| Two EU-funded projects are expected to start early in the New Year at the Information Studies department at Sheffield University and a research assistant (RA) post will result from each project. In anticipation of a formal job announcement early in January, potential candidates interested in the posts are requested to contact Mark Sanderson ([email protected]). The two projects are
Clarity (http://clarity.shef.ac.uk/) A 3-year EU funded project investigating interactive cross language information retrieval (CLIR). Sheffield's role is being run jointly between the Computer Science and Information Studies departments. The job of the Sheffield RA is to refine and user test a novel interface for CLIR. Candidates with a relevant post graduate degree with programming and HCI experience are desired: e.g. Java or C++ programming; experience in interface design; preferably multiple language skills particularly in Spanish or Finnish; information retrieval; and experience in user testing.
The Clarity consortium consists of 6 partners: Alma Media, BBC Monitoring, Bright Station (Martin Porter), Swedish Institute of Computer Science (Jussi Karlgren), University of Sheffield (Rob Gaizauskas and Mark Sanderson), and the University of Tampere (Kalervo Jarvelin).
MIND (http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/mind/) A 30-month EU funded project investigating the searching of heterogeneous databases. Sheffield's main task in the project will focus on the searching of spoken document collections with an emphasis on retrieval and interface design over actual speech recognition. In particular, searching collections held on remote databases is a focus of the project. Candidates with a relevant post graduate degree with programming and HCI experience are desired: Java or C++ programming; experience in interface design and user testing; information retrieval; and speech recognition.
The MIND consortium consists of 5 partners: Carnegie Mellon University (Jamie Callan), University of Dortmund (Norbert Fuhr), University of Firenze (Alberto del Bimbo), University of Sheffield (Micheline Beaulieu & Mark Sanderson), University of Strathclyde (Fabio Crestani & Forbes Gibb)
The department of Information Studies at Sheffield has consistently gained the highest possible research rating and has a long tradition of high quality Information Retrieval research. It has strong links with the internationally renowned text-related research groups within the Computer Science department.
____________________________________________________________________________ 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:[email protected] Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/
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