[Corpora-List] PhD Position in Web Information Retrieval in Montpellier, France

From: Jean-Yves Delort (Jean-yves.Delort@lirmm.fr)
Date: Thu Feb 08 2007 - 09:28:21 MET

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    A fully funded, three year PhD Studentship is now available, starting in
    September 2007, within the Department of Computing Science at the
    University of Montpellier, France. The Department of Computer Science of
    the University of Montpellier is internationally recognised for its
    research and was rated A in the CNRS (French National Research Center)
    2006 Research Assessment Exercise.

    The Computer and Human Interaction and Hypermedia group, led by Prof. M.
    Nanard, has a long history of research in hypertext and hypermedia.
    The group is now actively expanding its research into the fields of
    information filtering and summarization of hypermedia and social medias
    (such as weblogs and wikis). The group is looking for a versatile,
    highly motivated PhD candidate who is interested in hypermedia,
    information retrieval and text mining.

    The successful candidate will build on the group's ongoing research in
    summarization and information filtering from contextual information
    (e.g. blog comments, wiki discussions, annotations, etc.) and will help
    define and execute an exciting new research agenda.

    Applicants must have a strong background in Computing Science and/or
    closely related areas. Appropriate academic backgrounds include
    Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics with strong emphasis on
    Computing Science. Applicants must also be EU citizens.

    Informal inquiries and applications should be sent to delort@lirmm.fr

    Deadline for applications: May 1, 2007



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