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2010-06-24T14:57:58Z

Maeda: /* Programmer Analyst, Linguistic Data Consortium, PA, USA */

Employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs

2010-06-24T14:57:29Z

Maeda:

Employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs

2010-06-24T14:54:40Z

Maeda:

Employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs

2009-08-12T14:48:17Z

Maeda:

* Please post your job ad below.
* Jobs are listed in chronological order of posting: '''first is newest, last is oldest'''.
* '''Please remove your posting when the position is filled.'''
* Please include the following information:
** Employer
** Rank or Title
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** Location
** Deadline
** Date Posted
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* See also the [http://linguistlist.org/jobs/index.html Linguist Job List].
* Archived postings:
** [[Employment opportunities posted 2008]]
** [[Employment opportunities posted 2007]]

== Programmer Analyst, Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA, USA) ==

* '''Employer:''' Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania
* '''Title:''' Programmer Analyst (Ref #: 090727106)
* '''Specialty:''' Language Resource Creation, Natural Language Processing
* '''Deadline:''' Open untill filled
* '''Date Posted:''' Aug 12, 2009
* '''Contact:''' Kazuaki Maeda <maeda@ldc.upenn.edu>

* '''Links to website:''' [https://jobs.hr.upenn.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=190206 Online Application] [http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ LDC Web Site]

Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania has an immediate opening for a full-time programmer analyst to support our
rapidly growing linguistic resource creation projects, including the DARPA Machine Reading program.

Duties: This position will support multiple, concurrent language resource creation projects by providing programming, technical and research support in a lead capacity. Working with internal and external stakeholders, the position will develop achievable technical roadmaps for each project and will oversee their execution.

Tasking may include:

# design and develop flexible user interfaces for manual annotation of linguistic data
# prepare linguistic resources for annotation, including indexing and format normalization
# negotiate project technical specifications with key internal and external stakeholders
# develop data formats to support collection and annotation tasks
# research, evaluate and integrate third-party software into LDC's data production pipeline
# perform statistical analysis of linguistic data
# train and supervise full-time or part-time technical staff
# assist with corpus publication including data validation and sanity checks
# provide technical support to linguistic annotators and other project staff
# represent technical aspects of LDC's linguistic resource creation efforts at workshops and in publications, as required.

This position is contingent upon funding. For further information or to apply online, please go to [https://jobs.hr.upenn.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=190206 Online Application]. The University of Pennsylvania is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.

== Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah ==

* '''Employer:''' Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah
* '''Title:''' Postdoctoral Fellowship
* '''Specialty:''' Natural Language Processing (machine learning and/or UIMA experience a plus!)
* '''Deadline:''' Open, hope to fill to fill by October 01, 2009
* '''Date Posted:''' July 05, 2009
* '''Contact:'''
Jo Ann Thompson (administrative issues)=> JoAnn.Thompson@hsc.utah.edu;

John Hurdle, MD, PhD (PI)=> john.hurdle@utah.edu
* '''Links to website:''' [http://www.bmi.utah.edu/ UU Biomedical Informatics Website]

Postdoctoral Fellowship in clinical NLP (one year, possibly two)
Salary is based on NIH postdoctoral pay scales (see [http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-07-057.html NIH postdoc stipends])

In an effort to improve clinical NLP, the POET project researches ways to preprocess raw clinical text into a form amenable for high-level NLP systems. This postdoctoral fellowship offers an opportunity to play a substantial role in the development of advanced technologies for resolving clinical short forms (e.g., abbreviations and shorthand); to re-write templated text; and to formally explore clinical sub-languages. The recipient of the fellowship, funded under an a grant from the NIH, will be expected to add his/her own research project to the over goals of POET and will be mentored in 1) clinical NLP in a high-performance, clustered computing environment; 2) in preparing manuscripts for publication; 3) and in biomedical informatics grant writing (with a special focus on the NIH K99/R00 grant process).

POET is being built around a UIMA pipeline architecture and is implemented on a small, dedicated, HIPAA-compliant high-performance compute cluster (56 cores and counting…). POET currently has access to >700,000 clinical notes spanning multiple clinical disciplines and clinical settings from two different healthcare networks.

Qualifications: PhD-level experience in natural language processing is a must. An NLP focus in biomedical NLP experience is desired but not mandatory, as is some experience in machine learning techniques. UIMA experience is a definite plus. For more information on POET, query grant number "1R21LM009967-01" at [http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/crisp/crisp_query.generate_screen NIH grant queries]

If you are interested AND if you will have in your PhD in-hand by the time you start the fellowship (can start ASAP, position open till filled), then please send your CV and a statement of research interests to the contact for Jo Ann Thompson above.

The University of Utah is committed to policies of equal opportunity and nondiscrimination. The University pursues a vigorous program of affirmative action in all classifications of employment in order to prevent any form of discrimination, harassment, or prejudicial treatment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, status as a disabled individual, disabled veteran, or veteran of the Vietnam Era.

== Research Programmer, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois ==

* '''Employer:''' University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
* '''Title:''' Research Programmer
* '''Specialty:''' Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Web Programming
* '''Deadline:''' July 10, 2009-
* '''Date Posted:''' June 21, 2009
* '''Contact:''' Jennifer Dittmar at 217-244-6241
* '''Links to website:''' [http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/join/aponlap.html]

Visiting Research Programmer
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Extended and Revised Search

The Department of Computer Science is seeking a Visiting Research Programmer to take part in the development of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning technologies embedded in a Web-based application.

This position requires knowledge in one or more of the following: information retrieval techniques and tools, natural language processing, language models, machine learning techniques, and web programming (e.g., browsers plug-ins). Algorithmic maturity and experience dealing with large amounts of data are essential. Outstanding attention to detail is required, along with strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to quickly learn new technologies. The Visiting Research Programmer will join the Cognitive Computation Group led by Prof. Dan Roth, to work on a standalone project with possibilities for commercialization.

Job Duties include:

* Designing and implementing algorithms, software systems and user interfaces
* Writing design documents and code documentation
* Interacting with other group members and presenting technical information

A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field is required. Individuals with a more advanced degree are encouraged to apply and salary will be commensurate with level of education and experience. This position will be available as soon as possible after the closing date, and is a 12-month, temporary, full-time academic professional appointment with standard University benefits with the possibility of becoming permanent at a future date. Salary is commensurate with education and experience. For full consideration, applications should be received by 7/10/09. Applicants may be interviewed before the closing date; however, no hiring decision will be made until after that date.

To apply, please submit your application online at: http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/join/aponlap.html.

If you do not have Internet access, please call Jennifer Dittmar at 217-244-6241 to make other arrangements for submitting your application. Refer to search #12309 in all communications.

Minorities, women, and other designated class members are encouraged to apply.

The University of Illinois is an Affirmative Action-Equal Opportunity Employer.

== Postdoc or doctoral research assistant, Bremen University, Bremen, Germany ==

* '''Employer:''' Bremen University, Bremen, Germany
* '''Title:''' Research assistant (Postdoc or doctoal level)
* '''Specialty:''' Dialogue Systems and Human-Robot Interaction
* '''Deadline:''' June 15, 2009
* '''Date Posted:''' May 17, 2009
* '''Contact:''' John Bateman <bateman@uni-NOSPAM-bremen.de> [remove 6 chars]
* '''Links to website:''' [http://www.diaspace.uni-bremen.de | Research Position]

The I5-DiaSpace project of the Collaborative Research Center on
Spatial Cognition in Bremen, N. Germany, is looking for a
computational linguistic or informatics PhD or Postdoc researcher
ready and willing to take on the further development of our
information-state based dialogue system. The system backbone is
implemented in Java with plug-ins to state of the art natural language
analysis, generation, dialogue management, and knowledge
representation components. The system offers an outstanding foundation
for carrying out further research at both doctoral and postdoc
levels. The successful applicant will be expected to take over
responsibility for system design and implementation, and so excellent
programming skills will be crucial. The selection of research topic
within the general area of dialogue systems is open to negotiation,
although spatially-situated dialogue with autonomous systems including
robots is one of the demonstration areas that we cover. The position
is to be filled as quickly as possible.

The Natural Language Interaction Group at Bremen is a highly
multidisciplinary team combining discourse analysts, psycholinguists,
computational linguists and ontological engineers. We work in close
cooperation with several projects within the Collaborative Research
Center, which spans cognitive science, neurocognition, perception,
formal spatial calculi, architecture, and AI. The environment is
highly international and at the cutting edge of several related
disciplines.

'''Requirements:'''

:• completed first degree in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, linguistics, informatics or similar
:• interest in dialogue
:• very good programming skills (necessarily Java; Lisp, Perl, etc. advantageous)
:• good English writing skills
:• ability to work both independently and in a team in a multidisciplinary environment

'''Approximate salary:'''

Payment is according to the German Federal pay scale (TV-L 13,
approx. 34,000 Euros annually). The position is full-time.

Interested applicants should send their CV and any supporting
information or further queries to John Bateman at the above contact
address.

== Scientist I, J.D. Power and Associates, Boulder, CO ==

{|
| '''• Employer:''' ||Web Intelligence Division, J.D. Power and Associates (McGraw-Hill)
|-
| '''• Title, Rank:''' ||Scientist I.
|-
| '''• Specialty:''' ||Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing.
|-
| '''• Location:''' ||Boulder, Colorado.
|-
| '''• Start date:''' ||The position is available immediately.
|-
| '''• Date Posted:''' ||May 1st, 2009.
|-
| '''• Links to website:''' ||http://jdpowerwebintelligence.com
|-
| '''• Contact:''' ||Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas_nicolovNOSPAM@jdpa.com> [remove six chars]
|}

J.D.Power and Associates is growing and hiring top-notch scientists to develop cutting-edge web mining technology. Our science team is working on advanced text analysis of vast amounts of data, scalable information retrieval, learning semantic concepts and lots of cool new stuff.

'''Requirements:'''

:• Recent Ph.D. in Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science or equivalent.
:• Strong statistical, natural language processing, machine learning background with emphasis on coreference, meronymy, dependency parsing, sentiment/opinion analysis, text clustering and categorization, graph analysis.
:• Experience with scientific computing on large datasets, natural language processing, information extraction, information retrieval, multilingual datasets, distributed systems is a plus.
:• Strong experience with C++/Java, Scala/Ruby/Python development of large software systems, Linux/Windows environments.
:• Proven track record of publications/patents preferred.
:• Multilingual processing is a plus.
:• Strong verbal and written communication skills; UML, LaTEX, beamer.
:• At least 4 years of research experience (relevant university experience - ok).
:• Enthusiasm for solving challenging problems.

== Research Position in Computational Linguistics at Austrian Research Institute for AI (OFAI), Vienna ==

* '''Employer:''' OFAI, Vienna, Austria
* '''Title:''' Researcher
* '''Specialty:''' Computational Linguistics
* '''Deadline:''' April 15, 2009
* '''Date Posted:''' March 30, 2009
* '''Links to website:''' [http://www.ofai.at/research/nlu/]

The Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)
in Vienna, Austria offers two research positions in its Language
Technology group.

Candidates are expected to have a degree in computational linguistics
or computer science with a background in language technology.
She/he will be an open minded team worker, who is able
to work creatively in an interdisciplinary context. She/he will have
good programming skills and be able to flexibly use different
programming languages. She/he likes to to work in a research environment
constantly learning and developing fresh concepts and ideas.
Publishing research results is part of the job and actively encouraged.
The successful candidates will have a strong background in one or more of
the following areas: ontology engineering, semantic systems, text mining
and machine learning.

Fluency in English is expected.

Both positions are in the framework of a project aiming at advancing
speech recognition by the integration of (context-dependent) semantic
knowledge. The project is ongoing and will continue until April 2010.

Contracts will be for the duration of the project.
Continued employment after the end of the project is possible.

Depending on academic credentials and experience of the candidate,
the yearly gross salary will be in the range of EUR 42000 - 54000.

Both positions are to be filled asap.

Please mail applications including a CV to Harald Trost <harald.trost@ofai.at>

==Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) Université de Toulouse 3==

Subject : Applying learning techniques to discourse analysis

Période : 12 months, September 2009 -> August 2010

Context :
This postdoctoral fellowship, is part of the ANR project
ANNODIS, which includes the labs: IRIT (Université de Toulouse 3), CLLE (Université
de Toulouse 2), and GREYC Université de Caen). The goal of this project is to
build a corpus of French texts annotated with discourse structure at several levels. The project also has the goal of providing automatic and semi-automatic tools for helping with this task.

The postdoctoral fellow will be a member of the IRIT lab at l'université de Toulouse 3, Toulouse, in the research group Lilac under the direction of
Nicholas Asher.

Objectives :
Based on the data culled from the manual annotation of our corpus, the first objective of the postdoctoral fellow will be to design and supervise experiments for the automatic recovery of the discourse structure of a text and to evaluate the feasibility of semi supervised and supervised learning strategies given the data in the corpus. A discourse structure is a graph where the nodes are text segments and the arcs are discourse relations. Thus, the extraction task has three stages: 1) finding the segments, 2) determining the attachment points for segments in the graph et 3) determining the discourse relation or relations between the attached segments.

The postdoctoral fellow will also be in charge of the final collection and organization of the manual annotation data.

Candidate should have:
- a Ph.D.
- competence in NLP and/or information extraction, and automated learning methods.

A familiarity with theories of discourse structure would be a Plus.

Salary: 3000 euro per month

Candidates should send a dossier with a detailed CV (pdf) by email to:
asher@irit.fr AND muller@irit.fr.

== Post-Doctoral Position in Computational Linguistics at Uppsala University ==

* '''Employer:''' Uppsala University, Sweden
* '''Title:''' Research Fellow
* '''Specialty:''' Computational Linguistics
* '''Deadline:''' April 24, 2009
* '''Date Posted:''' March 17, 2009
* '''Links to website:''' [http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~nivre/docs/PostdocUU.pdf | Post-Doc Position]

This is a full-time, limited-term position that can maximally be extended up to four
years. The position involves a small amount of teaching and supervision but is mainly
devoted to research. The deadline for applications is April 14, 2009. For more
information, contact Joakim Nivre <joakim.nivre@lingfil.uu.se>.

== 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

Employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs

2008-07-28T22:40:21Z

Maeda:

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: 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

== Job Announcement: Post-Doc in NLP, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain ==

* Employer: Database Group, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
* Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
* Specialty: PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Information Science, Knowledge Management or similar fields. Position is funded by MAVIR (Improving the accessibility and visibility of multilingual information in Internet for the Region of Madrid, http://www.mavir.net )
* Deadline: February 15 2008
* Date Posted: January 25, 2007
* Group website: http://basesdatos.uc3m.es
* See full job description: http://basesdatos.uc3m.es/fileadmin/Investigacion/postdoc_MAVIR_2008_en.pdf

== Job Announcement: Computational Linguistics/Text Mining, Three three-year Postdoc positions, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia ==

* Employer: Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
* Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (three positions)
* Specialty: Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics or a related area. The project is funded by the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre, which recently received a renewal of its funding from the Australian Government. The aim of the project is to build a sophisticated platform for
exhaustive extraction from large text collections.
* Deadline: January 21 2008
* Date Posted: January 5, 2007
* Group website: http://www.clt.mq.edu.au
* Application process: Applications must be made online via the Macquarie University website at
http://www.hr.mq.edu.au/, where you can also find out more about the positions: search for position 19478 via the 'Positions Vacant' link.
* More information: Informal enquiries can be made to Robert Dale at rdale@ics.mq.edu.au.

== Job Announcement: Computational Linguistics, Assistant Professor-Tenure Track, San Jose State University, San Jose CA ==

* Employer: San Jose State University, Department of Linguistics & Language Development, San Jose CA, USA
* Title: Assistant Professor - Tenure Track
* Specialty: Ph.D. in linguistics with a specialization in Computational Linguistics. ABDs may be considered if doctorate is completed by August 2008. Required: Applicants must present evidence of teaching ability, scholarly activity and awareness of and sensitivity to the educational goals of a multicultural population as might have been gained in cross-cultural study, training, teaching, and other comparable experience.
* Deadline: February 1, 2008
* Date Posted: December 6, 2007
* Department website: http://linguistics.sjsu.edu
* See full job description at http://linguistics.sjsu.edu/pub/Public/WebHome/compling.pdf

== Job Announcement: 2 Research Associates, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece ==

* Employer: Language Technology Applications Department, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece
* Title: Research Associates, Full-time for up to 3 years.
* Specialty: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Machine Learning for Language Technology Applications respectively; experience with Ontologies and Multimedia Processing desirable
* Deadline: 15 December 2007
* Date Posted: 21 November, 2007
* [http://www.ilsp.gr/jobvacancy_eng.html/ More information]

== Job Announcement: Visiting Research Scientist/Post-Doctoral Fellow ==

* Employer: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH, USA
* Title: Visiting Research Scientist or Post-Doctoral, Full-time for up to 2 years.
* Specialty: Natural Language Processing, experience with clinical text desired
* Deadline: Until filled
* Date Posted: December 18, 2007
* [http://computationalmedicine.org/ More information]

==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: 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
* pcarroll (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

== Job Opening: Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA ==

The Semantic Analysis and Integration department at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center is seeking a post-doctoral researcher on its open-domain question answering project. The project focuses on developing general and reusable QA technologies to achieve reproducible high-performing results in open-domain and specialized-domain question answering. This project offers the opportunity to work with more than 20 IBM researchers with backgrounds in NLP, IR, KR&R, and DB across multiple IBM research labs, as well as the opportunity to collaborate with our university partners. The responsibilities of the post-doc researcher will focus on developing effective techniques for leveraging multiple parsers to better match questions and passages for answer scoring purposes.

The successful candidate should have the following qualifications:

* Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics
* Demonstrated experience in statistical NLP techniques, parsing, and semantic analysis
* Strong Java programming skills

Interested candidates should contact Jennifer Chu-Carroll by emailing jencc (at) us (dot) ibm (dot) com.

Employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs

2008-07-28T22:39:47Z

Maeda: /* Job Announcement: Programmer Analyst - Annotation Support, Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia, USA */

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: Programmer Analyst - 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

== Job Announcement: Post-Doc in NLP, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain ==

* Employer: Database Group, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
* Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
* Specialty: PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Information Science, Knowledge Management or similar fields. Position is funded by MAVIR (Improving the accessibility and visibility of multilingual information in Internet for the Region of Madrid, http://www.mavir.net )
* Deadline: February 15 2008
* Date Posted: January 25, 2007
* Group website: http://basesdatos.uc3m.es
* See full job description: http://basesdatos.uc3m.es/fileadmin/Investigacion/postdoc_MAVIR_2008_en.pdf

== Job Announcement: Computational Linguistics/Text Mining, Three three-year Postdoc positions, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia ==

* Employer: Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
* Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (three positions)
* Specialty: Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics or a related area. The project is funded by the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre, which recently received a renewal of its funding from the Australian Government. The aim of the project is to build a sophisticated platform for
exhaustive extraction from large text collections.
* Deadline: January 21 2008
* Date Posted: January 5, 2007
* Group website: http://www.clt.mq.edu.au
* Application process: Applications must be made online via the Macquarie University website at
http://www.hr.mq.edu.au/, where you can also find out more about the positions: search for position 19478 via the 'Positions Vacant' link.
* More information: Informal enquiries can be made to Robert Dale at rdale@ics.mq.edu.au.

== Job Announcement: Computational Linguistics, Assistant Professor-Tenure Track, San Jose State University, San Jose CA ==

* Employer: San Jose State University, Department of Linguistics & Language Development, San Jose CA, USA
* Title: Assistant Professor - Tenure Track
* Specialty: Ph.D. in linguistics with a specialization in Computational Linguistics. ABDs may be considered if doctorate is completed by August 2008. Required: Applicants must present evidence of teaching ability, scholarly activity and awareness of and sensitivity to the educational goals of a multicultural population as might have been gained in cross-cultural study, training, teaching, and other comparable experience.
* Deadline: February 1, 2008
* Date Posted: December 6, 2007
* Department website: http://linguistics.sjsu.edu
* See full job description at http://linguistics.sjsu.edu/pub/Public/WebHome/compling.pdf

== Job Announcement: 2 Research Associates, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece ==

* Employer: Language Technology Applications Department, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece
* Title: Research Associates, Full-time for up to 3 years.
* Specialty: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Machine Learning for Language Technology Applications respectively; experience with Ontologies and Multimedia Processing desirable
* Deadline: 15 December 2007
* Date Posted: 21 November, 2007
* [http://www.ilsp.gr/jobvacancy_eng.html/ More information]

== Job Announcement: Visiting Research Scientist/Post-Doctoral Fellow ==

* Employer: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH, USA
* Title: Visiting Research Scientist or Post-Doctoral, Full-time for up to 2 years.
* Specialty: Natural Language Processing, experience with clinical text desired
* Deadline: Until filled
* Date Posted: December 18, 2007
* [http://computationalmedicine.org/ More information]

==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: 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
* pcarroll (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

== Job Opening: Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA ==

The Semantic Analysis and Integration department at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center is seeking a post-doctoral researcher on its open-domain question answering project. The project focuses on developing general and reusable QA technologies to achieve reproducible high-performing results in open-domain and specialized-domain question answering. This project offers the opportunity to work with more than 20 IBM researchers with backgrounds in NLP, IR, KR&R, and DB across multiple IBM research labs, as well as the opportunity to collaborate with our university partners. The responsibilities of the post-doc researcher will focus on developing effective techniques for leveraging multiple parsers to better match questions and passages for answer scoring purposes.

The successful candidate should have the following qualifications:

* Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics
* Demonstrated experience in statistical NLP techniques, parsing, and semantic analysis
* Strong Java programming skills

Interested candidates should contact Jennifer Chu-Carroll by emailing jencc (at) us (dot) ibm (dot) com.

Employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs

2008-07-28T22:38:07Z

Maeda: /* Job Announcement: Programmer Analyst - Arabic Treebank, Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia, USA */

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: Programmer Analyst - 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, 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

== Job Announcement: Post-Doc in NLP, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain ==

* Employer: Database Group, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
* Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
* Specialty: PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Information Science, Knowledge Management or similar fields. Position is funded by MAVIR (Improving the accessibility and visibility of multilingual information in Internet for the Region of Madrid, http://www.mavir.net )
* Deadline: February 15 2008
* Date Posted: January 25, 2007
* Group website: http://basesdatos.uc3m.es
* See full job description: http://basesdatos.uc3m.es/fileadmin/Investigacion/postdoc_MAVIR_2008_en.pdf

== Job Announcement: Computational Linguistics/Text Mining, Three three-year Postdoc positions, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia ==

* Employer: Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
* Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (three positions)
* Specialty: Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics or a related area. The project is funded by the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre, which recently received a renewal of its funding from the Australian Government. The aim of the project is to build a sophisticated platform for
exhaustive extraction from large text collections.
* Deadline: January 21 2008
* Date Posted: January 5, 2007
* Group website: http://www.clt.mq.edu.au
* Application process: Applications must be made online via the Macquarie University website at
http://www.hr.mq.edu.au/, where you can also find out more about the positions: search for position 19478 via the 'Positions Vacant' link.
* More information: Informal enquiries can be made to Robert Dale at rdale@ics.mq.edu.au.

== Job Announcement: Computational Linguistics, Assistant Professor-Tenure Track, San Jose State University, San Jose CA ==

* Employer: San Jose State University, Department of Linguistics & Language Development, San Jose CA, USA
* Title: Assistant Professor - Tenure Track
* Specialty: Ph.D. in linguistics with a specialization in Computational Linguistics. ABDs may be considered if doctorate is completed by August 2008. Required: Applicants must present evidence of teaching ability, scholarly activity and awareness of and sensitivity to the educational goals of a multicultural population as might have been gained in cross-cultural study, training, teaching, and other comparable experience.
* Deadline: February 1, 2008
* Date Posted: December 6, 2007
* Department website: http://linguistics.sjsu.edu
* See full job description at http://linguistics.sjsu.edu/pub/Public/WebHome/compling.pdf

== Job Announcement: 2 Research Associates, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece ==

* Employer: Language Technology Applications Department, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece
* Title: Research Associates, Full-time for up to 3 years.
* Specialty: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Machine Learning for Language Technology Applications respectively; experience with Ontologies and Multimedia Processing desirable
* Deadline: 15 December 2007
* Date Posted: 21 November, 2007
* [http://www.ilsp.gr/jobvacancy_eng.html/ More information]

== Job Announcement: Visiting Research Scientist/Post-Doctoral Fellow ==

* Employer: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH, USA
* Title: Visiting Research Scientist or Post-Doctoral, Full-time for up to 2 years.
* Specialty: Natural Language Processing, experience with clinical text desired
* Deadline: Until filled
* Date Posted: December 18, 2007
* [http://computationalmedicine.org/ More information]

==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: 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
* pcarroll (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

== Job Opening: Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA ==

The Semantic Analysis and Integration department at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center is seeking a post-doctoral researcher on its open-domain question answering project. The project focuses on developing general and reusable QA technologies to achieve reproducible high-performing results in open-domain and specialized-domain question answering. This project offers the opportunity to work with more than 20 IBM researchers with backgrounds in NLP, IR, KR&R, and DB across multiple IBM research labs, as well as the opportunity to collaborate with our university partners. The responsibilities of the post-doc researcher will focus on developing effective techniques for leveraging multiple parsers to better match questions and passages for answer scoring purposes.

The successful candidate should have the following qualifications:

* Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics
* Demonstrated experience in statistical NLP techniques, parsing, and semantic analysis
* Strong Java programming skills

Interested candidates should contact Jennifer Chu-Carroll by emailing jencc (at) us (dot) ibm (dot) com.

Employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs

2008-07-28T22:37:14Z

Maeda:

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: Programmer Analyst - 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, 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: June 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

== Job Announcement: Post-Doc in NLP, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain ==

* Employer: Database Group, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
* Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
* Specialty: PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Information Science, Knowledge Management or similar fields. Position is funded by MAVIR (Improving the accessibility and visibility of multilingual information in Internet for the Region of Madrid, http://www.mavir.net )
* Deadline: February 15 2008
* Date Posted: January 25, 2007
* Group website: http://basesdatos.uc3m.es
* See full job description: http://basesdatos.uc3m.es/fileadmin/Investigacion/postdoc_MAVIR_2008_en.pdf

== Job Announcement: Computational Linguistics/Text Mining, Three three-year Postdoc positions, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia ==

* Employer: Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
* Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (three positions)
* Specialty: Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics or a related area. The project is funded by the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre, which recently received a renewal of its funding from the Australian Government. The aim of the project is to build a sophisticated platform for
exhaustive extraction from large text collections.
* Deadline: January 21 2008
* Date Posted: January 5, 2007
* Group website: http://www.clt.mq.edu.au
* Application process: Applications must be made online via the Macquarie University website at
http://www.hr.mq.edu.au/, where you can also find out more about the positions: search for position 19478 via the 'Positions Vacant' link.
* More information: Informal enquiries can be made to Robert Dale at rdale@ics.mq.edu.au.

== Job Announcement: Computational Linguistics, Assistant Professor-Tenure Track, San Jose State University, San Jose CA ==

* Employer: San Jose State University, Department of Linguistics & Language Development, San Jose CA, USA
* Title: Assistant Professor - Tenure Track
* Specialty: Ph.D. in linguistics with a specialization in Computational Linguistics. ABDs may be considered if doctorate is completed by August 2008. Required: Applicants must present evidence of teaching ability, scholarly activity and awareness of and sensitivity to the educational goals of a multicultural population as might have been gained in cross-cultural study, training, teaching, and other comparable experience.
* Deadline: February 1, 2008
* Date Posted: December 6, 2007
* Department website: http://linguistics.sjsu.edu
* See full job description at http://linguistics.sjsu.edu/pub/Public/WebHome/compling.pdf

== Job Announcement: 2 Research Associates, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece ==

* Employer: Language Technology Applications Department, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece
* Title: Research Associates, Full-time for up to 3 years.
* Specialty: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Machine Learning for Language Technology Applications respectively; experience with Ontologies and Multimedia Processing desirable
* Deadline: 15 December 2007
* Date Posted: 21 November, 2007
* [http://www.ilsp.gr/jobvacancy_eng.html/ More information]

== Job Announcement: Visiting Research Scientist/Post-Doctoral Fellow ==

* Employer: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH, USA
* Title: Visiting Research Scientist or Post-Doctoral, Full-time for up to 2 years.
* Specialty: Natural Language Processing, experience with clinical text desired
* Deadline: Until filled
* Date Posted: December 18, 2007
* [http://computationalmedicine.org/ More information]

==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: 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
* pcarroll (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

== Job Opening: Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA ==

The Semantic Analysis and Integration department at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center is seeking a post-doctoral researcher on its open-domain question answering project. The project focuses on developing general and reusable QA technologies to achieve reproducible high-performing results in open-domain and specialized-domain question answering. This project offers the opportunity to work with more than 20 IBM researchers with backgrounds in NLP, IR, KR&R, and DB across multiple IBM research labs, as well as the opportunity to collaborate with our university partners. The responsibilities of the post-doc researcher will focus on developing effective techniques for leveraging multiple parsers to better match questions and passages for answer scoring purposes.

The successful candidate should have the following qualifications:

* Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics
* Demonstrated experience in statistical NLP techniques, parsing, and semantic analysis
* Strong Java programming skills

Interested candidates should contact Jennifer Chu-Carroll by emailing jencc (at) us (dot) ibm (dot) com.

Employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs

2008-05-16T21:13:11Z

Maeda: /* Job Announcement: Programmer Analyst - Arabic Treebank, Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia, USA */

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: 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: June 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

== Job Announcement: Post-Doc in NLP, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain ==

* Employer: Database Group, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
* Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
* Specialty: PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Information Science, Knowledge Management or similar fields. Position is funded by MAVIR (Improving the accessibility and visibility of multilingual information in Internet for the Region of Madrid, http://www.mavir.net )
* Deadline: February 15 2008
* Date Posted: January 25, 2007
* Group website: http://basesdatos.uc3m.es
* See full job description: http://basesdatos.uc3m.es/fileadmin/Investigacion/postdoc_MAVIR_2008_en.pdf

== Job Announcement: Computational Linguistics/Text Mining, Three three-year Postdoc positions, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia ==

* Employer: Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
* Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (three positions)
* Specialty: Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics or a related area. The project is funded by the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre, which recently received a renewal of its funding from the Australian Government. The aim of the project is to build a sophisticated platform for
exhaustive extraction from large text collections.
* Deadline: January 21 2008
* Date Posted: January 5, 2007
* Group website: http://www.clt.mq.edu.au
* Application process: Applications must be made online via the Macquarie University website at
http://www.hr.mq.edu.au/, where you can also find out more about the positions: search for position 19478 via the 'Positions Vacant' link.
* More information: Informal enquiries can be made to Robert Dale at rdale@ics.mq.edu.au.

== Job Announcement: Computational Linguistics, Assistant Professor-Tenure Track, San Jose State University, San Jose CA ==

* Employer: San Jose State University, Department of Linguistics & Language Development, San Jose CA, USA
* Title: Assistant Professor - Tenure Track
* Specialty: Ph.D. in linguistics with a specialization in Computational Linguistics. ABDs may be considered if doctorate is completed by August 2008. Required: Applicants must present evidence of teaching ability, scholarly activity and awareness of and sensitivity to the educational goals of a multicultural population as might have been gained in cross-cultural study, training, teaching, and other comparable experience.
* Deadline: February 1, 2008
* Date Posted: December 6, 2007
* Department website: http://linguistics.sjsu.edu
* See full job description at http://linguistics.sjsu.edu/pub/Public/WebHome/compling.pdf

== Job Announcement: 2 Research Associates, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece ==

* Employer: Language Technology Applications Department, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece
* Title: Research Associates, Full-time for up to 3 years.
* Specialty: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Machine Learning for Language Technology Applications respectively; experience with Ontologies and Multimedia Processing desirable
* Deadline: 15 December 2007
* Date Posted: 21 November, 2007
* [http://www.ilsp.gr/jobvacancy_eng.html/ More information]

== Job Announcement: Visiting Research Scientist/Post-Doctoral Fellow ==

* Employer: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH, USA
* Title: Visiting Research Scientist or Post-Doctoral, Full-time for up to 2 years.
* Specialty: Natural Language Processing, experience with clinical text desired
* Deadline: Until filled
* Date Posted: December 18, 2007
* [http://computationalmedicine.org/ More information]

==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: 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
* pcarroll (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

2008-04-09T16:54:03Z

Maeda:

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: 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
* Deadline: April 30, 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

== Job Announcement: Post-Doc in NLP, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain ==

* Employer: Database Group, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
* Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
* Specialty: PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Information Science, Knowledge Management or similar fields. Position is funded by MAVIR (Improving the accessibility and visibility of multilingual information in Internet for the Region of Madrid, http://www.mavir.net )
* Deadline: February 15 2008
* Date Posted: January 25, 2007
* Group website: http://basesdatos.uc3m.es
* See full job description: http://basesdatos.uc3m.es/fileadmin/Investigacion/postdoc_MAVIR_2008_en.pdf

== Job Announcement: Computational Linguistics/Text Mining, Three three-year Postdoc positions, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia ==

* Employer: Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
* Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (three positions)
* Specialty: Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics or a related area. The project is funded by the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre, which recently received a renewal of its funding from the Australian Government. The aim of the project is to build a sophisticated platform for
exhaustive extraction from large text collections.
* Deadline: January 21 2008
* Date Posted: January 5, 2007
* Group website: http://www.clt.mq.edu.au
* Application process: Applications must be made online via the Macquarie University website at
http://www.hr.mq.edu.au/, where you can also find out more about the positions: search for position 19478 via the 'Positions Vacant' link.
* More information: Informal enquiries can be made to Robert Dale at rdale@ics.mq.edu.au.

== Job Announcement: Computational Linguistics, Assistant Professor-Tenure Track, San Jose State University, San Jose CA ==

* Employer: San Jose State University, Department of Linguistics & Language Development, San Jose CA, USA
* Title: Assistant Professor - Tenure Track
* Specialty: Ph.D. in linguistics with a specialization in Computational Linguistics. ABDs may be considered if doctorate is completed by August 2008. Required: Applicants must present evidence of teaching ability, scholarly activity and awareness of and sensitivity to the educational goals of a multicultural population as might have been gained in cross-cultural study, training, teaching, and other comparable experience.
* Deadline: February 1, 2008
* Date Posted: December 6, 2007
* Department website: http://linguistics.sjsu.edu
* See full job description at http://linguistics.sjsu.edu/pub/Public/WebHome/compling.pdf

== Job Announcement: 2 Research Associates, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece ==

* Employer: Language Technology Applications Department, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece
* Title: Research Associates, Full-time for up to 3 years.
* Specialty: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Machine Learning for Language Technology Applications respectively; experience with Ontologies and Multimedia Processing desirable
* Deadline: 15 December 2007
* Date Posted: 21 November, 2007
* [http://www.ilsp.gr/jobvacancy_eng.html/ More information]

== Job Announcement: Visiting Research Scientist/Post-Doctoral Fellow ==

* Employer: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH, USA
* Title: Visiting Research Scientist or Post-Doctoral, Full-time for up to 2 years.
* Specialty: Natural Language Processing, experience with clinical text desired
* Deadline: Until filled
* Date Posted: December 18, 2007
* [http://computationalmedicine.org/ More information]

==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: 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
* pcarroll (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