We invite applications for a Research Grant in the context of FCT project number FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-010029 (Refª FCT PTDC/EIA-CCO/100541/2008) - "Query Term Expansion Methodologies for Improved Biomedical Literature Retrieval". See details below or send an email to aleixomatos_at_ua.pt
The objective of the grant is to develop work in the areas of Text Mining, Information Retrieval and Query Expansion. The selected candidate is expected to develop concept-based query expansion methods and ranking strategies to be applied to searches in a database of scientific articles, in order to obtain a ranked list of relevant publications for a specified user query.
Applications are accepted from 24/08/2010 to 13/09/2010.
For more information see (in Portuguese): http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/ ... 44&lang=pt
and http://bioinformatics.ua.pt/positions/r ... ext-mining