[agents] Post-doc position: Senior Research Officer, University of Essex, UK

[Fasli, Maria]

SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER

School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering

University of Essex





Ref: RE075

Location: Colchester, UK

Salary: £32,600 per annum




Closing date: 24th January 2016



Applications are invited for this fixed-term post for an initial period of 6 months in the first instance with the possibility of an extension for a further 3 months.

The successful applicant will work on a collaborative research and development project under the supervision of Professors Fasli (CSEE, Principal Investigator) and Sena (EBS, Co-Investigator) and in collaboration with Linguamatics. The project will explore and develop new semantic-based information extraction methods and techniques making use of ontologies that are aimed to facilitate more effective search in specialist corpora such as health and bioinformatics. The project will also investigate how user search strategies for specialist search can be captured.

The ideal candidate will have previous experience in the areas of semantic-information extraction, information retrieval and search, semantic web technologies and ontologies, and a strong programming background. Candidates should be graduates of computer science or information systems and be in possession of a good postgraduate degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence or a related area.

Appointment to this full-time post will be from 1st March 2016 or as soon as possible, based at our Colchester Campus.

Expressions of interest or queries should be emailed to: Maria Fasli (mfasli at essex.ac.uk<mailto:mfasli at essex.ac.uk>). However applications MUST be made online.

Further information about this post is available here:

https://jobs.essex.ac.uk/fe/tpl_essex01.asp?s=4A515F4E5A565B1A&jobid=85822,2360026298&key=164336614&c=23720212126856&pagestamp=senwggvfsuhnuniwng





Prof Maria Fasli (NTF, FHEA)
Director, Institute for Analytics and Data Science
http://www.essex.ac.uk/iads/

School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester CO4 3SQ
Email: mfasli at essex.ac.uk<mailto:mfasli at essex.ac.uk>
Tel: +44 (0)1206 872327
http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/mfasli/