We have eight vacancies in Information Retrieval and Language Technology. If you're interested, mail me or call me—follow the "Contact link" on the right-hand side for details. The deadline for applications for all positions is April 24, 2006; an application form is available now at this location.

• Assistent professor, web retrieval, web mining; tenured, full-time; more information at the University's vacancy site: in Dutch and English
  
  
• Research programmer, to support the ILPS group and its demos in XML query evaluation and benchmarking; you have a back ground in Java, XML, a scripting language such as perl or python; 3 yrs, part-time;
  
  
• PhD student, focused crawling (cultural heritage, blogs); 3 yrs; funded through the EU project MultiMATCH; you have a background in web information, web servers, web standards, and machine learning; more information on the project's site
  
  
• PhD student, web mining, cross-media mining, machine learning; 3 yrs; funded through the EU project MultiMATCH; you have a background in machine learning and, ideally, language technology; more information on the project's site
  
  
• Postdoc, to coordinate and help setup multimedia indexing and mining efforts; 1 yr; funded through the EU project MultiMATCH; you have experience in project-based work in a multi-disciplinary environment, and know what it takes to set up and run demanding retrieval infrastructures in such environments; more information on the project's site
  
  
• PhD student, language technology, machine learning, information retrieval; 4 yrs; funded through the NWO project QASsIR (question answering as semistructured information retrieval); more information is available on the project site
  
  
• Research programmer, you will work with XML, large amounts of text, search engine and database technology; 4 yrs; half time; funded through the NWO project QASsIR (question answering as semistructured information retrieval); more information is available on the project site
  
  
• Research programmer, you will work with language technology, relational databases, web services and text mining technology to support the development of the next generation of the Dutch WordNet; 1 yr; part time; funded through the NWO/STEVIN program; see this separate site.
  

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