SIG KM NEWSLETTER Issue September 2007 Newsletter of the German Special Interest Group on Knowledge Management www.fgwm.de Subscribe or unsubscribe via http://www.fgwm.de Send contributions to: 'bergmann' or 'minor' at 'uni-trier.de' TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Call for Participation: First Computer Cooking Contest CCC @ ECCBR'08 2. Call for Participation: FGWM @ LWA 2007, September 24-26, Halle 3. Call for Papers: Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik 2008 Deadline: September 30, 2008 4. Final Call for Papers: ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI08), Deadline: October 1, 2008 5. Call for Papers: Modellierung 2008 (in German) Deadline: October 7, 2008 6. jCOLIBRI 2 RELEASE 7. Case-based Reasoning in the Health Sciences Mailing List 8. Research post (PostDoc): Radiotherapy planning with AI, operational research techniques, CBR (University of Nottingham, UK) Closing date: September 28, 2007. 9. PhD Position: MULTI-LINGUAL ONTOLOGY LEARNING (AIFB, Karlsruhe, Germany) ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... CALL FOR PARTCIPATION 1st Computer Cooking Contest CCC 2008 @ ECCBR 2008 September 1, 2008, Trier (Germany) www.computercookingcontest.net, ccc-org2008 'at' uni-trier.de Who says that only human beings are able to cook delicious meals? We aim to teach our computers the haute cuisine and therefore we need your creativity and ideas! Come to the European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR'08) in Trier and participate in the Computer Cooking Contest (CCC)! Write your own software application for the live competition. Show that your program is more creative than the average kitchen user. Let your computer's recipe creations be evaluated by a professional cook and an international jury of scientists! Rationales ---------- Once upon a time in the past, when we still were students, we wondered whether there could be a software which would relieve us from the task of matching the content of our fridge to a dish. Given a restricted set of ingredients, the task is to cook something, where something does taste good. Ideally, something moreish. Once upon a time in the present, when we were not students anymore, we wondered whether there could be a software which would relieve us from the task of explaining what we are doing, e.g. case-based reasoning, to a broader audience. Given the technological state of the art, the task is to demonstrate something, where something solves a problem. Ideally, something moreish. Glue the two together and you get it: The Computer Cooking Contest! Moreish means: it tastes like more. This is the rationale behind the contest, too. It will attract new people, e.g. students, to deal with AI technologies such as case-based reasoning, semantic technologies, search and information extraction. Also cooking is fun, in particular when using a computer for the design of the menu. Furthermore, the contest will attract the public. Since everybody knows something about cooking, people will be curious what a computer might do about it. Furthermore, we all have noticed the increasing interest of the public audience in cooking, stipulated by the growing insight that good food is mandatory for health. Hence, the Computer Cooking Contest offers the opportunity to explain the benefits of our technologies intelligible to all. Competition ----------- The Computer Cooking Contest is an open competition. Any individual, student, research group and professional is invited to submit software that creates a recipe for a single dish or even a three course menu. The input will be a database of basic recipes from which appropriate recipes must be selected, modified, or even combined. The queries to the system consist of a number of wanted ingredients and other requirements for the dish or menu. The overall competition is structured into a main compulsory task and two additional challenge tasks. The Compulsory Task involves answering queries that require the selection and modification of recipe for a single dish. A sample query could be to "cook a main dish with turkey, pistachio, and pasta". An appropriate answer would be to select a recipe for pistachio chicken and to replace chicken by turkey. The Negation Challenge is to answer queries that involve avoiding certain ingredients, which you don’t like or which are not available. This can be done, for example, by selecting an appropriate recipe or by replacing or removing some ingredients from a recipe. A sample query could be: "I want to have a salad with tomato but I hate garlic and cucumber". An appropriate answer would be to select an italian tomato salad and to omit the garlic. The Menu Challenge requires the composition of a three-course menu based on the available recipes. For example we might ask: "I do have a filet of beef, carrots, celery, field garlic and cucumber. Potatoes are available, too. For the dessert, we have oranges and mint. A soup would be preferable for the starter." In this case, a Caldo Verde as a starter, filet steak with baked potatoes, and an orange ice cream with mint flavour would be a good solution. Please note that for most of the queries there is not a single correct or best answer. Usually many different solutions are possible, depending on your creativity or the creativity of your software. We also do not imply any restriction on the technology to be used. Case-based reasoning is one candidate technology, but other approaches are certainly suitable as well. The only restriction we impose is that the given database of recipes must be used as a starting point. We will not provide a formal query language. Queries will be described in free text but the software to be developed can use any kind of user interaction (structural/ formula-based, conversation, text-based). Evaluation Criteria ------------------- All systems will be evaluated with respect to scientific/technical quality (technical originality of the approach, usability of the software, maintainability, and scalability) and with respect to the culinary quality of the created recipes (appropriate to the query, tasty, cookable, creative). The evaluation will involve a peer-review of the papers describing the system and an assessment by an international jury of experts including a professional cook. We also intend to give the ECCBR attendees an additional vote. Competition Procedure and Timeline ---------------------------------- Now: Statement of Interest Everybody interested in participating at the CCC should visit www.computercookingcontest.net and subscribe to the mailing list through which all relevant information will be communicated. September 1, 2007: Publication of Contest Conditions and Material A detailed description of the competition rules, an initial database of recipes in XML format, and a first set of queries has been published. With this information, the contest participants can start with the development of their system. June 2, 2008: Qualifying Examination To this deadline, the contest participants must submit: - an up-to-10-page technical description of the system, - the URL of the running system (web interface) or the executable software (must run on Windows) - the system results for the first set of queries. In a peer review process, the submitted papers and the systems will be evaluated and the best contestants are selected for participation in the final. The finalists may of course continue to improve their systems for the final. August 1, 2008: Publication of the Contest Recipes An extended database including additional recipes will be published four weeks prior to the contest. The extended database must be used for all queries in the competitions' final. The contest participants must update their system to include the new recipes. September 1, 2008. Computer Cooking Contest The finalist systems are demonstrated at the Computer Cooking Contest at ECCBR. At least one person per finalist must register for ECCBR, demonstrate the system and give a technical presentation at the CCC workshop. The technical descriptions of the finalist systems will be published in the ECCBR workshop proceedings. The systems are evaluated according to the initial set of queries and a confidential set of new queries. The new queries are different, but similar in type and difficulty to the first set. The evaluation will be performed by an international jury. Separate prices will be awarded for the compulsory tasks and for the two challenges. Contact: Please do not hesitate to contact ccc-org2008 'at' uni-trier.de in case you have any questions. ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Call for Participation FGWM 2007 - Halle/Saale Workshop "Knowledge and Experience Management" 24.-26.9.2007 The workshop takes place in association with the meeting of the GI special interest group "Knowledge Management" (http://www.fgwm.de) and provides a forum for the latest results from research and application projects. The main goal of the workshop is the exchange of innovative research ideas and experiences with practical applications in the area of knowledge and experience management. Organisation: Joachim Baumeister, Universität Würzburg Martin Schaaf, Universität Hildesheim http://lwa07.informatik.uni-halle.de/ ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Call for Papers Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik 2008 MKWI 2008 26.2.2008-28.2.2008 The multi-conference information systems is the traditional forum of the German speaking information systems community in the even numbered years. It addresses both scientists and practitioners, who are interested in current developments of information and communication technologies and their use in a business environment. The rich agenda of the conference covers topics from philosophy of science to web services and from automotive services to enterprise architectures. It is aimed at promoting the exchange between special interest groups as well as between science and practitioners with different lecture and discussion formats. Addressed are also organisations, which influence decisions or are involved in standardisation processes. The target group are people who are interested in IT from different business sectors or consulting firms, especially IT managers, project managers, but also includes, software architects, developers from industry and public administration, who want to to get a general idea of the best available technology. This year the conference will be held in Munich in the new buildings of the TU München in Garching. With more than 30 sub-conferences and workshops it demonstrates the varity of the German speaking Information Systems Community. Organisers ---------- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: Prof. Dr. Thomas Hess Institute for Information Systems and New Media Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Arnold Picot Director of the Institute for Information, Organization and Management Technische Universität München Prof. Dr. Martin Bichler Internet-based Information Systems (IBIS) Roland Berger & o2 Germany Chair Dr. Helmut Krcmar Chair for Information Systems Prof. Dr. Florian Matthes Chair Software Engineering for Business Information Systems Universität der Bundeswehr München: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Lechner Department of Applied System Sciences and Information Systems Submission deadline ------------------- The submission deadline for the most of the sub-conferences and tracks is September 30, 2007. http://srvmatthes6.in.tum.de ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... One final call for paper related to the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI08) - Canary Islands, Spain, January 13th-16th 2008 Due Date: Monday Oct 1, 2007 Long and Short Papers Monday Aug 27, 2007 Workshop and Tutorial Proposals New highlights from the conference website: The X-Media Student Scholar and Volunteer Program provides partial travel support of up to 250 Euro for students who are full-time undergraduate or graduate students at colleges and universities, who submit papers to the conference or workshop programs and show letters of recommendation from their faculty advisor. Please see the detail at http://www.iuiconf.org/ IUI 2008 will focus on **interface innovation**. We're most interested in truly new ideas about how people and computers could interact. If you've got a new idea about how to make interfaces smarter, easier to use, and more effective, we want to hear it! General Chair: Steffen Staab Universitat Koblenz-Landau, Germany Program Chairs: Jeffrey Bradshaw Institute of Human and Machine Cognition, U.S.A. Henry Lieberman Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A. For more information, please visit the conference website: http://www.iuiconf.org/ Why submit to IUI? ------------------ IUI is where the community of people interested in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. We're also very interested in contributions from related fields, such as psychology, cognitive science, computer graphics, the arts, etc. Unlike traditional AI, our focus is not so much to make the computer smart all by itself, but to make the interaction between computers and people smarter. Unlike traditional HCI, we're more willing to consider solutions that involve large amounts of knowledge, heuristics, and emerging technologies such as natural language understanding or gesture recognition. The IUI conference gives you a chance to present and to see work in an intimate, focused, no-nonsense event. It is large enough to be diverse and lively (we expect 150-200 people), but small enough to avoid the circus-like atmosphere of conferences with thousands of people. The vast majority of the attendees are actively involved with conceiving and developing cutting-edge interfaces leading to a high and fast impact of research results presented at IUI. It brings together people from academics, industry, and nonprofits. As an ACM conference, papers appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. There will also be a journal publication path for selected papers. It's a single track conference, so you don't have to miss anything. And it's always in a beautiful place, in January! IUI topics include, but are not limited - Natural language and speech input and ouput; - Example and programming based interfaces; - Personalization, collaboration, and recommender systems; - Interfaces that learn, teach, provide feedback, or adapt to the user; - AI techniques such as planning and reasoning in interfaces; - Knowledge-based systems; - Intelligent Visualization; - Gesture, attention, and face recognition; - Affective computing, social computing, and aesthetic computing; - Ubiquitous computing, ambient computing, and tangible computing; - Novel methods for, and novel results of, evaluating intelligent user interfaces. ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Call for Papers Modellierung 2008 12. bis 14. März - Berlin http://www.modellierung2008.org/ Zur Tagung ---------- Die "Modellierung" ist eine Fachtagung des Querschnittfachausschusses Modellierung der GI, die seit 1998 abgehalten wird. Gesucht werden Originalbeiträge hoher Qualität, die sich mit den Grundlagen, den Anwendungen oder den Werkzeugen der Software-, der Daten- oder der Unternehmensmodellierung befassen. Gebietsübergreifende Beiträge, insbesondere zwischen Theorie und Praxis, und die Präsentation neuer Ideen werden dem Charakter der Tagung entsprechend gern gesehen. Die Tagungssprache ist deutsch; Beiträge englischsprechender Konferenzteilnehmer sind jedoch gleichermaßen willkommen. Charakter der Tagung -------------------- Die Tagung zeichnet sich durch lebendige Diskussionen und engagierte Rückmeldungen aus Wissenschaft und Praxis aus. Besondere Themen und Interessen werden durch spezielle Workshops abgedeckt. Zum traditionell rege besuchten Industrieforum kommt 2008 ein Doktorandensymposium hinzu, bei dem Nachwuchswissenschaftlern die Gelegenheit gegeben wird, vor einem engagierten Kollegium ihre Ideen und Forschungsansätze vorzutragen und so richtungsweisende Ratschläge zu erhalten. Um darüber hinaus die Beteiligung junger Wissenschaftler an der Tagung zu erhöhen, wird für den besten Beitrag, der aus einer Abschlussarbeit hervorgegangen ist, ein Preis vergeben werden. Themen ------ Unter anderem die folgenden Themen werden durch die Tagung abgedeckt: Grundlagen * Formale Grundlagen der Modellbildung * Logik-basierte Modelle * Ontologien in der Modellierung * Modelltransformation * Modellintegration * Muster in der Modellbildung * Generative Modelle * Modellverifikation und -validierung * Sicherung der Modellkonsistenz Modellierungsdomänen und Anwendungen * Modelle für spezielle Anwendungsbereiche * Unternehmensanwendungsintegration * Geschäftsprozessmodellierung * Benutzermodellierung * Modellierung sicherheitskritischer Systeme * Management und Qualitätssicherung von und mit Modellen * Modellierung verteilter Handels- oder Planungssysteme * Modellierung und IT-Controlling Methoden und Techniken * Standardisierung * Model Engineering * Model-Driven Architecture * Model-Driven Development * Ganzheitliche Modellentwicklung * Modellierung zur Verhaltensverifikation * Aspektorientierte Modellierung * Komponentenbasierte Modellierung * Modellierung von Vorgehensweisen und Prozessen * Anforderung an Modellierungsansätze und -sprachen * Modellierung im Kontext von Zeit, Kosten, Qualität und Sicherheit * Modellierung von IT-Landschaften; Bewertung existierender Ansätze * Modellbasiertes Reengineering und Refactoring * Refactoring von Modellen * Integration der Evolution von Modellen in Vorgehensmodelle Modellierungswerkzeuge * Modellierungswerkzeuge * Werkzeugentwicklung * Modellanimation und -simulation * Ausführbare Modelle Sonstige * Modellbildung in Ausbildung und Wissenstransfer * Fallstricke der Modellierung Eingeladener Sprecher: Ernst Denert ----------------------------------- Ernst Denert ist Vorstandsvorsitzender der IVU Traffic Technologies AG in Berlin. Neben seinen Unternehmensaktivitäten, hat Ernst Denert zahlreiche wissenschaftliche Publikationen im Bereich Softwareentwicklung verfasst und ist Honorarprofessor für Informatik an der Technischen Universität München. Publikation ----------- Der Tagungsband wird in der Reihe GI Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) publiziert. Beiträge werden in Indizes wie dem DBLP gelistet. Autoren entsprechend geeigneter Arbeiten werden eingeladen, diese zur Einreichung bei Zeitschriften (Informatik - Forschung und Entwicklung, Software & System Modeling etc.) zu überarbeiten. Ort der Tagung -------------- Die Modellierung 2008 ist an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin zu Gast. Deren Campus Adlershof bietet ideale räumliche Voraussetzungen in Europas modernstem Technologiepark. Die Abende werden in den historischen Gebäuden der Humboldt-Universität gestaltet mit einem Empfang im Senatssaal der Universität und dem Konferenzdinner im Thaersaal. Kategorien von Einreichungen ---------------------------- Hauptkonferenz: Als Einreichungen werden Langbeiträge (bis zu 16 Seiten) und Kurzbeiträge (bis zu 8 Seiten) in den Kategorien "Forschungsbeitrag" und "Erfahrungsbericht" akzeptiert. Alle Einreichungen werden von mindestens drei Gutachtern begutachtet; Arbeiten, die nicht gewissen Mindestqualitätsstandards genügen - dazu zählen neben dem Einhalten der Formatierungsregeln auch sprachliche Standards wie Rechtschreibung, Grammatik etc.; diese gelten auch für englischsprachige Einreichungen - können jedoch ohne weitere Begutachtung abgelehnt werden. Autoren wird die Gelegenheit gegeben, sich zu den ihre Einreichungen betreffenden Gutachten innerhalb von drei Tagen nach Erhalt derselben kurz (maximal 250 Wörter) zu äußern. Stellungnahmen werden von den Vorsitzenden des Programmkomitees entgegengenommen und, wenn sie sachlich begründet sind, an die betreffenden Gutachter weitergeleitet. Workshops: In Workshops werden spezielle Themen im Kreis Interessierter mit starken formlosen Anteilen erörtert und diskutiert. Doktorandensymposium: Mit dem Doktorandensymposium soll jungen Wissenschafltern die Möglichkeit gegeben werden, ihr Vorhaben außerhalb des eigenen Umfelds zu präsentieren und so wertvolle Anregungen zu erhalten. Industrieforum: Das Industrieforum bietet die Gelegenheit, unbeachtet wissenschaftlicher Kriterien über die industrielle Anwendung und Umsetzung von Modellierungskonzepten, -techniken und -werkzeugen, den daraus gewonnenen Erfahrungen sowie insbesondere über aktuelle Probleme und Lösungsansätze zu berichten und sich auszutauschen. Einreichungen können in Textform oder als Foliensammlungen vorgenommen werden und werden durch die Industrieforum-Vorsitzenden ausgewählt. Genaue Hinweise zur Einreichung entnehmen Sie bitte den Autoreninformationen. Wichtige Termine ---------------- * Einreichung von Beiträgen/Vorschlägen für Workshops: 7.10.2007 * Einreichung von Beiträgen zum Doktorandensymposium: 4.11.2007 * Mitteilung der Gutachten: 27.11.2007 * Stellungnahme der Autoren: 30.11.2007 * Mitteilung der Entscheidung über die Annahme: 21.12.2007 * Einreichung der Endfassung: 11.1.2008 * Tagung: 12. - 14.3.2008 Aus Gründen der Fairness ist die Frist zur Einreichung von Beiträgen fix. Arbeiten, die nach Fristablauf eingehen, werden nachrangig behandelt; für sie besteht kein Anspruch auf Berücksichtigung. ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... From the GAIA group at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain we inform of the release of the new version of jCOLIBRI v2.0, 2007/08/05 jCOLIBRI is a framework in Java for building Case-based Reasoning (CBR) systems. It includes mechanisms to Retrieve, Reuse, Revise and Retain cases and is designed to be easily extended with new components. To find out more about jCOLIBRI, visit http://gaia.fdi.ucm.es/projects/jcolibri/ or contact us Juan Antonio Recio (jareciog 'at' fdi.ucm.es) Belen Díaz-Agudo (belend 'at' sip.ucm.es) Pedro González-Calero (pedro 'at' sip.ucm.es) ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Case-based Reasoning in the Health Sciences Mailing List We would like to invite you to join the new case-based reasoning (CBR) in biology and medicine mailing list, and to inform you of an excellent new Internet resource for the CBR in the Health Sciences community, http://www.cbr-biomed.org. This web site is currently under development and needs your input to reach its full potential. To foster the development of an online community we have created a mailing list to share ideas relating to all aspects of the field, including the future development of the web site. Please send us comments, updates, and information to improve this web site. To join the mailing list, simply go to http://www.cbr-biomed.org/html/mailingList.html, enter your email address, and click the subscribe button. This is a private Mailing List for academic discussions, no solicitors will be tolerated. The List is hosted at the University of Washington and is open to anyone interested in the field, so please pass this message along to any of your associates who may have a desire to join and participate in this online community. We look forward to hearing from you in the future. Sincerely, Isabelle Bichindaritz, University of Washington, Tacoma ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Research post (PostDoc) at the University of Nottingham, UK School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK Automated Scheduling, Optimisation & Planning Research Group (ASAP) EPSRC Funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow Novel Approaches to Radiotherapy Planning The main aim of this research is to investigate the potential of a variety of artificial intelligence and operational research techniques, with an emphasis on case-based reasoning, in the efficient generation of radiotherapy treatment plans. Such an approach would avoid tiresome and difficult knowledge acquisition that would arise in the development of a rule-based expert system for radiotherapy. Case-based reasoning has been successfully applied to a wide range of domains, but its application to radiotherapy planning has been very limited up to now. The project requires a multidisciplinary effort, and comprises both theoretical analysis and practical software implementation. The research will be carried out under the supervision of Dr Sanja Petrovic (see: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~sxp ). This is a joint research proposal with Coventry University. Two large hospitals, Nottingham City Hospital and the UHCW NHS Trust in Coventry, which are both providing radiotherapy treatment to a large population throughout their respective regions, are acting as collaborators on the project. They will provide real-world data and expertise in the domain of radiotherapy treatment. The /Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning Research group/ (ASAP) is one of four major groupings within the School. The School obtained a Grade 5 in the 2001 RAE. ASAP is concerned with investigating and developing Artificial Intelligence and Operational Research approaches to a vide variety of problems. It is internationally recognised for its research work. The group has 9 members of academic staff, 1 industrial fellow, 23 research assistants, 48 PhD students and 4 administrators. Further details are available on the WWW at: http://www.asap.cs.nott.ac.uk/. Candidates must have a PhD in a subject related to the project. Salary will be within the range 24,402 - 30,913 per annum, depending on qualifications and experience (salary can progress to 34,793 per annum, subject to performance). This EPSRC funded post is offered on a fixed-term contract for a period of 2.5 years. Please quote ref. SP/01. Candidates should send a detailed CV, together with the names and addresses of two referees, to Mr N Poxon, School of Computer Science, The University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, Nottingham, NG8 1BB, UK. Email: nzp@cs.nott.ac.uk . Please quote relevant reference number. Closing date: September 28, 2007. ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... PhD POSITION MULTI-LINGUAL ONTOLOGY LEARNING INSTITUTE AIFB, UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE, GERMANY The Knowledge Management Group lead by Prof. Rudi Studer at the Institute for Applied Computer Science and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) of the Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany, has an immediate opening for a Research Assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, TV-L E13) in the broad areas of Natural Language Processing, Ontology Learning and Text Mining. The group has established itself as one of the top leading groups in the areas of Semantic Web as well as Ontology Learning, Ontology-based Text Mining and Ontology-based Natural Language Processing. Our group offers a stimulating and lively research environment as well as the opportunity to carry out research in a highly international and interdisciplinary team. The position is suitable for pursuing PhD research in the above mentioned areas. The opening is in the context of the DFG-funded research project MULTIPLA on the topics of question answering, information retrieval, ontology learning and large-scale information extraction. The aim of the project is to develop new approaches for mining information in texts as well as retrieval (e.g. through question answering) at a large scale. The ideal candidate will have: * good knowledge of natural language processing / computational linguistics / information extraction / text mining * experience with question answering (desired), * a strong programming background, and * the ability to handle large amounts of data. The position is initially available for two years and renewable for at least another two. Remuneration is according to German public service pay scale TV-L E13, which roughly amounts to a salary of 35.000 Euro depending on civil status and age. More information about the group can be found here: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/Forschungsgruppen/WBS Please send your CV with a letter of application with a statement of interests to: Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer Institut AIFB Universität Karlsruhe (TH) Englerstr. 11 D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany indicating "Application for Project MULTIPLA" as subject. The position will be open until filled. Please contact Dr. Philipp Cimiano (cimiano 'at' aifb.uni-karlsruhe) if you have any further questions concerning the project or the position. ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* .........................................................................