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<p align="center" style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">„<span style=" font-family:'Arial, serif'; font-size:small; font-weight:600;">The Billion Word Library“</span></p>

<p align="center" style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Arial, serif'; font-size:small; font-weight:600;">at the Image and Signal Processing Group, University of Leipzig</span></p>

<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Arial, serif'; font-size:small; font-weight:600;">Project description:</span></p>

<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><a name="internal-source-marker_0.9560923867393285"></a><span style=" font-family:'Arial, serif'; font-size:small;">O</span><span style=" font-family:'Arial, serif'; font-size:small;">ur goal is to help re-invent library infrastructure, establishing Leipzig as a leading place in a new information infrastructure, one that builds upon its traditional expertise with print but that also looks to the challenges and opportunities of managing vast flows of cultural information across the globe, serving communities long separated not only by space but by language and culture. Thereby, we will work with scalable data and more than a billion of OCR-generated words. The final infrastructure will allow to dynamically address distinct levels in the hierarchy of a text (e.g. section, sentence, word). Various metadata dimensions will furthermore allow flexible faceted queries. The University Library of Leipzig and the Natural Language Processing Group bear the responsibility for data and metadata management.</span></p>

<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Arial, serif'; font-size:small;">The task within the context of this vacancy is the co-development of a visualization environment for the produced data (e.g. words of text documents, texts in various languages, pictures in douments) and metadata (e.g. space, time, language) of this project. With the given multifacetedness, there is an ample scope to develop novel methods in information visualization with the focus on text visualization.</span></p>

<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Arial, serif'; font-size:small; font-weight:600;">We require:</span></p>

<ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; -qt-list-indent: 1;"><li style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Arial, serif'; font-size:small;">Master degree (or German Diplom) in computer science, finished after June 1st, 2011</span> </li>

<li style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Arial, serif'; font-size:small;">Very good skills in visualization and image processing</span> </li>

<li style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Arial, serif'; font-size:small;">Very good skills in software and web development</span> </li>

<li style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Arial, serif'; font-size:small;">Experiences in JavaScript, Java, HTML and CSS</span> </li>

<li style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Arial, serif'; font-size:small;">High commitment and flexibility</span> </li>

<li style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Arial, serif'; font-size:small;">Communication skills and capacity for team work</span></li></ul>

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<ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; -qt-list-indent: 1;"><li style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Arial, serif'; font-size:small;">Possibility for a PhD in visualization or Digital Humanities</span> </li>

<li style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Arial, serif'; font-size:small;">Work in a receptive, interdisciplinary team</span></li></ul>

<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Arial, serif'; font-size:small; font-weight:600;">Vacancy details:</span></p>

<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Arial, serif'; font-size:small;">The candidate gets a half-time position according to TV-L E13 (~1.750€ before tax). Since the duration of the project is limited, the position is limited to 1,5 years. A subsequent employment is possible depending on available funding.</span></p>

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<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Arial, serif'; font-size:small;">Prof. Dr. Gerik Scheuermann<br />Universität Leipzig<br />Institut für Informatik<br />PF 100920<br />04009 Leipzig<br /></span><a href="mailto:scheuermann@informatik.uni-leipzig.de"><span style=" font-family:'Arial, serif'; font-size:small; text-decoration: underline; color:#0057ae;">Germany</span></a></p>

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