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2011-05-07T03:06:37Z

BonnieJDorr:

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== Associate Research Engineer, Natural Language Processing ==
** Employer : ETS (Educational Testing Service)
** Rank or Title : Associate Research Engineer
** Specialty : Natural Langauge Processing
** Location : Princeton, New Jersey
** Deadline : Applications accepted until the position is filled
** Date Posted : May 6, 2011
** Contact email or link to website : http://www.Click2Apply.net/q536shx

'''ETS (Educational Testing Service)''', with headquarters in '''Princeton, NJ''', is a global $1.3B not for profit organization. Our mission is to advance quality and equity in education by providing fair and valid assessments, performing educational research and influencing policies that promote learning, performance, education and professional development. As a nonprofit corporation and an innovator in developing tests for clients in education, government and business, we are dedicated to advancing educational excellence for the communities we serve.

In this team-oriented role, the selected candidate will assist with the implementation of natural language processing (NLP) components of medium- to large-scale, complex research projects for ETS researchers, testing program areas and external clients. You will be offered the opportunity to consult with research scientists in the application, modification, and documentation of such systems and contribute to the implementation and support of new NLP methodologies to support research system development.

Be prepared to further assist in the preparation of NLP development components of proposals and cost/resource estimates, implement components of technical documentation of NLP software systems, solutions and results and regularly attend area-wide staff training and development sessions.

In addition to exceptional verbal/written communication skills, our qualifications include:

* Master's degree in Computer Science, NLP, Language Technology, Computational Linguistics, Linguistics or a closely related field
* A strong programming background, in languages such as Perl, Java, Python, and C, and facility with computational algorithms are essential
* Coursework in statistics and experience in using machine learning toolkits are highly desirable
* Ability to maintain continuing awareness of recent advances in natural language processing (including speech processing), machine learning, and software development methodologies
* Knowledge of UNIX and Windows computing environments
* Familiarity with UNIX tools and scripting languages and algorithms, methods and data structures in common use in the processing of speech and language data

We offer a competitive salary and excellent compensation package including medical, dental, vision, 403(b) retirement plan, life and disability insurance, paid time off and an employee assistance program. Please apply online at:

http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=104651&type=&cfcend

EOE

== Research Scientist (Natural Language Processing) ==
** Employer : Language Computer Corporation (LCC)
** Rank or Title : Research Scientist
** Specialty : Natural Langauge Processing (or related discipline)
** Location : Richardson, Texas
** Deadline : Applications accepted until the position is filled
** Date Posted : May 2, 2011
** Contact email or link to website : jobs2011@languagecomputer.com

Language Computer Corporation (LCC) is a privately-owned company committed to the development of next-generation natural language processing technologies. Since our founding in 1995, we've provided both government and commercial customers with intelligent, semantically-informed search and discovery software. These tools unlock value by actually understanding the information stored in large collections of text. LCC has spun off two semantic technology startups, including Swingly, a Web-scale answer engine, and Extractiv, a high-performance content harvesting service.

We are currently seeking research scientists for R&D in natural language processing and retrieval. Candidates must possess a Ph.D, significant experience in NLP, effective software development skills, and a track-record of publication. Successful candidates will work with a team of researchers and engineers to improve existing products as well as develop brand new technologies.

Requirements:
** Ph.D in NLP or a related discipline, such as computational linguistics, data mining, or artificial intelligence
** Strong programming skills on the Java platform
** Education: BS or MS in Computer Science
** Knowledge of development under Unix/Linux
** U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident
** Good communication skills
** Patience necessary to work in a team environment

Desirable Qualities:
** Industry R&D experience
** Product development experience
** Database programming/development
** Other programming languages: Python, Ruby, Scala, Clojure
** Source code management (e.g. SVN, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar)
** Web Application experience
** Multi-threaded / distributed applications
** Understanding of design concepts such as abstraction, modularization, coupling, and maintainability
** Unit testing and integration testing
** Talent for writing time- and memory-sensitive code
** Agile software development methodologies

== Research Engineer - Natural Language Processing ==

** Employer: Ask.com
** Rank or Title: Research Engineer - Natural Language Processing
** Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing
** Location: Oakland, CA
** Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
** Date Posted: April 22, 2011
** Contact email or link to website: www.ask.com/careers

About Us

Join the #1 brand and top Web property focused on answering people’s questions. At Ask.com, we’re building a next-generation Q&A service – spanning both the Web and mobile devices -- that combines the power of search with insight from real users. Our proprietary algorithms crawl the web for question and answer pairs (400 million and growing), fueling one of the biggest Q&A databases on the Web. This unique technology, combined with answers from real users in our community, makes Ask.com the most comprehensive Q&A service around. At Ask, we empower each individual to succeed, communicate their ideas, and take action. When you work here, you know your contributions will have a direct and immediate impact on the company. We are serious about creating and maintaining a company culture that is both innovative and fun, and we’re looking for great people to come join our team.

Summary

Ask.com is looking for a software engineer to join a research-oriented team in the Oakland, CA office. The research engineer will join a horizontal team supporting the Ask.com core language technologies, which power the search- and database-driven question answering solutions as well as the algorithmic language processing infrastructure for the Q&A community and mobile applications.

Required:
** Natural language processing / computational linguistics background. Ideal: information retrieval and machine learning applications
** Python and/or Perl, shell scripting, XML. Ideal: some Java and/or C/C++, familiarity with SQL and relational databases
** Ph.D. in computational linguistics / natural language processing or related areas.

Skills and Experience:
** 3+ plus years experience in natural language processing / computational linguistics in industry or large scale academic research project.
** Expertise in at least some of the following specific NLP areas and topics: question answering, lexical semantics, collocations, terminology extraction, multi-word expressions, (shallow) parsing, named entity recognition, lexical acquisition, paraphrasis acquisition, information extraction, text classification, evaluation methodologies.
** In general, experience is desired in web analytics, both in terms of using the web as corpus (including the family of related approaches, techniques, issues) and in terms of search engine query logs analysis / user behavior modeling.
** Familiarity with existing data resources and tools: Wordnet, POS taggers, parsers, LingPipe, SVMLight, NLTK, Weka, and similar tools.
** Ideal: practical experience with Lucene/Solr, Mahout and the Hadoop ecosystem.
** Ideal: experience with ontologies, RDF, other semantic web resources or tools.
** Ability to develop prototypes based on proprietary or open source tools.
** Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to shifting conditions, priorities, deadlines.
** The ideal candidate should be able to refer to products and/or research prototypes that they have developed or to which they have contributed, or to their contributions to sites like StackOverflow.

Location: Downtown Oakland (near 12th St. BART Station)

Apply at: www.ask.com/careers

== Natural Language Generation Expert ==
** Employer: Stripes39 (a domain specific content management startup)
** Rank or Title: Lead developer / architect
** Specialty: Natural Language Generation
** Location: Seattle, WA (downtown)
** Deadline: Applications accepted until the position is filled
** Date Posted: April 21, 2011
** Start Date: as soon as possible
** Duration: indefinite

Stripes39 is a well-funded Seattle startup with an NLG engine as a part of its core technology. The position will entail leading a team of computational linguists, architecting the NLG system, designing and managing the ontology, and testing of the NLG system output.

** education: Ph.D. (preferred) or M.S./M.A. with strong leadership record
** experience with NLG system design and testing (required)
** knowledge of recent NLP tools and techniques (required)
** large system development skills essential, including experience with Python and Java

Send email with resume to
Scott Farrar (farrar@uw.edu)
and
Parmeshta Jain (parmeshtajain@stripes39.com)

Please indicate in your cover letter your specific qualifications with NLG.

== Postdoctoral Researcher, Natural Language Processing (information extraction) ==
** Employer: New York University
** Rank or Title: Post-doctoral researcher
** Specialty: Natural Language Processing (information extraction)
** Location: New York, NY
** Deadline: Applications accepted until the position is filled
** Date Posted: March 24, 2011
** Start Date: September 1, 2011
** Duration: 1 year, renewable

The Proteus Project (New York University Dept. of Computer Science) anticipates an opening for a computational linguist to conduct and support its research in information extraction, including in particular the analysis of trends in large collections of scientific articles and patents.

** education: Ph.D. (preferred) or M.S. with strong research record
** strong publication record
** experience with NLP tools for English required
** experience with NLP tools for German and/or Chinese a plus
** experience with citation analysis, sentiment analysis, terminology extraction a plus
** large system development skills essential, including experience with Unix and Java
** target start date 1 September 2011, with some flexibility for an earlier or later start

Send email with c.v. and links to publications to
Prof. Ralph Grishman (grishman@cs.nyu.edu)
and
Prof. Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)

Indicate in your response your specific qualifications which match the requirements listed above.

== Practical Natural Language Processing and Text Mining Professional ==
** Employer: ComplaintLink
** Specialty: Specialty: entity named extraction, text mining, sentiment analysis, machine learning algorithms
** Location: Off-site anywhere in the world
** Deadline: Applications accepted until the position is filled
** Date Posted: March 21, 2011
** Start Date: ASAP
** Duration: contract or salaried postion

Position: Complaint Link Inc. is interested in hiring an off-site skilled NLP professional to work on a software project in the area of natural language processing, machine learning algorithms and sentiment analysis. About the employer: ComplaintLink is a web start-up with a relatively simple user-interface and very complicated analytical software that will incorporate machine learning algorithms, natural language processing, sentiment analysis, entity named extraction, search algorithms and other data mining and business intelligence functionality. The website is structured much like a sophisticated forum with a social-networking component. The data being analyzed will be from user-generated textual discussions around a multitude of topics that will continuously be updated.
Description of project: The successful candidate will be working with other LAMP developers to bring an online business to fruition. The candidate will, using open source resources, intelligence and imagination, develop original and proprietary software that will function as the brains behind this online business.The software being developed will access our site’s database and have the ability, without any manual keyword input for direction, to mine all textual data and present clearly which are the most 'important' or ‘passionate’ conversations and issues and be able to extract what those issues are and what related significant information is involved in those discussions. It will be able to identify and draw associations between significant pieces of information and present the information extracted in a way that provides a clear picture of the activity on the site in a practical and meaningful manner.Degree and expertise: This project requires someone with a passion for machine learning algorithms and natural language processing. Ideally the candidate will be a postdoctoral fellow or at least someone as smart and experienced as one in the area of Natural Language Processing, machine learning algorithms, sentiment analysis, and data extraction and analysis. You must be able to work in a LAMP environment, be skilled with MySQL, be smart, reliable, and a self-starter with excellent problem solving and analytical abilities. You must have a solid grasp of English – written and verbal.If you are interested in this opportunity please contact us at the following address: developers {at} ComplaintLink {dot} {com} Please include your CV and a short description of your past work and studies and interests.

== Postdoctoral Researcher, Semantic Parsing ==
** Employer: CCLS, Columbia University
** Specialty: Semantic parsing, parsing, German NLP
** Location: New York, NY
** Deadline: Applications accepted until the position is filled.
** Date Posted: March 16, 2011

Position available: Postdoc in Natural Language Processing (Semantic Parsing)

Start Date: September 1, 2011 (possibly earlier)

Duration: 1 year, renewable for a second year

Description: the postdoc will work in the context of a large, multi-site project which aims at predicting the emergence of technical trends from scientific literature in English, German, and Chinese. The specific issues the postdoc will work on revolve around natural language processing (NLP) tasks, in particular semantic parsing, and detecting degree of commitment. The postdoc will also be involved in issues of system integration, working with a full-time programmer.

Required background:

* Ph.D. in hand in computer science, linguistics, or related discipline. (Note: in exceptional circumstances, a candidate with only a masters degree could be considered as a "pre-doc".)
* Programming skills.
* Ability to work in a group.

Desired background:

* Knowledge of German, German linguistics, and/or German NLP.
* Acquaintance with FrameNet.
* Knowledge of parsing.
* Knowledge of machine learning techniques.

Location: Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University, New York City

If interested, please mail to Owen Rambow, rambow@ccls.columbia.edu, a CV along with a short note explaining how you meet each of the required and desired background elements above. (A bulleted list would be fine, with a sentence per background element.)

== Senior Research Scientist, Natural Language Processing ==
** Employer: ETS (Educational Testing Service)
** Specialty: Research
** Location: Princeton, New Jersey, 08540
ETS (Educational Testing Service), with headquarters in Princeton, NJ, is a global $1.3B not for profit organization. Our mission is to advance quality and equity in education by providing fair and valid assessments, performing educational research and influencing policies that promote learning, performance, education and professional development. As a nonprofit corporation and an innovator in developing tests for clients in education, government and business, we are dedicated to advancing educational excellence for the communities we serve. In the context of this position, we will turn to your skills and scientific/technical expertise to conceptualize, design, obtain support for, conduct and manage major research and/or development projects, particularly those in which natural language processing (NLP) techniques are applied to problems in education or assessment. Your responsibilities would include planning a long-term substantive research agenda, designing/conducting complex scientific studies, disseminating results and implications of projects and functioning as an expert in the major facets of the program. This position further offers the opportunity to generate or contribute to new or modified NLP theories and methodology and provide leadership for the development of new products or services for education and for the conduct of major projects in automated scoring and NLP.Our qualifications include: <ul> <li>A Ph.D in Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics or Computer Science</li> <li>Eight years of independent research experience providing evidence of continuing and substantial contributions to a field of study</li> <li>A strong statistical and machine learning background</li> <li>Demonstrable contributions to new and/or modified theories of Natural Language Processing and their implementation in automated systems</li> <li>Practical expertise with NLP tools and fluency in at least one major programming language (e.g. Java, Perl, C/C++, Python)</li> <li>The ability to lead the development of proposals for major research, development, or large-scale NLP projects,</li> <li>Ability to develop, promote and maintain professional relationships as representative, consultant or advisor to external advisory or policy boards and councils, research organizations, educational institutions and educators </li> <li>Familiarity with the application of NLP tools to educational problems</li> <li>Demonstrated ability to lead project teams and to work collaboratively with a diverse set of contributors</li> </ul> We offer a competitive salary and excellent compensation package including medical, dental, vision, 403(b) retirement plan, life and disability insurance, paid time off and an employee assistance program. Please apply online at: http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=104122&type=&cfcend EOE[http://www.Click2Apply.net/dm5y53s Apply Here]

== Text Mining and Natural Language Processing Specialists for eBay ==
** Employer: eBay
** Rank: Applied Researcher
** Speciality: Information Retrieval & Text Mining / NLP
** Location: San Jose, CA, USA
** Deadline: Until filled
** Date Posted: 2/25/2011
** Contact email: smohan@ebay.com
eBay is looking for experts in web-scale Information Retrieval and Text Mining / Natural Language Processing to join the Search Science team.

Bring your ideas, energy, and dedication to improve search experience on eBay. The world class search engine at the heart of eBay serves more than 350 million queries every day. The Search Science team is passionate about building the query services and relevance factors that will match our users’ needs to the products in the world's largest online marketplace, and we are looking for top-notch applied researchers.

'''QUALIFICATIONS'''

· Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field plus 4 years of relevant software industry R&D experience required.

· Expertise in Information Retrieval and Nature Language Processing.

· Strong statistical and machine learning background.

· Experience and proficiency in Java and/or C++, Perl or similar scripting languages, and distributed processing of documents and web logs using Hadoop.

· Track record of deploying cutting edge technology in an industrial setting.

'''JOB REQUIREMENTS'''

· Use your knowledge, skills, and passion for improving search to find opportunities in eBay's log data and search results.

· Use deep domain expertise to individually drive innovative ideas.

· Participate in brainstorming and discovery exercises to determine new ideas.

· Build experimental frameworks and gather data from across the company to support your work.

· Conduct experiments, write prototypes, write specifications, and optionally write production code to deploy new features and methods that improve search quality.

· Lead projects and collaborate with other researchers, engineers, and product teams to develop strategic and tactical enhancements to search.

· Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other team members.

· Lead and contribute to multiple small team projects.

· Communicate your methodology and results to a community of researchers, developers, analysts, and product managers working in search. Communicate to technical and nontechnical audiences inside and outside the search team.

· Participate in meetings with other eBay groups to document best practices and facilitate a knowledge base.

== Freelance British English, Japanese, and Mexican Spanish computational linguists==
** Employer: The Lingua Team
** Rank: Freelance contractor
** Speciality: Speech & Natural Language Processing
** Location: Seattle, WA (work can be done remotely)
** Deadline: 5/1/2011
** Date Posted: 2/12/2011
** Contact email: http://www.thelinguateam.com
The Lingua Team, a company based in the Seattle area, dedicated to linguistic services is always looking for a computational linguists with native or near native knowledge of the most common languages to do freelance work remotely. Please, visit our site and email your resume for consideration.

== French computational linguist==
** Employer: The Lingua Team
** Rank: Language support contractor
** Speciality: Speech recognition
** Location: Seattle, WA (work can be done remotely)
** Deadline: 03/04/2011
** Date Posted: 12/28/2010
** Contact email: http://www.thelinguateam.com
The Lingua Team, a Seattle area based company, dedicated to linguistic services is looking for a French computational linguist to create computational grammars in xml format. Knowledge of French is a must. Please, email your resume for consideration.

== Senior Research Assistant, Natural Language Processing ==
** Employer: ETS (Educational Testing Service)
** Speciality: Research
** Location: Princeton, New Jersey 08540
** Date Posted: 02/21/2011
** Please apply online: http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=100522&type=True&cfcend

ETS (Educational Testing Service), with headquarters in Princeton, NJ, is a global $1.3B not for profit organization. Our mission is to advance quality and equity in education by providing fair and valid assessments, performing educational research and influencing policies that promote learning, performance, education and professional development. As a nonprofit corporation and an innovator in developing tests for clients in education, government and business, we are dedicated to advancing educational excellence for the communities we serve.

Job Description:

Educational Testing Service has an opening for a Senior Research Assistant position in the Applied Research and Development Group. The successful candidate will primarily provide support to Research Scientists working on a branch of computer science and computational linguistics known as Natural Language Processing (NLP) by assisting in all phases of research projects, including research design, project management, data collection and analysis. He or she will also collaborate with researchers in preparing study results for publication or presentation, including literature searches, producing charts and graphs, writing and editing.

Basic Functions and Responsibilities:

Coordinate research project workflow including planning and designing pilot and field testing; data collection, analysis, and presentation; preparation, production, and distribution of proposals and reports; maintaining data files; and producing workshop materials. Schedule services with other ETS departments and project staff. Act as liaison between project directors and field staff, support staff, and research community, as assigned. Plan, manage, and perform annotations for a variety of projects.

<ul>
<li>Collect, organize, and verify data; analyze, synthesize, and interpret data; perform statistical calculations.

<li>Monitor activities of temporary and support staff and data collection centers to control budgets, workflow, quality of coding operations, and project activities.

<li>Develop coding systems, procedures, and manuals; research instruments; statistical analyses; and files of current resource materials for workshops and projects.

<li>Write, revise, edit, and proofread research instruments, project documents and publications, memoranda, and correspondence.

<li>Contribute to formal reports and proposals (or sections thereof).

<li>Update publications and prepare graphics, tables, charts, graphs, figures, and visual aids. Administer tests, research instruments, interviews, and surveys.

<li>Conduct literature searches and prepare reference lists, evaluating and selecting materials to be included.

<li>Operate computer terminal to enter, edit, and update data; program and utilize sophisticated statistical packages for data analysis; act as data custodian for cost center.

<li>Select and train field staff; instruct support staff.

<li>Arrange and attend meetings with clients, committees, and consultants.

<li>Meet with clients to plan or interpret guidelines, as assigned.
</ul>

Required Experience:

EDUCATION A Bachelor's degree in a behavioral or social science with coursework in Statistics is necessary. Coursework or experience working in linguistics, computer science and/or natural language processing (NLP) technologies preferred.

EXPERIENCE A successful candidate will have exemplary written, grammatical, and technical skills. Three years of research-related experience in an academic or professional setting is necessary.


== Associate Research Engineer, Natural Language Processing ==
** Employer: ETS (Educational Testing Service)
** Speciality: Research
** Location: Princeton, New Jersey 08540
** Date Posted: 01/07/2011
** Link to website: http://www.Click2Apply.net/xymwg8p

ETS (Educational Testing Service), with headquarters in Princeton, NJ, is a global $1.3B not for profit organization. Our mission is to advance quality and equity in education by providing fair and valid assessments, performing educational research and influencing policies that promote learning, performance, education and professional development. As a nonprofit corporation and an innovator in developing tests for clients in education, government and business, we are dedicated to advancing educational excellence for the communities we serve. In this team-oriented role, the selected candidate will assist with the implementation of natural language processing (NLP) components of medium- to large-scale, complex research projects for ETS researchers, testing program areas and external clients. You will be offered the opportunity to consult with research scientists in the application, modification, and documentation of such systems and contribute to the implementation and support of new NLP methodologies to support research system development. Be prepared to further assist in the preparation of NLP development components of proposals and cost/resource estimates, implement components of technical documentation of NLP software systems, solutions and results and regularly attend area-wide staff training and development sessions.In addition to exceptional verbal/written communication skills, our qualifications include: <ul> <li>Master's degree in Computer Science, NLP, Language Technology, Computational Linguistics, Linguistics or a closely related field</li> <li>A strong programming background, in languages such as Perl, Java, Python, and C, and facility with computational algorithms are essential</li> <li>Coursework in statistics and experience in using machine learning toolkits are highly desirable</li> <li>Ability to maintain continuing awareness of recent advances in natural language processing (including speech processing), machine learning, and software development methodologies</li> <li>Knowledge of UNIX and Windows computing environments</li> <li>Familiarity with UNIX tools and scripting languages and algorithms, methods and data structures in common use in the processing of speech and language data</li> </ul> We offer a competitive salary and excellent compensation package including medical, dental, vision, 403(b) retirement plan, life and disability insurance, paid time off and an employee assistance program. Please apply online at: [http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=99822&type=&cfcend http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=99822&type=&cfcend] EOE[http://www.Click2Apply.net/xymwg8p Apply Here]

== Associate Research Scientist, Speech ==
** ETS (Educational Testing Service)
** Research
** Princeton, New Jersey, United States, 08540
** 02/06/2011
** 01/07/2011
** http://www.apply-for-job.net/c/jobclick.cfm?site=10875&job=7348049

ETS (Educational Testing Service), with headquarters in Princeton, NJ, is a global $1.3B not for profit organization. Our mission is to advance quality and equity in education by providing fair and valid assessments, performing educational research and influencing policies that promote learning, performance, education and professional development. As a nonprofit corporation and an innovator in developing tests for clients in education, government and business, we are dedicated to advancing educational excellence for the communities we serve. In this integral position, the selected candidate will apply their scientific and technical skills to conceptualize, design, obtain support for, conduct, manage and disseminate the results of research projects in the field of automated speech assessment, or portions of large-scale research studies or programs in the same field. You will be offered the opportunity to develop and/or modify theories to conceptualize and implement new capabilities in automated scoring and speech-based analysis and evaluation systems used to improve assessments, learning tools and test development practices. Be prepared to design/conduct research studies and capability development, oversee select portions of research proposals and project budgets and function as an expert in major facets of the projects.Our requirements include: <ul> <li>Ability to participate in dissemination activities through the publications of research papers, progress and technical reports, the presentation of seminars or other appropriate communication vehicles</li> <li>Must be able to develop professional relationships as a representative, consultant or advisor to external advisory and policy boards and councils, research organizations, educational institutions and educators </li> <li>Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related areas, with strong emphasis on speech technology, natural language processing, and machine learning, and preferably some education in linguistics </li> <li>Evidence of substantive research experience and/or experience in developing and deploying speech capabilities</li> <li>Demonstrable contributions to new and/or modified theories of speech processing and their implementation in automated system</li> <li>Expertise in the application of speech recognition systems and fluency in at least one major programming language (e.g. Java, Python, Perl), as well as strong experience in Unix scripting</li> </ul> We offer a competitive salary and excellent compensation package including medical, dental, vision, 403(b) retirement plan, life and disability insurance, paid time off and an employee assistance program. Please apply online at: [http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=97431&type=&cfcend http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=97431&type=&cfcend] EOE[http://www.apply-for-job.net/c/jobclick.cfm?site=10875&job=7348049 Apply Here]

Employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs

2011-03-11T16:39:55Z

BonnieJDorr:

Employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs

2009-03-13T01:34:14Z

BonnieJDorr:

* Please post your job ad below.
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* Please include the following information:
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** Rank or Title
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** Date Posted
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* See also the [http://linguistlist.org/jobs/index.html Linguist Job List].
* Archived postings:
** [[Employment opportunities posted 2007]]

== Research Positions, Human Language Technology Center of Excellence ==

* '''Employer:''' Human Language Technology Center of Excellence (at Johns Hopkins University)
* '''Titles:''' Postdoctoral researchers, research staff, professors on sabbaticals, visiting scientists
* '''Specialty:''' Speech and Natural Language Processing
* '''Deadline:''' April 1, 2009
* '''Date Posted:''' March 12, 2009
* '''Links to website:''' [http://web.jhu.edu/HLTCOE/opportunities.html | Research Position]

The Human Language Technology Center of Excellence (COE) at the Johns Hopkins University is seeking to hire outstanding Ph.D. researchers in the field of speech and natural language processing. The COE seeks the most talented candidates for both junior and senior level positions including, but not limited to, full-time research staff, professors on sabbaticals, visiting scientists and post-docs. Candidates will be expected to work in a team setting with other researchers and graduate students at the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland College Park and other affiliated institutions.

Candidates should have a strong background in one of the following areas:

- NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING: Information extraction, knowledge distillation, machine translation, semantic annotation, text processing, etc.

- SPEECH PROCESSING: Robust speech recognition across language channel, formal vs. informal genres, speaker identification, language identification, speech retrieval, spoken term detection, etc.

- MACHINE LEARNING: Learning on very large datasets and streams for text and/or speech, feature extraction, domain adaptation, semi-supervised learning

The COE was founded in January 2007 and has a long-term research contract as an independent center within Johns Hopkins University. Located next to Johns Hopkins’ Homewood Campus in Baltimore, Maryland, the COE’s distinguished contract partners include the University of Maryland College Park, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, and BBN Technologies of Cambridge, Massachusetts. World-class researchers at the COE focus on fundamental challenge problems critical to finding solutions for real-world problems of importance to our government sponsor. The COE offers substantial computing capability for research that requires heavy computation and massive storage. In the summer of 2009, the COE will hold its first annual Summer Camp for Advanced Language Exploration (SCALE), inviting the best and brightest researchers to work on common areas in speech and NLP. Researchers are expected to publish in peer-reviewed venues.

Applicants should have earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science or a closely related field. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, research statement, names and addresses of at least four references, and an optional teaching statement. Please send applications and inquiries about the position to hltcoe-hiring@jhu.edu.

While applications will be evaluated as received until the position is filled, applicants are strongly encouraged to indicate intent to apply by contacting the center before April 1, 2009. U.S. Citizenship is required and applicants should note citizenship status on their application. Additionally, security clearance is required and the COE will seek a clearance for those who do not already have one. The Johns Hopkins University is an equal opportunity employer and has a smoke-free environment.

== Chair and Lectureship in Computing Science, Aberdeen ==

* '''Employer:''' University of Aberdeen
* '''Titles:''' Chair (full professor), Lecturer (assistant professor)
* '''Specialty:''' See full adverts. Areas include multi-modal interaction and natural language generation
* '''Deadline:''' April 13, 2009
* '''Date Posted:''' February 26, 2009
* '''Links to website:''' [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/display.php?recordid=NAT016A | Chair position] [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/display.php?recordid=NAT017A | Lectureship position] [http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/research | Research at Aberdeen]

== Natural Language Generation Group, The Open University: Research Associate, Text-to-Text Generation/Dialogue ==

* '''Employer:''' The Open University
* '''Title:''' Research Associate
* '''Specialty:''' Text-to-Text Generation/Dialogue
* '''Deadline:''' February 15, 2009
* '''Date Posted:''' February 3, 2009
* '''Link to website:''' [http://www3.open.ac.uk/employment/job-details.asp?id=4373&ref=ext| job details and application form]

== National Research Council of Canada: Research Officer, Statistical Semantics ==

* '''Employer:''' National Research Council of Canada
* '''Title:''' Research Officer
* '''Specialty:''' Statistical Semantics (2 positions)
* '''Deadline:''' Posted until filled
* '''Date Posted:''' January 20, 2009
* '''Link to website:''' [http://careers-carrieres.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/careers/jobpost.nsf/EnglishAll/187241FAD78497FC85257540005E75CA Research Officer, Statistical Semantics (2 positions)]

The Institute for Information Technology at the National Research Council of Canada has openings for two Research Officers to work in the area of statistical semantics, a sub-field of statistical natural language processing. These two positions are full-time and continuing. They are based in Ottawa, Ontario. The successful candidates will perform original research that contributes to the Institute's focus on language processing, text mining, and machine translation. They will, in collaboration with other researchers and programmers, create prototypes of their work and publish their research results in highly-cited journals and conferences. The position offers the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues, university researchers, and industrial partners.

The researchers will work in a results-driven environment and will have the opportunity to apply their research results to ongoing high profile projects, such as processing of textual medical records or performing machine translation.

== Postdoctoral and research engineer positions available at the Singapore Management University ==

The School of Information Systems at the Singapore Management University is seeking to fill a few postdoctoral and research engineer positions for the projects "Transfer Learning for Adaptive Relation Extraction" and "Mining Interaction Behaviors from Information Exchange Networks." These are two-year projects supported by the Singapore Defense Science Organization, starting in April 2009.

The goal of the first project is to develop adaptive learning algorithms for relation extraction from free text. In real applications of relation extraction, there is often insufficient training data available for the target relations in the target domain, but labeled data from related domains or for related relation types can be borrowed. The research questions to be answered are therefore (1) how existing transfer learning algorithms can be applied in the particular context of relation extraction, (2) how human knowledge can be incorporated, and (2) what new transfer learning techniques are needed for adaptive relation extraction.

The goal of the second project is to study characterization and measurement of interaction behaviors in information exchange networks based on user-generated interaction data. We will focus on information exchange networks which involve actors sending information to one another. Examples of such networks include email and blog networks. The research will focus on interaction behaviors that suggest actor roles in an information exchange network and may infer relationships between actors in the network.

The postdoctoral candidate must have completed all requirements for his/her PhD degree by the time of appointment. The research engineer candidate must have completed a good undergraduate or master degree in computer science or computer engineering. The ideal candidates are expected to have the following skills/qualifications:

- Knowledge and experience in machine learning, data mining and statistics/probabilities
- Strong programming skills
- Proficiency in English

For the first project, we also prefer candidates with

- Knowledge and experience in natural language processing
- Experience with information extraction, transfer learning and/or semi-supervised learning is a plus

For the second project, we also prefer candidates with

- Knowledge in social network analysis and web mining

The salary for the postdoctoral position will be around 5,000 SGD per month. The salary for the research engineer position will be based on the candidate’s working experience and academic degree.

To apply for the positions, send your full CV with list of publications, names and contact information of two referees, a statement of research qualifications and interests, and two sample publications (if any) to the following principle investigators:

1. Transfer Learning for Adaptive Relation Extraction: Jing Jiang (jingjiang@smu.edu.sg).
2. Mining Interaction Behaviors from Information Exchange Networks: Ee-Peng Lim (eplim@smu.edu.sg).

== Tenure Track Faculty Position: Assistant/Associate Professor in Human Computer Interaction, Montclair State University, NJ, USA ==

Vacancy #: VF-22
Department: Computer Science

The Department of Computer Science invites applications for a tenure track position in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Visualization. The Department’s 13 faculty members support the BS in Computer Science with an ABET CAC accredited track, the BS in Information Technology and the MS in Computer Science. The position requires a willingness to teach a variety of computer science and information technology courses at all levels to ethnically diverse students. The position entails the ability to work as a member of interdisciplinary teams as the Department develops and modifies computing undergraduate and graduate programs with a planned doctoral program in computational science. In addition, the successful candidate will develop and maintain an active research program with student involvement.

Qualifications & Requirements: Candidates must have a Ph.D. in computer Science or a very closely related discipline. Candidates must have expertise in Human Computer Interaction with preference to candidates with experience in software engineering, interfaces, and visualization, and research in HCI. Candidates must have good communication skills. We are looking for candidates with experience in teaching undergraduate computing courses and in working as a member of a team. All faculty are expected to have an ongoing research program, to commit to quality teaching, to be involved in professional activities, and to pursue external funding to support their scholarship.

Salary Range: Salary and range is dependent on qualifications.
Anticipated Start Date: September 1, 2009

Send letter and resume to (include vacancy # if above):
Send hardcopy (no email documents) that includes C.V., at least three professional references, statement of research interests, teaching philosophy with experience, and professional goals to:

Search Committee — V- F22
Department of Computer Science
Montclair State University
Montclair, NJ 07043

(include V number) and professional goals to:
Search Committee — V- F22
Department of Computer Science
Montclair State University
Montclair, NJ 07043

Apply By: Screening begins immediately and continues until the position is filled.

Montclair State is a New Jersey State university. It is located 14 miles west of New York City.

== Internship on Textual Entailment Applied to Statistical Machine Translation, Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble - France ==

The main research lines within the Cross Language Technologies (CLT) area at XRCE are Statistical Machine Translation, Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval and Machine Learning Techniques for Cross-Lingual Applications. CLT is currently coordinating the European Project SMART (Statistical Multilingual Analysis for Retrieval and Translation) [http://www.smart-project.eu].

XRCE has received funding from the PASCAL-2 Network of Excellence [http://pascallin2.ecs.soton.ac.uk] for conducting, in partnership with Bar-Ilan University in Israel, a "Pump Priming" project on the topic of "Context Models for Textual Entailment and their Application to Statistical Machine Translation". One of the goals of the project is to investigate situations in which, while a translation system may not have enough knowledge to adequately translate a source text into a target text, it may be able to do so based on entailment rules learned from monolingual data.

We are looking for preferably one (in this case the internship would be for 10 months ) or two interns (in this case each internship would last 5 months with the first starting at the beginning of 2009) to work on this topic under the supervision of XRCE researchers, and in collaboration with our partners. The focus of the work will be on the following topics:

* Integration of existing paraphrase and entailment resources into SMT settings, and assessment of their applicability in this domain;
* Development (in collaboration with our partners) of novel models for assessing the validity of entailment rules in context and implementation of SMT-based modules that are able to exploit such rules;
* Methodology and measures for controlling the use of directional and bi-directional entailment rules in SMT;
* Use of entailment knowledge for evaluating the performance of SMT systems.

The ideal candidate will be a strong Master or Ph.D. student with background in statistical machine translation and/or statistical methods in NLP. The candidate will be fluent in C/C++ and/or Python. Some knowledge and practice of Machine Learning models and tools will be a plus, as will be some previous acquaintance with work on Textual Entailment.

Contact:

* Lucia Specia: lucia.specia@xrce.xerox.com
* Marc Dymetman: marc.dymetman@xrce.xerox.com

For more information: http://www.xrce.xerox.com/internships/LS-MD.TE-SMT_2009.2008.html

== Research Position at Stanford CSLI: Robust Dialogue Understanding and Dialogue Management ==

The Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford University is seeking a Research Scientist to work on multimodal spoken-language dialogue systems, starting as soon as possible, preferably 1 September 2008.

The ideal candidate is a Computational Linguist with an interest in the computational semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, with experience in formally-inspired and/or statistical/machine-learning approaches to natural language processing and dialogue modeling. The position requires a Ph.D. in computational linguistics, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, or a related field. Applicants should have a demonstrated capacity to define and implement a research plan, and to conduct individual and collaborative research consonant with the dialogue-systems projects underway at CSLI.

Current research into dialogue at CSLI includes human-human, human-computer and human-robot dialogue modeling, and employs a variety of techniques, including symbolic and stochastic, theory and data-driven. Proficiency in multiple approaches relevant to current CSLI application areas will be highly valued, as will an ability to participate in implementation.

Research topics of particular interest include:
* robust semantic interpretation from noisy data (e.g. fragment parsing, role detection);
* robust context-based pragmatic interpretation (e.g. anaphora/ellipsis/fragment resolution, dialogue act detection);
* multi-party discourse modeling (e.g. group decision-making, collaborative task planning, addressee detection);
* multimodal dialogue management;
* multimodal incremental processing;
* probabilistic dialogue state/activity modeling and tracking.

The successful candidate will work with faculty, postdoctoral, and student researchers in the Dialogue Systems Group at CSLI, performing novel research and developing core infrastructure for natural multimodal conversational systems for a range of interactions and applications. Responsibilities will include supervising student research assistants and participating in proposal-preparation to attract new funding.

The CSLI Dialogue Systems Group consists of about fifteen people, and is involved in a number of projects including close collaboration with other Stanford departments, numerous other academic institutions, government agencies such as NASA, not-for-profit research organizations such as SRI, and various commercial enterprises. Current projects include: understanding multi-party conversational interaction; speech-enabled intelligent tutoring systems; collaborative control of teams of robotic devices; and situated human-robot interaction.

The position is initially for 1 year, renewable for up to 3 years (contingent on continued funding). Salary is dependent on qualifications and experience, but is expected to be in a range starting from $70,000 for a junior appointee, to $90,000 for a senior appointee.

Applicants should submit a letter of application and a full resume or curriculum vitae with names and email addresses of at least three references. Please contact [http://godel.stanford.edu/twiki/bin/view/Public/WebHome Stanley Peters] and [http://www.stanford.edu/~raquelfr/ Raquel Fernandez] ({peters,raquelfr}@csli.stanford.edu) for further information.

Stanford University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.

== Job Announcement: Programmer Analyst - Text and Speech Annotation Support, Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia, USA ==

* Employer: Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
* Title: Programmer Analyst (full-time position)
* Specialty: Corpus Creation, Text and Speech Annotation Support
* New Deadline: Aug 15, 2008 (open until filled)
* Date Posted: July 28, 2008
* LDC website: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu
* See full job description: http://linguistlist.org/jobs/get-jobs.cfm?JobID=57140&SubID=185481

== Job Announcement: Research Statistician - Data Mining Applications Development, Cary, NC ==

'''Employer:''' SAS Institute, Inc.

'''Title:''' Research Statistician - Data Mining Applications Development-08002151

'''Specialty:''' Computational Linguistics

'''Deadline:''' Until Filled

'''Date Posted:''' June 30, 2008

'''Website:''' [http://www.sas.com www.sas.com]

'''Research Statistician - Data Mining Applications Development-08002151'''

'''Description'''

As a member of the SAS Enterprise Miner Development team, you will develop state-of-the-art algorithms to solve problems in text and data mining.

Your primary responsibility will be to develop algorithms to analyze tone and sentiment in textual documents, and to develop learning techniques to perform Boolean rule induction for textual categorization. In this role, you will collaborate with applications developers, senior statistical researchers, product marketing, systems engineers, and technical support personnel; and work with testing and documentation staff to develop test plans and contribute to product documentation. You will also research data mining applications; plan and develop implementations; and author papers and presentations on your work.

'''Qualifications'''

'''Essential'''

• Ph.D. degree in statistics, computational linguistics, computer science, or a related quantitative field

'''Equivalent Essential'''

• Master's degree in statistics, computational linguistics, computer science or a related quantitative field

• 2 years of experience developing statistical algorithms

'''Additional'''

• Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to work independently, as well as with a team

• Knowledge of predictive modeling methods and applications

'''Preferences'''

• 3 years of experience developing statistical algorithms

• 2 years of experience programming in C

• Experience with SQL programming in relational database environments

• Experience with SAS platform technologies, such as Stored Process Development

'''Additional Information'''

The level of this position will be determined based upon the applicant's education, skills and experience.

Resumes may be considered in the order they are received.

'''Job:''' Software R&D

'''Primary Location:''' US-NC-Cary

'''Organization:''' SAS Institute Inc.

'''Classification:''' Full-time

== Job Announcement: Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh ==

'''POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING'''

'''Job Details'''

*Job Reference 3009188
*Department Informatics
*Job Title Research Associate
*Job Function Academic
*Job Type Fixed Term: 36 months
*Expiry Date 15 July 2008
*Salary Scale GBP 28,290-33,779

'''Job Description'''

The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh invites
applications for the post of researcher on the project ``Global
Inference for Summarization Using Integer Linear Programming'', funded
by the EPSRC. This project will design and implement novel models for
summarization that break away from the sentence extraction
paradigm. The overall aim is to utilize global inference algorithms
for the summarization task and demonstrate their superiority over
traditional local optimization methods.

The position is suitable for a candidate with a PhD in Natural
Language Processing, computer science, mathematics, or a related
discipline. The successful applicant will have strong programming
skills and experience with natural language processing techniques and
machine learning. Experience with summarization and/or optimization
methods is also desirable. He or she will be responsible for
developing summarization models (both extractive and abstractive)
within a global inference framework evaluation and for their
evaluation. The starting date will be 01 September 2008, or as soon as
possible thereafter.

Informal inquiries can be made by email to Mirella Lapata
(mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk). Further particulars for this position can be
found at:

http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.detail&vacancy_ref=3009188

The closing date for applications is 15 July 2008. Please submit your
application online at the URL given above or in hardcopy to the
following address, quoting job reference 3009188:

Ms. Avril Heron
HCRC, University of Edinburgh
2 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh EH8 9LW
United Kingdom
School of Informatics

== Job Announcement: Natural Language Processing expert, Market Sentinel Ltd, London, UK ==

* Employer: Market Sentinel Ltd, 9 Wigton Place, London SE11 4AN, UK +44 (0) 20 7793 1575
* Title: Natural Language Processing expert (contract)
* Deadline: May 30, 2008 (open until filled)
* Date Posted: May 14th, 2008
* Market Sentinel website: http://www.marketsentinel.com
* We're a London-based company with a focus on social network analysis.
* We offer a rare opportunity to join a young, fast-growing company.
* The raw materials we process are online conversations, so we're looking for someone with expertise in natural language processing to join our team.
* Our aim is to improve the ability of our platform to understand the text it encounters.
* We're looking for a smart, self-motivated problem-solver whose keen to apply computational linguistics technology to the real world.
* Knowledge of agile software development on a Linux platform would be helpful, as would experience of Python, Java, Perl and XML processing.
* As we're an agile team, we like eloquent people who can communicate as well with other people as they can with machines.
* We want more than just a developer, someone who can research problems, identify solutions and implement them. Your talents will help construct an emerging enterprise. If such challenges excite you, we'd love to hear from you.

* Mail a CV to joinmarketsentinel [AT] gmail [DOT} com or call us to know more on the number above

== Job Announcement: Programmer Analyst - Arabic Treebank, Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia, USA ==

* Employer: Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
* Title: Programmer Analyst (full-time position)
* Specialty: Corpus Creation, Arabic Treebank
* New Deadline: August 15, 2008 (open until filled)
* Date Posted: April 9, 2008
* LDC website: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu
* See full job description: http://linguistlist.org/jobs/get-jobs.cfm?JobID=53141&SubID=174250

Employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs

2007-10-09T13:57:12Z

BonnieJDorr: /* Job offer: Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College Park */

Please post your job ad below. Jobs are listed in chronological order of posting. Please remove your posting when the position is filled. Please include the following information:

* Employer
* Rank or Title
* Specialty (e.g., Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation)
* Deadline
* Date Posted
* Contact email or link to website

See also the [http://linguistlist.org/jobs/index.html Linguist Job List].

==Job Announcement: Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College Park ==

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland,
College Park, MD, USA invites applications for a position in Natural
Language Processing at the rank of assistant professor (tenure-track).

Applications from women and minority candidates are especially
welcome. Candidates with established research programs will be
considered for joint appointments between the Department and the
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, the Department of Electrical
Engineering, and the Institute for Systems Research.

Candidates should submit their application (curriculum vitae and
research summary) online at: hiring.cs.umd.edu and have their
references upload their letters to that site. At least three research
letters and one teaching letter are required. We will begin the
review of candidates by January 14, 2008; therefore, we encourage your
early application.

Additional information about academic and research units within the
Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland is
available on the World Wide Web at: http://www.cs.umd.edu and at
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu

The University of Maryland is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer.

Posted October 8, 2007.

==Job offer: Senior Software Engineer, Stanford CS department, Natural Language Processing group==

The Natural Language Processing Group ( http://nlp.stanford.edu/ ) at the Stanford Computer Science department is looking for a Senior NLP Software Engineer to work on the Stanford Intellectual Property Clearinghouse project.

The goal of the Stanford IP Clearinghouse project is to address the broken US Patent System by creating a publicly accessible database of all Intellectual Property documents and building a specialized Semantic Search Engine on top of it. The project will benefit individual inventors, high-tech and bio-tech companies involved in technology transfer, patent policy makers, and legal professionals.

The project provides a unique corpus for NLP research:

- Large collection of textual documents of multiple types
- IP domain provides rich imbedded structure within documents
- Many-to-many relationships between different document types

A few words on the Stanford Intellectual Property Clearinghouse:

- CS Professor Chris Manning is a technical advisor
- Intel, Oracle, Cisco, Genentech, SAP and others are funding the effort
- Currently we have $3 million in funding
- There will be an opportunity for commercial spin-offs (startups)

Responsibilities:

The candidate will work with Professor Chris Manning on the project. The main responsibility of the Senior Software Engineer is to architect and implement the NLP system. The candidate will also provide technical direction to the project.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate must have a PhD or MS in Computer Science in the field of Natural Language Processing or Computational Linguistics. Candidate must also have 5+ years of work experience in building large-scale Natural Language Processing systems.

* Expert knowledge of Natural Language Processing field
* Expert knowledge of Machine Learning techniques and algorithms
* Expert knowledge of Graphical Models (Markov Random Fields, HMM, CRF, etc...)
* Knowledge of Semi-supervised Machine Learning algorithms and bootstrapping
* Expert programming skills in Java (5+ yrs of programming experience)
* Expert knowledge of design and architecture of large-scale NLP systems written in Java
* Experience with rapid development of large-scale NLP systems written in Java

Benefits:

* Challenging, fun and startup-like environment at Stanford University
* Opportunity to improve US Patent system and change the world
* There will be an opportunity for commercial spin-offs (startups)
* Full benefits (medical, dental, etc...)
* Relocation
* Telecommuting
* Industry competitive salary ($120K - $140K)

For more information contact:

George Grigoryev
Director of Project Engineering
Natural Language Processing & IR
Stanford Intellectual Property Clearinghouse
george.grigoryev (at) stanford (dot) edu

==Job offer: asst/assoc prof, Cornell University ==
The Department of Linguistics at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA
invites applications for a position in computational linguistics, to
begin July 1, 2008, at the rank of assistant professor (tenure-track)
or recently tenured associate professor. Candidates should have a
well-defined research program demonstrating outstanding achievement in
computational linguistics, as well as an understanding of the goals
and methods of linguistics. Responsibilities include teaching graduate
and undergraduate courses in computational linguistics and advising
graduate students in the field. Though not required, strength in a
secondary area, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology,
psycholinguistics, syntax, semantics, or language acquisition will be
viewed as an asset. Opportunities exist for collaborative teaching and
cross-disciplinary research with other units at Cornell, including the
Cognitive Science Program and the Faculty of Computing and Information
Science. PhD required.

To ensure full consideration, candidates should send a letter of
application, CV, representative scholarly work, and three letters of
recommendation by November 1, 2007 to Computational Linguistics Search
Committee, Department of Linguistics, Morrill Hall, Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4701. Any inquiries may be addressed to
John Bowers (jsb2@cornellnospam.edu), Mats Rooth (mr249@cornellnospam.edu),
Lillian Lee (llee@cs.cornellnospam.edu), or Michael Wagner
(chael@cornellnospam.edu). (Remove "nospam" from the email addresses just
listed.)

Cornell is an equal opportunity employer and women and minorities are
encouraged to apply.

Posted September 9, 2007.

==Job offer: SICSA Readership/Lectureship, University of Edinburgh==

SICSA Readership/Lectureship in Large Scale and Robust Natural Language Processing in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

'''Description:'''

The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh invites
applications from candidates of international standing in Large Scale
and Robust Natural Language Processing.

Personal ubiquitous interfaces require research enabling multiple,
rich communication channels between people and vast bodies of
information. We seek candidates of international standing in two areas
within large scale, robust natural language processing, relevant to
developing new forms of multimodal interaction:

1. The automatic, unsupervised understanding of language in open
domains for applications such as machine reading and listening, and
human language technologies at the web scale.

2. The development of models and algorithms for terascale processing.

The appointee will extend the current strengths of the School in
data-driven approaches to written and spoken language processing and
statistical machine learning.

Leading researchers across Scotland, including the School of
Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, the Computer Science
Departments of the Universities of Glasgow and St Andrews, and others,
have recently established the Scottish Informatics and Computer
Science Alliance (SICSA). The new post is part of the School of
Informatics' planned expansion within the Alliance. Three posts in
other areas of Informatics in Edinburgh are also being advertised.

Lecturer Appointments will be within Grade 8: (£33,779 - £40,335).
Reader Appointments will be within Grade 9: (£42,791 - £48,161).

Deadline: 20th August 2007

For more information and to apply online visit: http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk
Please quote Ref: 3007756

[http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.detail&vacancy_ref=3007756 Direct link]

==Job offer: NLP/ML Researcher for Start Up, Cambridge, MA, USA==

'''Company Overview'''
HiveFire is an early stage funded start up located in Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA. HiveFire is in the online news space specializing in technology involving machine learning, natural language processing, information retrieval and human computer interaction. Current team consists of MIT alumni with engineering and research experience at Google, Microsoft, and several start-ups.

'''Location:''' Cambridge, MA

'''Description'''
HiveFire is seeking to hire a talented individual with research experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and/or Machine Learning.

* Ability to design, implement and evaluate sophisticated machine learning and text analysis models.
* Solid understanding of both unsupervised and supervised approaches.
* Familiarity with NLP tasks including but not limited to: summarization, document clustering, co-reference resolution, discourse analysis, transfer learning, text mining, document classification and natural language generation.

'''Education'''
Graduate degree in Computer Science is preferred.

'''Compensation'''
We offer competitive salary and equity with benefits such as paid vacation and health/dental insurance.

'''Website and Contact:''' http://www.hivefire.com

'''Date Posted:''' July 19, 2007

==Job offer: Post-Doc in NLP, Darmstadt University, Germany==

* Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Group, Dept. of Telecooperation, Darmstadt University, Germany
* Post-Doc
* Natural Language Processing related to Web 2.0 / eLearning as an application domain
* open until filled
* 01/01/2007
* gurevych (at) tk (dot) informatik (dot) tu-darmstadt (dot) de, http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/node/76

==Job offer: Sr Text Analytics Developer, RiverGlass, Chicago or Champaign, IL, USA==

See full job description at http://www.riverglassinc.com/about/view_career.php?showID=9

RiverGlass, Inc. is seeking extremely talented and energetic innovators to help us perfect and advance our text analytics. We are creating some highly innovative applications that leverage sophisticate text and data analytics, and information visualizations to help customers in a variety of markets, ranging from homeland security and law enforcement to financial services.

* Expert-level understanding of information extraction, summarizaiton, classification, clustering, tone/sentiment analysis, etc.
* Experience in creation and exploitation of domain and task ontologies in text analytics a plus
* open until filled, multiple positions
* 13 MAR 2007
* gniequist (at) riverglassinc (dot) com, http://www.riverglassinc.com/about/view_career.php?showID=9

==Job offer: Postdoctoral position, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA==

Postdoctoral Position Available -- News/Blog Analysis

The Lydia project builds a relational model of people, places, and other
entities through natural language processing of news sources and the
statistical analysis of entity frequencies and co-locations. This model
can be used to identify trends and other information flows through this
entity network. Please visit http://www.textmap.org/ to see our analysis
of recent news and blog postings obtained from over 500 daily online news
sources.

Lydia gives us a way to measure the temperature of the political, economic,
and cultural world. We track hundreds of thousands different entities
arising in these news sources. We establish temporal and regional biases
in interest, by analyzing the frequency and positive/negative sentiment
of these entity references. We identify relationships between news entities,
resulting in a massive network where the vertices represent news entities,
with pairs of entities linked if there is a substantive relationship between
them.

A two-year postdoctoral position (potentially extensible to three years or
beyond) is now available to join our team. I am looking for someone with a
background in either:

(1) natural language processing,
(2) text mining or data mining,
(3) graph algorithms and the science of networks, or
(4) data analysis or visualization.

The applicant will be expected to use their expertise to improve the quality
of our analysis, and help manage a team of roughly ten graduate students
as we shift our focus beyond technological issues to questions of what this
data means and how we can best exploit it.

Applicants *must* be U.S. citizens who will receive their Ph.D. in
Computer Science, Linguistics, Economics, or a related field no later than
August 2007. If interested, please send your vita and contact information
electronically to skiena@cs.sunysb.edu or by mail to:

Steven Skiena
Department of Computer Science
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4400
http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~skiena

Employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs

2007-10-08T20:15:15Z

BonnieJDorr:

Please post your job ad below. Jobs are listed in chronological order of posting. Please remove your posting when the position is filled. Please include the following information:

* Employer
* Rank or Title
* Specialty (e.g., Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation)
* Deadline
* Date Posted
* Contact email or link to website

See also the [http://linguistlist.org/jobs/index.html Linguist Job List].

==Job offer: Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College Park ==

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland,
College Park, MD, USA invites applications for a position in Natural
Language Processing at the rank of assistant professor (tenure-track).

Applications from women and minority candidates are especially
welcome. Candidates with established research programs will be
considered for joint appointments between the Department and the
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, the Department of Electrical
Engineering, and the Institute for Systems Research.

Candidates should submit their application (curriculum vitae and
research summary) online at: hiring.cs.umd.edu and have their
references upload their letters to that site. At least three research
letters and one teaching letter are required. We will begin the
review of candidates by January 14, 2008; therefore, we encourage your
early application.

Additional information about academic and research units within the
Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland is
available on the World Wide Web at: http://www.cs.umd.edu and at
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu

The University of Maryland is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer.

Posted October 8, 2007.

==Job offer: Senior Software Engineer, Stanford CS department, Natural Language Processing group==

The Natural Language Processing Group ( http://nlp.stanford.edu/ ) at the Stanford Computer Science department is looking for a Senior NLP Software Engineer to work on the Stanford Intellectual Property Clearinghouse project.

The goal of the Stanford IP Clearinghouse project is to address the broken US Patent System by creating a publicly accessible database of all Intellectual Property documents and building a specialized Semantic Search Engine on top of it. The project will benefit individual inventors, high-tech and bio-tech companies involved in technology transfer, patent policy makers, and legal professionals.

The project provides a unique corpus for NLP research:

- Large collection of textual documents of multiple types
- IP domain provides rich imbedded structure within documents
- Many-to-many relationships between different document types

A few words on the Stanford Intellectual Property Clearinghouse:

- CS Professor Chris Manning is a technical advisor
- Intel, Oracle, Cisco, Genentech, SAP and others are funding the effort
- Currently we have $3 million in funding
- There will be an opportunity for commercial spin-offs (startups)

Responsibilities:

The candidate will work with Professor Chris Manning on the project. The main responsibility of the Senior Software Engineer is to architect and implement the NLP system. The candidate will also provide technical direction to the project.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate must have a PhD or MS in Computer Science in the field of Natural Language Processing or Computational Linguistics. Candidate must also have 5+ years of work experience in building large-scale Natural Language Processing systems.

* Expert knowledge of Natural Language Processing field
* Expert knowledge of Machine Learning techniques and algorithms
* Expert knowledge of Graphical Models (Markov Random Fields, HMM, CRF, etc...)
* Knowledge of Semi-supervised Machine Learning algorithms and bootstrapping
* Expert programming skills in Java (5+ yrs of programming experience)
* Expert knowledge of design and architecture of large-scale NLP systems written in Java
* Experience with rapid development of large-scale NLP systems written in Java

Benefits:

* Challenging, fun and startup-like environment at Stanford University
* Opportunity to improve US Patent system and change the world
* There will be an opportunity for commercial spin-offs (startups)
* Full benefits (medical, dental, etc...)
* Relocation
* Telecommuting
* Industry competitive salary ($120K - $140K)

For more information contact:

George Grigoryev
Director of Project Engineering
Natural Language Processing & IR
Stanford Intellectual Property Clearinghouse
george.grigoryev (at) stanford (dot) edu

==Job offer: asst/assoc prof, Cornell University ==
The Department of Linguistics at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA
invites applications for a position in computational linguistics, to
begin July 1, 2008, at the rank of assistant professor (tenure-track)
or recently tenured associate professor. Candidates should have a
well-defined research program demonstrating outstanding achievement in
computational linguistics, as well as an understanding of the goals
and methods of linguistics. Responsibilities include teaching graduate
and undergraduate courses in computational linguistics and advising
graduate students in the field. Though not required, strength in a
secondary area, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology,
psycholinguistics, syntax, semantics, or language acquisition will be
viewed as an asset. Opportunities exist for collaborative teaching and
cross-disciplinary research with other units at Cornell, including the
Cognitive Science Program and the Faculty of Computing and Information
Science. PhD required.

To ensure full consideration, candidates should send a letter of
application, CV, representative scholarly work, and three letters of
recommendation by November 1, 2007 to Computational Linguistics Search
Committee, Department of Linguistics, Morrill Hall, Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4701. Any inquiries may be addressed to
John Bowers (jsb2@cornellnospam.edu), Mats Rooth (mr249@cornellnospam.edu),
Lillian Lee (llee@cs.cornellnospam.edu), or Michael Wagner
(chael@cornellnospam.edu). (Remove "nospam" from the email addresses just
listed.)

Cornell is an equal opportunity employer and women and minorities are
encouraged to apply.

Posted September 9, 2007.

==Job offer: SICSA Readership/Lectureship, University of Edinburgh==

SICSA Readership/Lectureship in Large Scale and Robust Natural Language Processing in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

'''Description:'''

The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh invites
applications from candidates of international standing in Large Scale
and Robust Natural Language Processing.

Personal ubiquitous interfaces require research enabling multiple,
rich communication channels between people and vast bodies of
information. We seek candidates of international standing in two areas
within large scale, robust natural language processing, relevant to
developing new forms of multimodal interaction:

1. The automatic, unsupervised understanding of language in open
domains for applications such as machine reading and listening, and
human language technologies at the web scale.

2. The development of models and algorithms for terascale processing.

The appointee will extend the current strengths of the School in
data-driven approaches to written and spoken language processing and
statistical machine learning.

Leading researchers across Scotland, including the School of
Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, the Computer Science
Departments of the Universities of Glasgow and St Andrews, and others,
have recently established the Scottish Informatics and Computer
Science Alliance (SICSA). The new post is part of the School of
Informatics' planned expansion within the Alliance. Three posts in
other areas of Informatics in Edinburgh are also being advertised.

Lecturer Appointments will be within Grade 8: (£33,779 - £40,335).
Reader Appointments will be within Grade 9: (£42,791 - £48,161).

Deadline: 20th August 2007

For more information and to apply online visit: http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk
Please quote Ref: 3007756

[http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.detail&vacancy_ref=3007756 Direct link]

==Job offer: NLP/ML Researcher for Start Up, Cambridge, MA, USA==

'''Company Overview'''
HiveFire is an early stage funded start up located in Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA. HiveFire is in the online news space specializing in technology involving machine learning, natural language processing, information retrieval and human computer interaction. Current team consists of MIT alumni with engineering and research experience at Google, Microsoft, and several start-ups.

'''Location:''' Cambridge, MA

'''Description'''
HiveFire is seeking to hire a talented individual with research experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and/or Machine Learning.

* Ability to design, implement and evaluate sophisticated machine learning and text analysis models.
* Solid understanding of both unsupervised and supervised approaches.
* Familiarity with NLP tasks including but not limited to: summarization, document clustering, co-reference resolution, discourse analysis, transfer learning, text mining, document classification and natural language generation.

'''Education'''
Graduate degree in Computer Science is preferred.

'''Compensation'''
We offer competitive salary and equity with benefits such as paid vacation and health/dental insurance.

'''Website and Contact:''' http://www.hivefire.com

'''Date Posted:''' July 19, 2007

==Job offer: Post-Doc in NLP, Darmstadt University, Germany==

* Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Group, Dept. of Telecooperation, Darmstadt University, Germany
* Post-Doc
* Natural Language Processing related to Web 2.0 / eLearning as an application domain
* open until filled
* 01/01/2007
* gurevych (at) tk (dot) informatik (dot) tu-darmstadt (dot) de, http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/node/76

==Job offer: Sr Text Analytics Developer, RiverGlass, Chicago or Champaign, IL, USA==

See full job description at http://www.riverglassinc.com/about/view_career.php?showID=9

RiverGlass, Inc. is seeking extremely talented and energetic innovators to help us perfect and advance our text analytics. We are creating some highly innovative applications that leverage sophisticate text and data analytics, and information visualizations to help customers in a variety of markets, ranging from homeland security and law enforcement to financial services.

* Expert-level understanding of information extraction, summarizaiton, classification, clustering, tone/sentiment analysis, etc.
* Experience in creation and exploitation of domain and task ontologies in text analytics a plus
* open until filled, multiple positions
* 13 MAR 2007
* gniequist (at) riverglassinc (dot) com, http://www.riverglassinc.com/about/view_career.php?showID=9

==Job offer: Postdoctoral position, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA==

Postdoctoral Position Available -- News/Blog Analysis

The Lydia project builds a relational model of people, places, and other
entities through natural language processing of news sources and the
statistical analysis of entity frequencies and co-locations. This model
can be used to identify trends and other information flows through this
entity network. Please visit http://www.textmap.org/ to see our analysis
of recent news and blog postings obtained from over 500 daily online news
sources.

Lydia gives us a way to measure the temperature of the political, economic,
and cultural world. We track hundreds of thousands different entities
arising in these news sources. We establish temporal and regional biases
in interest, by analyzing the frequency and positive/negative sentiment
of these entity references. We identify relationships between news entities,
resulting in a massive network where the vertices represent news entities,
with pairs of entities linked if there is a substantive relationship between
them.

A two-year postdoctoral position (potentially extensible to three years or
beyond) is now available to join our team. I am looking for someone with a
background in either:

(1) natural language processing,
(2) text mining or data mining,
(3) graph algorithms and the science of networks, or
(4) data analysis or visualization.

The applicant will be expected to use their expertise to improve the quality
of our analysis, and help manage a team of roughly ten graduate students
as we shift our focus beyond technological issues to questions of what this
data means and how we can best exploit it.

Applicants *must* be U.S. citizens who will receive their Ph.D. in
Computer Science, Linguistics, Economics, or a related field no later than
August 2007. If interested, please send your vita and contact information
electronically to skiena@cs.sunysb.edu or by mail to:

Steven Skiena
Department of Computer Science
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4400
http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~skiena