Research assistant for intelligent text analysis

[John Shawe-Taylor]

Royal Holloway, University of London invites expressions of interest
for a research assistant position in computer science. The post is a
three year position starting from January 1st, 2001 or as soon as
possible thereafter.

The salary is very competitive and the work will be developing kernel
based methods for the analysis of multi-media documents provided by
Reuters, who are collaborators on the project. The project is financed
by the EU and also involves partners in France (Xerox), Italy (Genova
University, Milano University) and Israel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

We are seeking researchers with experience in corpus based methods of
information retrieval and document categorisation, and a strong
programming background. Experience with kernel methods is desirable but
not required.

Please contact John Shawe-Taylor by email at jst at dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk for
more information. John Shawe-Taylor and Nello Cristianini will also be
available at the NIPS conference to answer any questions and meet
potential applicants.

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John Shawe-Taylor               J.Shawe-Taylor at dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk
Dept of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London
Phone: +44 1784 443430                    Fax: +44 1784 439786
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