OFERTA XARXA EURES PER NORUEGA

Plazas en investigacíon: Tecnología de los medios de comunicación, informática

Employer: Gjøvik University College             

Address: Teknologivn. 22, 2815  Gjøvik, Norway                  

Phone: + 47 61 13 51 00

Website: www.hig.no            

Contact Person:       For more information contact   Professor Rune Hjelsvold, runehj@hig.no or to Associate Professor Şule Yildirim Yayilgan, suley@hig.no.

Work Place:  Gjøvik, Norway – www.gjovik.com

How to apply:    Job applications will be handled electronically. Applicants need to register their application and upload their CV to the Gjøvik University College website (after choosing the given position from: english.hig.no/about/vacancies).

Application date:  Application documents will not be returned.

Application deadline: 18 June 2012.

The Media Technology Laboratory within the Faculty of Computer Science and Media Technology at Gjøvik University College has an opening for a research position in semantic web and ontology modeling to work on an R&D project funded by the Eurostars program. The position is initially planned for one year but may be extended for one additional year. Starting date will be 3 September 2012, but a later start is negotiable.

We seek candidates having a PhD degree  - or is close to finalising their degree - in the field of ontological modeling, knowledge representation, semantic web, information extraction, information retrieval, or similar. Successful candidates will have skills in – and experience from – a combination of research work and engineering work.

The aim of the R&D project is to develop a next-generation search and information service that integrates semantic search and knowledge sharing technologies. The candidate’s responsibility in the project will be to analyse a corpus of web documents to identify the concepts of the corpus’ domain and to develop an ontology describing the relationships among these concepts. The candidate should also contribute to algorithms for extracting such concepts from a representative corpus document. The corpus from where concepts will be extracted will mostly be in the form of web documents.

Candidates will have excellent written and oral English communication skills.

The public workforce strives to reflect the diversity within the population as far as possible. It is therefore a personnel policy to acquire a balanced age and gender composition and to recruit persons with immigrant background.

Salary according to agreement. The positions are located in the position 1109/1108 Researcher. There is a mandatory 2% contribution to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund. The first six months constitute a probationary period.