| Applications will be soon invited for a research assistant position
(assegno di ricerca) in computer science. The post is for 18 months
(with the possibility of renewing the appointment depending on
performance) starting from January 1st, 2001 or as soon as possible
thereafter.
The position is financed by a Framework V European project focussed
on the development of adaptive systems for the semantic analysis of
multimedia documents. These systems will be based on the integration
of innovative machine learning techniques (Support Vector Machines
and other methods based on kernel functions) with established
techniques in Information Retrieval, such as Latent Semantic Indexing.
The goal is to provide cross-lingual information categorization,
ranking, filtering and clustering. The prototypes will be evaluated
against state-of-the-art techniques on one of the world's largest
news databases.
The project's consortium includes four academic and two industrial
partners. The academic members of the consortium have a long
experience of successful collaboration in the area of Machine
Learning and Statistical Learning Theory within the IV Framework
projects NeuroCOLT and NeuroCOLT II.
The appointee will work on: (1) design of kernels for the semantic
analysis of documents, (2) design of algorithms based on these
kernels, (3) implementation and testing of the algorithms.
Application forms will made available starting from
October 10, 2000 at
ricerca.unimi.it/collaborazioneallaricerca/
The applicant must be a graduate in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, Mathematics or Physics (PhD is
preferred but not required).
EU citizenship is required for all candidates.
The activity will be based at the University of Milan Research
Center (Polo Didattico e di Ricerca) located in Crema, 40Km from
Milan. The Research Center (see www.crema.unimi.it) is a new and
rapidly growing institution site of two industrial research labs.
The Center offers programs in Information and Social Technologies
that are currently attended by over 500 students.
The salary is ITL 2,200,000 (after taxes) per month.
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