Job Description

Faculty/Academic Area: Faculty of Science

Department: Physics and Computer Science

Campus: Waterloo

Employee Group: WLUFA

Requisition ID: 7294

Position Title: CP423B - Text Retrieval & Search Engine (Spring 2024)
Term: Spring (May 6-August 16, 2024)

Days/Times: Monday, Wednesday 1300 - 1420
Hours per week/Hours Total: 3 hours per week/36 hours total
Type of Course: In-person
Anticipated Class Size: 50
Additional Course Requirements: n/a
Posted on: February 1, 2024
Posting ends: February 15, 2024

Position Summary:

Recent years have seen a dramatic growth of natural language text data, including web pages, news articles, scientific literature, emails, enterprise documents, and social media such as blog articles, forum posts, product reviews, and tweets. Text data are unique in that they are usually generated directly by humans rather than a computer system or sensors, and are thus especially valuable for discovering knowledge about people\'s opinions and preferences, in addition to many other kinds of knowledge that we encode in text. This course will cover search engine technologies, which play an important role in any data mining applications involving text data for two reasons. First, while the raw data may be large for any particular problem, it is often a relatively small subset of the data that are relevant, and a search engine is an essential tool for quickly discovering a small subset of relevant text data in a large text collection. Second, search engines are needed to help analysts interpret any patterns discovered in the data by allowing them to examine the relevant original text data to make sense of any discovered pattern. You will learn the basic concepts, principles, and the major techniques in text retrieval, which is the underlying science of search engines.

Please note:

• Instructors must work within departmental guidelines on Connect
• Final exams will be in-person for all first and second-year courses (Lecture and Online)

Qualifications - Required: Master\'s degree. Verification of highest degree in computer science or a related field. Demonstrated expertise in the subject field
Qualifications - Areas of Specialization: n/a
Qualifications - Discipline: Computer Science or related field
Qualifications - Professional Designation: PhD would be an asset
Qualifications - Other: n/a

Salary: $9,025.89

Application Deadline: February 15, 2024

Submit with Application:

Required for All Applicants

• CV (required)

Required for External Applicants

• Names and Contact Information for Referees
• Evidence of Good Teaching
• Verification of highest degree

Optional

• Cover Letter
• Teaching Dossier
• Sample Course Outline (2-pages maximum)

Applications may be addressed to:

To Apply:
PTAC Hiring Committee

Department of Physics & Computer Science

Faculty of Science

Wilfrid Laurier University

Waterloo, Ontario

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