Postgraduate Studies

The Information Retrieval group provides a friendly, supportive and knowledgeable environment for research, welcoming applications from well motivated candidates interested in all areas of Information Retrieval. General information about applications and funding can be found on the departmental information page. Adobe Acrobat versions of the application forms are provided below:

 Application Form

 Referee's Report

For information about specific research topics, queries may be directed towards the academics listed below:

Professor C.J. 'Keith' van Rijsbergen -  (keith at dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Theoretical development of probabilistic and logic-based models, multimedia IR systems, information analysis and access across media, evaluation and usability of IR systems and data mining of large data sets of clinical information.

Dr Joemon Jose -  (jj at dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Information retrieval, Video information management, integration of databases and information retrieval, application of evidence combination techniques to IR, evaluation of IR systems and object-oriented software architectures.

Dr Iadh Ounis -  (ounis at dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Information Retrieval on the Web; Citation/link analysis; Method combination/fusion; Probabilistic frameworks for IR; Performance optimisation of probabilistic models; Model selection; Semantic Web; Data mining & knowledge discovery; Multilingual retrieval; Conceptual structures and IR (i.e. Conceptual Graphs, Description Logics, etc.).

Jobs

Research Positions in Information Retrieval. There are currently two research positions in text retrieval available, where the Terrier information retrieval platform is being expanded with new retrieval techniques and tools.

• Research Assistant in Information Retrieval and Text Mining. The project addresses the development of IR and data mining techniques on large-scale biomedical texts. Specifically, you will be required to develop appropriate distributed retrieval techniques for biomedical texts, implement retrieval techniques on OCR documents, develop retrieval techniques to identify relevant passages in a document, develop data mining techniques to highlight useful information from these passages, and conduct evaluations of the resulting system. The work will be implemented on top of the successful Terrier platform. It will be done within the context of a collaborative European project (SIMAP). This post is available for 18 months in the first instance. The reference No. is R13171/DPO/A3. Further details and application guidelines can be found at our university web site.
  


• Research Assistant Information Retrieval and Semantic Technologies. Large collaborative scientific projects (particularly in astronomy and particle physics) require users to search for information located in distributed stores, described using various distinct metadata models. This multidisciplinary project aims to apply established AI and Knowledge Engineering work, including Data Mining and Semantic Technologies, to develop a novel peer-to-peer solution to this problem. The work will extend the successful Terrier IR platform and its corresponding tools, developed at the University of Glasgow, with semantic web tools and techniques. The candidate will be responsible for implementation, and driving standardisation in the appropriate forums in the context of an EPSRC project (EP/E01142X/1). The post is available for 18 months in the first instance. The reference No. is R13170/DPO/A3. Further details and application guidelines can be found at our university web site.

• Post-doctoral Research Assistant in Multimedia Mining and Retrieval Techniques
  Department of Computing Science
  Salary £25,889 - £31,840
  
  The researcher will be responsible for the development of multimedia mining and retrieval techniques. You will work in the general area of multimedia information retrieval. Specifically, you will be required to develop techniques and models of multimedia mining (under the direction of the investigators), implement a number of demonstrator systems and conduct evaluations of the system. This will be done within the context of collaborative European projects (SALERO, SEMEDIA and K-Space). This post is available for twenty four months in the first instance.
  
  quoting the reference number: 13164/DPO/A3
  Closing Date: 20th April 2007
  
  Further details can also be found at:
  http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/humanresources/recruit/20apr_13164.htm
  
  
• Research Assistant in Multimedia Annotation and Retrieval (x2)
  Department of Computing Science
  Salary £23,002 - £25,889
  
  The researcher will be responsible for the development of multimedia annotation and retrieval techniques. You will work in the general area of multimedia information retrieval. Specifically, you will be required to develop techniques and models of multimedia annotation (under the direction of the investigators), implement a number of demonstrator systems and conduct evaluations of the system. This will be done within the context of collaborative European projects (SALERO, SEMEDIA and K-Space). This post is available for twenty four months in the first instance.
  
  quoting the reference number: 13165/DPO/A3
  Closing Date: 20th April 2007
  
  Further details can also be found at:
  http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/humanresources/recruit/20apr_13165.htm
  

Job opportunities in the Information Retrieval Group can arise quickly. Feel free to contact us if you are interested in employment within the group.