荷兰阿姆斯特丹大学创意产业信息检索博士后职位

Postdoctoral researcher in Information Retrieval for Creative Industries : Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Informatics Institute and the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, together with theNetherlands Institute for Sound and Vision invite applications for one four-year PhD position and two three-year postdoc positions. The positions are part of the NWO-funded project MediaNow, which is funded within the Creative Industries program. The aim of the project is to develop and test open source search solutions for exploring large multimedia archives. The project's target users are media-professionals. This postdoc vacancy in Information Retrieval for Creative Industries will be jointly within the Informatics Institute and the Department of Media Studies. The postdoctoral researcher will be part of a team that also includes a PhD candidate in Information Retrieval and a postdoctoral researcher in Media Studies, supervised by Prof. José van Dijck of the Department of Media Studies. Project description MediaNow supports the creative process in broadcast production. It supports radically new ways to explore repositories of media, with a focus on personalised search and story-based visualization. The innovations proposed by the MediaNow project are situated at the interface of computer science and media studies and they come in three kinds: we will develop, test and release self-learning search algorithms that adapt and improve their behavior while being used; we will create robust methods for semantically analyzing content in media archives and we will develop new search engine result page presentations that provide automatically generated storylines as narratives for professionals in the creative industries. The algorithmic solutions will be implemented in the research environment of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.
 

Description

The candidate for this position should have considerable experience at the PhD level in information retrieval, text mining, and information behavior. In addition, a successful candidate should have: a PhD in computer science or a closely related area; research knowledge of modern information retrieval algorithms and models (specific knowledge of learning to rank is a plus); experience programming in at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Perl; excellent oral and written communication skills; experience working in multidisciplinary teams. Knowledge of Dutch and of semantic web standards is a definite advantage.
 

Benefits

Starting Date: 1 June 2015 or later The appointment will be full-time (38 hours a week) on a temporary basis for the period of three years. The gross monthly salary will be in accordance with the university regulations for academic personnel, and will range from €2,476 to €3,908 (salary scale 10) based on a full-time appointment depending on qualifications, expertise and on the number of years of professional experience. The Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities is applicable. There are also secondary benefits, such as 8% holiday allowance per year and the end of year allowance of 8.3 %. English is the working language within the Informatics Institute. Moreover, since Amsterdam is a very international city where almost everybody speaks and understands English, candidates need not be afraid of the language barrier. Some of the things we have to offer: high level of interaction; high level of multidisciplinary research; international environment (20+ nationalities in the research teams); leading research university (in the QS World University Rankings top 50); close collaboration with end users in a highly innovative environment (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision).2476 - 3908