Within the framework of the SIERA project, an FP7 European project, Sina
Institute For Knowledge and Arabic Technologies, at Birzeit University,
is seeking a highly qualified candidates for the following the PhD
research position:
Position Title: Academic Researcher
Project Website: http://sina.birzeit.edu/SIERA
To Apply, Institute Website: http://sina.birzeit.edu
Application Deadline: April 15, 2013
Competency Requirement:
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- Master Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or other related fields.
- Advanced knowledge and practical skills on database, XML, and
object-oriented, and web programming. Knowledge about ontology
engineering, lexical semantics, Arabic language processing, data mining,
and/or machine learning is a pounce.
- Ability and high motivation to conduct research.
- Experience in writing quality scientific articles.
- Ability (and preferably experience) in writing completive R&D proposals.
- Fluency in written and spoken English.
- Excellent written and oral communication and leadership skills.
- Excellent skills in writing press releases and web content, in Arabic and English.
- Ability to travel
- High motivation and readiness to conduct a PhD research in topics
related to Ontology Engineering, Lexical semantics, and Arabic NLP.
Duties:
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- Conducting research in the area of Lexical Semantics and
multilingual knowledge Sharing, which includes developing algorithms,
programming, conducting experiments, and writing articles.
- Help in administration and financial management of R&D projects.
- Help in writing R&D proposals.
- Coordinate and organize scientific events and conferences.
- Teach basic and advanced courses to undergraduate students.
- Write press releases and develop web sites, when needed.
- Any other R&D task in the institute, when needed.
In turn, we offer:
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- Competitive salary.
- Unique research environment with state-of-art infrastructure.
- Interesting research topics related to the area of Arabic technologies, e-governance, and Semantic Web.
- Excellent ties to research groups worldwide.
- Possibility to work in and lead international research projects.
About the position:
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Successful
applicants will work full-time on SIERA Project, and will be selected
to conduct PhD research in one of the project’s related research fields.
Selected students will conduct their PhD at Sina Institute, and being officially registered in prestige EU Universities
(one of SIERA Project Partners). That is, PhD students will be
co-supervised by both EU and Palestinian scientists, and their research
topics will be the same or very close to their project duties. Students
are expected to spend about 3 months a year with their EU co-supervisors
and the rest of their time at Sina Institute.
About SIERA Project:
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The project’s aim is to reinforce closer and sustainable scientific
cooperation between Palestinian and EU scientists in the field of
multilingual and multicultural knowledge sharing technologies. The
diversity of languages, cultures, and standards are the main barriers to
sharing and consuming knowledge. All project activates are focused
around establishing new research in this field. Two EU multilingual knowledge sharing portals have been selected as a concrete test-bed for the targeted research. The first, MICHAEL, is a cultural heritage portal which
provides a multilingual service to explore digital collections from
museums, archives, libraries and other cultural institutions from across
Europe. The second, KYOTO, is a wiki-portal about environment and
ecology. The key idea is to use both portals to investigate how to
enable large-scale knowledge sharing portals with Arabic language and
content. In doing this, a digitalized repository of Palestinian Cultural
Heritage and another repository in the environment domain will be
provided and added to the knowledge sharing portals.
Application Deadline : 15 April 2013
