Senior Search Engineer at LingoMotors Inc.
*Full Professor in General Linguistics
*Information Retrieval Researcher
*Search architect for the Advanced Technology Group
*Information in a Networked World:
*III Notices
*III.1 Publications
*Automatic Summarization.
*CD Books- Teletraffic Engineering in the Internet Era
*CD Books -Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time Control 2000
*CD Books -Advances in Automotive Control 2001
*European Language Resources Association ELRA
*Reuters Corpus
*III.2 Meetings
*Special Track on: Information Access and Retrieval Systems
*The preliminary program of the 4th Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation
*Evaluation of Information Retrieval, Q&A, and Summarisation
*SIGIR 2001
*IRCS Workshop on Linguistic Databases
*The Sixth Australasian Document Computing Symposium
*The First Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2001)
*Special Track on: Information Access and Retrieval Systems
*IV Projects
*Open Call for Scientific Fellowships at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre
*Medical Informatics Distance Learning Program
*Senior Search Engineer at LingoMotors Inc.
A challenging technical position with the Operations Team as the company enhance it's current technology and develop innovative approaches to client needs.
Desired Profile:
Senior hands-on developer with experience developing successful, high-quality commercial products which scale to the enterprise level. Information Retrieval background, preferably including closed-domain search product development and exposure to query reformulation solutions. A thorough understanding of software engineering principles. Strong object oriented development experience, preferably with Smalltalk. Experience developing successful, high-quality commercial products. Development experience on Windows NT or Unix systems. Familiarity with AltaVista, Verity, Microsoft Indexing Service, Oracle Text and other major enterprise search engines and SDKs. Familiarity with TREC metrics and methodologies.
Responsibilities:
Design, develop, and deliver subsystems of a sophisticated NLP-based IR system. Lead the development of search applications at an architectural and implementation level. Develop, unit test, and release subsystems. Mentor junior developers and be a strong participant in overall team. Participate in the development and maintenance of an overall product development and customer integration process, and the selection, development and/or purchase, and implementation of appropriate tools.
More information about the company can be found at
Full Professor in General Linguistics
Universität Bielefeld
Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft
Germany
Applications should be sent with the usual documents (CV, list of publications, list of classes held, copies of academic documents) by 31 August 2001 to:
Der Dekan,
Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft,
Universität Bielefeld,
Postfach 10 01 31,
D-33501 Bielefeld.
Information Retrieval Researcher
Canon Research Centre Europe (CRE) has a position for a top quality researcher for its Information Retrieval activities.
To apply please send, fax or email your CV with a covering letter, quoting reference J18, to:
Recruitment Manager
Canon Research Centre Europe
The Braccans
London Road
Bracknell
Berkshire RG12 2XH
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1344 354800
Fax: +44 (0) 1344 354801
Email:
Search architect for the Advanced Technology Group
Job Description:
To understand the needs of electronic publishing and define a search and discovery technology strategy for unsolved problems and particularly next generation electronic products. Technology horizon is 1-3 years. This position works closely with the CTO, Search Working Group, Strategy and product management to ensure that the overall strategy meets the business and systems needs. Test, implement, program and evaluate search engines Analyse implications of integrating new search technologies from both a technical perspective and a business perspective. Member of the Search Working Group, and assigned specific work by the Search Working Group.
Qualifications:
PhD in Information Retrieval highly desirable Masters degree in computer science and/or 7+ years of relevant experience in engineering; 3+ years in internet/web technologies Experience as project leader (or design lead) in a significant project Experience in transitioning research and prototypes into production a plus Ability to influence; Proven ability to communicate (written and verbal) technology effectively to senior management, product marketing and to engineers; Proven ability to absorb large amounts of technical and business detail and synthesize that into a usable problem definition and technical approach; Ability to work collaboratively, by directing and guiding the technical direction of a project; Ability to work with Senior level development managers; Ability to work with ambiguous situations and bring them to closure Exceptional written and oral communication and presentation skills; Demonstrated leadership skills.
Technical Skills:
Practical and theoretical experience about information retrieval systems Specific technical expertise in these areas: Concept classification, XML, and natural language processing, vector space searching, probabilistic retrieval and neural networks. Programming techniques: parsing, syntactic analysis, semantic analysis, use of thesauri Ability to work with large and diverse data sets. Interoperability of search across multiple engines and sites (federated or meta-search) including query normalisation.
Enquiries about more information should be addressed to:
Dr. C. J. Leonard
IT & Business Development
Elsevier Science
Amsterdam
T: +31 20 485 2761
F: +31 20 485 2812
M: +31 6 4810 5169
Information in a Networked World:
Harnessing the Flow
ASIST Annual Meeting
November 3-8, 2001
Washignton, DC
The Annual Meeting program is now available online at:
John Benjamins Publishing Company would like to announce the publication of the following title
Automatic Summarization.
Inderjeet Mani
Natural Language Processing 3
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With the explosion in the quantity of on-line text and multimedia information in recent years, there has been a renewed interest in automatic summarization. This book provides a systematic introduction to the field, explaining basic definitions, the strategies used by human summarizers, and automatic methods that leverage linguistic and statistical knowledge to produce extracts and abstracts. Drawing from a wealth of research in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and information retrieval, the book also includes detailed assessments of evaluation methods and new topics such as multi-document and multimedia summarization. Previous automatic summarization books have been either collections of specialized papers, or else authored books with only a chapter or two devoted to the field as a whole. This is the first textbook on the subject, developed based on teaching materials used in two one-semester courses. To further help the student reader, the book includes detailed case studies, accompanied by end-of-chapter reviews and an extensive glossary.
Audience: students and researchers, as well as information technology managers, librarians, and anyone else interested in the subject.
John Benjamins Publishing Co.
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CD Books- Teletraffic Engineering in the Internet Era
Series: Teletraffic Science and Engineering
Title: Teletraffic Engineering in the Internet Era
Subtitle: Proceedings of the International Teletraffic Congress-ITC-17,
Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, 24-28 September 2001
Edited by:J.M. de Souza, R&D Lucent Technologies, Valinhos, Brazil
N.L.S. da Fonseca, State University of Campinas, Institute of Computing, Campinas SP, Brazil
E.A.S. Silva, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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CD Books -Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time Control 2000
Series: IFAC Proceedings Volumes
Title: Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time Control 2000
Edited by:I.J. Rudas, Institute of Mathematical and Computational Sciences,
John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, Budapest
Polytechnic, H-1081 Budapest, Nepszinhaz utca, 8, Hungary J.K. Tar
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CD Books -Advances in Automotive Control 2001
Series: IFAC Workshop Series
Title: Advances in Automotive Control 2001
Edited by:U. Kiencke, University of Karlsruhe, Hertzstr. 16 Geb, D-76187
Karlsruhe, Germany.
G.L. Gissinger, Universite de Haute Alsace, ESSAIM, 12, rue des
Freres Lum iere, 68093 Mulhouse-Cedex, France.
Prices:
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European Language Resources Association ELRA
Announce new resources available via ELRA:
ELRA S0111 Logotypografia database - Eleftherotypia Journal speech database
ELRA S0112 Persian speech database Farsdat
ELRA W0027 An-Nahar Newspaper text corpus
A description of each database is given below:
ELRA S0111 Logotypografia database - Eleftherotypia Journal speech database
The Eleftherotypia Journal speech database consists of Greek read material. It includes the recordings of 120 speakers, male and female, for about 72 hours of speech material.
ELRA S0112 Persian speech database - Farsdat. The Persian Speech Database comprises the recordings of 300 native speakers, from 10 different dialect regions of Iran. 6000 utterances were segmented and labelled, including 386 phonetically balanced sentences.
ELRA W0027 An-Nahar Newspaper text corpus. The An-Nahar Newspaper Text Corpus comprises articles in Arabic (Lebanon) from 1995 to 2000 (6 years) stored as HTML files on
CDRom media. Each year contains 45 000 articles and 24 million words.
For further information, please contact:
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Tél.: +33 01 43 13 33 33
Fax: +33 01 43 13 33 30
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Reuters, the global information, news and technology group, is for the first time making available free of charge, large quantities of archived Reuters news stories for use by research communities around the world. The first Reuters Corpus archive includes over 800,000 English language news stories, equivalent to the annual global news output of Reuters. All the news stories are fully referenced using a total of 775 different category codes for topic, geography and industry sector.
Although this Corpus has been available for some time, it has not yet been widely publicised. We are now happy to distribute it more widely within the research community. Further details can be found at:
Special Track on: Information Access and Retrieval Systems
17th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2002)
March 10-14, 2002
Madrid, Spain.
Important dates:
September 15, 2001 Paper Submission
October 15, 2001 Author Notification
November 1, 2001 Camera-Ready Copy (PDF format)
March 10-14, 2002 SAC 2002 takes place
For more information please see:
The preliminary program of the 4th Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation
September 23-28 is now available at:
Evaluation of Information Retrieval, Q&A, and Summarisation
The Third NTCIR Workshop (2001/2002)
September 2001 - October 2002
Meeting: October 8-10, 2002, NII, Tokyo Japan
Call For Participation
Workshop Schedule
2001-09-30 Application Due
2001-10-01 Document release (newspaper)
2001-10/2002-01 Dry Run and Round-Table Discussion
(depends on each task)
2001-12 Open Lab start
2001-12/2002-03 Formal Run (depends on each task)
2002-07-01 Evaluation Results Delivery
2002-08-20 Paper for Working Note Due
2002-10-08/10 NCIR Workshop 3 Meeting
Days 1-2: Closed session (task participants only)
Day 3: Open session
2002-12-01 Paper for Final Proceedings Due
Enquiries:
The 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
September 9 - 13, 2001
Sunday, August 19 is the last day for registration at the early registration rate.
Registration forms and online registration are available from
IRCS Workshop on Linguistic Databases
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, USA
11-13 December 2001
The Sixth Australasian Document Computing Symposium
ADCS2001
Friday, 7 December, 2001
Coffs Harbour, NWS, Australia
Important dates:
Submission of papers: 7 September 2001 (final call)
Submission of posters and demonstrations: 7 September 2001
Notification of acceptance: 15 October 2001
Final versions due: 9 November 2001
For further Information, see:
The First Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2001)
And
The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-2001)
Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan
October 23-26, 2001
Call for Participation
Home Pages:
Special Track on: Information Access and Retrieval Systems
17th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2002)
March 10-14, 2002 Madrid, Spain
Important dates:
September 15, 2001 Paper Submission
October 15, 2001 Author Notification
November 1, 2001 Camera-Ready Copy (PDF format)
March 10-14, 2002 SAC 2002 takes place
For more information please see:
Open Call for Scientific Fellowships at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre
Ispra near the Lago Maggiore, Italy.
For fellowships to work specifically on Language Technology (LT) applications.
You will find information on this subject at the site
Medical Informatics Distance Learning Program
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) offers an eight-course Graduate Certificate program in Medical Informatic
More details and the curriculum can be found on the program Web page at: