[Air-L] 3-year interdisciplinary PhD Scholarship at UNMC

[Tessa Houghton]

Dear AoIR folk,

Please distribute this PhD scholarship opportunity widely; a fully-funded
interdisciplinary 3-year PhD project open to international applicants,
living in sunny Malaysia and working with a truly diverse team of academics.

>  *Knowledge mining for community integration in a research value chain *
>
> *Project description:*
>
> This project will involved mining a large corpus of natural language (e.g.
> documents and discussion forums), taken from across the CFFRC value chain,
> for ideas. These will then be codified to allow them to be archived and
> propagated across different communities, with different vocabularies and
> cultural values. Cutting edge AI techniques and pattern recognition will be
> used to identify these “ideas” (possibly as memes), which are expressed as
> collections of words and phrases within a given context.
>
> This research will seek to define an idea (which will require
> consideration of the philosophy of knowledge), and express this in terms of
> vocabulary and context.  A tool will be developed that uses techniques such
> as neural computation to identify areas of similarity in parts of the CFFRC
> corpus, which will represent ideas that may then be archived and made
> available to other communities. The inherent capabilities of neural
> computation to classify (e.g. multi-layered perceptrons) and compare (e.g.
> associative memories) information will provide a powerful tool to detecting
> and analyse these ideas. This will be innovative research into the
> automation of knowledge management, and it will also provide a useful tool
> for CFFRC- facilitating the exchange of ideas across communities.
>
> The successful candidate will have a strong background in computer science
> and must have excellent programming skills, a sound knowledge of database
> theory and practice and some experience of web development. In addition to
> this some knowledge of or interest in one or more of the following areas
> would be highly desirable: AI techniques; information retrieval; HCI and/or
> human factors; linguistics (ideally computational linguistics); social
> networks and the philosophy of information and knowledge
>
More details can be found here:
http://www.nottingham.edu.my/CFFRC/StudentProjects/Knowledge-mining-for-community-integration-in-a-research-value-chain.aspx

*The University of Nottingham, described by The Sunday Times University
Guide 2011 as ‘the embodiment of the modern international university’, has
award-winning campuses in the United Kingdom, China and Malaysia. It is
ranked in the UK's Top 10 and the World's Top 75 universities by the
Shanghai Jiao Tong (SJTU) and the QS World University Rankings, placing it
in the top 1% of all universities worldwide. In 2011 it climbed rankings
published in the Complete University Guide, the Guardian University Guide,
and The Times Good University Guide. *

Best wishes,
Tessa
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Dr Tessa J. Houghton<http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Modern-Languages/People/tessa.houghton>

Assistant Professor in Media and Communication
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
The University of Nottingham Malaysia
Campus<http://www.nottingham.edu.my/index.aspx>
Malaysia

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