[agents] Project CONCRETE - 1 postdoctoral research position available

[Gonzalo Méndez]

The European project CONCRETE ("Concept Creation Technologies") aims to 
study conceptual creativity in humans and machines hoping to achieve 
computationally-creative reasoning as the creation of new concepts. It 
will focus on mechanisms for generating examples from a learned model, 
and mechanisms for evaluating generated examples according to novelty 
and value.

In the frame of this project, the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (NIL 
research group) will undertake the following tasks: generating 
linguistic renderings of concepts created anew by project technologies, 
exploit newly created concepts to produce original machine-generated 
poetry, and exploit newly created concepts in support of task of 
automated summarization of text.

One postdoctoral research position is available to work in this project. 
The position is for a full-time postdoctoral researcher with annual 
salary 42,800 euro. The positions are for one year, with the possibility 
of renewal for a further two years, starting from 27th January 2014.

Candidates are expected to have a PhD degree and a first degree in 
Computer Science or related field. They should have research experience 
in natural language processing, knowledge representation, natural 
language generation, and Java programming. Additional experience in 
logic, ontologies, grammars and/or web services will be considered a plus.

Other merits and aspects are clarified in the call (in Spanish):

http://www.ucm.es/data/cont/media/www/pag-9306/AnexoConvocatoria%20PAI%2...

The description of the position is listed there under the code CONCRETE 
Grant agreement no: 611733. The application period will close on 
November 21st, and candidates should follow the call instructions. The 
instance and regulations (in Spanish) can be found in:

http://www.ucm.es/personal-de-apoyo-a-la-investigacion-%28pai%29

http://www.ucm.es/personal-de-apoyo-a-la-investigacion

More info and FAQ (Spanish): http://nil.fdi.ucm.es

For further details and clarifications, contact pgervas at sip.ucm.es


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Gonzalo Méndez Pozo
gmendez at fdi.ucm.es
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