Thanks Christoph for these great opportunities. Kindly regards, Dennis, L
................................................. Dennis Lupiana Applied Intelligence Research Centre (AIRC) School of Computing Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) A109 Kevin Street, Dublin 8 Ireland, Republic On 5 December 2014 at 17:39, Christoph LANGE <[email protected]> wrote: > WDAqua (Answering Questions using Web Data), a Marie Skłodowska-Curie > International Training Network (ITN), is seeking 15 highly skilled PhD > candidates. > > http://www.iai.uni-bonn.de/~langec/wdaqua/ > > == Essential Facts == > > PhD students in WDAqua will spend 3 years working at one of 6 research > institutions in Europe (France, Germany, Greece, UK), will participate in > an outstanding web science and data science training programme, and will > have the chance to visit other of these organisations plus further > application partners. The gross monthly salary (including social security, > before taxes) is 3,110 € (adjusted depending on the country of employment) > plus a mobility allowance of 600 €/month and, if applicable, a family > allowance of 500 €/month. > > == Timeline == > > 21 January 2015: information event in Bonn, Germany (exact schedule to be > announced) > February 2015: application deadline (for exact dates, see the partners’ > specific job postings) > March 2015: first job offers made to successful applicants > July 2015–June 2018: typical duration of a PhD in WDAqua > > == Background == > > Smart infrastructures and citizens’ participation in the digital society > are increasingly data-driven. Sharing, connecting, managing, analysing and > understanding data on the Web will enable better services for citizens, > communities and industry. However, turning web data into successful > services for the public and private sector requires skilled web and data > scientists, and it still requires further research. WDAqua aims at > advancing the state of the art by intertwining training, research and > innovation efforts, centred around data-driven question answering. Question > answering is immediately useful to a wide audience of end users, and we > will demonstrate this in settings including e-commerce, public sector > information, publishing and smart cities. Steps to answering a question are > (1) understanding a spoken question, (2) analysing the question’s text, (3) > finding data to answer the question, and (4) presenting the answer(s). > Every individual research project in WDAqua connects at least two of these > steps. > > == Partners and Projects == > > Further details to be found on the homepage: http://www.iai.uni-bonn.de/~ > langec/wdaqua/ > > University of Bonn, Germany > 3 positions (one of them with a dual degree with Saint-Étienne) > Topics: linked data publishing, data quality assessment, data cleaning, > federated queries > > University of Athens, Greece > 2 positions > Topics: dataset alignment and merging, user interaction, interactive > disambiguation > > Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne, France > 3 positions (two of them with dual degrees with Bonn) > Topics: provenance, trust, link discovery, data dynamicity and evolution, > named entity recognition, disambiguation, reasoning > > Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems > (IAIS), Germany > 2 positions (PhD awarded by the University of Bonn, one position with a > dual degree with Saint-Étienne) > Topics: cloud computing, plugin architecture, voice input, natural > language processing > > University of Southampton, UK > 3 positions > Topics: visualisation, verbalisation, natural language synthesis, > interaction flows, information discovery > > Open Data Institute, UK > 2 positions (PhD awarded by the University of Southampton) > Topics: visualisation, verbalisation, data licensing, pricing of services, > privacy > > Partner organisations (where PhD students may spend secondments): > * Antidot, France > * ATC Innovation Lab, Greece > * Data Publica, France > * Fundacio Barcelona Media/Yahoo Labs, Spain > * Unister Research & Development, Germany > * Wolters Kluwer Strategy and Innovation, Germany > > == How to apply == > > The individual project partners make individual, specific job postings > (accessible from http://www.iai.uni-bonn.de/~langec/wdaqua/). Candidates > apply for individual jobs, with individual organisations, as listed above. > > The ideal candidate must not have resided for more than 12 months in the > country of their employment in the 3 years before starting to work. He or > she holds a degree in computer science or a related field and is able to > combine theory and practice in her/his work. Fluent English communication > and a passion for developing modern software solutions (e.g. in Java/Scala, > JavaScript) are fundamental requirements. Command of the language of the > country of employment is a plus but not required. The candidate should have > experience and commitment to work in teams and on the forefront of research > in one of the following fields: > > * semantic web technologies and linked data > * knowledge representations and ontology engineering > * software engineering and modern application development > * database technologies and data integration > * HCI and user interface design for Web content > * data analytics > > Application deadlines will be in February; each organisation will define a > specific date. You will need to submit a CV, university transcripts, a > motivation letter including a short research plan targeted to one of the > above projects, two letters of recommendation and English writing sample > (e.g. prior publication or master thesis excerpt). The individual > organisations will announce specific requirements and guidelines. > > == Questions? == > > The information event on 21 January is a good opportunity to ask > questions. You may also, at any time, email or phone > Christoph Lange > WDAqua assistant coordinator > [email protected] > Phone +49 2241 14-2428 > http://langec.wordpress.com/contact/ > > -- > Christoph Lange, Enterprise Information Systems Department > Applied Computer Science @ University of Bonn; Fraunhofer IAIS > http://langec.wordpress.com/about, Skype duke4701 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SIOC-Dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sioc-dev. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIOC-Dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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