Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 15:14:24 +0000 From: Mark Girolami giro-ci0@wpmail.paisley.ac.uk Subject: PhD Studentship, U. of Paisley, UK Funded PhD Studentship Available Intelligent Information Retrieval Computational Intelligence Research Unit Department of Computing and Information Systems University of Paisley Since the emergence and explosive growth of the World Wide Web (WWW) there has been a commensurate growth in the availability of online information. Efficient searching and retrieval of relevant information from the WWW has lagged behind this growth and intelligent information retrieval methods are now required as a matter of urgency. This particular challenge is attracting great interest from the machine learning research community and many software companies are closely monitoring the research output. There are two main approaches to online information retrieval, (1) query based and (2) taxonomic. The query based approach relies on methods such as search engines; which take a users query and this is compared with an existing document collection to find the most likely match. The taxonomic approach relies on manual organisation of the information (online documents) into hierarchic categorisations of the document collection. It is accepted that the design of information retrieval systems utilising a number of intelligent computing paradigms may provide the key to improved information access. This project proposes the fusion of both unsupervised and supervised computational models to adaptively build and maintain suitable document hierarchies (an example being Kohonen's WEBSOM) and then rank and classify existing as well as incoming new documents based on user queries (an example being Bayesian networks). Three years of University funding, for a PhD studentship, is available for this project. This project will be carried out in collaboration with a US based software company. Interested candidates should contact:- Dr Mark Girolami Senior Lecturer Computational Intelligence Research Unit University of Paisley High Street, Paisley PA1 2BE Scotland Tel : +44 141 848 3317 Fax: +44 141 848 3542 giro0ci@paisley.ac.uk
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