| My colleagues at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam,
the Netherlands, have a full-time four-year PhD student
position available as part of an effort to create the
“Commontology,” a structured representation of knowledge
contained in unstructured text.
The research here is related to the international Concept
Web Alliance that aims to facilitate the provision of
content for the Semantic Web following a Wikipedia-like
approach and at a low level of granularity (for a first
impression of the content visit the Concept
Wiki). The BioSemantics group is at the forefront of
research on extending and improving this content by
computational approaches. Supervisor Martijn Schuemie is an
expert in this area.
The position will be in in the Biosemantics group
(http://biosemantics.org), a multidisciplinary group
spanning the Medical Informatics department at the ErasmusMC
and the Human Genetics department at the Leiden University
Medical Center. This group has a strong international track
record in applying text-mining in the biomedical domain, and
has an extensive text-mining software and hardware
infrastructure.
The appointment will be at the Erasmus University Medical
Center of Rotterdam, and will initially be for 1 year. After
successful evaluation, the appointment will be extended by
another 3 years, resulting in a dissertation. The gross
salary starts at EUR 2.435 per month. |
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