is envisioned that the models studied will be based on the joint use of linguistic knowledge and statistical learning methods applied to very large corpora. The candidate should have an expertise in at least one of following areas: spoken language processing, statistical based machine translation, and audio data mining. This
research will contribute to the development of emerging technologies for knowledge engineering and information access. A variety of new applications can be foreseen related to audiovisual archives, digital libraries, the production of multimedia documents, and more generally systems to organize and access multimedia and multilingual content, especially on the Internet.

Other related research positions are also listed on http://www.limsi.fr/tlp/postes07.html

Postdoc: Handwriting recognition Scientist

A2iA (Artificial Intelligence & Image Analysis) is the worldwide leading developer of natural handwriting recognition, Intelligent Word Recognition (IWR) and Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) technologies and products for the payment, mail, document and forms processing markets.

We are looking for a Handwriting recognition Scientist for our R&D Department in Paris.

This position requires a person with a strong background in machine learning methodology, algorithms for recognition (speech, handwriting), and software development. The primary responsibilities are to conduct research and software development for handwriting recognition using statistical machine learning methods.


ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Develop new algorithms for handwriting recognition based on statistical machine learning techniques.
• Responsible for the development and implementation of core computational routines in C++ and python interface, automated test and validation routines, and related documentation such as help files and user's guide.
• Develop tests to verify the algorithms and the robustness of the methodologies and software in the areas of handwriting recognition in a wide variety of real world applications.
• Author technical papers related to algorithms, methodology, and case study results.
• Interest and willingness to conduct novel research in handwriting recognition and machine learning.

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

Education and Training: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or related
field.

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Strong background data mining and statistical machine learning.
• Demonstrated work experience C++ and python
• Experience with Windows and UNIX development platforms.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, as demonstrated by term papers, technical publications, or conference presentations

For additional questions or to send your resume directly please contact career@a2ia.com or visit us at www.a2ia.com

Post-Doctorat Position in Multi-Agent negotiation

Post-Doctorat Position in Multi-Agent negotiation
University of Valenciennes, France

Period: 1 year starting January 2008.
Key-Words: Multi-Agent System, Negotiation


Retailing is a very complex business and "getting the right product to the right store with the right quantity at the right time with the right price at the lowest cost of delivery is a very challenging task" (B. Vinod). These parameters result of negotiations between units such as the commercial department, the financial department, the production unit and the stocks management unit. Each of these entities aims to maximize its own profits, but a global constraint obliges them to maximize together the enterprise's profits.

These parameters have an influence on the demand forecasting, and depend also of them. A cycle? parameters evaluation - demand forecasting? will be made, the termination condition being the optimum profits of the enterprise and of its entities.

The researcher will work in and cooperate with a multidisciplinary team covering the mentioned subjects.

We are looking for a highly motivated candidate with a PhD thesis in Multi-Agent System, Computer Science or Engineering. A good background in negotiation principles will be favoured.

Applicants should send by email a detailed resume, a CV and and a link to homepage and publications if available to: Emmanuel ADAM, Email: emmanuel.adam@univ-valenciennes.fr

ESSLLI 2008 STUDENT SESSION

2nd Call for Papers

ESSLLI 2008 STUDENT SESSION
4-18 August 2008, Hamburg, Germany

Submission deadline: 15 February 2008
Website: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kbalogh/StuS13

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We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 20th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information to be held in Hamburg, Germany on August 4-15, 2008.

The aim of the Student Session is to give an opportunity to students at all levels (Bachelor-, Master- and PhD-students) to present and discuss their work in progress with a possibility to get feedback from senior researchers. Each year, 18 papers are selected for oral presentation and a number of others for poster presentation.


CALL FOR PAPERS

The programme committee invites submissions of papers for oral and poster presentation and
for appearance in the proceedings. We welcome submissions with topics within the areas of
Logic, Language and Computation.

*** Submission deadline: 15 February 2008 ***

The ESSLLI Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, undergraduates as well as postgraduates. Papers co-authored by non-students will not be accepted. The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress, that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. No previously published papers should be submitted.


SUBMISSION

Student authors are invited to submit a full paper up to 7 pages inclusive of references. Note that the length of the final version of the accepted papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages.

The preferred formats of submissions are PostScript or PDF, although other formats will also be accepted. More submission details and all relevant information at:

http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kbalogh/StuS13


CONTACT

Kata Balogh
ESSLLI 2008 Student Session chair

email: k.balogh@uva.nl
tel.: +31 20 5254544
fax: +31 20 5254503
postal address:
Department of Philosophy
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15
1012 CP Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Research Associate position in Lancaster, UK

Lancaster University has an open position for a one-year research associate to work on a project applying corpus-based techniques to the study of Nepali grammar (see brief description below).

For further details and to apply online, see: http://www.personnel.lancs.ac.uk/vacancydets.aspx?jobid=A966

Informal enquiries can be made to Andrew Hardie (email: a.hardie@lancaster.ac.uk).

Lancaster University, Department of Linguistics

Description Research Associate
Salary £23,002 - £26,666
Reference A966
Closing date 16th Jan 2008

We wish to appoint a Research Associate who is a native or native-like speaker of Nepali, to work on a research project comparing Nepali grammar with the grammar of other languages. The successful applicant will work within the UCREL research centre of the Department of Linguistics and English Language, using corpus-based methods and tools to investigate the distribution of grammatical features in Nepali.

The position requires a background in linguistics - specifically grammar - as well as full fluency in both written and spoken Nepali. Sound basic-level IT skills are essential.

You will work alongside the project investigator, using quantitative, distributional data drawn from a corpus (i.e. co-occurrence and collocation statistics) to research the delineation and characterisation of grammatical categories in Nepali.

Fluency in English and good oral and written communication skills are essential, as is the ability to work semi-independently when necessary, but also the ability to collaborate productively with colleagues.

The post is available from 1 April 2008, or as soon as possible thereafter, for 12 months.

Apologies for any double posting.

Andrew Hardie
Linguistics & English Language
Bowland College
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YT
United Kingdom

www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/hardie

Postdoctoral Position at University of Bath

JOB DESCRIPTION

Bath Computer Science seeks two full-time post-doctoral researchers to work on the ALIVE (FP7) project. ALIVE will develop new approaches to service-oriented engineering based on the adaptation and reuse of coordination and organisation mechanisms often seen in human and other societies. Such methods provide robust descriptions of distributed systems, account for the individual autonomous nature of service providers / consumers and define a wide range of strategies and mechanisms with known properties to achieve coherent outcomes. The use
of such human like concepts also provides an opportunity to make the development of complex software systems more accessible to non-specialists, allowing a variety of actors from users to managers to participate more directly in the design and management of systems.

Bath leads the work-package on services, supports on the development of the theoretical framework and contributes to methodology and use cases. Bath's primary domains of expertise that are relevant to this project are (i) specification, verification and on-line reasoning for institutions and (ii) semantic web service description, discovery, brokerage and workflow enactment. The work at Bath will therefore include both theoretical research and prototype development.

QUALIFICATIONS

Applicants should have - or have nearly completed - a PhD in Computer Science or Artificial Intelligence, preferably in connection with agents and organizations. Demonstrated experience of web services and workflow enactment would be an advantage, along with some knowledge of
ontologies, norms and institutions. Successful candidates will be expected to travel frequently to partner sites and spend periods of up to two weeks at a time working there. The working language of the project is English (although there will be the opportunity to practice at least Spanish and Dutch) and so fluency in English is a necessity.

THE POSITIONS

These are full-time positions as post-doctoral researchers for a period of 30 months, starting February 1, 2008 or as soon as possible thereafter. Salary up to £30,012.

FURTHER DETAILS

For further information contact Julian Padget (jap@cs.bath.ac.uk) or Marina De Vos (mdv@cs.bath.ac.uk)

HOW TO APPLY

To find out more about the University of Bath and to apply online please go to http://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs.

Alternatively please email:
jobs@bath.ac.uk

or call 01225 386924 quoting ref number 07H441A. The closing date for applications is January 4th, 2008.

THE UNIVERSITY OF BATH

The University of Bath (http://www.bath.ac.uk) is one of the leading universities in Britain, with highly-rated teaching and research. It is a small, research-oriented university, founded in 1965, with approximately 12,000 students and about 500 permanent members of academic staff. From 1980 to 2000 Computing was a group within the Mathematics department, then became a separate department (of Computer Science) in 2000. There are three undergraduate programs and a portfolio Masters program. Currently, there are 22 permanent staff and
34 PhD students. The department has three research groups: Human Computer Interaction, Mathematical Logic and Symbolic Computation and Media Technology, with activity in Grids, Artificial Intelligence and Agents cutting across all three.

ALIVE PROJECT PARTNERS

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, University of Bath, Calico Jack Ltd (Dundee), Trinity College Dublin, Thales (Delft), BCN d'Infografia SL (Barcelona), University of Aberdeen, Universiteit Utrecht.

Vacancy at Language and Computation in Amsterdam

Vacancy at the Language and Computation section, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) ,
Faculty of Exact Sciences, University of Amsterdam (UvA) .

Position: POSTDOC researcher
Topics: Statistical Parsing and/or Statistical Machine Translation
Duration: 3 years
Salary (gross per month):
* Depending on demonstrable experience and assumed duties approx. minimum Euro 2598 and maximum Euro 4140
* Social benefits as common at Dutch universities.

Deadline for applications: As soon as possible before Sunday 13 January 2008.

More details (including new ones) are available at
See http://staff.science.uva.nl/~simaan/postdoc_adv.html

Computer Linguistics in Nederlands

Vacancies for two computer linguists

The Institute for Dutch Lexicology has two vacancies for experienced computer linguists for the development of Named Entity Processing tools for IMPACT.

IMPACT is a new European research project in the field of informatics for the humanities. The project will start on 1 january 2008. In IMPACT 15 National libraries and research institutes from Europe, Israel and Russia will work together.

The main purpose of IMPACT is to obtain a significant improvement of the accessibility of historical documents.

To achieve this, the following will be tackled:

Current OCR-software is not suitable for mass digitisation of historical documents. Within the project, OCR software will be developed that will significantly improve the accuracy of state -of-the-art systems, so as to enable for the first time, reliable full text mass digitisation of historical documents.
Information in historical documents is not easily accessed by modern users because of the historical language barrier. Within the project, historical lexica and linguistic processing tools will be developed that will enable enriched indexing to provide access historical material with contemporary query.
To be effective the lexica will also have to contain Named Entity data and tools for NE recognition and NE classification for historical language material will have to be developed.

Tasks

The NE specialists will be responsible for the development of a toolbox for NE lexicon building and NE lexicon deployment to tackle historical language material to be used for the improvement of OCR of historical texts and for better retrieval on historical text material. The work will imply the implementation as well as the design of relevant algorithms.

Profile

• relevant background in computational linguistics, computer science or applied mathematics (master level, preferably PHD level)
• sufficient knowledge and experience with the development and implementation of NLP algorithms, preferably in the field of NE processing
• sufficient experience in developing complex software systems; preferably proficiency in C, C++ and/or Java
• knowledge of Dutch language is required, preferably knowledge of historical Dutch language

Offer

An INL contract for two years. According to the cao–Onderzoekinstellingen the salary scale indicated for this job is 11 max., with a maximum of € 4.138, - gross per month on the basis of a 40 hour week. In addition you will be entitled to 42 days holiday per year plus holiday pay.

Interested

Contact Katrien Depuydt (Taalbank) INL, Postbus 9515, 2300 RA, Leiden

tel. (+31 (0)71 527 2479), email: depuydt@inl.nl.

Send your application to Dr. Jeannine Beeken, INL, Postbus 9515, 2300RA Leiden, email: secretariaat@inl.nl

Closing date: 02-01-2008

Text Mining Postdocs in Australia

We have three open positions for three-year postdoc positions on an exciting
text mining project at Macquarie University in Sydney.

The project is funded by the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre,
which recently received a renewal of its funding from the Australian
Government. The aim of the project is to build a sophisticated platform for
exhaustive extraction from large text collections.

Closing date for applications is JANUARY 21ST 2008. Applications must be
made online via the Macquarie University website at
http://www.hr.mq.edu.au/, where you can also find out more about the
positions: search for position 19478 via the 'Positions Vacant' link.

Informal enquiries can be made to Robert Dale at rdale@ics.mq.edu.au.

Postdoctoral Position at INRIA Nancy

Postdoctoral Position at INRIA Nancy (France)


Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Topic: Surface realisation and large scale over-generation detection

Deadline: February 15, 2008.

Employer: INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer
Science) Nancy Grand Est (France)

Job Description: The Lorraine Laboratory of IT Research and its
Applications (Nancy, France) has a position for a Postdoctoral fellow
to work on the development of a surface realiser for French.

Applicants must have a ** recent doctoral degree ** (Doctoral thesis
less than one year old before the recruitment's date) or defend their
PhD before the end of 2008. They must have expertise in an area
relevant to the project (linguistics, computational linguistics,
computer science), strong hands-on experience in Natural Language
Processing and a particular interest in NL generation. A good
knowledge of Haskell is a necessity.

Further particulars and details of how to apply are available at:

http://www.loria.fr/~gardent

The official closing date is February 15, 2007, but applications will
be processed until the position is filled.

Contact: Claire Gardent

European Summer School on Knowledge Discovery for Ubiquitous Computing

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The 2nd European Summer School on Knowledge Discovery for Ubiquitous
Computing
http://wiki.kdubiq.org/summerschool2008/index.php/Main/Home

2-9 March 2008, University of Porto, Portugal

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The European Coordination Action KDubiq-CA (Knowledge Discovery in
Ubiquitous Environments, www.kdubiq.org) seeks new challenges for
knowledge discovery (data mining)in the fields of ubiquitous
computing. Analysis of data in various distributed and ubiquitous
environments such as sensor networks, peer-to-peer networks, embedded
systems, mobile computing devices, and grid computing platforms
demands new types of knowledge discovery algorithms.

The goal of the 2nd Summer School of KDubiq is to strengthen the
common ground for the integration of the involved fields and to
support the formation of the emerging KDubiq Community. Starting with
an introduction into embedded systems, more specialized courses focus
on wireless sensor networks and data streams. Based on a course on
algorithmic foundations of distributed data mining, privacy issues,
Web 2.0 and grid aspects of data mining are being taught. All courses
come along with exercises for hands-on experience.

Students from the last KDubiq Summer School (in 2006 in Dortmund) are
welcome to participate again in the 2nd Summer School! We have
integrated all your proposals in the new concept of the 2nd Summer
School and extended the programme to one week, including practical
lab. hours/excercises and newest ubiq. technologies and applications,
as well as involving industry into the collaboration & networking
sessions of the KDubiq Summer School.
For questions regarding the KDubiq Summer School Student Grants
Programme, please contact Prof. Dr. Katharina Morik at University of
Dortmund, Germany (morik@ls8.cs.uni-dortmund.de)

For KDubiq Members: For KDubiq student and members travel support to
the 2nd KDubiq Summer School, please contact (as soon as possible)
Ina Lauth, Fraunhofer IAIS (mailto: Codrina.Lauth@iais.fraunhofer.de)

Scholarships for PhD study in Edinburgh

Scholarships for PhD study in
the School of Informatics at
the University of Edinburgh
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FIFTY research scholarships are available for:

* UK students
* EU students
* students worldwide

Many of these are full scholarships, paying your tuition fees and a
stipend of 12940 pounds to cover living expenses in your first year,
rising in second and third years. The rest pay your fees and/or a
contribution towards living expenses. Payment of fees for non-EU
students is subject to successful competition for an Overseas Research
Student award. PhD students are encouraged to make contributions to
teaching, for example by leading tutorial groups, and for this you can
expect to earn an additional 500-1000 pounds per year.

Informatics
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Informatics is the study of information and computation, in both
natural and engineered systems. It comprises a vast range of
scientific and engineering endeavour and has enormous economic and
social impact.

Edinburgh University's School of Informatics brings together the
former Departments of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and
Computer Science, together with the Artificial Intelligence
Applications Institute. The School possesses a combination of breadth
and strength unparallelled elsewhere in the UK and competitive
world-wide; as an intellectual endeavour it is strikingly original.

The School is the only university grouping in the UK to have achieved
the top 5*A rating in Computer Science in the UK government's 2001
Research Assessment Exercise round, and it is the UK's biggest
research group in this area. We currently have around 270 students
studying for PhD, and around 140 for MSc.

PhD study
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PhD study is carried out within one of our six research Institutes:

ANC: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
CISA: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications
ICCS: Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems
ICSA: Institute for Computing Systems Architecture
IPAB: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour
LFCS: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science

ANC fosters the study of adaptive processes in both artificial and
biological systems; two themes are the study of artificial learning
systems and the analysis and modelling of brain processes. CISA
undertakes basic and applied research and development in knowledge
representation and reasoning. Through its applications institute
AIAI, it works with others to deploy the technologies associated with
this research. ICCS pursues basic research into the nature of
communication among humans and between humans and machines, using
text, speech and graphics, and the design of interactive dialogue
systems, using computational and algorithmic approaches.

ICSA seeks development of a better understanding of systems
components, both hardware and software, and their integration and
interaction; this involves not only improving their raw performance
and cost-effectiveness, but also making them more connectable and
interoperable, more reliable, more usable and more applicable. The
interests of IPAB are how to link computational perception,
representation, transformation and generation processes to external
worlds---whether real or virtual. The mission of LFCS is to achieve a
foundational understanding of problems and issues arising in
computation and communication through the development of appropriate
and applicable formal models and mathematical theories.

Projects
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A very wide range of research topics is available for PhD study. Here
is an (incomplete!) list of project areas; see

http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/phdprojects.html

for some information on each of these.

ANC: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
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Bioinformatics
Machine Learning
Neuroinformatics

CISA: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications
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A Proof Management Tool
Automating Diagrammatic Reasoning
Improving Support for Mathematics in Mechanical Theorem Provers
Multi-Agent Coordination in Open Environments
Game-Theoretic Analysis of Multiagent Communication
Argumentation-Based Ontology Conflict Resolution
Political Coordination Mechanisms
Intelligent Agents in Service-Oriented Architectures
Collaborative Task-Achieving Teams

ICCS: Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems
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Concurrency in (Computational) Linguistics
Lexicalized Reasoning
Building Models of the Past
Unsupervised Language Learning using Multiple Cues
Eyetracking Corpora as Experimental Data
Probabilistic Models of Human Parsing
Integrating Linguistic and Visual Processing
Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Speech Recognition
Probabilistic Approaches to Natural Language Generation
Probabilistic Models of Text-to-Text Generation
Robust Construction of Semantics
Projecting Logical Forms in Parallel Corpora
A Dynamic Semantic Theory of Dialogue
A Grammar of Situated Language
Statistical Methods in Dialogue System Design and Adaptation
Statistical Machine Translation for Biomedical Domains
Microphone-Array Based Speech Recognition
Language Models for Multiparty Conversations
Hidden Speech Production Models
Multimodal Information Access
Head Motion Synthesis for Lifelike Conversational Agents
Multi-Unit Acoustic Models for Speech Recognition
Induction of Wide-Coverage Categorial Lexicon from Large Amounts of
Unlabeled Text
Use of Intonation in Spoken Language Generation for Human-Machine
Dialogue
Temporal Semantics
Grammar-Driven Language Models
Automated Musical Analysis
The Statistical Semantic Web
Extracting and Using Alternatives in Question Answering
Projecting Discourse Annotation from Parallel Corpora

ICSA: Institute for Computing Systems Architecture
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Data Integration and Data Mining
Grid Computing
Speculative Parallelisation for Multiprocessors
Cellular Multiprocessors
Skeletal Parallel Programming
Memory-Hierarchy and On-Chip Network Co-Design
Micro-Architectural Solutions for Fault-Tolerance
Data-Dependent Processing for Energy-Aware Systems
Noise-Tolerant Asynchronous Circuits
Top-Down Testability for Self-Timed Circuits
Delay Fault Testing of Self-Timed Circuits
Dynamic Spectrum Access in Heterogeneous Wireless Network
Environments
Cross-Layer and Coding Techniques for Reliable and Efficient
Wireless Networking
Low-Cost, Robust Networking and Applications for Developing Regions
Auto-Parallelisation
Compilers that Learn to Optimise
Processor Design
Reconfigurable Caches
Searching the Embedded Program Optimisation Space
Energy and Area Modelling for Architecture Synthesis
Low-Power Multi-Threaded Architectures
Reconfigurable Data-Parallel Structures for Embedded Computation
Combinatorial Optimisation

IPAB: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour
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Behaviour Composition in Video Sequence Analysis
Fragmentary Behaviour Recognition in Video Sequence Analysis
High Speed 3D Video Data Analysis
Insect Robotics

LFCS: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science
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Engineering Electronic Proof
Independence-Friendly Temporal Logic
Questions on Modal mu-Calculi
Archiving of Scientific Data
Integrity Constraints for XML and Beyond
Keys for XML
Provenance in Databases
Information Preserving Schema Mapping
Vectorizing XML
Algorithms for the SAT problem
Randomized Algorithms for Transportation Polytopes
Complexity of Approximate Counting
Rule-Based Models of Biological Signalling
Algorithmic Verification of Recursive Probabilistic Systems
Schema-Directed XML Publishing
A Security Model for XML
XML Query Languages
Data Cleaning
Schema Matching, Mapping and Embedding
Partial Evaluation and Distributed Query Processing
Performance Modelling with Process Algebras
Computational Models for Systems Biology
Continuous-State process calculi: Methods and Tools
Combining Model Checking and Theorem Proving
Data Exchange
Databases and Verification
A Logic of Computational Effects
Algebraic and Logical Foundations of Formal Software Development
Proof Carrying Code for the Grid
Security for Mobile Devices
Topological Models of Computation
Constructive Set Theories and their Applications
Proof Theory for Programs and Processes
Type Systems for Computational Effects
Mathematical Models for Concurrent and Mobile Computation
Modalities for Name Generation: Logic, Proof and the Meaning of New
"Bad Smells" in Code
Combinations and Abstractions of Formal Games
Decision Procedures for Higher-Order Grammars
Links: Web Programming, Faster, Better, Cheaper

Further information
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Information about graduate study, the School of Informatics, the
University as a whole and the city of Edinburgh is available from:

http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/
http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/
http://www.ed.ac.uk

You can email queries about admissions to:

phd-admissions@inf.ed.ac.uk

but first please see the FAQ lists at

http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/faqs/application.html
http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/faqs/funding.html

Queries about the research topics above can be sent to individual
members of teaching staff. Application forms are available from:

http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/appform.html

Your application form should be returned by mid-March. Earlier
applications have access to a wider range of sources of financial aid.
Applications for an Overseas Research Student award must be completed
by mid-February at the latest. Chinese applicants who are interested
in funding from the China Scholarship Council should apply by late
January at the latest.

Computer Science PhD Information

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