Two Open Positions: Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Engineer
"Hugo Zaragoza" <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:36:19 +0100
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C9352D.7A5B330E Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Two Open Positions: Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Engineer Employer: Yahoo! Research (Barcelona) - Fundaci=F3 Barcelona-Media Location: Barcelona, Spain Start date: January 1st, 2009 Duration: 3 years, full time. =20 Yahoo! Research Barcelona and Fundaci=F3 Barcelona-Media are looking to = hire a Postdoctoral Fellow and a Research Engineer. The persons employed = for these positions will research, develop and implement new and = innovative algorithms for search and navigation. These tasks are motivated by LivingKnowledge, a new EU project in the = Future and Emerging Technologies program. The project starts on February = 1st 2009 and has a duration of three years. LivingKnowledge focuses on = the diversity of knowledge, e.g., cultural backgrounds, schools of = thought, or geographical contexts all drive different judgments, = assessments, and opinions on the same facts. Time and evolution add a = further dimension making diversity an intrinsic and unavoidable property = of knowledge. The vision inspiring LivingKnowledge is to consider = diversity an asset and make it traceable, understandable and = exploitable, with the goal to improve navigation and search in very = large multimodal datasets. Within LivingKnowledge, Yahoo! Research = Barcelona (in a joint project with Fundaci=F3 Barcelona-Media) is = responsible for research and implementation of the search components, = and for implementing one or several demonstrators. The research and development work will focus on some of these aspects: * Document representation, ranking functions and interaction models that = incorporate diversity in several aspects, e.g., bias, opinions and the = temporal dimension. * Entity Retrieval and Browsing incorporating temporal aspects as well = as aspects of opinion, consensus, etc. * Novelty detection, opinion mining, bias detection. * Efficient indexing and ranking algorithms for the above tasks. The work will be developed under the supervision of Hugo Zaragoza and = Ricardo Baeza-Yates, jointly at the Yahoo! Research (Barcelona) = laboratory (http://research.yahoo.com/ <http://research.yahoo.com/> = <http://research.yahoo.com/ <http://research.yahoo.com/> > ) and the = Fundaci=F3 Barcelona-Media (http://www.barcelonamedia.org/ = <http://www.barcelonamedia.org/> <http://www.barcelonamedia.org/ = <http://www.barcelonamedia.org/> > ). =20 Required Skills/Qualifications for the Postdoctoral position: * Ph.D. in Computer Science. * Strong research track record on computational linguistics, machine = learning, and/or information retrieval. Candidates that have experience = in sentence/entity/temporal retrieval, opinion mining, or novelty = detection are preferred. * Knowledge of the Spanish language is not required. =20 Required Skills/Qualifications for the Research Engineer: * Degree in Computer Science. * Strong programming skills. * Knowledge of Web technologies: JavaScript, PHP, Tomcat, XML. * Experience in Research & Development projects. * Knowledge of the Spanish language is not required. =20 To apply, send your CV (indicating the names of three referees) to hugoz = at yahoo-inc .com with the title "LivingKnowledge Application". =20 =20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C9352D.7A5B330E Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.3395" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY><FONT size=3D2> <P>Two Open Positions: Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Engineer</P> <P>Employer: Yahoo! Research (Barcelona) - Fundaci=F3 = Barcelona-Media</P> <P>Location: Barcelona, Spain</P> <P>Start date: January 1st, 2009</P> <P>Duration: 3 years, full time.</P> <P> </P> <P>Yahoo! Research Barcelona and Fundaci=F3 Barcelona-Media are looking = to hire a=20 Postdoctoral Fellow and a Research Engineer. The persons employed for = these=20 positions will research, develop and implement new and innovative = algorithms for=20 search and navigation.</P> <P>These tasks are motivated by LivingKnowledge, a new EU project in the = Future=20 and Emerging Technologies program. The project starts on February 1st = 2009 and=20 has a duration of three years. LivingKnowledge focuses on the diversity = of=20 knowledge, e.g., cultural backgrounds, schools of thought, or = geographical=20 contexts all drive different judgments, assessments, and opinions on the = same=20 facts. Time and evolution add a further dimension making diversity an = intrinsic=20 and unavoidable property of knowledge. The vision inspiring = LivingKnowledge is=20 to consider diversity an asset and make it traceable, understandable and = exploitable, with the goal to improve navigation and search in very = large=20 multimodal datasets. Within LivingKnowledge, Yahoo! Research Barcelona = (in a=20 joint project with Fundaci=F3 Barcelona-Media) is responsible for = research and=20 implementation of the search components, and for implementing one or = several=20 demonstrators.</P> <P>The research and development work will focus on some of these = aspects:</P> <P>* Document representation, ranking functions and interaction models = that=20 incorporate diversity in several aspects, e.g., bias, opinions and the = temporal=20 dimension.</P> <P>* Entity Retrieval and Browsing incorporating temporal aspects as = well as=20 aspects of opinion, consensus, etc.</P> <P>* Novelty detection, opinion mining, bias detection.</P> <P>* Efficient indexing and ranking algorithms for the above tasks.</P> <P>The work will be developed under the supervision of Hugo Zaragoza and = Ricardo=20 Baeza-Yates, jointly at the Yahoo! Research (Barcelona) laboratory = (</FONT><A=20 href=3D"http://research.yahoo.com/"><U><FONT color=3D#0000ff=20 size=3D2>http://research.yahoo.com/</U></FONT></A><FONT size=3D2> = <</FONT><A=20 href=3D"http://research.yahoo.com/"><U><FONT color=3D#0000ff=20 size=3D2>http://research.yahoo.com/</U></FONT></A><FONT size=3D2>> ) = and the=20 Fundaci=F3 Barcelona-Media (</FONT><A=20 href=3D"http://www.barcelonamedia.org/"><U><FONT color=3D#0000ff=20 size=3D2>http://www.barcelonamedia.org/</U></FONT></A><FONT size=3D2> = <</FONT><A=20 href=3D"http://www.barcelonamedia.org/"><U><FONT color=3D#0000ff=20 size=3D2>http://www.barcelonamedia.org/</U></FONT></A><FONT = size=3D2>> ).</P> <P> </P> <P>Required Skills/Qualifications for the Postdoctoral position:</P> <P>* Ph.D. in Computer Science.</P> <P>* Strong research track record on computational linguistics, machine=20 learning, and/or information retrieval. Candidates that have experience = in=20 sentence/entity/temporal retrieval, opinion mining, or novelty detection = are=20 preferred.</P> <P>* Knowledge of the Spanish language is not required.</P> <P> </P> <P>Required Skills/Qualifications for the Research Engineer:</P> <P>* Degree in Computer Science.</P> <P>* Strong programming skills.</P> <P>* Knowledge of Web technologies: JavaScript, PHP, Tomcat, XML.</P> <P>* Experience in Research & Development projects.</P> <P>* Knowledge of the Spanish language is not required.</P> <P> </P> <P>To apply, send your CV (indicating the names of three referees) to = hugoz at=20 yahoo-inc .com with the title "LivingKnowledge Application".</P> <P> </P></FONT> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------_=_NextPart_001_01C9352D.7A5B330E--