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THREE RESEARCH POSITIONS IN INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
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UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD AND GLAXOWELLCOME RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
TRESTLE (Text Retrieval, Extraction and Summarisation Technologies
for Large Enterprises) is a 2-year demonstrator project to apply
state-of-the-art research in text processing to the provision of
customised corporate information services. The project will be carried
out in collaboration between the Departments of Computer Science and
of Information Studies at the University of Sheffield and staff at
the Stevenage laboratories of GlaxoWellcome Research and Development
Limited. Applications are now invited for three research positions in
the TRESTLE team.
Position A will involve work on the design and implementation of
information extraction methods, with the successful candidate having
a higher degree in some aspect of computational natural language
processing. Position B will involve work on infromation retrieval
and summarisation methods, with the successful candidate having a
higher degree in some aspect of information retrieval or human-computer
interaction. Position C will involve the analysis of corporate information
needs, with the successful candidate having experience of qualitative
data analysis and the elicitation of user requirements.
All three positions are available from 1st July 1999 or as soon as
possible thereafter. Positions A and B will be on the RA1A scale and
position C on the RA1B scale.
For informal discussions on these positions contact: Dr Robert
Gaizauskas (0114-2221827 or [log in to unmask]) for position
A and Prof. Peter Willett (0114-2222633 or [log in to unmask])
for positions B and C.
Closing Date for applications: 13 July 1999
For information on how to apply see:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs/acadjobs/rw1741.html
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Mark Sanderson, Room 303 Tel : +44 (0) 114 22 22648
Department of Information Studies Fax : +44 (0) 114 27 80300
University of Sheffield, Western Bank mailto:[log in to unmask]
Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/
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