Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research fellow in Natural Language Processing/Text Mining at the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM), School of Computer Science, University of Manchester.
Candidates should have a PhD in Computer Science with emphasis in Natural Language Processing/Text Mining; working experience in information extraction at large scale; excellent knowledge in developing and adapting algorithms for text mining systems; machine learning; experience in biomedical/clinical Natural Language Processing/Text Mining; strong track record of high-quality papers in conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, Coling, etc., and in high quality journals; excellent Java skills; proven ability to develop independently research proposals.
The objectives of this post are to conduct research into extracting complex information from the scientific literature and clinical case reports to facilitate the discovery of biomarkers using adaptive natural language processing and text mining methods.
RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT
The National Centre for Text Mining (http://www.nactem.ac.uk) has been a leading centre for biomedical text mining since 2004, with areas of expertise in information extraction, terminology, text classification, text mining infrastructures and semantic search systems.
NaCTeM is located in the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (http://www.mib.ac.uk) and its staff belong to the 4th ranked Computer Science school in the UK (REF2014) which has been further assessed as having the "best environment in the UK for computer science and informatics research".
The project involves collaboration with a large team working in a newly created interdisciplinary research centre (Manchester Molecular Pathology Innovation Centre, MMPathIC) funded by MRC/EPSRC, focusing on personalised medicine, improving diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory diseases, validating and evaluating biomarkers for improving patient outcomes.
Informal enquiries: Prof. Sophia Ananiadou (Sophia.ananiadou [at] manchester.ac.uk).
Duration of post: 48 months
Salary: £38,511 to £42,067 per annum
Deadline for applications: 15/11/2015
Application forms and further particulars: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=10521