| Your Task
Your core task is the integration of a cognitively founded WWW
summarization system, using some ready-made components and developing other
subsystems from scratch. The job has also empirical perspectives in
formative evaluation. Student research assistants will help you.
Your Qualifications
We expect a solid computer science education. A PhD is fine, but not
strictly necessary. You will need WWW technologies, programming skills and
your background in AI and/or computational linguistics. If you are
interested in medicine and hospital information systems - all the better.
Working Conditions and Contract
You will join a distributed interdisciplinary team at the University of the
Applied Sciences and the Medical School of Hanover in Northern Germany.
Your physical working place will be at the Medical School. English is
acceptable as a working language.
We want to hire a qualified and motivated colleague as soon as possible.
The salary follows the normal BAT IIa rate for researchers in German public
service. It is sensitive to age, marital status and number of children. The
initial contract covers two years. Since the project is supported by the
Ger-man Science Foundation (DFG), some DFG-specific conditions apply. We
intend to pursue the approach in order to reach commercial application
towards 2005.
Some Essentials of System Development
We are beginning a cognitively founded WWW summarization system for Bone
Marrow Transplantation (BMT), a highly specialized field of internal
medicine:
- The system language is English, with some limited German search facilities.
- Summarization is supported by an ontology of the domain. We develop it
empirically, starting with a corpus of recent BMT papers, then testing and
expanding the ontology in its application environment.
- Cognitively founded agents perform the core summarization tasks. They
cooperate in a blackboard model. Most of them are known from earlier
research, but not yet fit for real-world application. Domain-specific
agents must be added.
- Third party components - parser, RST analysis - are integrated. We search
the WWW and Medline, we exploit UMLS, WordNet and other resources.
- The target system will run on a Mac and Sun platform. WWW access starts
with Mac OS tools. Our own summarization agents will be programmed in LISP.
- We adhere to the principles of user-centered system design. Users have
participated in project design from the early beginnings.
You find additional information at
Please send e-mail inquiries and applications (with CV and list of
publications) to
[email protected]
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