Research Position in IR

UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

FACULTY OF INFORMATION AND MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

DIVISION OF COMPUTING SCIENCE

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

£23,692 - £26,666

REF: 13929/DPO/A3

Large collaborative scientific projects (particularly in astronomy and
particle physics) require users to search for information located in
distributed stores, described using various distinct metadata models.

This multidisciplinary project, which started in July 2007, aims to apply
established AI and Knowledge Engineering work, including Data Mining and
Semantic Technologies, to develop a novel peer-to-peer solution to this
problem. The project has so far concentrated on Astronomy use-cases. It is
now moving on to related problems and use-cases in particle physics. The
work will extend the successful Terrier information retrieval platform
(http://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/terrier <http://owa1.dcs.gla.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/terrier> ) and its corresponding tools, developed at
the University of Glasgow, with semantic web tools and techniques.

The candidate will be responsible for implementation, and driving
standardisation in the appropriate forums in the context of an EPSRC
project (EP/E01142X/1). 

For further details, see http://explicator.dcs.gla.ac.uk/ <http://owa1.dcs.gla.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://explicator.dcs.gla.ac.uk/>  Informal
enquiries to Iadh Ounis, [email protected] (Tel: +44 141 330 5652);
Norman Gray, [email protected] (Astronomy); or Graeme Stewart
g.stewart-JAjqph6Yjy8RQSaBZBzzlVpr/1R2p/[email protected] (Particle Physics).

Further information about the position can be found at:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/researchandteaching/13929ra/#d.en.60039 <http://owa1.dcs.gla.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.gla.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/researchandteaching/13929ra/%23d.en.60039> 

For an application pack, please see our website at www.gla.ac.uk or write
quoting 13929/DPO/A3 to Sharon Evans, Computing Science Department,
University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ

Closing date:  18 January 2008