LINGUIST List 13.2155

Fri Aug 23 2002

Support: Computational Ling: PhD, U/Karlsruhe Germany

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1. Steffen Staab, Support: Computational Ling: PhD, EU project, Info extraction, Germany

The Research Group Knowledge Management at the University of Karlsruhe
seeks applicants for a

 Ph.D. Position

available for the EU-IST funded project Dot.Kom (Designing adaptive
information extraction from text for Knowledge Management). Further
information about the project is available at

http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/Allgemeines/Stellenmarkt/WBS/ontoweb-stelle.htm 

The project start is October 2002.

The prospective student is expected to hold a master's degree or
equivalent degree (e.g. German diploma), preferably with experiences
in AI and/or computational linguistics.

The salary amounts to German BAT IIa (which is roughly 35.000 Euro
gross income per year depending on age and marital status). Basic
knowledge of the German language is a prerequisite.

The project will address the application of information extraction in
various knowledge management systems based on work on ontologies and
semantic annotation performed in related projects (
http://www.ontoknowledge.org/ , http://www-db.stanford.edu/Ontoagents/
and http://annotation.semanticweb.org ).

Potential candidates may find more detailed information at
 http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS

or may contact and send their application to 
Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer Universit�t Karlsruhe (TH) Institut AIFB
D-76128 Karlsruhe ( http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS )

You may also contact for more information:

Dr. Steffen Staab, Tel. 0721 608 4751
Dr. Gerd Stumme, Tel. 0721 608 4754