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Research Assistant
VERSATILE SUPPORT FOR ONTOLOGY CONSTRUCTION
School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK
in collaboration with
Ordnance Survey Research Labs, UK
closing Date: 9th February 2007
A post is available in the School of Computing of the University of Leeds for a fixed term of 18 months to work on a project for Versatile Support of Ontology Construction funded by Ordnance Survey (the UK mapping agency).
The goal of the project is to design and implement a multi-faceted software tool to support domain experts (ecologists, geographers, emergency planners, etc.) without knowledge engineering skills to create and maintain a conceptual ontology. The tool will be developed by a multidisciplinary team involving researchers and developers from the University of Leeds and Ordnance Survey, and will be tailored to the current needs of Ordnance Survey.
You must have extensive programming skills and relevant experience with open source development, ontology tools, and data base management.
Good problem solving and communication skills and the ability to write up research findings for academic publication are essential.
Experience of ontology construction, knowledge capture, and interface design would be useful.
The successful candidate will join the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) Group at the University of Leeds, which is internationally renowned for its research in spatial representation and ontology.
The project is related to ongoing research and international collaboration on user knowledge capture, ontology construction, ontological reasoning, and geo-spatial ontologies.
The project will be conducted in collaboration with a team from Ordnance Survey Research Labs as part of their Geosemantics research theme focusing on how to efficiently combine multiple data sources so they can be exploited in new and varied ways. This includes explicitly defining the meaning of OS data, and the knowledge about the world of geography that OS as an organisation holds, stored in an ontology; coupled with research into techniques to merge and manipulate these ontologies.
Information about the School of Computing can be obtained from http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk and more general information about the University and Leeds is available at http://www.leeds.ac.uk Further details about the Ordnance Survey Research Labs can be found at:
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/partnerships/research/.
Salary up to £26,402 p.a. depending on experience
Informal enquiries should be made to
Dr Vania Dimitrova
email [log in to unmask],
tel: +44 (0)113 343 1674
or Professor Anthony Cohn
email: [log in to unmask],
tel: +44 (0)113 343 5482.
Further details of this position, together with instructions on how to apply will be available online at
http://www.leeds.ac.uk
Click on 'jobs' and select the 'research' section.
Closing date 9th February 2007
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