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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