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2009-09-15T21:36:03Z

Nicolas:

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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]]

== Science Annotator, J.D. Power and Associates, Boulder, CO ==

{|
| '''• Employer:''' ||Web Intelligence Division, J.D. Power and Associates (McGraw-Hill)
|-
| '''• Title, Rank:''' ||Science Annotator.
|-
| '''• Specialty:''' ||Linguistics, Computational Linguistics.
|-
| '''• Location:''' ||Boulder, Colorado.
|-
| '''• Start date:''' ||The position is available immediately.
|-
| '''• Date Posted:''' ||September 15th, 2009.
|-
| '''• Links to website:''' ||http://jdpowerwebintelligence.com
|-
| '''• Contact:''' ||Miriam Eckert <miriam_eckertNOSPAM@jdpa.com>; Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas_nicolovNOSPAM@jdpa.com> [remove six chars]
|}

J.D. Power and Associates, Web Intelligence division is growing and hiring top-notch science annotators as members of the science team to address creation of datasets for training and testing advanced machine learning algorithms for web mining. We work on cutting-edge text analysis of vast amounts of data, scalable information retrieval, learning semantic concepts and inducing ontologies, sentiment and demographic analysis, and lots of cool new stuff.

'''Requirements:'''

:• Recent M.A. in Linguistics: knowledge of English grammar (dependency structures), semantics, coreference and anaphora resolution (computational liguistics experience is a plus);
:• Native English speaker;
:• Experience with UNIX shell scripting, programming experience with scripting languages like Scala, Ruby or Python for formatting datasets, knowledge of XML is a plus;
:• Experience with WordNet and ontologies is a plus;
:• Prior annotation experience is a plus;
:• Excellent reading comprehension and writing skills;
:• Strong experience with Microsoft Office applications: MS Excel, PowerPoint, MS-Word;
:• Experience with using search engines (Bing, Google, Yahoo! Search);
:• Effective communication skills, analitical thinking, and ablity to work independently and in a team environment;
:• Fluency in a foreign language is a plus;
:• Enthusiam for solving challenging problems.
:• Must be located in or willing to relocate to Boulder, Colorado.
:• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

== Associate Professorship in Natural Language Processing, University of Oslo ==

* '''Employer:''' [http://www.ifi.uio.no Department of Informatics], [http://www.uio.no University of Oslo]
* '''Title:''' Associate Professor (tenured)
* '''Specialization:''' data-driven and hybrid approaches to NLP
* '''Deadline:''' Friday, October 9, 2009
* '''Announcement:''' [http://www.emmtee.net/ap.09.09.html job posting]

== Text Mining Positions, JULIE Lab (Germany) ==

* '''Employer:''' JULIE Lab, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
* '''Title:''' Post doc or Ph.D.
* '''Specialty:''' NLP
* '''Deadline:''' Open until filled
* '''Date Posted:''' Aug 26, 2009
* '''Contact:''' Katrin Tomanek <katrin.tomanek@uni-jena.de>

* '''Links to website:''' [http://www.julielab.de JULIE Lab Web Site]

The Jena University Language & Information Engineering (JULIE) Lab has two vacant text mining positions available, a Post Doc and a Ph.D. position, to boost its research efforts in advanced text analytics, i.e., named entity and relation extraction, knowledge discovery from texts. Annual salary ranges from 40,000 – 45,000 € (approximately 60,000 $) for the post doc position and 35,000 – 40,000 € (approximately 55,000 $) for the Ph.D. position, both dependent on previous work experience. JULIE Lab has a strong reputation in biomedical information extraction and text mining and is an international leader in research in the field of text analytics (please, visit http://www.julielab.de).

Requirements for Candidates:

* outstanding degree in computational linguistics/language technology or related fields in computer science (information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence, machine learning, information systems, human-computer interaction, Semantic Web, etc.) from a major school/department/university
* necessary: good proficiency in statistics and machine learning methodologies
* desired: solid information extraction/text mining skills
* excellent programming skills (Java), awareness of software engineering discipline in coding (UIMA, coding conventions, SE tools, etc.)
* background knowledge in the life sciences (can also be acquired or deepened while staying in the lab)
* strong dedication to scientific excellence

Informal inquiries can be addressed to:
Katrin Tomanek, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Email: katrin.tomanek@uni-jena.de

Applications (e-mail preferred) should be sent to:
Prof. Dr. Udo Hahn, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 07743 Jena, Fürstengraben 30, Germany, Email: udo.hahn@uni-jena.de

== 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.

== 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]

== 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

2009-09-15T21:18:42Z

Nicolas:

* 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
** Contact email or link to website
* See also the [http://linguistlist.org/jobs/index.html Linguist Job List].
* Archived postings:
** [[Employment opportunities posted 2008]]
** [[Employment opportunities posted 2007]]

== Science Annotator, J.D. Power and Associates, Boulder, CO ==

{|
| '''• Employer:''' ||Web Intelligence Division, J.D. Power and Associates (McGraw-Hill)
|-
| '''• Title, Rank:''' ||Science Annotator.
|-
| '''• Specialty:''' ||Linguistics, Computational Linguistics.
|-
| '''• Location:''' ||Boulder, Colorado.
|-
| '''• Start date:''' ||The position is available immediately.
|-
| '''• Date Posted:''' ||September 15th, 2009.
|-
| '''• Links to website:''' ||http://jdpowerwebintelligence.com
|-
| '''• Contact:''' ||Miriam Eckert <miriam_eckertNOSPAM@jdpa.com>; Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas_nicolovNOSPAM@jdpa.com> [remove six chars]
|}

J.D. Power and Associates, Web Intelligence division is growing and hiring top-notch science annotators as members of the science team to address creation of datasets for training and testing advanced machine learning algorithms for web mining. We work on cutting-edge text analysis of vast amounts of data, scalable information retrieval, learning semantic concepts and inducing ontologies, sentiment and demographic analysis, and lots of cool new stuff.

'''Requirements:'''

:• Recent M.A. in Linguistics: knowledge of English grammar (dependency structures), semantics, coreference and anaphora resolution (computational liguistics experience is a plus);
:• Native English speaker;
:• Experience with UNIX shell scripting, programming experience with scripting languages like Python, Ruby, Scala for formatting datasets, knowledge of XML is a plus;
:• Experience with WordNet and ontologies is a plus;
:• Prior annotation experience is a plus;
:• Excellent reading comprehension and writing skills;
:• Strong experience with Microsoft Office applications: MS Excel, PowerPoint, MS-Word;
:• Experience with using search engines (Bing, Google, Yahoo! Search);
:• Effective communication skills, analitical thinking, and ablity to work independently and in a team environment;
:• Fluency in a foreign language is a plus;
:• Enthusiam for solving challenging problems.
:• Must be located in or willing to relocate to Boulder, Colorado.
:• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

== Associate Professorship in Natural Language Processing, University of Oslo ==

* '''Employer:''' [http://www.ifi.uio.no Department of Informatics], [http://www.uio.no University of Oslo]
* '''Title:''' Associate Professor (tenured)
* '''Specialization:''' data-driven and hybrid approaches to NLP
* '''Deadline:''' Friday, October 9, 2009
* '''Announcement:''' [http://www.emmtee.net/ap.09.09.html job posting]

== Text Mining Positions, JULIE Lab (Germany) ==

* '''Employer:''' JULIE Lab, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
* '''Title:''' Post doc or Ph.D.
* '''Specialty:''' NLP
* '''Deadline:''' Open until filled
* '''Date Posted:''' Aug 26, 2009
* '''Contact:''' Katrin Tomanek <katrin.tomanek@uni-jena.de>

* '''Links to website:''' [http://www.julielab.de JULIE Lab Web Site]

The Jena University Language & Information Engineering (JULIE) Lab has two vacant text mining positions available, a Post Doc and a Ph.D. position, to boost its research efforts in advanced text analytics, i.e., named entity and relation extraction, knowledge discovery from texts. Annual salary ranges from 40,000 – 45,000 € (approximately 60,000 $) for the post doc position and 35,000 – 40,000 € (approximately 55,000 $) for the Ph.D. position, both dependent on previous work experience. JULIE Lab has a strong reputation in biomedical information extraction and text mining and is an international leader in research in the field of text analytics (please, visit http://www.julielab.de).

Requirements for Candidates:

* outstanding degree in computational linguistics/language technology or related fields in computer science (information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence, machine learning, information systems, human-computer interaction, Semantic Web, etc.) from a major school/department/university
* necessary: good proficiency in statistics and machine learning methodologies
* desired: solid information extraction/text mining skills
* excellent programming skills (Java), awareness of software engineering discipline in coding (UIMA, coding conventions, SE tools, etc.)
* background knowledge in the life sciences (can also be acquired or deepened while staying in the lab)
* strong dedication to scientific excellence

Informal inquiries can be addressed to:
Katrin Tomanek, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Email: katrin.tomanek@uni-jena.de

Applications (e-mail preferred) should be sent to:
Prof. Dr. Udo Hahn, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 07743 Jena, Fürstengraben 30, Germany, Email: udo.hahn@uni-jena.de

== 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.

== 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]

== 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

2009-09-15T21:16:44Z

Nicolas:

* 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
** Contact email or link to website
* See also the [http://linguistlist.org/jobs/index.html Linguist Job List].
* Archived postings:
** [[Employment opportunities posted 2008]]
** [[Employment opportunities posted 2007]]

== Science Annotator, J.D. Power and Associates, Boulder, CO ==

{|
| '''• Employer:''' ||Web Intelligence Division, J.D. Power and Associates (McGraw-Hill)
|-
| '''• Title, Rank:''' ||Science Annotator.
|-
| '''• Specialty:''' ||Linguistics, Computational Linguistics.
|-
| '''• Location:''' ||Boulder, Colorado.
|-
| '''• Start date:''' ||The position is available immediately.
|-
| '''• Date Posted:''' ||September 15th, 2009.
|-
| '''• Links to website:''' ||http://jdpowerwebintelligence.com
|-
| '''• Contact:''' ||Miriam Eckert <miriam_eckertNOSPAM@jdpa.com>; Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas_nicolovNOSPAM@jdpa.com> [remove six chars]
|}

J.D. Power and Associates, Web Intelligence division is growing and hiring top-notch science annotators as members of the science team to address creation of datasets for training and testing advanced machine learning algorithms for web mining. We work on cutting-edge text analysis of vast amounts of data, scalable information retrieval, learning semantic concepts and inducing ontologies, sentiment and demographic analysis, and lots of cool new stuff.

'''Requirements:'''

:• Recent M.A. in Linguistics: knowledge of English grammar (dependency structures), semantics, coreference and anaphora resolution (computational liguistics experience is a plus);
:• Native English speaker;
:• Experience with UNIX shell scripting, programming experience with scripting languages like Python, Ruby, Scala for formatting datasets, knowledge of XML is a plus;
:• Experience with WordNet and ontologies is a plus;
:• Prior annotation experience is a plus;
:• Excellent reading comprehension and writing skills;
:• Strong experience with Microsoft Office applications: MS Excel, PowerPoint, MS-Word;
:• Experience with using search engines (Google, Yahoo! Search, Bing);
:• Effective communication skills, analitical thinking, and ablity to work independently and in a team environment;
:• Fluency in a foreign language is a plus;
:• Enthusiam for solving challenging problems.
:• Must be located in or willing to relocate to Boulder, Colorado.
:• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

== Associate Professorship in Natural Language Processing, University of Oslo ==

* '''Employer:''' [http://www.ifi.uio.no Department of Informatics], [http://www.uio.no University of Oslo]
* '''Title:''' Associate Professor (tenured)
* '''Specialization:''' data-driven and hybrid approaches to NLP
* '''Deadline:''' Friday, October 9, 2009
* '''Announcement:''' [http://www.emmtee.net/ap.09.09.html job posting]

== Text Mining Positions, JULIE Lab (Germany) ==

* '''Employer:''' JULIE Lab, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
* '''Title:''' Post doc or Ph.D.
* '''Specialty:''' NLP
* '''Deadline:''' Open until filled
* '''Date Posted:''' Aug 26, 2009
* '''Contact:''' Katrin Tomanek <katrin.tomanek@uni-jena.de>

* '''Links to website:''' [http://www.julielab.de JULIE Lab Web Site]

The Jena University Language & Information Engineering (JULIE) Lab has two vacant text mining positions available, a Post Doc and a Ph.D. position, to boost its research efforts in advanced text analytics, i.e., named entity and relation extraction, knowledge discovery from texts. Annual salary ranges from 40,000 – 45,000 € (approximately 60,000 $) for the post doc position and 35,000 – 40,000 € (approximately 55,000 $) for the Ph.D. position, both dependent on previous work experience. JULIE Lab has a strong reputation in biomedical information extraction and text mining and is an international leader in research in the field of text analytics (please, visit http://www.julielab.de).

Requirements for Candidates:

* outstanding degree in computational linguistics/language technology or related fields in computer science (information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence, machine learning, information systems, human-computer interaction, Semantic Web, etc.) from a major school/department/university
* necessary: good proficiency in statistics and machine learning methodologies
* desired: solid information extraction/text mining skills
* excellent programming skills (Java), awareness of software engineering discipline in coding (UIMA, coding conventions, SE tools, etc.)
* background knowledge in the life sciences (can also be acquired or deepened while staying in the lab)
* strong dedication to scientific excellence

Informal inquiries can be addressed to:
Katrin Tomanek, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Email: katrin.tomanek@uni-jena.de

Applications (e-mail preferred) should be sent to:
Prof. Dr. Udo Hahn, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 07743 Jena, Fürstengraben 30, Germany, Email: udo.hahn@uni-jena.de

== 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.

== 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]

== 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

2009-05-04T13:28:02Z

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Employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs

2009-05-04T13:27:34Z

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User talk:Nicolas

2009-05-01T18:30:58Z

Nicolas:

== Standardization ==

Hi Nicolas. It seems that you want your job ad to stand out and look different, whereas I prefer some degree of standardization. Your interest is in your company, whereas my interest is in the ACL Wiki. Can we agree to avoid nonstandard spacing? --[[User:Pdturney|Pdturney]] 17:09, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

: Hi Peter-- Agreed re: standardization. Would it be worth having some vertical space between all the ads? It would be great if we can improve the formatting for the entire page (not just the ad that I am contributing) - I just didn't feel I had the license to change the other entries. --[[User:Nicolas|Nicolas]] 17:38, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

:: If you want to insert a double line feed between all of the ads (see this paragraph and the preceding paragraph, for example), I think that would be fine. But inserting BR seems too much like a hack (a messy trick) to me.--[[User:Pdturney|Pdturney]] 17:48, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

::: Thanks Peter! --[[User:Nicolas|Nicolas]] 18:19, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

User talk:Nicolas

2009-05-01T18:19:36Z

Nicolas:

== Standardization ==

Hi Nicolas. It seems that you want your job ad to stand out and look different, whereas I prefer some degree of standardization. Your interest is in your company, whereas my interest is in the ACL Wiki. Can we agree to avoid nonstandard spacing? --[[User:Pdturney|Pdturney]] 17:09, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

: Hi Peter-- Agreed re: standardization. Would it be worth having some vertical space between all the ads? It would be great if we can improve the formatting for the entire page (not just the ad that I am contributing) - I just didn't feel I had the license to change the other entries. --[[User:Nicolas|Nicolas]] 17:38, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

:: If you want to insert a double line feed between all of the ads (see this paragraph and the preceding paragraph, for example), I think that would be fine. But inserting BR seems too much like a hack (a messy trick) to me.--[[User:Pdturney|Pdturney]] 17:48, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Peter! --[[User:Nicolas|Nicolas]] 18:19, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs

2009-05-01T18:02:59Z

Nicolas:

User talk:Nicolas

2009-05-01T17:38:10Z

Nicolas:

Hi Nicolas. It seems that you want your job ad to stand out and look different, whereas I prefer some degree of standardization. Your interest is in your company, whereas my interest is in the ACL Wiki. Can we agree to avoid nonstandard spacing? --[[User:Pdturney|Pdturney]] 17:09, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi Peter-- Agreed re: standardization. Would it be worth having some vertical space between all the ads? It would be great if we can improve the formatting for the entire page (not just the ad that I am contributing) - I just didn't feel I had the license to change the other entries. --[[User:Nicolas|Nicolas]] 17:38, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

People

2009-05-01T16:50:47Z

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This is a list of homepages of researchers in Computational Linguistics, in the form '''last name, first name - affiliation'''.

See also [[Academic genealogy]].

== A ==

*[http://littera.deusto.es/prof/abaitua Abaitua, Joseba] - Universidad de Deusto
*[http://tony.abou-assaleh.net Abou-Assaleh, Tony] - Dalhousie University
*[http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ladamic/ Adamic, Lada] - University of Michigan
*[http://www.cond.org/ Adar, Eytan] - University of Washington
*[http://www.dfki.de/~janal/ Alexandersson, Jan] - German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
*[http://www.ics.uci.edu/~boris Aleksandrovsky, Boris] UC Irvine
*[http://www-scf.usc.edu/~alcazar/ Alcázar, Asier] - University of Southern California
*[http://alfonseca.org/ Alfonseca, Enrique] - Google
*[http://ixa.si.ehu.es/Ixa/Argitalpenak/kidearen_argitalpenak?kidea=1000808989 Alegria, Iñaki] - University of the Basque Country
*[http://www.dfki.de/~janal/ Alexandersson, Jan] German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
*[http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/james/ Allen, James] - University of Rochester
*[http://www.dc.fi.udc.es/~alonso/ Alonso, Miguel A.]
*[http://www.linguist.jussieu.fr/~amsili/ Amsili, Pascal] - University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot
*[http://www.aueb.gr/users/ion/ Androutsopoulos, Ion] - Athens University of Economics and Business
*[http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/~doug/ Arnold, Doug] Univ. of Essex
*[http://www.ai.sri.com/~appelt/ Appelt, Doug ] SRI International
*[http://korpus.dsl.dk/staff/ja/ Asmussen, Jörg] - DSL - Society for Danish Language and Literature, Copenhagen
*[http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/ Asudeh, Ash] - Carleton University
*[http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~tania/ Avgustinova, Tania] - Universität des Saarlandes

== B ==

*[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~klb Baker, Kathryn] - Carnegie Mellon University
*[http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/jbaldrid/ Baldridge, Jason] - University of Texas at Austin
*[http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~tim/ Baldwin, Timothy] - University of Melbourne
*[http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/cball.html Ball, Catherine] - Georgetown University
*[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~banerjee Banerjee, Satanjeev] - Carnegie Mellon University
*[http://www.lsi.upc.es/~batalla Batalla,Jordi Atserias] - UPC, Spain
*[http://www5.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Personen/batliner/ Batliner, Anton] - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
*[http://www.dfki.de/~becker Becker, Tilman] - DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany
*[http://faculty.washington.edu/ebender Bender, Emily] - University of Washington
*[http://homepages.infoseek.com/~corpuslinguistics/homepage.html Berber,Tony] Sardinha
*[http://wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de/~cbiemann/ Biemann, Chris] - University of Leipzig, Germany
*[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/students/kimb Binsted, Kim] University of Edinburgh
*[http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~sb/ Bird, Steven] - University of Melbourne
*[http://seneca.uab.es/filfrirom/Blanco.html Blanco, Xavier] - Autonomous University of Barcelona
*[http://www.pdg.cnb.uam.es/blaschke/personalPage.html Blaschke, Christian]
*[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~kalina/ Boncheva, Kalina] Univ. of Sheffield]
*[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~kalina/ Bontcheva, Kalina] - Univ. of Sheffield
*[http://www.kecl.ntt.co.jp/icl/mtg/members/bond/ Bond, Francis] - NTT Communication Science Laboratories
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jbos/ Bos, Johan] - University of Rome "La Sapienza"
*[http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~boufaden/ Boufaden, Narjès] - University of Montreal
*[http://www.let.rug.nl/~gosse Bouma, Gosse] - RU Groningen
*[http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~ahb/ Branco, Antonio] - University of Lisbon
*[http://www.karlbranting.net Branting, Karl]
*[http://coli.uni-sb.de/~thorsten Brants, Thorsten] - University of Saarland
*[http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~brawer Brawer, Sascha] - University of the Saarland
*[http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~ebreck Breck, Eric] - Cornell University
*[http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/~andrewb/ Bredenkamp, Andrew]
*[http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ Breen, Jim] - Monash University
*[http://www.cog.jhu.edu/faculty/brent.html Brent,Michael R.] Johns Hopkins University
*[http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~brewka/ Brewka] - Gerhard, University of Leipzig
*[http://www.xsoft.com/ Breyman, Clark] Xerox Linguistic Technologies
*[http://research.microsoft.com/%7Ebrill/ Brill, Eric] - Microsoft Research
*[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/ejb/ Briscoe, Ted] - University of Cambridge
*[http://www.dfki.de/~paulb Buitelaar, Paul] - DFKI
*[http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/razvan/ Bunescu, Razvan] - University of Texas at Austin

== C ==

*[http://www.hinocatv.ne.jp/~price/ Caldwell, Price] - Meisei University
*[http://www.acs.ilstu.edu/faculty/mecalif/calif.htm Califf,Mary Elaine] - Illinois State University
*[http://ilk.uvt.nl/~sander/ Canisius, Sander] - Tilburg University
*[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cliff-group/94/carberry.html Carberry, Sandra] - Univ. of Delaware, Univ. of Pennsylvania
*[http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Faculty/Claire_Cardie.html Cardie, Claire] - Cornell University
*[http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/carroll/carroll.html Carroll, John] - University of Sussex
*[http://jones.ling.indiana.edu/~dcavar Cavar, Damir] - Indiana University, Bloomington
*[http://tantek.com/map.html Celik, Tantek] - Technorati
*[http://cer.freeshell.org Cer, Daniel] - University of Colorado at Boulder
*[http://nlp.changwon.ac.kr/~jcha/ Cha, Jeongwon] - Changwon National University
*[http://www.cs.uleth.ca/~chali Chali, Yllias] - University of Lethbridge
*[http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/ec/home.html Charniak, Eugene] - Brown University
*[http://www.ciscl.unisi.it/persone/chesi.htm Chesi, Cristiano] - CISCL, University of Siena
*[http://www.isi.edu/~chiang Chiang, David] - USC Information Sciences Institute
*[http://www.alphabit.net/Docente/docente_eng.htm Chiari, Isabella] - University "La Sapienza" of Rome
*[http://korterm.kaist.ac.kr/kschoi/ Choi, Key-Sun] - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
*[http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/org/l/linguistics/www/chomsky.home.html Chomsky, Noam] - MIT
*[http://research.microsoft.com/users/church/ Church, Kenneth] - Microsoft Research
*[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~fabio/ Ciravegna, Fabio] - University of Sheffield
*[http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/stephen.clark/ Clark, Stephen] - University of Oxford
*[http://compbio.uchsc.edu/Hunter_lab/Cohen Cohen, Kevin Bretonnel] - U. Colorado School of Medicine
*[http://people.csail.mit.edu/u/m/mcollins/public_html/ Collins, Michael] - MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
*[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/aac10/ Copestake, Ann] - University of Cambridge
*[http://lands.let.kun.nl/TSpublic/coppen Coppen, Peter-Arno] - University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
*[http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~gvcormac/ Cormack, Gordon] - University of Waterloo
*[http://www.psych.qub.ac.uk/staff/teaching/cowie/index.aspx Cowie, Roddy] - Queen's University, Belfast
*[http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~craven/ Craven, Mark] - University of Wisconsin
*[http://www2.ulster.ac.uk/staff/n.creaney.html Creaney, Norman] - University of Ulster
*[http://www.dia.uniroma3.it/~crescenz/ Crescenzi, Valter] - Università Roma Tre
*[http://thor.info.uaic.ro/~dcristea/ Cristea, Dan] - University of Iasi
*[http://www.harlequin.com/ Crowe, Jeremy] - Harlequin Ltd.
*[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~hamish Cunningham, Hamish] - University of Sheffield
*[http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~jc/ Cussens, James] - University of York

== D ==
*[http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~dagan/ Dagan, Ido] - Bar Ilan University, Israel
*[http://conversational-technologies.com Dahl, Deborah] - Conversational Technologies
*[http://stl.recherche.univ-lille3.fr/sitespersonnels/dal/index.html Dal, Georgette] - Universite de Lille
*[http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~rdale Dale, Robert] - Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University
*[http://www.cs.utah.edu/~hal/ Daumé III, Hal] - University of Utah
*[http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu Davies, Mark] - Brigham Young University
*[http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~edaya Daya, Ezra] - NICE Systems Ltd.
*[http://www.csi.uottawa.ca/~delannoy Delannoy, Jean-Francois] - University of Ottawa
*[http://www.uqtr.uquebec.ca/~delisle/index.html Delisle, Sylvain] UQTR
*[http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/denis Denis, Pascal] - University of Texas at Austin
*[http://www.math.bas.bg/~iad/ Derzhanski, Ivan] - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
*[http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~dm/ Detmar Meurers, Walt] - The Ohio State University Linguistics Dept.
*[http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/devil/ Devillers, Laurence] - LIMSI
*[http://ixa.si.ehu.es/Ixa/Argitalpenak/kidearen_argitalpenak?kidea=1000808994 Díaz de Ilarraza, Arantza] - University of Basque Country
*[http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/bonnie/ Dorr, Bonnie] - University of Maryland
*[http://www.nyu.edu/pages/linguistics/doughert.html Dougherty, Ray] - New York University
*[http://www.ai.sri.com/~dowding Dowding, John] - SRI
*[http://www.pcug.org.au/~jdowling/ Dowling, Jason] PC Users Group ACT Inc., Canberra, Australia

== E ==

*[http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/personen/cebert/ Ebert, Christian] - University of Bielefeld
*[http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~eckle/ Eckle-Kohler, Judith]
*[http://www.philipedmonds.com/ Edmonds, Philip] - University of Toronto
*[http://cs.jhu.edu/~jason Eisner, Jason] - Johns Hopkins University
*[http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/ Elhadad, Michael] - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
*[http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~marke/ Ellison, T. Mark] - University of Edinburgh
*[http://www.ik.fh-hannover.de/ik/person/ben/ben.htm Endres-Niggemeyer, Brigitte] FH Hannover
*[http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/info/perso/permanents/enguehard/ Enguehard, Chantal] - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Nantes Atlantique
*[http://coli.uni-sb.de/~erbach/ Erbach, Gregor] - Universität des Saarlandes
*[http://nl.ijs.si/et/ Erjavec, Tomaz]
*[http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/erk/ Erk, Katrin] - University of Texas at Austin
*[http://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~severt/ Evert, Stefan] - University of Osnabrück

== F ==

*[http://slt.wcl.ee.upatras.gr/Fakotakis/personal.htm Fakotakis, Nikos] - University of Patras
*[http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/alex/home.htm Fang, Alex Chengyu] - University College London
*[http://www.purl.org/net/fa Feldman, Anna] - Montclair State University
*[http://wordnet.princeton.edu/~fellbaum/ Fellbaum, Christiane] - Princeton University
*[http://ling.cuc.edu.cn/htliu/feng/feng.htm Feng, Zhiwei] - IAL of China
*[http://staff.science.uva.nl/~raquel/ Fernandez, Raquel] - ILLC, University of Amsterdam
*[http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~finin/ Finin, Tim] - University of Maryland
*[http://lingo.stanford.edu/dan/ Flickinger, Dan] - CSLI, Stanford University
*[http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~fosler Fosler, Eric] - ICSI, University of California at Berkeley
*[http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~fouvry/ Fouvry, Frederik]
*[http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/hjf/ Fox, Heidi] - Brown University, Metacarta
*[http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~francez Francez, Nissim] - Technion, Israel
*[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/ Frederking, Robert] - Carnegie-Mellon University
*[http://www.ee.ust.hk/~pascale/ Fung, Pascale] - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

== G ==

*[http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr Gabrilovich, Evgeniy]
*[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~robertg/ Gaizauskas, Rob] - University of Sheffield
*[http://www.sics.se/~gamback/ Gamback, Bjorn] - Swedish Institute of Computer Science
*[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/students/narcisbg Gardella, Narcis Bassols] Univ. of Edinburgh
*[http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~claire/ Gardent, Claire] Universität des Saarlandes
*[http://www.gelbukh.com/ Gelbukh, Alexander] - CIC-IPN
*[http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/germann/ Germann, Ulrich] - ISI
*[https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/girju/index.html Girju, Roxana] - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
*[http://tcc.itc.it/people/giuliano.html Giuliano, Claudio] - ITC-irst
*[http://www.uni-salzburg.at/portal/page?_pageid=425,405845&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL Goebl, Hans] - Univeristät Salzburg
*[http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~gomez Gomez, Fernando] ucf
*[http://www.esi.uem.es/~jmgomez Gomez-Hidalgo, Jose-Maria] - UEM
*[http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/stgries/ Gries, Stefan Th.] - UCSB
*[http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/grishman/ Grishman, Ralph] - New York University
*[http://das-www.harvard.edu/users/faculty/Barbara_Grosz/Barbara_Grosz.html Grosz, Barbara] - Harvard University
*[http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/people/gruber/ Gruber, Tom] - Stanford University
*[http://www.cs.duke.edu/~cig Guinn, Curry I.] - Duke U.
*[http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/ Gurevych, Iryna] - Darmstadt University of Technology
*[http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~guvenir/guvenir.html Guvenir, Altay] - Bilkent University

== H ==

*[http://www.swan.ac.uk/french/web-content/staff/p-ten-hacken.html Hacken, Pius ten] - Swansea University
*[http://www.coling.uni-freiburg.de/~hahn/hahn.html Hahn, Udo] - University of Freiburg
*[http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cuihang Hang, Cui] - National University of Singapore
*[http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~hansen Hansen-Schirra, Silvia] - Universität des Saarlandes
*[http://renoir.vill.edu/faculty/hardt/html/home.html Hardt, Daniel] Villanova University
*[http://128.147.244.54/dbmi/profile.cfm?ID=23751 Harkema, Henk] - University of Pittsburgh
*[http://pi7.fernuni-hagen.de/hartrumpf/ Hartrumpf, Sven] - University of Hagen, Germany
*[http://www.cis.udel.edu/~harvey/ Harvey, Terry]
*[http://www.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/~rrh/ Hausser, Roland] - University of Erlangen, Germany
*[http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hearst Hearst, Marti] - UC Berkeley
*[http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~heeman Heeman, Peter] - OGI
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jhender6/ Henderson, James] - University of Edinburgh
*[http://www.asp.ogi.edu/~hynek/ Hermansky, Hynek] - Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
*[http://www.isi.edu/~ulf/ Hermjakob, Ulf] - USC/ISI
*[http://www.esi.uem.es/~jmgomez/ Hidalgo, José María Gómez] - Universidad Europea de Madrid
*[http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/staff/hess.html Hess, Michael] - Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland
*[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~gh Hirst, Graeme] - University of Toronto
*[http://www.isi.edu/~hobbs/ Jerry Hobbs] - USC/ISI
*[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chogan Hogan, Christopher] - Carnegie-Mellon University
*[http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/hovy.html Hovy, Eduard] - ISI
*[http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~jcl2/churen.htm Huang, Chu-Ren] - Academica Sinica
*[http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~hull Hull, Richard] - University of Central Florida
*[http://compbio.uchsc.edu/Hunter_lab/Hunter Hunter, Larry] - U. Colorado School of Medicine
*[http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/ Hurst, Matthew] - BuzzMetrics
*[http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/WJHutchins/ Hutchins, John]
*[http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~hwa Hwa, Rebecca] - University of Pittsburgh

== I ==

== J ==

*[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cliff-group/94/pjacobs.html Jacobs, Paul] - General Electric
*[http://www.stanford.edu/~tiflo Jaeger, T. Flroian] - Stanford University
*[http://ist.psu.edu/faculty_pages/jjansen/ Jansen, Jim] - Penn State
*[http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~hengji Ji, Heng] - New York University
*[http://www.cog.brown.edu/~mj Johnson, Mark] - Brown University
*[http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~bernie/ Jones, Bernie] University of Edinburgh
*[http://www.ida.liu.se/~arnjo/ Jönsson, Arne] - Linkoping University

== K ==
*[http://cs.joensuu.fi/~tkakkone Kakkonen, Tuomo] - University of Joensuu
*[http://www.ai.sri.com/~megumi Kameyama, Megumi] - SRI International
*[http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy Kan, Min-Yen] - National University of Singapore
*[http://users.utu.fi/karhumak/ Karhumaki, Juhani] - University of Turku
*[http://www.sics.se/~jussi/ Karlgren, Jussi] - SICS, Sweden
*[http://www2.parc.com/istl/members/karttune/ Karttunen, Lauri]
*[http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa/staff/kaszubski.html Kaszubski, Przemysław] - Adam Mickiewicz University
*[http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/rjkate/ Kate, Rohit J.] - University of Texas at Austin
*[http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kazakov/ Kazakov, Dimitar] - University of York
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/keller/ Keller, Frank] - University of Edinburgh
*[http://www.cs.dal.ca Keselj, Vlado] Dalhousie University
*[http://www.mabidkhan.com/ Khan, Abid] - University of Peshawar, Pakistan
*[http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/~Adam.Kilgarriff Kilgarriff, Adam] - University of Brighton
*[http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~sklein/sklein.html Klein, Sheldon] - University of Wisconsin
*[http://www.isi.edu/~knight/ Knight, Kevin] - ISI
*[http://www.iccs.inf.ed.ac.uk/~pkoehn/ Koehn, Philipp] - University of Edinburgh
*[http://svenska.gu.se/~svedk Kokkinakis, Dimitrios] - Göteborg University
*[http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~kordoni/ Kordoni, Valia] - Universität des Saarlandes
*[http://www.kornai.com/ Kornai, Andras]
*[http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~koskenni/ Koskenniemi, Kimmo] - University of Helsinki
*[http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~kosseim/ Kosseim, Leila] - Concordia University, Montreal
*[http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~zkozareva/ Kozareva, Zornitsa] - University of Alicante
*[http://dis.tpd.tno.nl/mmts/wessel_kraaij.html Kraaij, Wessel] - TNO
*[http://www-sk.let.uu.nl Krauwer, Steven, ELSNET] - Utrecht University
*[http://external.nj.nec.com/homepages/krovetz/ Krovetz, Robert] NEC
*[http://www.peter-kuehnlein.net/ Kuehnlein, Peter] - University of Groningen
*[http://jones.ling.indiana.edu/~skuebler/ Kuebler, Sandra] - Indiana University, Bloomington
*[http://www.cs.ucd.ie/staff/nick/ Kushmerick, Nicholas] - University College, Dublin

== L ==

*[http://www.ling.gu.se/~lager/ Lager, Torbjörn] - Göteborg University
*[http://www.ict.csiro.au/staff/Andrew.Lampert/ Lampert, Andrew] - CSIRO ICT Centre / Macquarie University
*[http://tcc.itc.it/people/lavelli/ Lavelli, Alberto] - ITC-IRST
*[http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/index.html Lawler, John] - University of Michigan
*[http://nlp.postech.ac.kr/~gblee Lee, Geunbae] - POSTECH
*[http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee Lee, Lillian] - Cornell University
*[http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl Lee, Mark] - University of Birmingham
*[http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/geoff/geoff.htm Leech, Geoffrey] - Professor LAMEL, Lancaster University, UK
*[http://jochenleidner.com/ Leidner, Jochen L.] - Research Scientist, Thomson Reuters Corporation
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/olemon Lemon, Oliver]
*[http://www.ilc.cnr.it/~lenci/ Lenci, Alessandro] - Università di Pisa
*[http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~levow/ Levow, Gina-Anne] - University of Chicago
*[http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~baoli/ Li, Baoli] - Georgia Institute of Technology
*[http://www1.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/~hli/ Li, Haizhou] - Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
*[http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~myl/ Liberman, Mark] - University of Pennsylvania
*[http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/ Lin, Chin-Yew] USC/ISI
*[http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~lindek/ Lin, Dekang] - University of Alberta
*[http://htliu.yeah.net/ Liu, Haitao] - Communication University of China
*[http://mtgroup.ict.ac.cn/~liuyang/ Liu, Yang] - Institute of Computing Technology, CAS
*[http://terra.di.fct.unl.pt/~gpl/ Lopes, Gabriel] New University of Lisbon
*[http://www.langnat.com/~loupy/index-en.html Loupy, Claude de] - Universite de Paris X Nanterre
*[http://www.personal.psu.edu/xxl13 Lu, Xiaofei] - Pennsylvania State University

== M ==

*[http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~andym/ MacFarlane, Andrew] - City University of London
*[http://www-cs-students.Stanford.EDU/~magerman Magerman, David] - Stanford University
*[http://tcc.itc.it/people/magnini.html Magnini, Bernardo] - ITC-IRST
*[http://www.karacaymalkar.com Malkar, Karacay] - Webportal
*[http://www.rohan.sdsu.edu/~malouf Malouf, Rob] - San Diego State University
*[http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au/ Manning, Christopher] - University of Sydney
*[http://www.demarcken.org/carl/ de Marcken, Carl] ITA Software
*[http://www.isi.edu/~marcu/ Marcu, Daniel] - USC/ISI
*[http://overstated.net/about Marlow, Cameron] - Yahoo! Research
*[http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/martin/ Martin,Jean-Claude] - LIMSI
*[http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~mpawel Mazur, Pawel] - Wroclaw University of Technology and Macquarie University
*[http://www.informatics.susx.ac.uk/research/nlp/mccarthy/mccarthy.html McCarthy, Diana] - University of Sussex
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mmcconvi McConville, Mark] - University of Edinburgh
*[http://alum.mit.edu/www/davidmcdonald/ McDonald, David] - BBN Technologies
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~kathy McKeown, Kathy] Columbia University
*[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mccoy/ McKoy, Kathy] - University of Delaware
*[http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~bea Megyesi, B. Beata] - Uppsala University
*[http://cs.nyu.edu/~melamed Melamed, I. Dan] - New York University
*[http://www.latl.unige.ch/personal/paola.html Merlo, Paola] - University of Geneva
*[http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~dm/ Meurers, Walt Detmar] OH State Linguistics
*[http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~fontor/ Midgley, T. Daniel] - University of Western Australia
*[http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada Mihalcea, Rada] - University of North Texas
*[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~elenimi/ Miltsakaki, Eleni] - University of Pennsylvania
*[http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~mariam Milosavljevic, Maria] - Macquarie University
*[http://coli.uni-sb.de/~mineur Mineur, Anne-Marie] University of the Saarland / Utrecht University
*[http://imaginarycartography.com/work.html Minor, Joshua T.] - Cataphora, Inc.
*[http://staff.science.uva.nl/~gilad/ Mishne, Gilad] - University of Amsterdam
*[http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/main.html Mitkov, Ruslan] - University of Wolverhampton
*[http://www.let.rug.nl/~begona/ Moirón, Begoña Villada] - University of Groningen
*[http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/~molla/ Molla-Aliod, Diego] - University of Zurich
*[http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~christof/ Monz, Christof] - University of Amsterdam (ILLC)
*[http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mooney/ Mooney, Raymond J.] - University of Texas at Austin
*[http://www.signiform.com/erik/ Mueller, Erik] - IBM Research
*[http://www.xn--stefan-mller-klb.net/ Müler, Stefan] - Universität Bremen
*[http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/people/mueller/ Müller, Christof] - Darmstadt University of Technology
*[http://www.dlsi.ua.es/eines/membre.cgi?id=eng&nom=rafael&tipus=pdi Muñoz, Rafael] - University of Alicante

== N ==

*[http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ai-lab/people/grad/nahm.html Nahm, Un Yong] - University of Texas, Austin
*[http://www.univ-nancy2.fr/pers/namer/ Namer, Fiammetta] - University of Nancy
*[http://www.lr.pi.titech.ac.jp/~nanno/index.cgi?page=Tomoyuki+NANNO Nanno, Tomoyuki] - Tokyo Institute of Technology
*[http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~borja/ Navarro, Borja] - University of Alicante, Spain
*[http://tcc.itc.it/people/negri.html Negri, Matteo] - ITC-irst
*[http://www.let.rug.nl/~nerbonne Nerbonne, John] - RU Groningen
*[http://cl-www.dfki.uni-sb.de/~neumann Neumann, Guenter] - DFKI, Saarbrücken
*[http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~nght Ng, Hwee Tou] - National University of Singapore
*[http://www.hlt.utdallas.edu/~vince Ng, Vincent] - University of Texas at Dallas
*[http://jdpowerwebintelligence.com/ Nicolov, Nicolas] - J.D. Power and Associates, McGraw-Hill
*[http://www.slt.atr.co.jp/~night/ Nightingale, Stephen] - ATR Institute International
*[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mnissim/ Nissim, Malvina] - University of Bologna
*[http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~niuzheng Niu, Zheng-Yu] - NU Singapore
*[http://w3.msi.vxu.se/~nivre/ Nivre, Joakim] - Växjö University
*[http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~russell/norvig.html Norvig, Peter]

== O ==

*[http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~jon/ Oberlander, Jon] - U. Edinburgh
*[http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/oflazer/ Oflazer, Kemal] - Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
*[http://www.loa-cnr.it/oltramari.html Oltramari, Alessandro] - Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Italian National Research Council
*[http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~in6093/ Orasan, Constantin] - University of Wolverhampton
*[http://www.bultreebank.org/petya/OsenovaPub.html Osenova, Petya] - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

== P ==

*[http://cst.dk/patrizia/ Paggio, Patrizia] - University of Copenhagen
*[http://www.slt.atr.co.jp/~kpaik/ Paik, Kyonghee] - ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories
*[http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/pabo Pang, Bo] - Cornell University
*[http://verbs.colorado.edu/~mpalmer/ Palmer, Martha] - University of Colorado
*[http://www.isi.edu/~pantel/ Pantel, Patrick] - ISI/University of Southern California
*[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~becky/ Passonneau, Rebecca] Columbia University and Bellcore
*[http://www.ilsp.gr/homepages/pastra_eng.html/ Pastra, Katerina] Institute for Language and Speech Processing
*[http://www.cs.utah.edu/~sidd Patwardhan, Siddharth] - University of Utah
*[http://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/~joana/english.html Paulo Pardal] - Joana L²F] - INESC-ID
*[http://perswww.kuleuven.be/yves_peirsman Peirsman, Yves] - University of Leuven
*[http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse Pedersen, Ted] - University of Minnesota, Duluth
*[http://ai-nlp.info.uniroma2.it/pennacchiotti Pennacchiotti, Marco] - University of Roma Tor Vergata
*[http://www.perry.com/ Perry, John] - UCLA
*[http://tcc.itc.it/people/pianesi.html Pianesi, Fabio] - ITC-irst
*[http://www.resegone.com/mapb/ Piccolino Boniforti, Marco Aldo] - Rovira i Virgili University
*[http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/poesio Poesio, Massimo] - University of Essex
*[http://www.fas.umontreal.ca/ling/olst/polguereE Polguere, Alain] - Université de Montréal
*[http://fas.sfu.ca/0h/cs/people/Faculty/Popowich/popowich Popowich, Fred] - Simon Fraser University
*[http://nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/~adamp/ Przepiórkowski, Adam] - Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
*[http://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/people/staff/pulman/ Pulman, Stephen] - Oxford University
*[http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~jamesp Pustejovsky, James] - Brandeis University

== Q ==

== R ==

*[http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~radev/ Radev, Dragomir] - University of Michigan
*[http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~rambow/ Rambow, Owen] - CCLS, Columbia University
*[http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/user/rapp Rapp, Reinhard] - Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz
*[http://www.cs.buffalo.edu/pub/WWW/faculty/rapaport/rapaport.html Rapaport, William J.] - SUNY Buffalo
*[http://www.cam.sri.com/manny.html Rayner, Manny] SRI International
*[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cliff-group/94/lrau.html Rau, Lisa]
*[http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/paul/ Rayson, Paul] - Lancaster University
*[http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~ereiter Reiter, Ehud] - University of Aberdeen
*[http://www.dfki.uni-sb.de/~bert Reithinger, Norbert] - Universität des Saarlandes
*[http://www.reitter-it-media.de/ Reitter, David] - University of Edinburgh
*[http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jrennie/ Rennie, Jason] - MIT
*[http://umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik Resnik, Philip] - University of Maryland, College Park
*[http://www.cs.utah.edu/~riloff/ Riloff, Ellen] - University of Utah
*[http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/ringger/ Ringger, Eric,] - University of Rochester
*[http://www.di.ufpe.br/~jr Robin, Jacques, Federal] - University of Pernambuco, Brazil.
*[http://www.univ-ab.pt/~vjr/ Rocio, Vitor] - Open University, Lisbon
*[http://jones.ling.indiana.edu/~prrodrig/ Rodrigues, Paul] - Indiana University, Bloomington
*[http://www.uteroemer.de/ Romer, Ute] University of Hanover
*[http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/mr249/ Rooth, Mats] - Cornell University
*[http://l2r.cs.uiuc.edu Roth, Dan] - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
*[http://www.public.asu.edu/~droussi/ Roussinov, Dmitri] - Arizona State University
*[http://www.hi.is/~eirikur/ Rögnvaldsson, Eiríkur] - University of Iceland
*[http://www.uteroemer.de/ Römer, Ute] - University of Hanover
*[http://rykov-cl.narod.ru/ Rykov, Vladimir]

== S ==

*[http://ixa.si.ehu.es/Ixa/Argitalpenak/kidearen_argitalpenak?kidea=1000809006 Sarasola, Kepa] - University of the Basque Country
*[http://coli.uni-sb.de/~christer Samuelsson, Christer] Bell Labs
*[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~anoop/ Sarkar, Anoop] - currently at Simon Fraser University, formerly at University of Pennsylvania
*[http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/yutaka.sasaki/ Sasaki, Yutaka] - University of Manchester
*[http://www.cog.jhu.edu/~savova/ Savova, Virginia] - MIT
*[http://www.dei.unipd.it/~satta Satta, Giorgio] University of Padua
*[http://www.dfki.de/~uschaefer Schaefer, Ulrich] - German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
*[http://www7.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~scheler Scheler] - Gabriele, TU München
*[http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~mike/ Schiehlen, Michael] - University of Stuttgart
*[http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~schmid/ Schmid, Helmut] - University of Stuttgart
*[http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/schmitz Schmitz, Christoph] - Universität Kassel
*[http://www.schulteimwalde.de/ Schulte, Sabine, im Walde]
*[http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~rolfs Schwitter, Rolf] - Macquarie University
*[http://mcs.open.ac.uk/ds5473/ Scott, Donia] - The Open University
*[http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/sekine Sekine, Satoshi] - New York University
*[http://www.latl.unige.ch/personal/vseretan Seretan, Violeta] - University of Geneva
*[http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~shieber/ Shieber, Stuart] - Harvard University
*[http://mysite.verizon.net/sidner Sidner, Candy] - BAE Systems, AIT
*[http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/sikorski/ Sikorski, Teresa] - University of Rochester
*[http://www.lingsoft.fi/~silvonen/ Silvonen, Mikko] - Lingsoft, Inc.
*[http://www.bultreebank.org/kivs/ Simov, Kiril] - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
*[http://ltrc.iiit.net/anil Singh, Anil Kumar] - Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC), International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, India
*[http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/general/facultyhomes/jonathan.html Slocum, Jonathan] - The University of Texas at Austin
*[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~nasmith Smith, Noah] - Carnegie Mellon University
*[http://www.cog.jhu.edu/faculty/smolensky.html Smolensky, Paul] - Johns Hopkins University
*[http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/harold/ Somers, Harold] UMIST, Manchester
*[http://www.ece.uiuc.edu/faculty/faculty.asp?rws Sproat, Richard] - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
*[http://www.coling.uni-freiburg.de/~staab/staab.html Staab, Steffen] - Freiburg University
*[http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/people/stabler/stabler.htm Stabler, Edward] - UCLA
*[http://slt.wcl.ee.upatras.gr/stamatatos/personal.html Stamatatos, Efstathios] - University of Patras
*[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~suzanne/ Stevenson, Suzanne] - University of Toronto
*[http://isl.ira.uka.de/~stiefel Stiefelhagen, Rainer] - Universität Karlsruhe
*[http://www.coling.uni-freiburg.de/~strube/strube.html Strube, Michael] - University of Freiburg
*[http://lvs004.googlepages.com Subramaniam, L. Venkata] - IBM India Research Lab
*[http://www.csi.uottawa.ca/~szpak/ Szpakowicz, Stan] - University of Ottawa

== T ==

*[http://www.sfu.ca/~mtaboada Taboada, Maite] - Simon Fraser University
*[http://hnk.ffzg.hr/mt/ Tadic, Marko] - Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb
*[http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~tapanain Tapanainen, Pasi] - University of Helsinki
*[http://www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/inf8/en/thabet.html Thabet, Iman] - University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
*[http://www.siit.tu.ac.th/dirctory/ft_fac/thanaruk.html Theeramunkong, Thanaruk] - Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University
*[http://www.objs.com/thompson.htm Thompson, Craig] - Object Services and Consulting, Inc.
*[http://www.let.rug.nl/~tiedeman/blog/index.php?category=1 Tiedemann, Jörg] - University of Groningen
*[http://tecfa.unige.ch/tecfa-people/traum.html Traum, David] - TECFA, Universite de Geneve
*[http://www.hum.uit.no/a/trond/ Trosterud, Trond] - University of Tromsø
*[http://www.racai.ro/~tufis/ Tufis, Dan] - Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy
*[http://www.apperceptual.com/ Turney, Peter] - National Research Council of Canada

== U ==

*[http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~hansu Uszkoreit, Hans] - University of the Saarland and DFKI Saarbrücken

== V ==

*[http://www.q-go.com/ van de Burgt, Stan P.] - Q-go.com
*[http://ilk.uvt.nl/~antalb/ van den Bosch, Antal] - Tilburg University
*[http://www.media.mit.edu/~nwv/ Van Dyke, Neil] - MIT Media Lab
*[http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/ van Noord, Gertjan] RU Groningen
*[http://www.ua.es/personal/chelo.vargas Vargas, Chelo Sierra] - Universidad de Alicante
*[http://grid.let.rug.nl/~mettina/ Veenstra, Mettina] RU Groningen
*[http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~marc/home.html Verhagen, Marc] - Brandeis University
*[http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/veronis/ Véronis, Jean] - Université de Provence
*[http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~vicedo/vicedo_en.html Vicedo, Jose Luis] - Alicante University
*[http://www.inf.unisinos.br/~renata/ Vieira, Renata] - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil
*[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~av208/ Villavicencio, Aline] - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
*[http://home.planet.nl/~weiss075/ Vossen, Piek] Irion Technologies
*[http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~avoutila/ Voutilainen, Atro] - University of Helsinki

== W ==

*[http://www.dfki.de/~wahlster/ Wahlster, Wolfgang] - Universität des Saarlandes
*[http://www.uindy.gr/faculty/cv/wallace_manolis/ Wallace, Manolis] - National Technical University of Athens
*[http://www.nigelward.com/ Ward, Nigel]
*[http://www.ribbitsoft.com/research/watson/index.html Watson, Bruce] Ribbit Soft.
*[http://hiplab.newcastle.edu.au/~pwatters Watters, Paul A. ] U. of Newcastle, Australia
*[http://www.nick-webb.net Webb, Nick] - SUNY Albany
*[http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~rw37/ Weber, Rosina] - Drexel University
*[http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/people/arw Weerasinghe, Ruvan] - University of Colombo School of Computing
*[http://www.latl.unige.ch/personal/eric_f.html Wehrli, Eric] - University of Geneva
*[http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~ww/ Weisweber, Wilhelm] - Technical University of Berlin
*[http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de Weimer, Markus] - University of Technology Darmstadt
*[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bonnie Webber, Bonnie Lynn] - University of Pennsylvania
*[http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick Wilks, Yorick] - University of Sheffield
*[http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shuly Wintner, Shuly] - University of Haifa, Israel
*[http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~kfwong/ Wong, Kam-Fai] - Chinese University of Hong Kong
*[http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ywwong/ Wong, Yuk Wah] - University of Texas at Austin
*[http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~wroec/ Wroe, Chris] - University of Manchester
*[http://www.cs.ust.hk/faculty/dekai/bio.html Wu, Dekai] - HKUST

== X ==
*[http://faculty.washington.edu/fxia/ Xia, Fei] - University of Washington
*[http://www1.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/~dyxiong/ Xiong, Deyi] - Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

== Y ==

*[http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/yangarbe/ Yangarber, Roman] - University of Helsinki
*[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cliff-group/94/yarowsky.html Yarowsky, David] - University of Pennsylvania
*[http://www.icl.pku.edu.cn/member/yusw/ Yu, Shiwen] - Peking University
*[http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/deniz Yuret, Deniz] - MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

== Z ==

*[http://ai-nlp.info.uniroma2.it/zanzotto Zanzotto, Fabio Massimo] - University of Roma Tor Vergata
*[http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~zeman/ Zeman, Dan] - Univerzita Karlova v Praze
*[http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/ Zesch, Torsten] - Darmstadt University of Technology
*[http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~jerryzhu/ Zhu, Xiaojin (Jerry)] - University of Wisconsin, Madison
*[http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~ingrid/ Zukerman, Ingrid] - Monash University

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* '''Please remove your posting when the position is filled.'''
* Please include the following information:
** Employer
** Rank or Title
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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]]

== 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://www.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.
* Strong verbal and written communication skills.
* 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

2009-05-01T03:57:59Z

Nicolas: /* Scientist I, J.D. Power and Associates, Boulder, CO */

Employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs

2009-05-01T03:57:39Z

Nicolas: /* Scientist I */

Employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs

2009-05-01T03:50:21Z

Nicolas:

__NOTOC__
* 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
** 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].
* Archived postings:
** [[Employment opportunities posted 2008]]
** [[Employment opportunities posted 2007]]

== Scientist I ==

{|
| '''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://www.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.
* Strong verbal and written communication skills.
* 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

2009-05-01T03:49:54Z

Nicolas:

__NOTOC__
* 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
** 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].
* Archived postings:
** [[Employment opportunities posted 2008]]
** [[Employment opportunities posted 2007]]

== Scientist I ==

{|
| '''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://www.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.
* Strong verbal and written communication skills.
* 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

2009-05-01T03:48:27Z

Nicolas:

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* 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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** 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]]

== Scientist I ==

{|
| '''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://www.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.
* Strong verbal and written communication skills.
* At least 4 years of research experience (relevant university experience - ok).
* Enthusiasm for solving challenging problems.

'''Contact:''' Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas_nicolovNOSPAM@jdpa.com> [remove six chars]

== 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

2009-05-01T03:45:07Z

Nicolas:

Employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs

2009-05-01T03:40:43Z

Nicolas: /* Scientist I */

Employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs

2009-05-01T03:39:48Z

Nicolas: /* Scientist I */

Employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs

2009-05-01T03:37:49Z

Nicolas:

Employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs

2009-05-01T03:32:59Z

Nicolas:

Employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs

2009-05-01T03:30:29Z

Nicolas:

Employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs

2009-05-01T03:27:35Z

Nicolas:

Conferences in 2009

2009-01-19T23:14:05Z

Nicolas:

For more information, see [[Conferences and workshops]]. Please add conferences in chronological order, in the following format:


'''URL with Short Name as a heading'''
* Long Name or Description
* Location
* Dates (submission date)

== [http://iwcs.uvt.nl/iwcs8/index.htm IWCS-8] ==
* 8th International Conference on Computational Semantics
* Tilburg, the Netherlands
* Jan 7-9, 2009

== [http://www.cicling.org CICLing 2009] + Lexicom Americas 2009 ==
* 10th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, preceded by the Lexicom Americas workshop
* Mexico
* CICLing: March 1-7, 2009 (submission deadline: Nov 3 registration of abstracts, Nov 10 submission of full text). Lexicom: Feb 24-28

== [http://www.eacl2009.gr/ EACL 2009] ==
* 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL
* Athens, Greece
* March 30-April 3, 2009 (submission deadline: Oct 10, 2008)

== [http://palc.ia.uni.lodz.pl PALC 2009] ==
* 7th Conference on Practical Applications in Language and Computers
* Lodz, Poland
* April 6-8, 2009 (submission deadline: Jan 31, 2009)

== [http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/ylmp YLMP 2009] ==
* 1st Young Linguists' Meeting in Poznan
* student conference focused on interdisciplinary linguistics
* Poznań, Poland
* April 24-26, 2009 (submission deadline: Feb 15, 2009)

== [http://omilia.uio.no/nealt/?task=conferences NODALIDA-2009] ==
* 17th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics
* Odense, Denmark
* May 14-16, 2009

== [http://www.icwsm.org/ ICWSM-2009] ==
* International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media 2009
* San Jose, California, U.S.A.
* May 17-20, 2009 (submission deadline: main conference: Jan 21, 2009; workshop Mar 1, 2009)

== [http://www.naaclhlt2009.org/ NAACL-HLT 2009] ==
* Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT) 2009
* Boulder, Colorado
* May 31-June 5, 2009

== [http://www.acl-ijcnlp-2009.org/ ACL-IJCNLP 2009] ==
* 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing
* Singapore
* August 2-7, 2009 (submission deadline: Feb 22, 2009)

== [http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/sepln2009/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18&Itemid=19&lang=en SEPLN 2009] ==
* 25th Annual Congress of the [http://www.sepln.org/ SEPLN] Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (Spanish Association for Natural Language Processing
* Donostia - San Sebastián. University of The Basque Country.
* September 8-10, 2009 (submission deadline: April 24, 2009)

== [http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2009/ RANLP-2009] ==
* International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2009
* Borovets, Bulgaria
* Sep 14-16, 2009 (submission deadline: abstracts: Apr 6, 2009; full submission: Apr 13, 2009; workshops: Jun 3, 2009)

Conferences in 2009

2009-01-19T22:58:59Z

Nicolas:

For more information, see [[Conferences and workshops]]. Please add conferences in chronological order, in the following format:


'''URL with Short Name as a heading'''
* Long Name or Description
* Location
* Dates (submission date)

== [http://iwcs.uvt.nl/iwcs8/index.htm IWCS-8] ==
* 8th International Conference on Computational Semantics
* Tilburg, the Netherlands
* Jan 7-9, 2009

== [http://www.cicling.org CICLing 2009] + Lexicom Americas 2009 ==
* 10th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, preceded by the Lexicom Americas workshop
* Mexico
* CICLing: March 1-7, 2009 (submission deadline: Nov 3 registration of abstracts, Nov 10 submission of full text). Lexicom: Feb 24-28

== [http://www.eacl2009.gr/ EACL 2009] ==
* 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL
* Athens, Greece
* March 30-April 3, 2009 (submission deadline: Oct 10, 2008)

== [http://palc.ia.uni.lodz.pl PALC 2009] ==
* 7th Conference on Practical Applications in Language and Computers
* Lodz, Poland
* April 6-8, 2009 (submission deadline: Jan 31, 2009)

== [http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/ylmp YLMP 2009] ==
* 1st Young Linguists' Meeting in Poznan
* student conference focused on interdisciplinary linguistics
* Poznań, Poland
* April 24-26, 2009 (submission deadline: Feb 15, 2009)

== [http://omilia.uio.no/nealt/?task=conferences NODALIDA-2009] ==
* 17th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics
* Odense, Denmark
* May 14-16, 2009

== [http://www.icwsm.org/ ICWSM-2009] ==
* International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
* San Jose, California, U.S.A.
* May 17-20, 2009 (submission deadline: main conference: Jan 21, 2009; workshop Mar 1, 2009)

== [http://www.naaclhlt2009.org/ NAACL-HLT 2009] ==
* Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT) 2009
* Boulder, Colorado
* May 31-June 5, 2009

== [http://www.acl-ijcnlp-2009.org/ ACL-IJCNLP 2009] ==
* 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing
* Singapore
* August 2-7, 2009 (submission deadline: Feb 22, 2009)

== [http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/sepln2009/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18&Itemid=19&lang=en SEPLN 2009] ==
* 25th Annual Congress of the [http://www.sepln.org/ SEPLN] Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (Spanish Association for Natural Language Processing
* Donostia - San Sebastián. University of The Basque Country.
* September 8-10, 2009 (submission deadline: April 24, 2009)