POSTDOCTORAL POSITION WITHIN THE AREA OF DISTRIBUTED TEXT MINING AT THE NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
A post-doctoral position in the area of distributed text mining within the COMIDOR project is available at the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI) in the Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering (IME), the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
COMIDOR (Cooperative Mining of Independent Document Repositories) is a research project at NTNU that will focus on the mechanisms and algorithms necessary to perform mining of independent document repositories. COMIDOR is funded by the Norwegian Research Council.
Traditionally, text mining has been performed on a single text collection, and in the case of collections from several repositories these collections have first been merged before performing the mining process. In some application areas, merging of collections is not acceptable. For example, some repositories can not be merged for legal reasons, while some can not be merged because of risk of revealing classified information. In the COMIDOR project the aim is to develop new solutions to mining of independent document repositories without communication of base repositories. A more detailed description of the project can be found at http://research.idi.ntnu.no/comidor/. The candidate is expected to contribute to the start-up phase of the project, working in close cooperation with the actors involved in the project.
The candidate should have a Ph.D. in Computer Science with solid knowledge of text mining or distributed data management, and familiarity with program development. The postdoc position is for two years.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. If you are interested, please contact Prof. Kjetil Norvag (project leader), noervaag at idi.ntnu.no for more detailed information about the application procedure.
Specific Conditions: The postdoc position is placed in Norwegian salary code 1352, gross NOK 401.900 per year (equivalent to approx. EUR 51.000 and USD 80.000). Living Costs in Norway: A rule of thumb is that one pays appr. 35% tax on net income. Public health care system is free for all (due to the tax level). Generally there is no need for private health care insurances. Education on all levels is free for all. Housing normally cost between NOK 4000 (for a simple one bed studio with kitchenette, possibly shared bathroom) and 8000 (for a 3-4 piece apartment suitable for a small family) per month.