Positions: 5

Research Grant (BI)

  • Refª BI|2025/750 - Project WebCAP - refª 2024.07393.IACDC

    Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
    Duration: 3 months
    Deadline to apply: 2025-09-30
    Description

    ONE (1) research grants for students with BSc degree with reference number BI|2025/750, under the scope of the Project WebCAP - refª 2024.07393.IACDC, supported by the measure “RE-C05-i08.M04” – Support for the launch of a programme of R&D projects focused on the development and implementation of advanced systems in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and data science in public administration, as well as a scientific capacity-building programme”, within the funding agreement signed between the Estrutura de Missão Recuperar Portugal (EMRP) and Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. (FCT), is now available under the following conditions:

    OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS 

    The student will work on Task 1 of the WebCAP project, which aims to develop a system for synthesizing web scrapers from annotated web page examples. More specifically, given a web page annotated with information to be extracted, the system should generate an XQuery program to perform the extraction. We will leverage Large Language Models and explore various prompting strategies to determine the most effective one for this task. 

    Additionally, to test the generated scraper, the student will need to develop a fuzzer that creates HTML pages for scraper assessment.


    Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.pt

  • Refª BI|2025/752-Project WebCAP - refª 2024.07393.IACDC

    Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
    Duration: 3 months
    Deadline to apply: 2025-09-30
    Description

    ONE (1) research grants for students with BSc degree with reference number BI|2025/752, under the scope of the Project WebCAP - refª 2024.07393.IACDC, supported by the measure “RE-C05-i08.M04” – Support for the launch of a programme of R&D projects focused on the development and implementation of advanced systems in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and data science in public administration, as well as a scientific capacity-building programme”, within the funding agreement signed between the Estrutura de Missão Recuperar Portugal (EMRP) and Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. (FCT), is now available under the following conditions:

    OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS 

    The student will work on Task 3 of the WebCAP project, whose goal is to develop a new deployment system for executing the web scrapers developed within the project. This deployment system will have two primary goals: it will enable the periodic collection of data from the same websites, allowing policymakers to track the evolution of the targeted data over time, and it will include a set of heuristics designed to mitigate the risk of triggering anti-scraping mechanisms. To achieve this, the student will first establish a base deployment system for running the generated scrapers and storing their collected data and subsequently enhance it with anti-scraping-avoidance heuristics. 


    Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.pt

  • Refª BI|2025/751-Project WebCAP - refª 2024.07393.IACDC

    Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
    Duration: 3 months
    Deadline to apply: 2025-09-30
    Description

    ONE (1) research grants for students with BSc degree with reference number BI|2025/751, under the scope of the Project WebCAP - refª 2024.07393.IACDC, supported by the measure “RE-C05-i08.M04” – Support for the launch of a programme of R&D projects focused on the development and implementation of advanced systems in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and data science in public administration, as well as a scientific capacity-building programme”, within the funding agreement signed between the Estrutura de Missão Recuperar Portugal (EMRP) and Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. (FCT), is now available under the following conditions:

    OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS 

    The student will work on Task 4 of the WebCAP project, whose goal is to develop three specialised web scrapers to gather data for case studies deemed significant by the Gabinete de Estratégia e Estudos (GEE) of the Portuguese Ministry for the Economy and Maritime Affairs within the Portuguese economy. The areas of interest are: (1) retail pricing in the agri-food industry; (2) housing prices; and (3) the employment landscape. These scrapers will enable the GEE and other stakeholders to pinpoint issues in their respective economic sectors and implement effective public policies to address them. 


    Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.pt

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