Job: Senior Research Officer (University of Essex)

Applications are invited for this 3-year fixed-term post on the 
"Automatic Adaptation of Knowledge Structures for Assisted Information 
Seeking" (AutoAdapt) research project funded by the Engineering and 
Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). This is a joint project with 
the Open University. The project will develop and evaluate methods that 
allow the automatic adaptation of domain knowledge for information 
seeking applications such as interactive search and browsing. 
Ultimately, we expect a significant impact on industrial intranet search 
engine developments.

The ideal candidate combines information retrieval (IR) and natural 
language processing (NLP) skills with a strong programming background. 
Candidates should be graduates of computer science, information systems 
or computational linguistics and be in possession of a good postgraduate 
degree or equivalent experience in IR or NLP. The successful candidate 
will work closely with the two investigators and our partners at the 
Open University (two investigators and one researcher).

Appointment to this full-time post will be from 1 August 2008 or as soon 
as possible thereafter until 31 July 2011, within the range 
£28,290-£29,138 per annum. Informal enquiries may be made to Udo 
Kruschwitz (e-mail [email protected]).

Closing date: 30 June 2008

Further details: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/YZ325/Senior_Research_Officer/