Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
Department of Computer Science
Institute of Intellectics
Prof. W. Bibel


The Institute of Intellectics at the Technical University of
Darmstadt, Germany, offers two

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PhD and PostDoc Positions
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for our research projects LExIKON und DaMiT.


LExIKON is a research and development project focussing an innovative
approach to knowledge extraction from the Internet. The peculiarity of
LExIKON is to invoke inductive learning techniques on different
levels. By its way of integrating inductive inference into knowledge
extraction from the Internet, LExIKON is distinguished from all
competing projects throughout the world. The LExIKON research deals
with the development of new learning algorithms, with their study and
with proofs of formal results about the algorithms' power and
limitations. Those algorithms are prototypically implemented and
practically evaluated within the LExIKON project. LExIKON puts
emphasis on the development of a core system named the Intelligent
Extraction Unit (IEU). Embedding LExIKON's IEU into a conventional
search engine may result into a breakthrough to the next generation of
those systems. The project partners are three german universities, the
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, two software
houses and a bank.

DaMiT aims at the development of a tutoring system for data mining.
Its pecularity is the fact that the topic and the location of teaching
coincide: extraction of information from huge and distributed data
bases as well as from the internet cannot be studied more realistic
than in the internet itselfes. Within the projekt DaMiT, the
fundamentals of machine learning, ranging from inductive inference to
knowledge discovery and data mining, will be elaborated, will be
prepared for teaching in the internet and will be integrated in a
tutoring system. Within this system, algorithms as well as complete
systems for data mining and knowledge discovery are accessible. Thus,
the students can probe their knowledge practically. The project
consortium consists of 10 german universities.


keywords: artificial intelligence, machine learning, knowledge
extraction, data mining
start: promptly possible
project descriptions: http://lexikon.dfki.de http://damit.dfki.de
contact and further information: Gunter Grieser, Tel. +49+6151+166634,
grieser@...