4-month Visiting
Research Fellowship
Faculty Positions
in Computer Science
Head of the
Language Technology Transfer Centre
Mathematical
Foundations of Information
Journal of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology JASIST
Special Topic
Issue On Management Of Uncertainty And Imprecision In Multimedia Information
Systems.
Special Issue on
Automated Text Categorization
Lemur Toolkit for
Language Modeling and Information Retrieval, version 1.0.
Towards a Roadmap
for Multimodal Language Resources and Evaluation
19th International
Conference on Computational Linguistics COLING-2002:
Computational
Approaches to Semitic Languages ACL-2002
Workshop on
Natural Language Processing in Biomedical Applications
MT Roadmap
Workshop (March 16)
WWW2002 Workshop
On Mobile Search
Third International
Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning IDEAL'02
Workshop on
Annotation Standards for Temporal Information in Natural Language LREC 2002
Learning for Advanced HLT
Applications: from Language Resources to Processes
Workshop on
International Standards for Terminology and Language Resource Management
The 7th
International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming
NLULP-02
Advanced Question
Answering Technology
Leeds University
Customising a copying-identifier for Biomedical Science
student reports
Project Leaders: Eric Atwell (School of Computing), Paul Gent (School of
Biomedical Sciences), Clive Souter (Director of Joint Honours in Science).
Aim of Project:
To develop a system for detecting student copying in laboratory practical
reports, customised to a specific genre/subject, in our case initially
Biomedical Science first-year reports. The project will involve:
Requirements analysis, collating a Test Corpus of student reports;
Survey of available systems and how well these match requirements spec;
Implementation, based as much as possible on existing software;
Testing and evaluation on Test Corpus of Biomedical science student reports;
Writing documentation and user manual for future use and maintenance.
The Project Output will be: a system customised for this specialised detection
task, and documentation of the methodology used to aid and encourage further
development of customisations or other genres. An indirect extra output will
hopefully be increased appreciation (and takeup) by lecturers of further
possibilities opened for computer-based processing of student reports.
We are aware of many available plagiarism detectors (eg turnitin and others
investigated by HEFCE), but Biomedical Science teaching staff believe these generic
systems are generally too sophisticated / complicated for this specific
problem:
"What we need is something which will go through a directory of Word .doc
files, strip or ignore formatting and just pick out areas of
correspondence. In other words copying
rather than plagiarism as we know it. When you have 200+ practical reports on
one exercise it's bound to happen and at present it is spotted by chance alone.
If we can nip it in the bud at level one we can think about the more esoteric
stuff like turnitin later."
The project must be completed before 30 June 2002; we hope to appoint a Project
Officer for 4 months, February-May 2002.
Candidates must be EU citizens; not requiring work permits in UK.
Further Details and Applications: contact Eric Atwell, eric@comp.leeds.ac.uk
OR Paul Gent, bmsjpg@bms.leeds.ac.uk OR
Clive Souter, d.c.souter@leeds.ac.uk
Closing Date For Applications: January 27th 2002
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Eric Atwell, Distributed Multimedia Systems MSc Tutor & SOCRATES Tutor
School of Computing, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT
Tel:
0113-2335430
Mobile: 0775-1039104
Fax: 0113-2335468
WWW: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric
Email: eric@comp.leeds.ac.uk
University of Vermont
After a successful search for two faculty members in 2001,
the Department of Computer Science at the University of Vermont invites
applications for two additional tenure-track faculty, commencing with the
2002-03 academic year. The University
of Vermont, one of the top public national universities
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/natudoc/natudoc_pubs.htm
is located in Burlington, Vermont. It
offers a supportive research environment in a relatively small city that
repeatedly has drawn national attention for offering a high quality of
life. The greater Burlington area
includes 125,000 people, and is situated on the shores of Lake Champlain
between the Green Mountains of Vermont and the Adirondack Mountains of New
York. Burlington and the surrounding
area provide an environment rich in cultural, family, and sporting
activities. The Department of Computer
Science offers programs in the College of Engineering and Mathematics and the
College of Arts and Sciences, as well as a joint program with the School of
Business Administration.
Position 1: Associate or Assistant Professor.
Candidates in networking and systems, software engineering, programming
languages, human-computer interaction or parallel/distributed computing are
most sought. Candidates in any area of
computer science will be considered seriously.
Our faculty are involved in the forefront of research in knowledge and
data engineering, software engineering, and computational sciences. We are seeking to complement and further
strengthen our existing research and teaching activities in these areas.
Position 2: Assistant Professor in COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY. A new concentration in computational biology
has been established in the Colleges of Medicine, Agricultural and Life
Sciences, Engineering and Mathematics, and Arts and Sciences. Candidates with research interests or
experience in computational biology or bioinformatics are invited to apply. Through a major Department of Energy grant
that commenced in July 2000, the startup package includes summer support, seed
research grant, and reduced teaching obligations.
Candidates for either position should have a strong research record, hold a
doctorate in Computer Science or a closely related field, and have broad
teaching abilities and interests.
Current teaching responsibilities typically consist of three computer
science courses per year with average enrollments of 25 students. These responsibilities will be reduced to
two courses per year for the first two years for successful position 2
candidates. Please send a letter of
interest indicating the position sought, a curriculum vitae, a statement of
teaching experience and interests, a statement of research interests and
aspirations to, and arrange for at least three letters of reference to be sent
to:
Chair, Faculty Search, Position (1 or 2),
Department of Computer Science,
University of Vermont,
Burlington, VT 05405.
Complete applications received by January 21, 2002 will be fully considered.
For more information about the Department and the University please see
http://www.cs.uvm.edu
Or send email to: cssearch@cs.uvm.edu.
The University of Vermont is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer
and encourages applications from women and members of minority groups.
The German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence is searching for a
senior software engineer/scientist of high calibre to acquire and manage
industrial research and development projects in the Language Technology Lab.
DFKI is situated on the Campus of Saarland University. The university research groups and academic programs in Computational Linguistics
and Computer Science enjoy international recognition.
For more information, please consult our website at:
http://www.dfki.de/lt/
Please send your detailed application with CV by the 30th January 2002, either
electronically to lt-jobs@dfki.de,
or by mail to the following address:
Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit
DFKI GmbH
Language Technology Lab
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
D-66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
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Corinna Johanns
DFKI GmbH
Language Technology Lab
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
D-66123 Saarbruecken
Phone (+49-681) 302-5282
Fax (+49-681) 302-5338
E-Mail johanns@dfki.de
http://www.dfki.de/lt
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Corinna Johanns
DFKI GmbH
Language Technology Lab
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
D-66123 Saarbruecken
Phone (+49-681) 302-5282
Fax (+49-681) 302-5338
E-Mail johanns@dfki.de
http://www.dfki.de/lt
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As many colleagues have made inquiries
as regards a possibility to procure the above book, I
thought the link below might be useful:
http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-7923-6861-4
Sandor Dominich
Volume 53, Number 2
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Special Topic Issue On Web Research
Guest Editor: Amanda Spink
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
Introduction to the Special Issue on Web Research
Amanda Spink
Published online 14 December 2001
65
Web-related studies are a relatively new area of research. Tremendous growth
continues in Web use, Web search engines, and Web sites. The interdisciplinary
scope of Web research is broadening, and is now an important topic for publication
in prestigious scientific journals such as Science and Nature. We are beginning
to map the nature of users' Web interactions and the dimensions of better Web
systems. However, researchers' and users struggle daily with the tough problems
inherent in a system used for general interaction and e-commerce on a massive
scale. This special issue of the Journal of the American Society for
Information Sciences and Technology includes research articles that address key
Web-related issues and problems. Individually and collectively, the articles
provide a significant and substantial body of Web research. The diverse range
of articles includes studies in Web searching, Web pages, and Web agents. Web
searching research develops models of user behaviour and conducts trends
analysis of large-scale user data. Web page and system research centres on the
development and testing of new algorithms, agents, Web page design, interfaces,
and systems. Social and organizational impacts and aspects of the Web are not
well represented in this special issue. A further special issue including
social and organizational Web research is much needed.
Research
A Longitudinal Study of World Wide Web Users' Information Searching Behaviour
Vivian Cothey
Published online 28 November 2001
67
Viv Cothey's study reveals trends in Web user's searching behaviour. Cothey's
study of 206 students shows that over a 10-month period they adopted more
passive browsing strategies as their querying rate reduced and they became more
eclectic in Web access.
Design Criteria for Children's Web Portals: The Users Speak Out
Andrew Large, Jamshid Beheshti, and Tarjin Rahmin
Published online 7 December 2001
79
Large, Beheshti, and Rahman report young Web users impressions of Web portals
designed for children. Findings show that children's Web portals should include
entertainment and educational content, use attractive colored screens, graphics
and animation, keyword and browsing facilities, and allow for personalization.
Form and Function: The Impact of Query Term and Operator Usage on Web Search
Results /
Wendy Lucas and Heikki Topi
Published online 28 November 2001
95
Lucas and Topi's article examines the differences in Web searching of expert
and nonexpert searches. They suggest that the nature of the information request
upon which a query is based affects the number of terms and Boolean operators
in a query. Findings show, nonexpert searches used less Boolean operators and
search terms, large overlap in expert and
nonexpert search terms, and search terms were more important than Boolean
operators in effective results.
Cognitive and Task Influences on Web Searching Behaviour
KyungSun Kim and Bryce Allen
Published online 27 November 2001
109
In their article Kim and Allen found strong task effects on search activities
and outcomes, and interactions between cognitive and task variables on search
activities. They suggest a clear relationship between the search techniques
used, efficiency of searches, and how well the user fits the task.
Web Searching: A Progress Oriented Experimental Study of Three Interactive
Search Paradigms
Simon Dennis, Peter Bruza, and Robert McArthur
Published online 14 December 2001
120
Dennis, Bruza, and McArthur compare the effectiveness of query-based,
directory-based, and phrase-based query reformulation assisted Web search in
their article. They found that directory-base search offered new improvement in
relevance over query-based search (with or without query formulation
assistance). Query reformulation did improve relevance in more difficult
searches with the selection of more discriminating terms versus longer queries.
Believe It or Not: Factors Influencing Credibility on the Web
C. Nadine Wathen and Jacquelyn Burkell
Published online 3 December 2001
134
Walthen and Burkell propose a model depicting how users judge the credibility
of Web site information, and suggest multidimensional factors that influence
the credibility of Web site information.
Judgment of Information Quality and Cognitive Authority in the Web
Soo Young Rieh
Published online 14 December 2001
145
The empirical study by Rieh shows that Web users make two distinct judgments of
information quality: a predictive judgment and an evaluative judgment. Rieh
identifies factors that influence each judgment, including the characteristics
of information objects and sources, knowledge, situation, ranking of search
output, and general assumptions.
Web Page Change and PersistenceA FourYear Longitudinal Study
Wallace Koehler
Published online 28 November 2001
162
From the broad perspective, Koehler's article explores the life cycle of Web
pages. Koehler's study shows that Web pages have a half-life of approximately 2
years with variation by top-level domain and page type. He also coins the term
webographer to describe the researchers who conduct Web metric oriented
studies.
A Comparison of the Use of Text Summaries, Plain Thumbnails, and Enhanced
Thumbnails for Web Search Tasks
Allison Woodruff, Ruth Rosenholtz, Julie B. Morrison, Andrew Faulring, and
Peter Pirolli
Published online 7 December 2001
172
In their article Woodruff, Rosenholtz, Morrison, Faulring, and Pirolli show
that enhanced thumbnails (text summaries and plain thumbnails) yields the best
and most consistent performance.
Web Personal Agents
A Personal Agent for Chinese Financial News on the Web
Christopher C. Yang and Alan Chung
Published online 14 December 2001
186
Yang and Chung present a Web personal agent that utilizes user's profiles and
relevance feedback to search Chinese financial news articles. They found that
combining user profiles and user relevance feedback produces the best
performance.
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includes issues from 1986 (Volume 37) to date.
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In:
International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems
(IJUFKS)
Papers
due: January 31st, 2002.
For more details refer to the “Guidelines for contributors”
included in each issue of the journal and as found on
the journal web site:
http://ejournals.wspc.com.sg/journals/ijufks/mkt
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Volume 18, Number 2-3, 2002
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0925-9902
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Contents:
Thorsten Joachims and Fabrizio Sebastiani: "Guest Editors' Introduction to
the Special Issue on Automated Text Categorization", pp. 103-105.
Ata Kabلn and
Mark A. Girolami: "A Dynamic Probabilistic Model to Visualise Topic
Evolution in Text Streams", pp. 107-125.
Nello Cristianini, John Shawe-Taylor, and Huma Lodhi: "Latent Semantic
Kernels", pp. 127-152.
Alexei Vinokourov and Mark A. Girolami: "A Probabilistic Framework for the
Hierarchic Organisation and Classification of Document Collections", pp.
153-172.
Chien Chin Chen, Meng Chang Chen, and Yeali Sun: "PVA: A Self-Adaptive
Personal View Agent", pp. 173-194.
Paolo Frasconi, Giovanni Soda, and Alessandro Vullo: "Hidden Markov Models
for Text Categorization in Multi-Page Documents", pp. 195-217.
Yiming Yang, Seلn
Slattery, and Rayid Ghani: "A Study of Approaches to Hypertext
Categorization", pp. 219-241.
Fabrizio Sebastiani
Istituto di Elaborazione dell'Informazione
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche|
Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 1
56124 Pisa (ITALY)
Phone: +39.050.3152892
Fax: +39.050.3152810
E-mail: fabrizio@iei.pi.cnr.it
WWW: http://faure.iei.pi.cnr.it/~fabrizio/
We are pleased to announce the availability of the
Lemur Toolkit for Language Modeling and Information Retrieval, version1.0.
The Lemur Toolkit is designed to help carry out research in such technologies
as ad hoc and distributed retrieval, cross-language IR, summarization,
filtering, and classification. The toolkit supports indexing of large-scale
text databases, the construction of simple language models for documents,
queries, or subcollections, and the implementation of retrieval systems based
on language models as well as a variety of other retrieval models.
The system is written in the C and C++ languages, and is designed as a research
system to run under Unix operating systems, although it can also run under
Windows. The toolkit, together with
complete documentation, is available from the following Web site:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lemur
We hope that the Lemur Toolkit will prove to be of use to the
research community. Questions, feedback
and comments on the toolkit are welcome; please send us mail at lemur-project@cs.cmu.edu.
Jamie Callan
John Lafferty
Thi Nhu Truong
Chengxiang Zhai
An ELSNET workshop at LREC 2002
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain
June 2, 2002
Call For Papers
Calendar:
Submission deadline: 20 February 2002
Notification: 8 March
Camera ready papers due: 2 April
Workshop date: 2 June
URLs:
Workshop: http://www.elsnet.org/roadmap-lrec2002.html
Conference: http://www.lrec-conf.org
August 24 - September 1, 2002
Howard International House, Taipei, Taiwan
Call for Papers
Important Dates:
Deadline for Workshop Proposals: 15 January 2002
Deadline for paper submission: 15 February 2002
Notification of Workshops: 15 February 2002
Notification to authors: 1 May 2002
Final camera-ready copy and pre-registration:
15 June 2002
Tutorials: 24 - 25 August 2002 (Academia Sinica)
Conference: 26 August - 30 August 2002 (Howard International House)
Post-Conference Workshops: 31 August, 1 September 2002 (Academia Sinica)
For details please go to:
http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/coling2002/psg.html
Workshop Announcement
University of Pennsylvania
Thursday 11 July 2002
First Call for Papers
Important dates
February 24, 2002: Deadline for submissions
April 7, 2002: Notification of acceptance
May 1, 2002: Final version due
July 11, 2002: Workshop date
Home Page and Further Details
http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/WSL
Deadline Extension
http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/NLPBA02/
Call for Papers
Organized by the Working Group 8 of EFMI on Natural Language Understanding Held
in conjunction with the MIE Special Topics Spring Conference
http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/NLPBA02/CFP.html
8-9 March 2002
Nicosia, Cyprus
Important Deadlines
Submission deadline: January 22, 2002 (extended)
Notification Date: February 10, 2002
Camera ready copy due: February 26, 2002
Workshop date: March 8-9, 2002
Website:
http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/NLPBA02/
Workshop held in conjunction with the Third Language Resources and Evaluation
Conference (LREC 2002)
Las Palmas, Spain
May 28, 2002
Call For Papers
Important Dates
Deadline for abstract submission: 10th of February 2002
Notification of acceptance: 10th of March 2002
Final version of paper: 5th of April 2002
Pre-conference Workshop: 28th of May 2002
To obtain further information about the workshop please visit
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html
Or
http://www.cti.gr/nlp/
At TMI2002 (March 13-17)
Keihanna (near Kyoto), Japan
Organized by ELSNET
Call for Papers
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 13 February
Notification: 22 February
Final papers due: 5 March
Workshop: 16 March
Main conference: http://www.kecl.ntt.co.jp/events/tmi/
This workshop: http://www.elsnet.org/roadmap-tmi2002.html
Important Dates:
Submission: February 22, 2002
Notification: March 22,2002
Final Version: April 8, 2002
WWW2002 Conference: May 7-11, 2002
Mobile Search Workshop: May 7, 2002
Additional information is available at
the Mobile Search Workshop Web page
http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/Workshops/www2002-MobileSearch
Questions can be sent directly to any of the organizers below.
Information about the workshop venue and local arrangements (hotel reservation
etc.) as well as the sponsoring conference can be found at the WW2002
Conference main Web page
http://www2002.org
Arabic
Language Resources (LR) and Evaluation: Status and Prospects
A Post-Conference Workshop of LREC 2002
Las Palmas - Canary Islands (Spain) 1st June 2002
Important Dates:
Submission deadline (receipt of abstracts): 11th February 2002
Notification of acceptance: 28th February 2002
Camera-ready final version for workshop proceedings due: 12th April 2002
Workshop date: 1st June 2002
Time and Location of the Workshop:
The workshop will take place on 1st June, following the main LREC 2002
Conference, in the Palacio de Congreso de Canarias, Las Palmas, Canary Islands,
Spain
More details at:
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html
12-14 August 2002
Manchester, UK
Call for Papers
Important Dates:
Submission of Paper 1 March 2002
Notification of Acceptance 20 April 2002
Final Camera-Ready Paper 1 June 2002
http://ideal02.ee.umist.ac.uk
27th May 2002, Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Spain
Important dates:
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 18/02/2002
Notification of acceptance: 11/03/2002
Camera-ready final copy for proceedings: 15/04/2002
Workshop: 7/05/2002
LREC 2002 Workshop
2nd June 2002, Las Palmas, Canary Islands – Spain
Call for Papers
Important Dates:
Deadline for workshop abstract submission: 22nd of February 2002
Notification of acceptance: 15th of March 2002
Final version of paper for proceedings: 15th of April 2002
Workshop: 2nd of June 2002
Contact person
Roberta Catizone
University of Sheffield
211 Portobello Street, Regent Court, S1 4DP Sheffield (UK)
Phone: +44 114 2221897; fax +44 114 2221810
r.catizone@dcs.shef.ac.uk
June 24-27, 2002
Monte-Carlo Resort, Las-Vegas, USA
http://cs.newpaltz.edu/~pham/ABA-02/
Important Dates:
February 25, 2002 (Monday): Draft papers
March 21, 2002 (Thursday): Notification of acceptance
April 22, 2002 (Monday): Camera-Ready papers & Pre-registration
CONTACT:
Dr. Hanh Pham
Department of Computer Science
State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz
75 S. Manheim Blvd. Suite 6, FOB-08
New Paltz, NY 12561, USA
E-mail: phamh@newpaltz.edu
(please kindly put "ABA-02" in the subject field -> for
the email filters )
Web: http://cs.newpaltz.edu/~pham/ABA-02/
Tel: 1-845-257-3574
Fax: 1-845-257-3996
Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Spain
28 May 2002
In association with LREC2002 Main Conference: 29-30-31 May 2002
Call For Papers
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: 25 February 2002
Notification of acceptance: 20 March 2002
Submission of camera-ready final version: 12 April 2002
Workshop: 28 May 2002
http://korterm.kaist.ac.kr/lrec2002/
An affiliated workshop with ICLP, as part of FLoC'02
Copenhagen, Denmark, 27-28 July 2002
Important dates:
February 17, 2002: Deadline for submissions
April 14, 2002: Notification of acceptance
May 14, 2002: Final version due
July 27-28, 2002: Workshop dates
Further information:
The Workshop is organized by Shuly Wintner, Department of Computer Science,
University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel. For further information about ICLP or
FLoC'02 please visit http://floc02.diku.dk/. The
Workshop's homepage is:
http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shuly/nlulp02
Twenty-Fifth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and
Development in Information Retrieval
August 11 - 15, 2002
Tampere, Finland
Organized by
University of Tampere and ACM
Deadline For Submissions: January 28, 2002
Important Dates:
January 28, 2002: Paper submissions due
February 28, 2002: Proposals for
tutorials, workshops, Demonstrations, panels, and posters due
April 19, 2002: Notification of acceptance for all submissions
May 24, 2002: Final camera-ready copy due
June 11, 2002: Registration deadline, normal rate
August 11-15, 2002: Conference dates
More Information
For further details, see the Conference web site http://www.sigir2002.org/.
Student Funding
Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA)
Northeast Regional Research Centre (NRRC) Summer Workshops
The Advanced Research and Development Activity (www.ic-arda.org) is an
intelligence community organization whose mission is to sponsor high-risk,
high-payoff research designed to leverage leading edge technology in the
solution of some of the most critical problems facing the United States
Intelligence Community (IC). ARDA has recently established the Northeast
Regional Research Center (NRRC) hosted at The MITRE Corporation (www.mitre.org), a not-for-profit, public
interest organization that manages the Department of Defense's Federally Funded
Research and Development Center (FFRDC) in Command, Control, Communications and
Intelligence (C3I). In support of the
Advanced Question Answering (AQUAINT) program, in Summer 2002, the NRRC will
host two eight week workshops focused on advanced topics in the area of
question answering technology.
Two teams of top scientists have been assembled to address two advanced topics
in question answering:
Temporal - Enhancing natural language question answering systems to answer
temporally-based questions about the events and entities in news articles, led
by Prof James Pustejovsky of Brandeis University (jamesp@cs.brandeis.edu).
The workshop will meet for one week periods for about 6 months in a row.
Multiperspectives: Enhancing natural language question answering systems to
find and characterize perspectives (e.g., facts vs. opinions, various political
viewpoints) expressed in multiple global news sources, led by Prof Janyce Wiebe
of the University of Pittsburgh (wiebe@cs.pitt.edu
). The workshop will meet for 3 weeks at MITRE followed by 2 weeks
at home institutions followed by another 3 weeks at MITRE.
Applications are solicited for 4-6 highly qualified graduate or postdoctoral
students to participate in these eight week workshops. Selection will be based on
academic record, science and technology/programming skills, and two letters of
reference. Preference will be given to regional students and those who have
experience in language processing (especially information extraction or
question answering), information retrieval, and/or supporting database
technology. Knowledge of linguistics and experience with corpus annotation a
plus. Extremely highly qualified undergraduates will also be considered.
Funding is available to cover salary, travel, lodging and per diem. To apply,
please contact Bev Nunan (bnunan@mitre.org)
to receive an application form.
We look forward to your participation in the NRRC.
Dr. Mark Maybury
Executive Director, ARDA Northeast Regional Research Center
The MITRE Corporation, 202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730
maybury@mitre.org
Tel: (781) 271-7230
Fax: (781) 271-2780
http://www.mitre.org/resources/centers/it
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