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PhD position in Web Information Retrieval (four years, fully funded)
The University of Amsterdam seeks a versatile, highly motivated PhD
candidate to work on focused web search. This fully funded position is
part of the EfFoRT (Effective Focused Retrieval Techniques) project.
EfFoRT is a joint research undertaking of the University of Amsterdam
and the University of Twente, and is funded by the Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
* Tasks
The EfFoRT project will develop an approach for combining multiple
representations of web information in a common framework based on
statistical language models. In this framework, it will be possible to,
for example, derive models of the actual language use of web pages to
distinguish between arts, business, entertainment, education, etc.
Similarly, it will be possible to derive models of the structure of web
pages to distinguish between blogs, FAQs, personal web pages, cultural
heritage pages, etc. The techniques to be developed will have to be
robust to all kinds of errors, ranging from imperfect information
extraction techniques to imprecise queries formulated by the average web
search engine user. An important aspect of any new technique in a web
setting is that they have to scale up to terabyte-sized collections.
EfFoRT will develop so-called parsimonious models to derive compact
representation and to handle dependencies between representations of the
data.
* Requirements
Applicants must hold a research-oriented Master's degree (MSc/MA) or
equivalent qualification, and have a strong background or demonstrable
interest in:
- information retrieval, especially statistical language modelling
- web retrieval, especially web-centric retrieval models
- web mining, especially machine learning and clustering/classification.
Solid programming skills are a requirement. Industrial experience, or a
track record of project-based work, is a definite advantage.
* More information
For application details and a detailed description of the EfFoRT
project, look at http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kamps/effort/. For
informal inquiries, please contact dr.ir. Jaap Kamps (e-mail
[log in to unmask], phone +31 20 525 3011).
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