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== Assistant Professor Position in Computational Linguistics in NAIST (Nara, Japan) ==

* Employer: Nara Insititute of Science and Technology
http://www.naist.jp/en/
* Rank or Title: Assistant Professor
* Specialty: Foundation and/or Application areas of Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, Web Mining and Grammatical Error Correction/Detection
* Location: Nara, Japan
* Deadline: February 28, 2013
* Date Posted: January 30, 2013
* Start Date: after April, 2013
* Duration: 5 years (reappointment is possible)
* Contact email: matsu@is.naist.jp

'''For Detailed Description'''

http://www.naist.jp/en/about_naist/job_opportunities/academic_positions/index_130129.html

==Researchers - AT&T Labs Research==
* Employer: AT&T Labs - Research
* Rank or Title: Researchers and Research Software Engineers
* Specialty: Natural Language Processing, Speech Processing, Machine Learning
* Location: NJ
* Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
* Date Posted: 8 January 2013
* Contact email: vkumar@research.att.com

'''Position Description'''

AT&T Research, one of the premier industrial research laboratories in the world, is looking for
talented individuals to make a difference in the world of communications. Our researchers and
research software engineers are dedicated to solving real problems in speech and language
processing, and are involved in inventing, creating and deploying innovative services. We also
explore fundamental research problems in these areas. Outstanding Ph.D.-level candidates at
all levels of experience are encouraged to apply. Candidates must demonstrate excellence in
research, a collaborative spirit and strong communication and software skills.

Areas of particular interest are

* Large-vocabulary automatic speech recognition
* Acoustic and language modeling
* Robust speech recognition
* Signal processing
* Text-to-speech synthesis
* Natural language understanding and dialog
* Machine translation (speech and text)
* Speaker biometrics
* Voice and multimodal search
* Software engineering for speech and language processing

Speech and language positions are based in Bedminster, NJ; New York, NY and Middletown, NJ (note: we are moving from our Florham Park office).

Outstanding PhD-level candidates at all levels of experience and experienced M.S. candidates
are encouraged to apply. Interviews will be conducted in early 2013. For more information,
visit http://www.research.att.com/ and click on "Working with us", or access the page directly:

http://www.research.att.com/evergreen/working_with_us/careers.html

Candidates must demonstrate a proven research track record and the ability to identify technical
problems and research opportunities. Candidates with strong analytical and programming skills (Python, C, C++)
are desired. Access to massive amounts of real-world data, the ability to work with internal and external
collaborators across departments, the possibility of making an impact by developing solutions that will be used
by millions, and the freedom to publish your results are some of the reasons AT&T Labs -
Research is an exciting place to work.

AT&T Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. Applications will continue to be considered until positions are filled.

==Engineer 4, NLP Software Development - Comcast Corporation (Washington DC or Philadelphia PA)==
* Employer: Comcast
* Rank or Title: Engineer 4
* Specialty: Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition, Machine Learning
* Location: Washington DC or Philadelphia
* Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
* Date Posted: 6 December 2012
* Contact email: brian_curtis@cable.comcast.com

'''Position Description'''

Comcast is the largest cable TV company in the world. We are looking for talented engineers to help us shape the future of content discovery for television.

To help get us there, we are hiring an experienced software engineer to develop new technology and adapt/apply existing technologies to NLP problems for the Comcast Voice Control platform. This position is part of a small team that uses Speech Recognition, Natural Language Understanding/Processing, Machine Learning along with search technologies such as SOLR/Lucene, tf/idf and relevance ranking, to extract contextually correct entity and verb semantics from speech and apply them to real world solutions across millions of connected homes.

'''About you'''

* Education Level: Bachelors Degree or Equivalent
* Field of Study: Computer Science, Engineering
* Extensive experience using Java technologies including J2SE, XML/XSLT, Apache Jakarta components and other open source software.
* Experience with statistical/modeling techniques such as CRF, HMM, SVM, KNN.
* Experience with Topic Classification, Parsing, Narrative Thread analysis, parts of speech tagging, Sphinx, metadata extraction.
* Experience with machine learning and/or algorithms.
* Experience with Hibernate, MySQL and/or NoSQL, preferably Hadoop/HBase.
* Experience with search technologies such as SOLR/Lucene and/or recommender systems.
* Experience with and understanding of Unix systems (RHEL) desirable.
* Experience in Agile development methodologies.
* Strong problem solving ability with excellent written/verbal communication and presentation skills.

If you are interested in this position and you think you might have what it takes, send your resume to brian_curtis@cable.comcast.com.

==NLP Research Scientist - Nuance Communications, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA Research Group)==
* Employer: Nuance Communications, Inc.
* Rank or Title: NLP Research Scientist
* Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Dialog Systems
* Location: Sunnyvale, CA, USA
* Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
* Date Posted: November 20th, 2012
* Contact email: Jennifer.Garvale@nuance.com

'''General Description'''

Nuance is the world-wide leader in voice technologies. We are now making substantial research and development investments to add natural language processing capabilities to our speech infrastructure. We are expanding our new Silicon Valley Natural Language Research laboratory. The goal of this group is to develop the next generation of intelligent, conversational agents. We seek research scientists with the following backgrounds:

* Dialog processing
* Discourse and anaphora resolution
* Multimodal generation
* Parsing
* Entity recognition
* Morphology
* Multilingual NLP
* Semantic interpretation

'''Responsibilities'''

* Ownership of a major component of the conversational system.
* Conduct research on the dialog, generation, or reasoning components, and incorporate the latest advances from major conferences in the field.
* Adapt existing components within Nuance and from previous research in the field to a new problem space and domain.
* Understand the trade-offs between multiple competing approaches, and choose the ones that are likely to have future impact on the company's products.
* Design components in a way that will generalize across domains. Minimize the code change and human effort needed for the system to work in a new domain.
* Collaborate with other scientists and engineers inside and outside of the team.
* Patent or publish experimental results or designs when appropriate.

'''Education/Experience'''
* Ph.D. in computer science, computational linguistics, linguistics, or another technical field with a focus on natural language processing.
* Solid track record in both projects and publications for natural language processing.
* Solid implementation skills in C++, Java, scripting languages.
* Knowledge of both statistical and rule-based methods for natural language processing.

Interested candidates should contact Jennifer Garvale at Jennifer.Garvale@nuance.com. For additional information about the technical aspects of the position, feel free to contact Joel Tetreault at Joel.Tetreault@nuance.com.

==Postdoctoral Fellowship - Natural Language Processing==
* Employer: University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
* Rank or Title: Postdoctoral Fellow - Natural Language Processing
* Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Generation
* Location: Cincinnati, OH, USA
* Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
* Date Posted: November 9th, 2012
* Contact email Imre.Solti@cchmc.org

'''Position and Requirements'''
Are you a recent PhD graduate or getting ready to graduate with a degree in computational linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence or closely related field? Do you want to apply your computational skills, machine learning and NLP experience to solve real world challenges to help patients by automating the clinical decision making? Do you have excellent command of both written and oral English, and first author peer reviewed journal publications?

If the answers are yes and you would like to join our team of seven dedicated researchers, programmers and annotators then please, send your most recent CV, a brief research statement and three publications in PDF file format to: Imre.Solti@cchmc.org (include "Postdoctoral Fellow - ACL Wiki" in the subject line).

We provide competitive salaries and excellent benefits. We will sponsor H1B visas for qualified candidates as necessary.

'''About the Institution'''
Cincinnati Children's has over one million physician-patient encounters a year and is the second largest recipient of NIH funding among children hospitals. The hospital has over 12,000 employees. The Division of Biomedical Informatics manages a state-of-the-art 500+ CPU computing cluster. The research of the Solti Lab is funded from institutional and external (NIH) grants.

== Research Programmer position - speech and language processing ==
* Employer: University of Minnesota
* Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
* Deadline: open until filled
* Date posted: November 7, 2012
* Duration: Minimum 2 years committment
* Informal inquiries can be sent to Serguei Pakhomov at spakh001@gmail.com

'''General Description'''
The College of Pharamcy at the University of Minnesota is seeking a talented, pro-active and innovative individual for a Research Programmer position to work on several projects in Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuropharmacology (C3N). C3N is engaged in conducting interdisciplinary research focused on cognitive effects of medications and neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. Computerized assessment is used to measure these cognitive effects. The successful candidate for this position will be responsible for a variety of computer-related tasks including creating and maintaining innovative computer-based neuropsychological testing applications that involve spontaneous speech and language collection and analysis. The successful candidate will also be expected to interact with graduate and undergraduate students on specific programming and research projects to meet the needs of the Center.

'''Skills and characteristics'''

* Education: Master’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, computational linguistics or equivalent combination of training and experience

* Required Skills: Excellent analytical, technical and problem-solving skills. Deep understanding and experience with audio and speech processing. Strong application programming skills in C/C++, Java, Python and/or Perl programming languages. Familiarity with speech recognition toolkits and APIs (e.g., HTK, Sphinx, KALDI, SRILM), acoustic analysis tools (e.g., Praat) and good understanding or experience with speech recognition and analysis technology.

* Preferred skills and characteristics: Familiarity with natural language processing (NLP) techniques and toolkits (e.g., NLTK). Experience with programming applications for mobile devices. Familiarity with computerized or paper-and-pencil neuropsychological testing.

* Other: The successful candidate will be a self-motivated and proactive individual, a good communicator interested in working in an academic environment. Participating in research and experimentation leading to scientific publication are not required but would be highly encouraged and supported.

If you are someone who has the necessary skills and thrives on working in an exciting and dynamic research environment, please send us a letter stating your interest and qualifications, and a resume. Please use this website to apply: https://employment.umn.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.jsp?postingId=576008.

== One Postdoctoral Position In Statistical Machine Translation - Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) ==
* Employer: Sapienza University of Rome
* Location: Rome, Italy
* Deadline: 18th October 2012
* Date Posted: 01st October 2012
* Starting date: 1st December 2012
* Duration: 1+1 years
* Salary: 35000-50000 euros per annum, depending on qualifications. Note that this type of research contract is exempt from most taxes (e.g., 40000 euros per annum corresponds to around 2600 euros net per month)..
* Informal inquiries can be sent by email to Roberto Navigli (navigli@di.uniroma1.it).

One position of POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW in Natural Language Processing is open in the Department of Computer Science of the Sapienza University of Rome, with a specific focus on statistical machine translation for Asian languages. The position is part of a 5-year ERC Starting Grant on multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and headed by Prof. Roberto Navigli (see http://lcl.uniroma1.it/multijedi for details). The successful candidate will participate in a frontier research project and will work in the stimulating environment of a leading and highly-active research team comprising 2 faculty members, 2 post-docs and 6 Ph.D. students.

'''REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS'''

* Ph.D. in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing or Computational Linguistics.
* Strong publication record in Statistical Machine Translation. Publication record in lexical semantics is a plus.
* Willingness to coordinate and supervise part of the research work of the ERC project.
* Ability to work in a collaborative environment, with a strong commitment to achieving research goals.
* Fluent English. Proficiency in at least two major Asian languages. Knowledge of Italian is NOT a requirement.
* Solid programming skills.

'''HOW TO APPLY'''

Please send a detailed CV and contact details for up to three references to Roberto Navigli (navigli@di.uniroma1.it). Please include the job reference (LCL3-2012) in the subject line.

'''ABOUT LA SAPIENZA'''

The Sapienza University of Rome is a seven-century-old university in the heart of Rome. It is one of the largest universities in Europe, with around 150,000 students. Its Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics and Statistics (that includes the Department of Computer Science) is one of the youngest, most energetic and scientifically active environments at the Sapienza. The Sapienza University is an equal opportunity employer.

'''ABOUT THE COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT'''

The Department of Computer Science is a modern, well-equipped research institution with a top-class faculty and a strong Ph.D. program. The Department comprises 44 faculty members (among whom 3 ERC grant holders), 15 postdocs and around 30 Ph.D. students. The successful candidate will be based in Rome, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. The Department is situated just beside the main Sapienza University campus and is in easy walking distance of San Lorenzo, a nice lively area with lots of bookshop-cafes, bars and restaurants. Prospective candidates should not be afraid of the language barrier, as Italians are in general very friendly.

==Postdoc or Research Associate - Natural Language Processing==
* Employer: IHMC (www.ihmc.us)
* Rank or Title: Research Associate - Natural Language Processing
* Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, in particular dialogue processing
* Location: Ocala, FL
* Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
* Date Posted: September 26th, 2012
* Contact email ywilks@ihmc.us

'''About Us'''
IHMC (www.ihmc.us) is a not-for-profit research institute of the Florida University System and is affiliated with several Florida universities.
Researchers at IHMC pioneer technologies aimed at leveraging and extending human capabilities. These systems fit the human and machine components together in ways that exploit their respective strengths and mitigate their respective weaknesses. The design and fit of computational prostheses require a broader interdisciplinary range than is typically found in one organization, thus IHMC staff includes computer scientists, cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, physicians, philosophers, engineers and social scientists of various stripes, as well as some researchers who resist all attempts to classify them.
Current active research areas include: knowledge modeling and sharing, adjustable autonomy, robotics, advanced interfaces and displays, communication and collaboration, computer-mediated learning systems, intelligent data and language understanding, software agents, expertise studies, work practice simulation, knowledge representation, and other related areas.
IHMC faculty and staff collaborate extensively with industry and government to develop science and technology that can be enabling with respect to society's broader goals. IHMC researchers receive funding (current funding in force exceeds $25,000,000) from a wide range of government and private sources. IHMC research partners have included: DARPA, NSF, NASA, Army, Navy, Air Force, NIH, DOT, IDEO, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Boeing, Lockheed, and SAIC, among others.

The candidate will be appointed on a new project on dialogue processing, due to start in the coming months and run for one year initially, with extensions expected. The aim of the project is to produce a prototype conversational Companion-in-an-iPad for a brain-damaged patient in a domestic setting. Ocala, Florida is an excellent location, close to Florida’s major university and about an hour from both coasts. IHMC is housed in an excellent, state of the art building in the city center.

Required:

▪ Natural language processing / computational linguistics background. Ideal: dialogue applications experience (in NLP not ASR),

▪ Substantial skills in processing corpora. Ideal: Java skills and standard statistical procedures.

▪ Ph.D. in computational linguistics or some equivalent in terms of experience in natural language processing or related areas.

Skills and Experience:

▪ 3+ plus years experience in natural language processing / computational linguistics in industry or large scale academic research project.

▪ Expertise in at least some of the following specific NLP areas and topics: question answering, lexical semantics, collocations, disambiguation, multi-word expressions, (shallow) parsing, named entity recognition, lexical acquisition, RDF-style data, speech-language interfaces, information extraction, text classification, evaluation methodologies.

▪ Familiarity with existing data resources and tools: Wordnet, GATE, Nuance ASR, NLTK, Weka, and similar tools.

▪ Ideal: experience with ontologies, RDF, other semantic web resources or tools.

Apply to Yorick Wilks at: ywilks@ihmc.us

== NLP Research Scientist - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ==

NLP Research Scientist wanted for work impacting National Security
Company: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Job ID: 301731 http://www.jobs.pnnl.gov/
Location: PNNL - Richland, WA
Contact: jill.schroeder@pnnl.gov

This position requires significant contributions to the development and evolvement of natural language processing research at PNNL. The incumbent will possess skills in both natural language processing and software design and development. Expertise in natural language processing should include one or more applications including, but not limited to, information extraction, knowledge base population, machine reading, sentiment analysis and social media analytics. Software development skills should include, but are not limited to, object oriented programming and development, data modeling, building demonstrable and functional prototypes, and contributing to deployment-ready software.

In carrying out these duties, the incumbent will be responsible for maintaining strategic alliances with specified clients, managing individual or small team assignments for multiple projects, performing assignments with minimal oversight, working effectively within interdisciplinary development teams, and contributing to proposals, publications and presentations.

Specific responsibilities include:
- apply computational linguistics approaches and algorithms
- contribute to the translation of client requests and needs into a set of project requirements and tasks
- contribute to software design
- construct functional applications and prototypes using PHP, Perl, Python and Java
- perform algorithmic development and implementation, especially as they pertain to NLP
- evaluate natural language processing methods and results
- develop client server and database aware applications
- design and implement graphical user interfaces
- develop on Linux and Windows environments
- effectively manage individual tasks, schedule, workload, budget, and deadlines
- contribute to technical presentations and demonstrations of designs, prototypes and operational software to existing and potential clients; group, division, and sector managers
- contribute to or lead efforts in publishing research
- help grow the natural language processing business portfolio through proposal writing and client engagement

Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

This position reports to the Technical Group manager for Knowledge Discovery and Informatics within PNNL’s National Security Directorate, and is responsible for work activity as assigned by PNNL project managers for both internal and external clients. The incumbent is expected to develop knowledge of the goals of any projects to which they are assigned and the clients they support. The incumbent is expected to maintain a customer-service focus commensurate with this position.

The incumbent normally receives task instructions from their project managers, which are performed with minimal oversight. The incumbent will work both as task lead, and as a staff member under the direction of project managers and senior software scientists. The incumbent will be expected to attend regular project meetings and KDI group meetings. The incumbent may also be expected to attend offsite team meetings with other team members, clients, and users.

A level II scientist contributes to the completion of project milestones by leading specific tasks of the project to meet scope, schedule and budget. Level II scientists are contributing professionals who are building a professional reputation for their technical expertise in NLP. They are expected to continue to develop their technical expertise and knowledge, and develop new skills. In addition, strong contributions to the technical content of proposals will be made.

A level III scientist will lead small to moderate research projects, contribute to the completion of programs and projects, and mentor other staff members. Level III scientists will be skilled professionals able to apply existing NLP methods to new work and will maintain skills consistent with the state of the art in NLP. Level III scientists will generate ideas for new proposals and lead the development of technical content for small to medium proposals, and will contribute to scoping, scheduling and budgeting for projects. .
Minimum Requirements
Level II:
A Bachelor's degree with 2-3 years experience or a Master's degree with 0-2 years experience or a Ph.D. is required. Expected to contribute professionally, building a professional reputation for technical expertise. Fully applying and interpreting standard theories, principles, methods, tools and technologies. All staff at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory must be able to demonstrate the legal right to work in the United States.

Level III:
A Bachelor's degree with at least 5 years experience or a Master's degree with 3 years experience or a Ph.D. with 1-2 years experience is required. Must be a skilled professional who applies a broad basis of existing theories, principles, and concepts to a specialty field. All staff at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory must be able to demonstrate the legal right to work in the United States.
Qualifications
Professional Expertise: Expertise in NLP algorithm development and strong software design and development skills.

Work-related Experience:
- Demonstrated ability and willingness to perform as a team member on multiple projects simultaneously and work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic team environment with high expectations for quality.
- Experience leading project teams in research, design and development a plus.

Breadth of Relevant Specialized Knowledge and Skills:
- Well-developed oral and written communication skills, including ability to convey complex technical information accurately.
- Above-average client interaction skills including the ability to quickly understand a client’s business needs and communicate at the proper level of detail
- Proficient in the use of Windows, Macintosh, and Linux environments
Preferred Education/Credential
A PhD in computational linguistics is preferred.

Level II:
PhD in computational linguistics, natural language processing or related field within the last 5 years or Masters of Science in computer engineering, computer science or related field and 1+ years of experience in NLP within the last 5 years

Level III PREFERRED:
PhD in computational linguistics, natural language processing or related field and 1-2 years of experience in NLP within the last 5 years or Masters of Science in computer engineering, computer science or related field and + years of experience in NLP within the last 5 years
Equal Employment Opportunity
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer and supports diversity in the workplace. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital or family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or genetic information. All staff at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory must be able to demonstrate the legal right to work in the United States.
Other Information
This position requires the ability to obtain a federal security clearance in a timely manner. Which requires:
* US Citizenship
* Background Investigation: Applicants selected will be subject to a Federal background investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified matter in accordance 10 CFR 710, Appendix B.
* Drug Testing: All Security Clearance (L or Q) positions will be considered by the Department of Energy to be Testing Designated Positions which means that they are subject to applicant, random, and for cause drug testing. In addition, applicants must be able to demonstrate non-use of illegal drugs for the 12 consecutive months preceding completion of the requisite Questionnaire for National Security Positions (QNSP).

Note: Applicants will be considered ineligible for security clearance processing by the U.S. Department of Energy until non-use of illegal drugs for 12 consecutive months can be demonstrated.

== Faculty Positions (open rank) in multiple areas, particularly Biomedical NLP / Text Mining, The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH, USA) ==
* Employer: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering and Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
* Rank or Title: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor
* Specialty: Multiple openings, including targeted hire in Biomedical Natural Language Processing / Text Mining
* Location: Columbus, OH USA
* Deadline: Review of applications will begin in November and continue until the positions are filled
* Date Posted: August 30, 2012
* Contact email or link to website: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/department/positions.shtml

The Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Ohio State University seeks faculty candidates for multiple tenured or tenure-track appointments at the assistant, associate or full professor level. The department is slated for significant growth as part of a multi-year expansion in size and scope, including targeted faculty hires in core areas as well as in areas that bridge CS with other disciplines. The specific searches being conducted this year include:

* One targeted position, open rank, in the area of big data, broadly defined. These include, but are not limited to, applicants that have core training in databases, systems, data analytics, or cloud computing, with experience in managing and analyzing big data stores.
* One targeted position, open rank, in the area of cybersecurity, broadly defined. We are specifically interested in applicants with research interests in network security, physical layer/information theoretic security, cyberphysical systems, data privacy, cryptography, or programming language security.
* One targeted position, open rank, at the interface of computer science and mathematics broadly defined. We are specifically interested in researchers working in theoretical computer science, scientific computing, or complex systems.
* Multiple targeted positions, open rank, jointly searched with the Department of Biomedical Informatics. Priority consideration will be given to applicants whose research interests lie in the processing of biomedical text (e.g. NLP or text mining) as well as those interested in the multi-scale modeling and visualization of high-throughput and/or high-content molecular or image data. Outstanding applicants in other areas at the intersection of biology, clinical science, informatics, and computer science will also be considered.
* In addition to the above targeted searches the department is conducting a search for an additional position (open rank) that is open to all areas of computer science and engineering.

The department is committed to enhancing faculty diversity; women, minorities, and individuals with disabilities are especially encouraged to apply.

Applicants should hold or be completing a Ph.D. in CSE or a closely related field, have a commitment to and demonstrated record of excellence in research, and a commitment to excellence in teaching.

To apply, please submit your application via the online database. The link can be found at: https://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/portal/fsearch/apply.cgi.

Review of applications will begin in November and will continue until the positions are filled.

The Ohio State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

== Postdoctoral Position in Natural Language Processing in Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan) ==

* Employer: Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
http://www.sinica.edu.tw

http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw
* PI: Lun-Wei Ku (Language Processing Group)
http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/pages/lwku/index_en.html

http://nlg18.csie.ntu.edu.tw:8080/lwku/lwku.html

* Rank or Title: Post Doctorial Researcher - Natural Language Processing
* Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning
* Location: Taipei, Taiwan
* Deadline: open until filled
* Date Posted: August 21st, 2012
* Start Date: before October, 2012 or after April, 2013
* Duration: 1+1+1 years
* Contact email: lwku@iis.sinica.edu.tw

'''REQUIRED'''

Ph.D. in computational linguistics / natural language processing or related areas.

Natural language processing / computational linguistics background.
Substantial skills in programming and processing large scale corpora.

Ideal: Java skills and standard statistical procedures.

'''SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE'''

3+ plus years experience in natural language processing / computational linguistics in industry or large scale academic research project.
Expertise in at least some of the following specific NLP areas and topics: question answering, lexical semantics, collocations, terminology extraction, disambiguation, multi-word expressions, (shallow) parsing, named entity recognition, lexical acquisition, paraphrasis acquisition, information extraction, text classification, evaluation methodologies, sentiment analysis.
Familiarity with existing data resources and tools: Wordnet, POS taggers, parsers, SVMLight, Weka, and similar tools.

Ideal: with experience of interests in processing Asia language (ex. Chinese)

'''PAYMENT'''

Around 1900~2000 USD/Month, depends on the currency rate.

'''HOW TO APPLY'''

Apply to Lun-Wei Ku at: lwku@iis.sinica.edu.tw. Please provide your CV, publication list and contact information.

Please also note the date you wish to start the job, and send your documents at your earliest convenience so we can review them asap.

== Two Postdoctoral Positions in Natural Language Processing at the Sapienza University of Rome ==
* Employer: Sapienza University of Rome
* Location: Rome, Italy
* Deadline: open until filled
* Date Posted: 16th August 2012
* Starting date: fall/winter 2012
* Duration: 1+1+1 years
* Salary: 30000-45000 euros per annum, depending on qualifications. Note that this type of research contract is exempt from most taxes (e.g., 40000 euros per annum corresponds to around 2600 euros net per month).
* Informal inquiries can be sent by email to Roberto Navigli (navigli@di.uniroma1.it).

Two positions of POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW in Natural Language Processing are open in the Department of Computer Science of the Sapienza University of Rome. The positions are part of a 5-year ERC Starting Grant funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and headed by Prof. Roberto Navigli (see http://lcl.uniroma1.it/multijedi for details). The successful candidates will participate in a frontier research project on multilingual lexical semantics and will work in a stimulating environment of a leading and highly-active research team including 2 faculty members, 1 postdoc and 6 Ph.D. students.

'''REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS'''

* Ph.D. in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing or Computational Linguistics.
* Strong publication record in Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing (see below).
* Willingness to coordinate and supervise part of the research work of the ERC project.
* Ability to work in a collaborative environment, with a strong commitment to achieving research goals.
* Fluent English. Knowledge of Italian is NOT a requirement.
* Solid programming skills: Java and practical expertise with standard NLP tools are required, knowledge of Perl/Python is a plus.

Experience in research project management is a plus.

'''SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS'''

* POSITION #1 (LCL1-2012): research record in computational lexical semantics, large-scale knowledge acquisition and validation, open information extraction, or data-intensive machine learning
* POSITION #2 (LCL2-2012): research record in statistical machine translation, unsupervised acquisition of bilingual/multilingual lexicons, or cross-lingual methods for NLP

'''HOW TO APPLY'''

Please send a detailed CV and contact details for up to three references to Roberto Navigli (navigli@di.uniroma1.it). Please include the job reference (LCL1-2012 or LCL2-2012) in the subject line.

'''ABOUT SAPIENZA'''

The University of Rome "La Sapienza" is a seven-century-old university in the heart of Rome. It is one of the largest universities in Europe, with around 150,000 students. Its Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics and Statistics (that includes the Department of Computer Science) is one of the youngest, most energetic and scientifically active environments at Sapienza. The Sapienza University is an equal opportunity employer.

'''ABOUT THE COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT'''

The [http://w3.uniroma1.it/dipinfo/english/index.asp Department of Computer Science] is a modern and well-equipped research institution with a top-class faculty and a strong Ph.D. program. The Department comprises 44 faculty members (among whom 3 ERC grant holders), 15 postdocs and around 30 Ph.D. students. The successful candidate will be based in Rome, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. The Department is situated in a nice lively area with lots of cafes, bars, restaurants, and at walking distance from the city centre. Prominent candidates must not be afraid of the language barrier, as Italians are in general very friendly.

== Engineer with NLP / ML/ IR background - Curata (Cambridge, MA) ==

'''Curata, Inc.'''
Curata, Inc. provides easy-to-use marketing solutions for content curation and content marketing. Curata's product, Curata, allows marketers to easily find, organize and share content on specific issues or topics in order to establish thought leadership, own industry conversations and drive qualified web traffic. Curata was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.curata.com.

'''Role Description'''
We are looking for an individual who enjoys building and shipping code as an engineer, first and foremost, but also enjoys prototyping new product ideas leveraging natural language processing, information retrieval, and machine learning skills. You are a fit if you enjoy experimenting with a large text corpus, innovating new product concepts, and ultimately packaging and shipping your work.

In the past two years, our customer base, comprising of marketing, information services, and knowledge management professionals, have curated millions of pieces of content through our complex content procurement and processing pipeline. We release new code many times a day, and have fun continually optimizing and enhancing our product. As a start-up, we need someone who can match the high energy and enthusiasm of our team.

Technologies in our stack include Linux, Django, Python, git, MySQL, jQuery, Sphinx, and memcached.

'''Responsibilities'''

* Prototyping concepts and working with engineering team to see them through deployment.
* Suggesting new product concepts.
* Optimizing machine learning algorithms through iterative experimentation and parameter tuning.
* Architect, build and maintain flexible and highly scalable web applications
* Participate in the full engineering life cycle from design through implementation and deployment.
* Think in terms of the end-user and design accordingly
* Actively contribute to product design and feature selection discussions

'''Preferred Skills and Experience'''
* Significant research experience with natural language processing (NLP), information retrieval, machine learning or related fields.
* Strong software development skills, preferably with web applications.
* Versatile attitude towards technology -- ready and willing to learn and grow on the job.

'''Location:''' Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA / Boston

'''Type:''' Full-Time

'''Contact:''' engmgt.jobs@curata.com

== Research Fellowship at University of Aberdeen ==

* Employer: University of Aberdeen
* Job Title: Research Fellow in Natural Language Generation
* Location: Aberdeen, UK
* Deadline: 23rd July 2012
* Date Posted: 11th July 2012
* [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/index.php Application Website: click on "external applicants", search for the post with reference number 1260664
* Contact email: c.mellish@abdn.ac.uk

To support our ambitious research programme we are looking to appoint a postdoctoral research fellow to do research on natural language generation in the MIME project. MIME (see http://www.dotrural.ac.uk/mime/ ) investigates ways to underpin reconfigured rural emergency response services, by examining how technology could support responders to incidents such as road accidents. It is exploring the use of networked monitors to support decision making and information management in the management of casualties and the automatic generation of handover reports from responders when more expert help arrives.
The successful candidate will have a good knowledge of natural language processing techniques in general (at the postgraduate level) and preferably some practical experience with NLG. The candidate will have a PhD or be about to complete a PhD in Computer Science/ Artificial Intelligence or a relevant discipline. Enthusiasm for digital technology and innovation relevant to society and the economy is essential as is the ability to work in a cross-disciplinary team including colleagues in computer science and engineering.

This post is funded by the EPSRC and it is anticipated that the project activities will be completed within 9 months of the agreed start date. This appointment will be made subject to the usual terms and conditions of employment of the University.

== Executive Director at University of Maryland ==

** Employer: University of Maryland, Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL)
** Title: Executive Director
** Location: College Park, MD
** Deadline: Open until filled
** Date Posted: July 2, 2012
** Link to website: http://jobs.umd.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=57086
** Contact email: tswallst@umd.edu

The University of Maryland, College Park, invites applications for the position of Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL). Since its establishment in 2003, CASL’s mission has been to conduct cutting-edge research that results in improved performance on foreign language and analysis tasks relevant to the work of government language professionals. Visit www.casl.umd.edu for more information about CASL.

'''DUTIES:''' The Executive Director (ED) has leadership responsibility for research, operations, strategic planning, and compliance with university and government requirements and regulations associated with CASL’s designation as a University Affiliated Research Center (UARC). The ED’s duties include developing and implementing the US Government-approved research agenda; developing and managing external relations and outreach to academia, industry, and government for purposes of collaborative research and consultation; and overseeing relevant UARC-designated activities and outreach, collaboration, education, policy and evaluation. The ED ensures the hiring and retention of the best researchers and research managers in CASL’s core compentencies and other relevant disciplines as well as highly qualified financial, information technology, operations, logistics, and security support staff. In addition to aligning CASL’s strategic plan with its mission to meet the needs of clients, the ED provides leadership in identifying opportunities for partnering and collaborating with academic departments and other research centers on campus. The ED reports to the Vice President for Research and directly supervises the directors of CASL’s various units.

'''QUALIFICATIONS:''' Candidates must have an advanced degree, preferably a Ph.D., in a discipline related to one of CASL’s core competencies (e.g., Less Commonly Taught Languages and Cultures; Second Language Acquisition; Computational Linguistics; Linguistics; Cognitive or Social Psychology; Cognitive Science or Cognitive Neuroscience), with a distinguished record of scholarly achievement and/or leadership in one or more areas relevant to the research foci of the center. Candidates' experience, research and publications should show evidence of ability to tackle complex, interdisciplinary research and to work collaboratively with a range of institutions and researchers. Experience working closely with US government and/or industry colleagues in non-academic settings is essential. Candidates must qualify for an academic appointment either as a tenured professor or as a professor of the practice in a department consistent with their background.

'''Candidates must hold U.S. citizenship and be willing to obtain the appropriate security clearance.'''

'''TO APPLY:''' For best consideration, applicants should submit a letter of application, CV, and contact information for three professional references online at http://jobs.umd.edu click on “Faculty” (or direct link: http://www. jobs.umd.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=57086) by Monday, August 20, 2012. Address questions to the search committee chair, Professor Thomas S. Wallsten, at tswallst@umd.edu

The University of Maryland, College Park, actively subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity, and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, age, sex, color, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry or national origin, marital status, genetic information, or political affiliation. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. The University of Maryland offers an excellent benefits package which includes: health benefits, retirement plans, generous leave package, flexible spending accounts, tuition remission, and long-term, disability, and life insurance. Please visit the University’s web page at http://www.uhr.umd.edu/benefits/ to see a full list of benefits and the providers.

== Several Positions in Data2Text (Natural Language Generation) ==

* Employer: Data2Text
* Job title: Natural Language Generation Engineer, Analytics Engineer, Lead Engineer
* Specialty: natural language generation, analytics
* Location: Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
* Deadline: 29 June 2012
* Date posted: 8 June 2012
* Link to website: http://www.data2text.com/careers

Data2Text is a spinout from the University of Aberdeen's Natural Language Generation (NLG)
research group. We are looking to hire several people; please see our website for details
http://www.data2text.com/careers

This is a great opportunity for people who are keen on getting NLG technology
out into the real world. In addition to the advertised positions, we're happy to talk
to people who are knowledgeable about NLG and keen to develop commercial applications,
but whose profiles do not fit the advertised positions.

Information inquiries (from the ACL community) should be sent to Ehud Reiter
(e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk or ehud.reiter@data2text.com)

== Associate Research Scientist (SPEECH) at Educational Testing Service ==

* Employer: Educational Testing Service (www.ets.org)
* Job Title: Associate Research Scientist (SPEECH)
* Location: Princeton, NJ
* Deadline: Open until filled
* Date Posted: 16-May-2012
* [http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=124337&type=True&cfcend Application Website]
* Contact email: dyanchuk@ets.org

'''JOB DESCRIPTION'''

ETS's Research & Development division has an opening for a Speech research scientist in the NLP and Speech group. The Group currently consists of about 15 Ph.D. level research scientists in areas related to NLP and speech. Its main focus is on foundational research as well as on development of new capabilities to automatically score written and spoken test responses in a wide range of ETS test programs including TOEFL(R)iBT and GRE(R).

'''BASIC FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES'''

* Provide scientific and technical skills in conceptualizing, designing, obtaining support for, conducting, managing, and disseminating results of research projects in the field of speech technology, or portions of large-scale research studies or programs in the same field.

* Develop and/or modify NLP theories to conceptualize and implement new capabilities in automated scoring and NLP systems to improve assessments, learning tools and test development practices.

* Apply scientific, technical and software engineering skills in designing and conducting research studies and capability development in support of educational products and services.

* Develop and oversee the conduct of selected portions of research proposals and project budgets.

* Design and conduct complex scientific studies functioning as an expert in major facets of the projects.

* Assist in the conduct of research projects by accomplishing directed tasks according to schedule and within budget.

* Participate in dissemination activities through the publications of research papers, progress and technical reports, the presentation of seminars or other appropriate communication vehicles.

* Develop professional relationships as a representative, consultant or advisor to external advisory and policy boards and councils, research organizations, educational institutions and educators.

'''EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS'''

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Language Technologies, Natural Language Processing, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, with strong emphasis on speech technology and preferably some education in linguistics is required.

EXPERIENCE

Evidence of substantive research experience and/or experience in developing and deploying speech capabilities is required. Demonstrable contributions to new and/or modified theories of speech processing and their implementation in automated systems. Demonstrable expertise in the application of speech recognition systems and fluency in at least one major programming language (e.g., Java, Perl, C/C++, Python).

'''APPLYING'''

Interested parties can apply for the position through the following website:

http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=124337&type=True&cfcend

If there are any questions, please contact: Dave Yanchuk (609) 406-5291 dyanchuk@ets.org

== Associate Research Scientist (NLP) at Educational Testing Service ==

* Employer: Educational Testing Service (www.ets.org)
* Job Title: Associate Research Scientist (NLP)
* Location: Princeton, NJ
* Deadline: Open until filled
* Date Posted: 16-May-2012
* [http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=124335&type=True&cfcend Application Website]
* Contact email: dyanchuk@ets.org

'''JOB DESCRIPTION'''

ETS's Research & Development division has an opening for an NLP research scientist in the NLP and Speech group. The Group currently consists of about 15 Ph.D. level research scientists in areas related to NLP and speech. Its main focus is on foundational research as well as on development of new capabilities to automatically score written and spoken test responses in a wide range of ETS test programs including TOEFL(R)iBT and GRE(R).

'''BASIC FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES'''

* Provide scientific and technical skills in conceptualizing, designing, obtaining support for, conducting, managing, and disseminating results of research projects in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), or portions of large-scale research studies or programs in the same field.

* Develop and/or modify NLP theories to conceptualize and implement new capabilities in automated scoring and NLP systems to improve assessments, learning tools and test development practices.

* Apply scientific, technical and software engineering skills in designing and conducting research studies and capability development in support of educational products and services.

* Develop and oversee the conduct of selected portions of research proposals and project budgets.

* Design and conduct complex scientific studies functioning as an expert in major facets of the projects.

* Assist in the conduct of research projects by accomplishing directed tasks according to schedule and within budget.

* Participate in dissemination activities through the publications of research papers, progress and technical reports, the presentation of seminars or other appropriate communication vehicles.

* Develop professional relationships as a representative, consultant or advisor to external advisory and policy boards and councils, research organizations, educational institutions and educators.

'''EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS'''

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, with strong emphasis on NLP technology and preferably some education in linguistics is required.

EXPERIENCE

Evidence of substantive research experience and/or experience in developing and deploying NLP capabilities is required. Demonstrable contributions to new and/or modified theories of NLP and their implementation in automated systems are required. Demonstrable and practical expertise with NLP tools and fluency in at least one major programming language (e.g. java, perl, c/c++, python) is also required. Familiarity with the application of NLP tools to educational problems, and a very strong statistical background and a solid experience with machine learning algorithms would be an asset.

'''APPLYING'''

Interested parties can apply for the position through the following website:

http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=124335&type=True&cfcend

If there are any questions, please contact: Dave Yanchuk (609) 406-5291 dyanchuk@ets.org

== Associate Research Engineer at Educational Testing Service ==

* Employer: Educational Testing Service (www.ets.org)
* Job Title: Associate Research Engineer
* Location: Princeton, NJ
* Deadline: Open until filled
* Date Posted: 15-May-2012
* [http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=124339&type=True&cfcend Application Website]
* Contact email: dyanchuk@ets.org

'''JOB DESCRIPTION'''

ETS's Research & Development division has an opening for a researcher in the NLP & Speech Group. The Group currently consists of about 15 Ph.D. level research scientists in areas related to NLP and speech. Its main focus is on foundational research as well as on development of new capabilities to automatically score written and spoken test responses in a wide range of ETS test programs including TOEFL(R)iBT and GRE(R).

'''BASIC FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES'''
* Assist in the implementation of speech technology and natural language processing (NLP) components of medium- to large-scale, complex research projects for ETS researchers, testing program areas, and external clients. Consult with research scientists in the application, modification, and documentation of such systems using established technologies.

* Work effectively in a team setting and take an active role in contributing to team discussions and decisions.

* Analyze, design, modify, develop, document and implement technologies for executing medium- to large-scale, complex Speech technology and NLP research and development tasks. Identify unexpected problems in the application of Speech and NLP tools, and develop solutions.

* Consult with research supervisory staff on the development of technologies for executing medium- to large-scale, complex Speech technology and NLP research and development tasks. Contribute to the implementation and support of new Speech and NLP methodologies to support research system development.

* Assist in the preparation of NLP development components of proposals and cost/resource estimates.

* Maintain continuing awareness of recent advances in speech and natural language processing, machine learning, and software development methodologies.

* Implement components of technical documentation of NLP software systems, solutions and results.

* Attend area-wide staff training and development sessions.

'''EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS'''

EDUCATION

A Masters degree in Computer Science, NLP, Language Technology, Computational Linguistics, Linguistics or a closely related field is required.

EXPERIENCE

A strong programming background, in languages such as Java, Python, Perl, and C, and facility with computational algorithms are essential. Coursework in statistics and experience in using machine learning toolkits are highly desirable. Experience with speech processing software (e.g. HTK, Praat, Matlab) is desirable.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS
* Knowledge of UNIX and Windows computing environments.

* Familiarity with UNIX tools and scripting languages.

* Familiarity with algorithms, methods and data structures in common use in the processing of speech and language data.

* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

'''APPLYING'''

Interested parties can apply for the position through the following website:

http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=124339&type=True&cfcend

If there are any questions, please contact: Dave Yanchuk (609) 406-5291 dyanchuk@ets.org

== Junior Researcher at Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) ==

* Employer: Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
* Group: Language Technology
* Title: Junior Researcher
* Requirements:
** Permission to work within the European union
** Excellent English language skills; knowledge of the German language is a plus
** A degree in computational linguistics, computer science, or a related area (PhD is a plus, but experienced graduate students will be considered)
** Experience in statistical natural language processing (knowledge of unsupervised machine learning is a plus)
** Programming skills in C++, Perl and/or Java
** Strong ability to work independently and drive an original research agenda
* Deadline: June 15, 2012
* Date Posted: May 14, 2012
* Contact: harald.trost@ofai.at

The Language Technology group at the OFAI, Vienna, is looking for a motivated post-doctoral researcher or a well experienced graduate student to fill a research position within the basic research project "Machine Learning Techniques for Modeling of Language Varieties".

The position involves basic research on issues related to data sparsity in machine translation between non-central language pairs. In particular, morphological closeness shall be exploited and bootstrapping methods shall be employed to counter the data sparsity. Further information is available at http://varieties.ofai.at.

A basic gross salary of EUR 40,000-45,000 per anno will be offered depending on the experience of the candidate.

OFAI encourages its researchers to publish results in the top venues (ACL, EMNLP, etc.) and provides travel funding towards this end.

Please send your applications, including a CV and a brief research statement, to Harald Trost <harald.trost@ofai.at>. The position is to be filled as soon as possible, not later than September 1st, 2012, and will terminate with the end of the project (December 31st, 2013).

About the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI): Founded in 1984, OFAI is one of Europe's leading non-profit research institutions in AI. Further information is available at http://www.ofai.at.

About Vienna: Vienna is the Austrian capital and consistently ranked as one of the most livable cities in the world. At over 1,600,000 inhabitants, Vienna is one of the largest cities in the central European region and home to numerous universities and research institutions, providing an intellectually stimulating environment.

== Junior Research Group Leaders at Saarland University ==

* Employer: Saarland University, Germany
* Division: MMCI Cluster of Excellence
* Title: Junior Research Group Leaders
* Job ID: W490
* Specialty: Multimodal Computing and Interaction (incl. Speech and Language Processing)
* Location: Saarbrücken, Germany
* Deadline: April 30, 2012
* Date Posted: April 4, 2012
* Contact: http://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Campus/Service/Stellenausschreibung/Wissenschaftliches_Personal/W490.pdf

The Cluster of Excellence "Multimodal Computing and Interaction" at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, seeks applications for a number of new Junior Research Group Leader positions. The Cluster provides a highly interdisciplinary research environment with a strong Computational Linguistics component. One of the Cluster's central research areas is 'Speech and Language Processing'. Group leaders will receive junior faculty status at Saarland University, including the right to supervise Bachelor, Master and PhD students. Junior research groups are equipped with a budget of 80k to 100k Euros per year to cover research personnel and other costs.

Deadline for applications is April 30th, 2012.

For the complete announcement see:
http://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Campus/Service/Stellenausschreibung/Wissenschaftliches_Personal/W490.pdf

Additional information on the excellence cluster is available on
http://www.mmci.uni-saarland.de/

Please feel free to contact for further information any of the PIs (Matthew Crocker, Manfred Pinkal, Hans Uszkoreit) or JRG leaders (Vera Demberg, Caroline Sporleder, Ivan Titov) in the research area.

== Scientist Position in Statistical Machine Translation at Microsoft ==

* Employer: MICROSOFT
* Division: Online Services Division
* Title: Scientist Position
* Job ID: 789594
* Specialty: Statistical Machine Translation
* Location: Bellevue, WA or Mountain Vew, CA
* Deadline: As soon as possible
* Date Posted: March 30, 2012
* Contact: https://careers.microsoft.com/jobdetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=1&jid=77908&jlang=EN

Scientist Position in Statistical Machine Translation

Research and Development Opportunities for Next Generation Technology at Microsoft

Do you want to impact billions of people all over the world with speech technology that you create?

We are looking for PhD level scientists and senior scientists, who will work on research and development problems in statistical machine translation. The candidates with experience in large-scale syntax-based statistical machine translation,
weighted finite state transducers, natural language processing and machine learning will be preferred.

Microsoft is all-in on the Natural User Interface to bring computing to larger audiences in more applications. To drive this mission we are bringing together scientists and engineers in the areas of machine translation, speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialog modeling, machine learning and synthesis to develop and deliver robust, natural and scalable solutions across a rich set of scenarios and languages.

Join the excitement to be part of the newly formed team of scientists within Microsoft and to impact the lives of billions of people all over the world. We are talking about Bing, Windows, XBOX, Mobile, Exchange Server and Tellme, just to name a few. Microsoft is dedicated to improving everyday life using speech. And not just in a few countries - but around the world.

== Reasoning about Agent's Mental States in Dialog and Joint Activity (CMU Silicon Valley) ==

* Employer: Inst. for the Study of Learning and Expertise at CMU Silicon Valley
* Title: Post MS, Post Doc, or above
* Specialty: Logic, Reasoning (Abduction/Inference), Production systems, Discourse processes, Reasoning
* Location: Mountain Vew, CA
* Deadline: As soon as possible
* Date Posted: March 21, 2012
* Contact: patrick.w.langley@gmail.com

An ongoing project has an opening for a researcher who will help extend
Icarus, a cognitive architecture, to reason about other agents' mental
states in the context of dialogues and joint activities. The framework
uses a logical formalism to encode knowledge, beliefs, and goals, and
it relies on a form of abduction to make plausible inferences. Experience
in building reasoning systems that operate over rich representations is
essential, and a background in applied logic, knowledge-based systems,
and/or cognitive architectures is highly desirable.

The location of the project will be Carnegie Mellon's Silicon Valley
Campus. The start date is negotiable, but the position will be available
on May 1, 2012, and the project has funding for another two years.
Interested parties should send their curriculum vitae, along with
the contact details for two or more references, to Pat Langley
<patrick.w.langley@gmail.com>.

== Post-doctoral researcher in metaphor detection and analysis at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL ==

* Employer: Illinois Institute of Technology
* Title: Postdoc
* Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Metaphor
* Location: Chicago, IL
* Deadline: As soon as possible
* Date Posted: March 13, 2012
* Contact: argamon@iit.edu

The Illinois Institute of Technology Department of Computer Science in Chicago, IL is delighted to announce an opening for a Postdoctoral Research Associate, for a recent Ph.D. in computer science, computational linguistics, or related areas. We seek applicants to work with Prof. Shlomo Argamon in the Linguistic Cognition Laboratory, the PI of a federally-funded project to identify and analyze metaphors in multiple languages.

The ideal candidate will have a scholarly understanding of computational linguistics and metaphor, be an excellent programmer, and be comfortable with technologies for the analysis of big data. The postdoc will: (a) support development of automated language analysis and text mining for metaphor identification and analysis, (b) help manage the work of graduate research assistants on the project, (c) aid in developing research publications and external funding proposals, and (d) support other research and administration activities in the project.

Applicants from all areas relevant to the research are encouraged to apply. In addition to the core area of computational linguistics, training in machine learning, statistical analysis, and information retrieval will be helpful. Knowledge of Spanish, Russian, or Farsi is also a plus.

The position includes a competitive salary plus benefits. It will run through the end of 2012, beginning as soon as possible, with the possibility of a one-year renewal upon satisfactory performance and continued funding.

Interested candidates should apply via email to Dr. Shlomo Argamon (argamon@iit.edu). Applications should include a CV with cover letter, including the names of three references, giving contact information (email address and phone number) and relationship to the candidate for each reference. Inquiries can similarly be directed to the above email address. Prior to hiring, successful applicants will be required to submit either a transcript/diploma showing the date of an earned Ph.D. degree or a letter from their academic adviser confirming the expectation of the degree by May 2012.

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

== Post-doctoral position within the area of automatic text summarization at Google Zurich, Switzerland ==

* Employer: Google
* Job title: Postdoc
* Specialty: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, summarization
* Location: Zurich, Switzerland
* Deadline: we are looking to fill the position soon
* Date posted: 1 March 2012

A post-doctoral position in the area of automatic text summarization
within the RENDER project is available at the Google Switzerland R&D
office. RENDER is a EU FP7 research project focused on identifying
diversity of opinions, viewpoints, mindsets and backgrounds in texts
from different sources: news, (micro) blog streams, and in
collaboratively written resources like Wikipedia. More information on
the project goals is available at http://render-project.eu/.

The duration of the post-doctoral contract will be one year, with the
possibility of renewing for a second year. This position will allow
the candidate to perform research on several NLP-related areas,
to interact with the consortium partners and with other Google-internal
research and development projects, and to apply the results of the
research to real applications with a potentially large impact.

Requirements:
* The candidate should have a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics or Information Retrieval. Experience with automatic text summarization, machine learning or opinion mining is a plus.
* Extensive programming experience in C/C++.
* A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
* Fluency in English.

Responsibilities:
* Perform research in the context of the project (text summarization).
* Develop prototypes quickly, and implement industrial-strength production-quality high-volume applications.
* Publish the result of the research in top conferences or journals.
* Be available to attend project meetings with the partners in the project.

For applying to this position, please send an e-mail to Enrique
Alfonseca (ealfonseca@google.com) including a paragraph on why you
think you are a right person for the role, and a brief CV.

== 4 PhD positions in spoken dialogue systems research ==

* Employer: Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University in Prague
* Job title: 4 PhD positions in spoken dialogue systems research
* Specialty: spoken dialogue systems, machine learning, Bayesian methods, and natural language processing
* Location: Prague, Czech Republic
* Deadline: 1 June 2012
* Date posted: 16 February 2012
* Link to website: http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~jurcicek/jobs

Applications are invited for 4 PhD fellowships in the area of statistical spoken dialogue systems funded by the Czech Government. The students will join the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic with an anticipated start date of October 1st, 2012.

Topic description: In recent years, it has been suggested that statistical approach to spoken dialogue system offer a framework to naturally handle inherent uncertainty in the human speech. The two main advantages of statistical methods are increased robustness in noisy conditions and more natural behaviour learned from data. However, the current methods need large corpora effectively preventing these methods to be used for complex dialogue systems occurring in real-life. The successful PhD candidates will investigate and implement statistical models and methods with the aim of increasing the efficiency of the learning process and reducing the need for large corpora. The conducted research will cover areas of spoken language understanding, dialogue management, and natural language processing.

Skills: Candidates should hold a master degree in a relevant area, such as computer science, mathematics, engineering or linguistics. A strong mathematical background, excellent programming skills (e.g. C/C++, Java, MATLAB, and various scripting languages under Linux environment), aptitude for creative research and autonomy are expected. Experience in machine learning, Bayesian methods, and natural language processing is a plus.

The Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics is a top-level research group working in the area of computational linguistics and natural language processing. During the fellowship, there will be good opportunities to attend international conferences and workshops. The formal applications should be submitted before June 1. Prospective candidates are strongly encouraged to contact Dr Filip Jurcicek (jurcicek@ufal.mff.cuni.cz) as soon as possible to obtain details about the application process, the institute, and the research opportunities.
Additional information is available at http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~jurcicek/jobs.

== PhD-position in sentiment mining and reputation analysis==

* Employer: Erasmus University Rotterdam
* Job title: PhD-student
* Specialty: text mining, sentiment analysis, topic detection, reputation management
* Location: Rottterdam, The Netherlands
* Deadline: 1 March 2012
* Date posted: 6 February 2012
* Link to website: http://www.eur.nl/erasmusstudio/about_erasmus_studio/open_positions

In the context of the COMMIT project Information Retrieval for Information Services (COMMIT/Infiniti http://www.project-infiniti.nl/), applications are invited for a PhD student position. The research task will be to investigate the Mining of Economic Entities. As currently people easily share their sentiment regarding companies and products, reputation modeling has become increasingly important for commercial and non-commercial organisations. Due to the huge amount of opinions available through the Web, a manual approach for social media analysis for sentiment mining seems unfeasible, while there seems to be a huge potential for content-driven automated approaches. Through the mining of economic entities and the aggregated sentiment based on textual data, the aim is to support decisions on, e.g., product developments, marketing campaigns, etc. The envisaged prototype for a decision support tool will act as an indicator of public sentiment and trends. In addition, the variation in the dynamics of opinion forming for diverging domains such as economic news, political sentiment, and sentiment towards historical events will be studied.
The PhD track is embedded in the work of the EUR team working on the Infiniti project (Erasmus School of Economics/Econometric Institute/ Computer Science Group and Erasmus Studio) and the student will be able to collaborate on related topics with PhD students and researchers from other organizations participating in COMMIT.

For more information please visit this link: http://www.eur.nl/erasmusstudio/about_erasmus_studio/open_positions

To apply, send an email with the required documents (cv, motivation, relevant certificates and the names of two referees) to commit.eur@gmail.com.

== PhD-position in folktale classification and clustering ==
* Employer: University of Twente
* Job title: PhD-student
* Specialty: text classification, document clustering, natural language processing
* Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands / Enschede, The Netherlands
* Deadline: 4 March 2012
* Date posted: 6 February 2012
* Link to website: http://www.utwente.nl/vacatures/?VacatureID=199425

Applications are invited for a PhD-student in the FACT project (Folktales As Classifiable Texts), funded under the CATCH programme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). This is a multidisciplinary research project involving collaboration between computer science and humanities researchers. The PhD-student will work on automatic classification of Dutch folktales by their international folktale type and on unsupervised clustering of folktales, to provide new input for humanities research. For this position, familiarity with the Dutch language is a plus.

The PhD-student will be employed at the University of Twente, but will spend most of his/her time "on site" at the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam (http://www.meertens.knaw.nl), which maintains a large collection of Dutch folktales (http://www.verhalenbank.nl). The PhD-student will be part of a larger team within the e-Laboratory on Oral Culture at the Meertens Institute.

For more information and the application form, visit this link: http://www.utwente.nl/vacatures/?VacatureID=199425

==Research Associate Position at Educational Testing Service==
* Employer: Educational Testing Service ([http://www.ets.org www.ets.org])
* Job Title: Research Associate
* Location: Princeton, NJ
* Deadline: Open until filled
* Date Posted: 28-Jan-2012
* [http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=122972&BUID=2538 Application Website]
* Contact email: dyanchuk@ets.org

'''JOB DESCRIPTION'''

Educational Testing Service has an opening for a Research Associate position in the Research Coordination and Support Group. The successful candidate will primarily provide support to Research Scientists working on a branch of computer science and computational linguistics known as Natural Language Processing (NLP) by assisting in the management of resources across numerous projects, leading communication efforts both internally and externally, and participating in all phases of research projects, including research design, project management, data collection and analysis. He or she will also collaborate with researchers in responding to external requests for information, external grant applications, and in preparing study results for publication or presentation.

'''BASIC FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES'''

* Provide full professional support to and collaborate with a Director of Research; Senior Research Scientists; and Research Scientists.

* Participate in planning, management, and design of research. Serve as co-investigator in research areas; collaborate on research projects.

* Plan and manage annotations for a variety of projects.

* Design and develop plans for data collection; oversee data collection, reduction, and analysis; evaluate availability and usefulness of data; identify and collect additional data necessary for completing research projects.

* Monitor collection and quality of data; provide comprehensive review of data collected from field sites to ensure completeness and accuracy; oversee entry of data for computer analysis.

* Design original research instruments and methods and applications of research.

* Write, rewrite, and edit proposals, professional reports, research instruments, books (or sections thereof), speeches, handbooks, research articles, and correspondence. Specifically, develop standardized materials such as PowerPoint slides, capability descriptions, and research study templates for use in communicating about automated scoring capabilities; develop boilerplate text for external audiences and proposals; and craft proposal text on demand, based on existing standard materials and input from automated scoring researchers.

* Conduct or assist in direction and management of research projects. Conduct research of his or her own design, under general oversight of assigned supervisor. Manage resources across a wide-range of studies designed to support or enhance automated scoring technologies. Recruit and hire field staff; develop and monitor project budgets; coordinate and supervise field staff and consultants.

* Conduct literature searches; review current research on research models and methods; review and evaluate ongoing developments in automated scoring research; and evaluate evolving business needs. Perform independent analyses of information by reading, summarizing, and evaluating it preliminary to undertaking research. Update standard materials as needed, based on new developments in research or external conditions.

* Provide training and consultation on computer and systems applications, including customized annotation systems. Train and instruct staff on methods and procedures for annotation, data presentation, and explain methods of implementation to technical staff.

* Contact, establish, and develop relationships with research community and with data sources.

* Arrange and attend conferences and meetings; present research findings at professional meetings.

'''EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS'''

EDUCATION

A Master's degree in linguistics, computer science, and/or natural language processing (NLP) is necessary.

EXPERIENCE

The successful candidate will have four years of progressively responsible research experience in linguistics or natural language processing. Candidates must demonstrate the ability to craft high-quality written communications for technical and non-technical audiences and have experience managing a large number of concurrent projects.

APPLYING

Interested parties can apply for the position through the following website:

http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=122972&BUID=2538

If there are any questions, please contact:

Dave Yanchuk
(609) 406-5291
dyanchuk@ets.org

==Postdoc Position at HRL Laboratories==
* Employer: HRL Laboratories, LLC
* Job Title: POST DOC RESEARCH STAFF - Social Media Analysis & Data Mining
* Location: Malibu, CA
* Deadline: Open until filled
* Date Posted: 26-Jan-2012
* Contact email: hmoon@hrl.com

HRL Laboratories, LLC. (http://www.hrl.com) has openings for a postdoctoral researcher position in the area of social media analysis / data mining. HRL laboratories is one of the most innovative research organizations in industry. Overlooking the pacific ocean in the hills above Malibu, California, our beautiful surroundings are matched by our capabilities and commitment to being a world-class research and development lab. We collaborate with top researchers in academia to advance the fields of information and systems sciences, sensors and materials, applied electromagnetics, and microelectronics. Please visit http://www.hrl.com/careers/cars_jobs.html for more information.
For job considerations, please send your cover letter and CV to hmoon@hrl.com.

Job Description:

EDUCATION DESIRED: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Statistics, EE or related fields

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: Primary job function is to apply statistical data analysis and text processing techniques to problems and applications in data mining. Tasks will include the development, simulation, evaluation, and implementation of algorithms and models. Additional job functions include solving customer problems, writing invention disclosures, publishing papers, briefing customers, and assisting in marketing HRL expertise.

EXPERIENCE DESIRED: Research experience in one or more of the following areas: Text processing, sentiment analysis, data mining, web & social media processing, large-scale data processing, and machine learning. Experience developing innovative solutions based upon the application of relevant research results from a wide variety of sources.

KNOWLEDGE DESIRED: Background in one or more of the following areas: natural language processing, social network analysis, statistical analysis, data mining, strong programming skills, particularly proficient with C/C++, Java, R and/or Matlab. Experience with MapReduce or Hadoop, and proficiency in Spanish/Portuguese language is a plus.

ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS: Good communication (verbal and written) skills, active participation in R&D team activities is required. Able and willing to occasionally travel.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS (e.g. driver’s license, special tools or restrictions): U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status required.

We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

==Postdoc or Research Associate - Natural Language Processing==
* Employer: IHMC (www.ihmc.us)
* Rank or Title: Research Associate - Natural Language Processing
* Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing
* Location: Ocala, FL
* Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
* Date Posted: January 3rd, 2012
* Contact email ywilks@ihmc.us

'''About Us'''
IHMC is a not-for-profit research institute of the Florida University System and is affiliated with several Florida universities.
Researchers at IHMC pioneer technologies aimed at leveraging and extending human capabilities. These systems fit the human and machine components together in ways that exploit their respective strengths and mitigate their respective weaknesses. The design and fit of computational prostheses require a broader interdisciplinary range than is typically found in one organization, thus IHMC staff includes computer scientists, cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, physicians, philosophers, engineers and social scientists of various stripes, as well as some researchers who resist all attempts to classify them.
Current active research areas include: knowledge modeling and sharing, adjustable autonomy, robotics, advanced interfaces and displays, communication and collaboration, computer-mediated learning systems, intelligent data and language understanding, software agents, expertise studies, work practice simulation, knowledge representation, and other related areas.
IHMC faculty and staff collaborate extensively with industry and government to develop science and technology that can be enabling with respect to society's broader goals. IHMC researchers receive funding (current funding in force exceeds $25,000,000) from a wide range of government and private sources. IHMC research partners have included: DARPA, NSF, NASA, Army, Navy, Air Force, NIH, DOT, IDEO, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Boeing, Lockheed, and SAIC, among others.

The candidate will be appointed on a new US Government project on metaphor detection and understanding, due to start in the coming months and run for up to five years. Ocala, Florida is an excellent location, close to Florida’s major university and about an hour from both coasts. IHMC is housed in an excellent, state of the art building in the city center.

Required:

▪ Natural language processing / computational linguistics background. Ideal: metaphor and/or machine learning applications

▪ Substantial skills in processing large scale corpora. Ideal: Java skills and standard statistical procedures.

▪ Ph.D. in computational linguistics / natural language processing or related areas.

Skills and Experience:

▪ 3+ plus years experience in natural language processing / computational linguistics in industry or large scale academic research project.

▪ Expertise in at least some of the following specific NLP areas and topics: question answering, lexical semantics, collocations, terminology extraction, disambiguation, multi-word expressions, (shallow) parsing, named entity recognition, lexical acquisition, paraphrasis acquisition, information extraction, text classification, evaluation methodologies.

▪ Familiarity with existing data resources and tools: Wordnet, POS taggers, parsers, LingPipe, SVMLight, NLTK, Weka, and similar tools.

▪ Ideal: experience with ontologies, RDF, other semantic web resources or tools.

Apply to Yorick Wilks at: ywilks@ihmc.us

== Visiting Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Queens College of CUNY ==
* Employer: Queens College of the City University of New York
* Location: New York, NY
* Deadline: Review of applications to begin on March 1, 2012
* Website: http://www.cs.qc.cuny.edu/
* Date posted: January 4, 2012

'''Visiting Assistant/Associate/Full Professor'''

The Department of Computer Science at Queens College of The City University of New York (CUNY) is pleased to announce a visiting faculty position for academic year 2012-2013, beginning September 1. This is a research-focused temporary position, and we encourage applications from candidates with a successful publication history in machine translation, speech recognition, or other research areas of natural language processing or machine learning.

Both junior and senior researchers are encouraged to apply; compensation and title are commensurate with qualifications and experience. Candidates are expected to collaborate with members of our current faculty in computational linguistics -- either on existing research projects or on new joint endeavors. If interested in teaching experience, the visiting faculty member is also invited to teach one course on a topic closely related to his or her research specialty.

The department's computational linguistics faculty, which include two current NSF CAREER Award winners, participate actively in the Ph.D. programs in computer science and linguistics, based at CUNY Graduate Center. These faculty members have active research grants from the NSF, DARPA, the Army Research Lab, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. More information about the growing research community in computational linguistics across CUNY is available on this website: http://nlpatcuny.cs.qc.cuny.edu/

Qualifying candidates must have an earned Ph.D. by August 2012 in computer science, linguistics, or a closely related field, with a demonstrated research record in the areas listed above. Also required are the ability to work with Ph.D. students, interest in productive scholarship, teaching and communication skills, and ability to cooperate with others for the good of the institution.

Candidates should submit a letter of application detailing their teaching, research, and grant writing interests and experience, and a curriculum vitae to:

Dr. Matt Huenerfauth, Search Committee Chair

Department of Computer Science

Queens College-CUNY

65-30 Kissena Blvd.

Flushing, New York 11365-1597

matthew.huenerfauth (at) qc.cuny.edu

Email submissions with PDF attachments are preferred. In addition, please arrange for three current letters of reference to be submitted directly by the recommenders. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2012, and will continue until the position is filled.

CUNY offers a comprehensive benefits package to employees and eligible dependents based on job title and classification. We are committed to enhancing our diverse academic community by actively encouraging people with disabilities, minorities, veterans, and women to apply. We take pride in our pluralistic community and continue to seek excellence through diversity and inclusion. EO/AA Employer.

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== Assistant Professor Position in Computational Linguistics in NAIST (Nara, Japan) ==

* Employer: Nara Insititute of Science and Technology
http://www.naist.jp/en/
* Rank or Title: Assistant Professor
* Specialty: Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning
* Location: Nara, Japan
* Deadline: February 28, 2013
* Date Posted: January 30, 2013
* Start Date: after April, 2013
* Duration: 5 years (reappointment is possible)
* Contact email: matsu@is.naist.jp

'''For Detailed Description'''

http://www.naist.jp/en/about_naist/job_opportunities/academic_positions/index_130129.html

==Researchers - AT&T Labs Research==
* Employer: AT&T Labs - Research
* Rank or Title: Researchers and Research Software Engineers
* Specialty: Natural Language Processing, Speech Processing, Machine Learning
* Location: NJ
* Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
* Date Posted: 8 January 2013
* Contact email: vkumar@research.att.com

'''Position Description'''

AT&T Research, one of the premier industrial research laboratories in the world, is looking for
talented individuals to make a difference in the world of communications. Our researchers and
research software engineers are dedicated to solving real problems in speech and language
processing, and are involved in inventing, creating and deploying innovative services. We also
explore fundamental research problems in these areas. Outstanding Ph.D.-level candidates at
all levels of experience are encouraged to apply. Candidates must demonstrate excellence in
research, a collaborative spirit and strong communication and software skills.

Areas of particular interest are

* Large-vocabulary automatic speech recognition
* Acoustic and language modeling
* Robust speech recognition
* Signal processing
* Text-to-speech synthesis
* Natural language understanding and dialog
* Machine translation (speech and text)
* Speaker biometrics
* Voice and multimodal search
* Software engineering for speech and language processing

Speech and language positions are based in Bedminster, NJ; New York, NY and Middletown, NJ (note: we are moving from our Florham Park office).

Outstanding PhD-level candidates at all levels of experience and experienced M.S. candidates
are encouraged to apply. Interviews will be conducted in early 2013. For more information,
visit http://www.research.att.com/ and click on "Working with us", or access the page directly:

http://www.research.att.com/evergreen/working_with_us/careers.html

Candidates must demonstrate a proven research track record and the ability to identify technical
problems and research opportunities. Candidates with strong analytical and programming skills (Python, C, C++)
are desired. Access to massive amounts of real-world data, the ability to work with internal and external
collaborators across departments, the possibility of making an impact by developing solutions that will be used
by millions, and the freedom to publish your results are some of the reasons AT&T Labs -
Research is an exciting place to work.

AT&T Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. Applications will continue to be considered until positions are filled.

==Engineer 4, NLP Software Development - Comcast Corporation (Washington DC or Philadelphia PA)==
* Employer: Comcast
* Rank or Title: Engineer 4
* Specialty: Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition, Machine Learning
* Location: Washington DC or Philadelphia
* Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
* Date Posted: 6 December 2012
* Contact email: brian_curtis@cable.comcast.com

'''Position Description'''

Comcast is the largest cable TV company in the world. We are looking for talented engineers to help us shape the future of content discovery for television.

To help get us there, we are hiring an experienced software engineer to develop new technology and adapt/apply existing technologies to NLP problems for the Comcast Voice Control platform. This position is part of a small team that uses Speech Recognition, Natural Language Understanding/Processing, Machine Learning along with search technologies such as SOLR/Lucene, tf/idf and relevance ranking, to extract contextually correct entity and verb semantics from speech and apply them to real world solutions across millions of connected homes.

'''About you'''

* Education Level: Bachelors Degree or Equivalent
* Field of Study: Computer Science, Engineering
* Extensive experience using Java technologies including J2SE, XML/XSLT, Apache Jakarta components and other open source software.
* Experience with statistical/modeling techniques such as CRF, HMM, SVM, KNN.
* Experience with Topic Classification, Parsing, Narrative Thread analysis, parts of speech tagging, Sphinx, metadata extraction.
* Experience with machine learning and/or algorithms.
* Experience with Hibernate, MySQL and/or NoSQL, preferably Hadoop/HBase.
* Experience with search technologies such as SOLR/Lucene and/or recommender systems.
* Experience with and understanding of Unix systems (RHEL) desirable.
* Experience in Agile development methodologies.
* Strong problem solving ability with excellent written/verbal communication and presentation skills.

If you are interested in this position and you think you might have what it takes, send your resume to brian_curtis@cable.comcast.com.

==NLP Research Scientist - Nuance Communications, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA Research Group)==
* Employer: Nuance Communications, Inc.
* Rank or Title: NLP Research Scientist
* Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Dialog Systems
* Location: Sunnyvale, CA, USA
* Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
* Date Posted: November 20th, 2012
* Contact email: Jennifer.Garvale@nuance.com

'''General Description'''

Nuance is the world-wide leader in voice technologies. We are now making substantial research and development investments to add natural language processing capabilities to our speech infrastructure. We are expanding our new Silicon Valley Natural Language Research laboratory. The goal of this group is to develop the next generation of intelligent, conversational agents. We seek research scientists with the following backgrounds:

* Dialog processing
* Discourse and anaphora resolution
* Multimodal generation
* Parsing
* Entity recognition
* Morphology
* Multilingual NLP
* Semantic interpretation

'''Responsibilities'''

* Ownership of a major component of the conversational system.
* Conduct research on the dialog, generation, or reasoning components, and incorporate the latest advances from major conferences in the field.
* Adapt existing components within Nuance and from previous research in the field to a new problem space and domain.
* Understand the trade-offs between multiple competing approaches, and choose the ones that are likely to have future impact on the company's products.
* Design components in a way that will generalize across domains. Minimize the code change and human effort needed for the system to work in a new domain.
* Collaborate with other scientists and engineers inside and outside of the team.
* Patent or publish experimental results or designs when appropriate.

'''Education/Experience'''
* Ph.D. in computer science, computational linguistics, linguistics, or another technical field with a focus on natural language processing.
* Solid track record in both projects and publications for natural language processing.
* Solid implementation skills in C++, Java, scripting languages.
* Knowledge of both statistical and rule-based methods for natural language processing.

Interested candidates should contact Jennifer Garvale at Jennifer.Garvale@nuance.com. For additional information about the technical aspects of the position, feel free to contact Joel Tetreault at Joel.Tetreault@nuance.com.

==Postdoctoral Fellowship - Natural Language Processing==
* Employer: University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
* Rank or Title: Postdoctoral Fellow - Natural Language Processing
* Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Generation
* Location: Cincinnati, OH, USA
* Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
* Date Posted: November 9th, 2012
* Contact email Imre.Solti@cchmc.org

'''Position and Requirements'''
Are you a recent PhD graduate or getting ready to graduate with a degree in computational linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence or closely related field? Do you want to apply your computational skills, machine learning and NLP experience to solve real world challenges to help patients by automating the clinical decision making? Do you have excellent command of both written and oral English, and first author peer reviewed journal publications?

If the answers are yes and you would like to join our team of seven dedicated researchers, programmers and annotators then please, send your most recent CV, a brief research statement and three publications in PDF file format to: Imre.Solti@cchmc.org (include "Postdoctoral Fellow - ACL Wiki" in the subject line).

We provide competitive salaries and excellent benefits. We will sponsor H1B visas for qualified candidates as necessary.

'''About the Institution'''
Cincinnati Children's has over one million physician-patient encounters a year and is the second largest recipient of NIH funding among children hospitals. The hospital has over 12,000 employees. The Division of Biomedical Informatics manages a state-of-the-art 500+ CPU computing cluster. The research of the Solti Lab is funded from institutional and external (NIH) grants.

== Research Programmer position - speech and language processing ==
* Employer: University of Minnesota
* Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
* Deadline: open until filled
* Date posted: November 7, 2012
* Duration: Minimum 2 years committment
* Informal inquiries can be sent to Serguei Pakhomov at spakh001@gmail.com

'''General Description'''
The College of Pharamcy at the University of Minnesota is seeking a talented, pro-active and innovative individual for a Research Programmer position to work on several projects in Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuropharmacology (C3N). C3N is engaged in conducting interdisciplinary research focused on cognitive effects of medications and neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. Computerized assessment is used to measure these cognitive effects. The successful candidate for this position will be responsible for a variety of computer-related tasks including creating and maintaining innovative computer-based neuropsychological testing applications that involve spontaneous speech and language collection and analysis. The successful candidate will also be expected to interact with graduate and undergraduate students on specific programming and research projects to meet the needs of the Center.

'''Skills and characteristics'''

* Education: Master’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, computational linguistics or equivalent combination of training and experience

* Required Skills: Excellent analytical, technical and problem-solving skills. Deep understanding and experience with audio and speech processing. Strong application programming skills in C/C++, Java, Python and/or Perl programming languages. Familiarity with speech recognition toolkits and APIs (e.g., HTK, Sphinx, KALDI, SRILM), acoustic analysis tools (e.g., Praat) and good understanding or experience with speech recognition and analysis technology.

* Preferred skills and characteristics: Familiarity with natural language processing (NLP) techniques and toolkits (e.g., NLTK). Experience with programming applications for mobile devices. Familiarity with computerized or paper-and-pencil neuropsychological testing.

* Other: The successful candidate will be a self-motivated and proactive individual, a good communicator interested in working in an academic environment. Participating in research and experimentation leading to scientific publication are not required but would be highly encouraged and supported.

If you are someone who has the necessary skills and thrives on working in an exciting and dynamic research environment, please send us a letter stating your interest and qualifications, and a resume. Please use this website to apply: https://employment.umn.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.jsp?postingId=576008.

== One Postdoctoral Position In Statistical Machine Translation - Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) ==
* Employer: Sapienza University of Rome
* Location: Rome, Italy
* Deadline: 18th October 2012
* Date Posted: 01st October 2012
* Starting date: 1st December 2012
* Duration: 1+1 years
* Salary: 35000-50000 euros per annum, depending on qualifications. Note that this type of research contract is exempt from most taxes (e.g., 40000 euros per annum corresponds to around 2600 euros net per month)..
* Informal inquiries can be sent by email to Roberto Navigli (navigli@di.uniroma1.it).

One position of POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW in Natural Language Processing is open in the Department of Computer Science of the Sapienza University of Rome, with a specific focus on statistical machine translation for Asian languages. The position is part of a 5-year ERC Starting Grant on multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and headed by Prof. Roberto Navigli (see http://lcl.uniroma1.it/multijedi for details). The successful candidate will participate in a frontier research project and will work in the stimulating environment of a leading and highly-active research team comprising 2 faculty members, 2 post-docs and 6 Ph.D. students.

'''REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS'''

* Ph.D. in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing or Computational Linguistics.
* Strong publication record in Statistical Machine Translation. Publication record in lexical semantics is a plus.
* Willingness to coordinate and supervise part of the research work of the ERC project.
* Ability to work in a collaborative environment, with a strong commitment to achieving research goals.
* Fluent English. Proficiency in at least two major Asian languages. Knowledge of Italian is NOT a requirement.
* Solid programming skills.

'''HOW TO APPLY'''

Please send a detailed CV and contact details for up to three references to Roberto Navigli (navigli@di.uniroma1.it). Please include the job reference (LCL3-2012) in the subject line.

'''ABOUT LA SAPIENZA'''

The Sapienza University of Rome is a seven-century-old university in the heart of Rome. It is one of the largest universities in Europe, with around 150,000 students. Its Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics and Statistics (that includes the Department of Computer Science) is one of the youngest, most energetic and scientifically active environments at the Sapienza. The Sapienza University is an equal opportunity employer.

'''ABOUT THE COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT'''

The Department of Computer Science is a modern, well-equipped research institution with a top-class faculty and a strong Ph.D. program. The Department comprises 44 faculty members (among whom 3 ERC grant holders), 15 postdocs and around 30 Ph.D. students. The successful candidate will be based in Rome, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. The Department is situated just beside the main Sapienza University campus and is in easy walking distance of San Lorenzo, a nice lively area with lots of bookshop-cafes, bars and restaurants. Prospective candidates should not be afraid of the language barrier, as Italians are in general very friendly.

==Postdoc or Research Associate - Natural Language Processing==
* Employer: IHMC (www.ihmc.us)
* Rank or Title: Research Associate - Natural Language Processing
* Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, in particular dialogue processing
* Location: Ocala, FL
* Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
* Date Posted: September 26th, 2012
* Contact email ywilks@ihmc.us

'''About Us'''
IHMC (www.ihmc.us) is a not-for-profit research institute of the Florida University System and is affiliated with several Florida universities.
Researchers at IHMC pioneer technologies aimed at leveraging and extending human capabilities. These systems fit the human and machine components together in ways that exploit their respective strengths and mitigate their respective weaknesses. The design and fit of computational prostheses require a broader interdisciplinary range than is typically found in one organization, thus IHMC staff includes computer scientists, cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, physicians, philosophers, engineers and social scientists of various stripes, as well as some researchers who resist all attempts to classify them.
Current active research areas include: knowledge modeling and sharing, adjustable autonomy, robotics, advanced interfaces and displays, communication and collaboration, computer-mediated learning systems, intelligent data and language understanding, software agents, expertise studies, work practice simulation, knowledge representation, and other related areas.
IHMC faculty and staff collaborate extensively with industry and government to develop science and technology that can be enabling with respect to society's broader goals. IHMC researchers receive funding (current funding in force exceeds $25,000,000) from a wide range of government and private sources. IHMC research partners have included: DARPA, NSF, NASA, Army, Navy, Air Force, NIH, DOT, IDEO, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Boeing, Lockheed, and SAIC, among others.

The candidate will be appointed on a new project on dialogue processing, due to start in the coming months and run for one year initially, with extensions expected. The aim of the project is to produce a prototype conversational Companion-in-an-iPad for a brain-damaged patient in a domestic setting. Ocala, Florida is an excellent location, close to Florida’s major university and about an hour from both coasts. IHMC is housed in an excellent, state of the art building in the city center.

Required:

▪ Natural language processing / computational linguistics background. Ideal: dialogue applications experience (in NLP not ASR),

▪ Substantial skills in processing corpora. Ideal: Java skills and standard statistical procedures.

▪ Ph.D. in computational linguistics or some equivalent in terms of experience in natural language processing or related areas.

Skills and Experience:

▪ 3+ plus years experience in natural language processing / computational linguistics in industry or large scale academic research project.

▪ Expertise in at least some of the following specific NLP areas and topics: question answering, lexical semantics, collocations, disambiguation, multi-word expressions, (shallow) parsing, named entity recognition, lexical acquisition, RDF-style data, speech-language interfaces, information extraction, text classification, evaluation methodologies.

▪ Familiarity with existing data resources and tools: Wordnet, GATE, Nuance ASR, NLTK, Weka, and similar tools.

▪ Ideal: experience with ontologies, RDF, other semantic web resources or tools.

Apply to Yorick Wilks at: ywilks@ihmc.us

== NLP Research Scientist - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ==

NLP Research Scientist wanted for work impacting National Security
Company: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Job ID: 301731 http://www.jobs.pnnl.gov/
Location: PNNL - Richland, WA
Contact: jill.schroeder@pnnl.gov

This position requires significant contributions to the development and evolvement of natural language processing research at PNNL. The incumbent will possess skills in both natural language processing and software design and development. Expertise in natural language processing should include one or more applications including, but not limited to, information extraction, knowledge base population, machine reading, sentiment analysis and social media analytics. Software development skills should include, but are not limited to, object oriented programming and development, data modeling, building demonstrable and functional prototypes, and contributing to deployment-ready software.

In carrying out these duties, the incumbent will be responsible for maintaining strategic alliances with specified clients, managing individual or small team assignments for multiple projects, performing assignments with minimal oversight, working effectively within interdisciplinary development teams, and contributing to proposals, publications and presentations.

Specific responsibilities include:
- apply computational linguistics approaches and algorithms
- contribute to the translation of client requests and needs into a set of project requirements and tasks
- contribute to software design
- construct functional applications and prototypes using PHP, Perl, Python and Java
- perform algorithmic development and implementation, especially as they pertain to NLP
- evaluate natural language processing methods and results
- develop client server and database aware applications
- design and implement graphical user interfaces
- develop on Linux and Windows environments
- effectively manage individual tasks, schedule, workload, budget, and deadlines
- contribute to technical presentations and demonstrations of designs, prototypes and operational software to existing and potential clients; group, division, and sector managers
- contribute to or lead efforts in publishing research
- help grow the natural language processing business portfolio through proposal writing and client engagement

Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

This position reports to the Technical Group manager for Knowledge Discovery and Informatics within PNNL’s National Security Directorate, and is responsible for work activity as assigned by PNNL project managers for both internal and external clients. The incumbent is expected to develop knowledge of the goals of any projects to which they are assigned and the clients they support. The incumbent is expected to maintain a customer-service focus commensurate with this position.

The incumbent normally receives task instructions from their project managers, which are performed with minimal oversight. The incumbent will work both as task lead, and as a staff member under the direction of project managers and senior software scientists. The incumbent will be expected to attend regular project meetings and KDI group meetings. The incumbent may also be expected to attend offsite team meetings with other team members, clients, and users.

A level II scientist contributes to the completion of project milestones by leading specific tasks of the project to meet scope, schedule and budget. Level II scientists are contributing professionals who are building a professional reputation for their technical expertise in NLP. They are expected to continue to develop their technical expertise and knowledge, and develop new skills. In addition, strong contributions to the technical content of proposals will be made.

A level III scientist will lead small to moderate research projects, contribute to the completion of programs and projects, and mentor other staff members. Level III scientists will be skilled professionals able to apply existing NLP methods to new work and will maintain skills consistent with the state of the art in NLP. Level III scientists will generate ideas for new proposals and lead the development of technical content for small to medium proposals, and will contribute to scoping, scheduling and budgeting for projects. .
Minimum Requirements
Level II:
A Bachelor's degree with 2-3 years experience or a Master's degree with 0-2 years experience or a Ph.D. is required. Expected to contribute professionally, building a professional reputation for technical expertise. Fully applying and interpreting standard theories, principles, methods, tools and technologies. All staff at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory must be able to demonstrate the legal right to work in the United States.

Level III:
A Bachelor's degree with at least 5 years experience or a Master's degree with 3 years experience or a Ph.D. with 1-2 years experience is required. Must be a skilled professional who applies a broad basis of existing theories, principles, and concepts to a specialty field. All staff at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory must be able to demonstrate the legal right to work in the United States.
Qualifications
Professional Expertise: Expertise in NLP algorithm development and strong software design and development skills.

Work-related Experience:
- Demonstrated ability and willingness to perform as a team member on multiple projects simultaneously and work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic team environment with high expectations for quality.
- Experience leading project teams in research, design and development a plus.

Breadth of Relevant Specialized Knowledge and Skills:
- Well-developed oral and written communication skills, including ability to convey complex technical information accurately.
- Above-average client interaction skills including the ability to quickly understand a client’s business needs and communicate at the proper level of detail
- Proficient in the use of Windows, Macintosh, and Linux environments
Preferred Education/Credential
A PhD in computational linguistics is preferred.

Level II:
PhD in computational linguistics, natural language processing or related field within the last 5 years or Masters of Science in computer engineering, computer science or related field and 1+ years of experience in NLP within the last 5 years

Level III PREFERRED:
PhD in computational linguistics, natural language processing or related field and 1-2 years of experience in NLP within the last 5 years or Masters of Science in computer engineering, computer science or related field and + years of experience in NLP within the last 5 years
Equal Employment Opportunity
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer and supports diversity in the workplace. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital or family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or genetic information. All staff at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory must be able to demonstrate the legal right to work in the United States.
Other Information
This position requires the ability to obtain a federal security clearance in a timely manner. Which requires:
* US Citizenship
* Background Investigation: Applicants selected will be subject to a Federal background investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified matter in accordance 10 CFR 710, Appendix B.
* Drug Testing: All Security Clearance (L or Q) positions will be considered by the Department of Energy to be Testing Designated Positions which means that they are subject to applicant, random, and for cause drug testing. In addition, applicants must be able to demonstrate non-use of illegal drugs for the 12 consecutive months preceding completion of the requisite Questionnaire for National Security Positions (QNSP).

Note: Applicants will be considered ineligible for security clearance processing by the U.S. Department of Energy until non-use of illegal drugs for 12 consecutive months can be demonstrated.

== Faculty Positions (open rank) in multiple areas, particularly Biomedical NLP / Text Mining, The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH, USA) ==
* Employer: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering and Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
* Rank or Title: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor
* Specialty: Multiple openings, including targeted hire in Biomedical Natural Language Processing / Text Mining
* Location: Columbus, OH USA
* Deadline: Review of applications will begin in November and continue until the positions are filled
* Date Posted: August 30, 2012
* Contact email or link to website: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/department/positions.shtml

The Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Ohio State University seeks faculty candidates for multiple tenured or tenure-track appointments at the assistant, associate or full professor level. The department is slated for significant growth as part of a multi-year expansion in size and scope, including targeted faculty hires in core areas as well as in areas that bridge CS with other disciplines. The specific searches being conducted this year include:

* One targeted position, open rank, in the area of big data, broadly defined. These include, but are not limited to, applicants that have core training in databases, systems, data analytics, or cloud computing, with experience in managing and analyzing big data stores.
* One targeted position, open rank, in the area of cybersecurity, broadly defined. We are specifically interested in applicants with research interests in network security, physical layer/information theoretic security, cyberphysical systems, data privacy, cryptography, or programming language security.
* One targeted position, open rank, at the interface of computer science and mathematics broadly defined. We are specifically interested in researchers working in theoretical computer science, scientific computing, or complex systems.
* Multiple targeted positions, open rank, jointly searched with the Department of Biomedical Informatics. Priority consideration will be given to applicants whose research interests lie in the processing of biomedical text (e.g. NLP or text mining) as well as those interested in the multi-scale modeling and visualization of high-throughput and/or high-content molecular or image data. Outstanding applicants in other areas at the intersection of biology, clinical science, informatics, and computer science will also be considered.
* In addition to the above targeted searches the department is conducting a search for an additional position (open rank) that is open to all areas of computer science and engineering.

The department is committed to enhancing faculty diversity; women, minorities, and individuals with disabilities are especially encouraged to apply.

Applicants should hold or be completing a Ph.D. in CSE or a closely related field, have a commitment to and demonstrated record of excellence in research, and a commitment to excellence in teaching.

To apply, please submit your application via the online database. The link can be found at: https://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/portal/fsearch/apply.cgi.

Review of applications will begin in November and will continue until the positions are filled.

The Ohio State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

== Postdoctoral Position in Natural Language Processing in Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan) ==

* Employer: Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
http://www.sinica.edu.tw

http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw
* PI: Lun-Wei Ku (Language Processing Group)
http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/pages/lwku/index_en.html

http://nlg18.csie.ntu.edu.tw:8080/lwku/lwku.html

* Rank or Title: Post Doctorial Researcher - Natural Language Processing
* Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning
* Location: Taipei, Taiwan
* Deadline: open until filled
* Date Posted: August 21st, 2012
* Start Date: before October, 2012 or after April, 2013
* Duration: 1+1+1 years
* Contact email: lwku@iis.sinica.edu.tw

'''REQUIRED'''

Ph.D. in computational linguistics / natural language processing or related areas.

Natural language processing / computational linguistics background.
Substantial skills in programming and processing large scale corpora.

Ideal: Java skills and standard statistical procedures.

'''SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE'''

3+ plus years experience in natural language processing / computational linguistics in industry or large scale academic research project.
Expertise in at least some of the following specific NLP areas and topics: question answering, lexical semantics, collocations, terminology extraction, disambiguation, multi-word expressions, (shallow) parsing, named entity recognition, lexical acquisition, paraphrasis acquisition, information extraction, text classification, evaluation methodologies, sentiment analysis.
Familiarity with existing data resources and tools: Wordnet, POS taggers, parsers, SVMLight, Weka, and similar tools.

Ideal: with experience of interests in processing Asia language (ex. Chinese)

'''PAYMENT'''

Around 1900~2000 USD/Month, depends on the currency rate.

'''HOW TO APPLY'''

Apply to Lun-Wei Ku at: lwku@iis.sinica.edu.tw. Please provide your CV, publication list and contact information.

Please also note the date you wish to start the job, and send your documents at your earliest convenience so we can review them asap.

== Two Postdoctoral Positions in Natural Language Processing at the Sapienza University of Rome ==
* Employer: Sapienza University of Rome
* Location: Rome, Italy
* Deadline: open until filled
* Date Posted: 16th August 2012
* Starting date: fall/winter 2012
* Duration: 1+1+1 years
* Salary: 30000-45000 euros per annum, depending on qualifications. Note that this type of research contract is exempt from most taxes (e.g., 40000 euros per annum corresponds to around 2600 euros net per month).
* Informal inquiries can be sent by email to Roberto Navigli (navigli@di.uniroma1.it).

Two positions of POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW in Natural Language Processing are open in the Department of Computer Science of the Sapienza University of Rome. The positions are part of a 5-year ERC Starting Grant funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and headed by Prof. Roberto Navigli (see http://lcl.uniroma1.it/multijedi for details). The successful candidates will participate in a frontier research project on multilingual lexical semantics and will work in a stimulating environment of a leading and highly-active research team including 2 faculty members, 1 postdoc and 6 Ph.D. students.

'''REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS'''

* Ph.D. in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing or Computational Linguistics.
* Strong publication record in Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing (see below).
* Willingness to coordinate and supervise part of the research work of the ERC project.
* Ability to work in a collaborative environment, with a strong commitment to achieving research goals.
* Fluent English. Knowledge of Italian is NOT a requirement.
* Solid programming skills: Java and practical expertise with standard NLP tools are required, knowledge of Perl/Python is a plus.

Experience in research project management is a plus.

'''SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS'''

* POSITION #1 (LCL1-2012): research record in computational lexical semantics, large-scale knowledge acquisition and validation, open information extraction, or data-intensive machine learning
* POSITION #2 (LCL2-2012): research record in statistical machine translation, unsupervised acquisition of bilingual/multilingual lexicons, or cross-lingual methods for NLP

'''HOW TO APPLY'''

Please send a detailed CV and contact details for up to three references to Roberto Navigli (navigli@di.uniroma1.it). Please include the job reference (LCL1-2012 or LCL2-2012) in the subject line.

'''ABOUT SAPIENZA'''

The University of Rome "La Sapienza" is a seven-century-old university in the heart of Rome. It is one of the largest universities in Europe, with around 150,000 students. Its Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics and Statistics (that includes the Department of Computer Science) is one of the youngest, most energetic and scientifically active environments at Sapienza. The Sapienza University is an equal opportunity employer.

'''ABOUT THE COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT'''

The [http://w3.uniroma1.it/dipinfo/english/index.asp Department of Computer Science] is a modern and well-equipped research institution with a top-class faculty and a strong Ph.D. program. The Department comprises 44 faculty members (among whom 3 ERC grant holders), 15 postdocs and around 30 Ph.D. students. The successful candidate will be based in Rome, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. The Department is situated in a nice lively area with lots of cafes, bars, restaurants, and at walking distance from the city centre. Prominent candidates must not be afraid of the language barrier, as Italians are in general very friendly.

== Engineer with NLP / ML/ IR background - Curata (Cambridge, MA) ==

'''Curata, Inc.'''
Curata, Inc. provides easy-to-use marketing solutions for content curation and content marketing. Curata's product, Curata, allows marketers to easily find, organize and share content on specific issues or topics in order to establish thought leadership, own industry conversations and drive qualified web traffic. Curata was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.curata.com.

'''Role Description'''
We are looking for an individual who enjoys building and shipping code as an engineer, first and foremost, but also enjoys prototyping new product ideas leveraging natural language processing, information retrieval, and machine learning skills. You are a fit if you enjoy experimenting with a large text corpus, innovating new product concepts, and ultimately packaging and shipping your work.

In the past two years, our customer base, comprising of marketing, information services, and knowledge management professionals, have curated millions of pieces of content through our complex content procurement and processing pipeline. We release new code many times a day, and have fun continually optimizing and enhancing our product. As a start-up, we need someone who can match the high energy and enthusiasm of our team.

Technologies in our stack include Linux, Django, Python, git, MySQL, jQuery, Sphinx, and memcached.

'''Responsibilities'''

* Prototyping concepts and working with engineering team to see them through deployment.
* Suggesting new product concepts.
* Optimizing machine learning algorithms through iterative experimentation and parameter tuning.
* Architect, build and maintain flexible and highly scalable web applications
* Participate in the full engineering life cycle from design through implementation and deployment.
* Think in terms of the end-user and design accordingly
* Actively contribute to product design and feature selection discussions

'''Preferred Skills and Experience'''
* Significant research experience with natural language processing (NLP), information retrieval, machine learning or related fields.
* Strong software development skills, preferably with web applications.
* Versatile attitude towards technology -- ready and willing to learn and grow on the job.

'''Location:''' Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA / Boston

'''Type:''' Full-Time

'''Contact:''' engmgt.jobs@curata.com

== Research Fellowship at University of Aberdeen ==

* Employer: University of Aberdeen
* Job Title: Research Fellow in Natural Language Generation
* Location: Aberdeen, UK
* Deadline: 23rd July 2012
* Date Posted: 11th July 2012
* [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/index.php Application Website: click on "external applicants", search for the post with reference number 1260664
* Contact email: c.mellish@abdn.ac.uk

To support our ambitious research programme we are looking to appoint a postdoctoral research fellow to do research on natural language generation in the MIME project. MIME (see http://www.dotrural.ac.uk/mime/ ) investigates ways to underpin reconfigured rural emergency response services, by examining how technology could support responders to incidents such as road accidents. It is exploring the use of networked monitors to support decision making and information management in the management of casualties and the automatic generation of handover reports from responders when more expert help arrives.
The successful candidate will have a good knowledge of natural language processing techniques in general (at the postgraduate level) and preferably some practical experience with NLG. The candidate will have a PhD or be about to complete a PhD in Computer Science/ Artificial Intelligence or a relevant discipline. Enthusiasm for digital technology and innovation relevant to society and the economy is essential as is the ability to work in a cross-disciplinary team including colleagues in computer science and engineering.

This post is funded by the EPSRC and it is anticipated that the project activities will be completed within 9 months of the agreed start date. This appointment will be made subject to the usual terms and conditions of employment of the University.

== Executive Director at University of Maryland ==

** Employer: University of Maryland, Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL)
** Title: Executive Director
** Location: College Park, MD
** Deadline: Open until filled
** Date Posted: July 2, 2012
** Link to website: http://jobs.umd.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=57086
** Contact email: tswallst@umd.edu

The University of Maryland, College Park, invites applications for the position of Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL). Since its establishment in 2003, CASL’s mission has been to conduct cutting-edge research that results in improved performance on foreign language and analysis tasks relevant to the work of government language professionals. Visit www.casl.umd.edu for more information about CASL.

'''DUTIES:''' The Executive Director (ED) has leadership responsibility for research, operations, strategic planning, and compliance with university and government requirements and regulations associated with CASL’s designation as a University Affiliated Research Center (UARC). The ED’s duties include developing and implementing the US Government-approved research agenda; developing and managing external relations and outreach to academia, industry, and government for purposes of collaborative research and consultation; and overseeing relevant UARC-designated activities and outreach, collaboration, education, policy and evaluation. The ED ensures the hiring and retention of the best researchers and research managers in CASL’s core compentencies and other relevant disciplines as well as highly qualified financial, information technology, operations, logistics, and security support staff. In addition to aligning CASL’s strategic plan with its mission to meet the needs of clients, the ED provides leadership in identifying opportunities for partnering and collaborating with academic departments and other research centers on campus. The ED reports to the Vice President for Research and directly supervises the directors of CASL’s various units.

'''QUALIFICATIONS:''' Candidates must have an advanced degree, preferably a Ph.D., in a discipline related to one of CASL’s core competencies (e.g., Less Commonly Taught Languages and Cultures; Second Language Acquisition; Computational Linguistics; Linguistics; Cognitive or Social Psychology; Cognitive Science or Cognitive Neuroscience), with a distinguished record of scholarly achievement and/or leadership in one or more areas relevant to the research foci of the center. Candidates' experience, research and publications should show evidence of ability to tackle complex, interdisciplinary research and to work collaboratively with a range of institutions and researchers. Experience working closely with US government and/or industry colleagues in non-academic settings is essential. Candidates must qualify for an academic appointment either as a tenured professor or as a professor of the practice in a department consistent with their background.

'''Candidates must hold U.S. citizenship and be willing to obtain the appropriate security clearance.'''

'''TO APPLY:''' For best consideration, applicants should submit a letter of application, CV, and contact information for three professional references online at http://jobs.umd.edu click on “Faculty” (or direct link: http://www. jobs.umd.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=57086) by Monday, August 20, 2012. Address questions to the search committee chair, Professor Thomas S. Wallsten, at tswallst@umd.edu

The University of Maryland, College Park, actively subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity, and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, age, sex, color, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry or national origin, marital status, genetic information, or political affiliation. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. The University of Maryland offers an excellent benefits package which includes: health benefits, retirement plans, generous leave package, flexible spending accounts, tuition remission, and long-term, disability, and life insurance. Please visit the University’s web page at http://www.uhr.umd.edu/benefits/ to see a full list of benefits and the providers.

== Several Positions in Data2Text (Natural Language Generation) ==

* Employer: Data2Text
* Job title: Natural Language Generation Engineer, Analytics Engineer, Lead Engineer
* Specialty: natural language generation, analytics
* Location: Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
* Deadline: 29 June 2012
* Date posted: 8 June 2012
* Link to website: http://www.data2text.com/careers

Data2Text is a spinout from the University of Aberdeen's Natural Language Generation (NLG)
research group. We are looking to hire several people; please see our website for details
http://www.data2text.com/careers

This is a great opportunity for people who are keen on getting NLG technology
out into the real world. In addition to the advertised positions, we're happy to talk
to people who are knowledgeable about NLG and keen to develop commercial applications,
but whose profiles do not fit the advertised positions.

Information inquiries (from the ACL community) should be sent to Ehud Reiter
(e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk or ehud.reiter@data2text.com)

== Associate Research Scientist (SPEECH) at Educational Testing Service ==

* Employer: Educational Testing Service (www.ets.org)
* Job Title: Associate Research Scientist (SPEECH)
* Location: Princeton, NJ
* Deadline: Open until filled
* Date Posted: 16-May-2012
* [http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=124337&type=True&cfcend Application Website]
* Contact email: dyanchuk@ets.org

'''JOB DESCRIPTION'''

ETS's Research & Development division has an opening for a Speech research scientist in the NLP and Speech group. The Group currently consists of about 15 Ph.D. level research scientists in areas related to NLP and speech. Its main focus is on foundational research as well as on development of new capabilities to automatically score written and spoken test responses in a wide range of ETS test programs including TOEFL(R)iBT and GRE(R).

'''BASIC FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES'''

* Provide scientific and technical skills in conceptualizing, designing, obtaining support for, conducting, managing, and disseminating results of research projects in the field of speech technology, or portions of large-scale research studies or programs in the same field.

* Develop and/or modify NLP theories to conceptualize and implement new capabilities in automated scoring and NLP systems to improve assessments, learning tools and test development practices.

* Apply scientific, technical and software engineering skills in designing and conducting research studies and capability development in support of educational products and services.

* Develop and oversee the conduct of selected portions of research proposals and project budgets.

* Design and conduct complex scientific studies functioning as an expert in major facets of the projects.

* Assist in the conduct of research projects by accomplishing directed tasks according to schedule and within budget.

* Participate in dissemination activities through the publications of research papers, progress and technical reports, the presentation of seminars or other appropriate communication vehicles.

* Develop professional relationships as a representative, consultant or advisor to external advisory and policy boards and councils, research organizations, educational institutions and educators.

'''EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS'''

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Language Technologies, Natural Language Processing, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, with strong emphasis on speech technology and preferably some education in linguistics is required.

EXPERIENCE

Evidence of substantive research experience and/or experience in developing and deploying speech capabilities is required. Demonstrable contributions to new and/or modified theories of speech processing and their implementation in automated systems. Demonstrable expertise in the application of speech recognition systems and fluency in at least one major programming language (e.g., Java, Perl, C/C++, Python).

'''APPLYING'''

Interested parties can apply for the position through the following website:

http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=124337&type=True&cfcend

If there are any questions, please contact: Dave Yanchuk (609) 406-5291 dyanchuk@ets.org

== Associate Research Scientist (NLP) at Educational Testing Service ==

* Employer: Educational Testing Service (www.ets.org)
* Job Title: Associate Research Scientist (NLP)
* Location: Princeton, NJ
* Deadline: Open until filled
* Date Posted: 16-May-2012
* [http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=124335&type=True&cfcend Application Website]
* Contact email: dyanchuk@ets.org

'''JOB DESCRIPTION'''

ETS's Research & Development division has an opening for an NLP research scientist in the NLP and Speech group. The Group currently consists of about 15 Ph.D. level research scientists in areas related to NLP and speech. Its main focus is on foundational research as well as on development of new capabilities to automatically score written and spoken test responses in a wide range of ETS test programs including TOEFL(R)iBT and GRE(R).

'''BASIC FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES'''

* Provide scientific and technical skills in conceptualizing, designing, obtaining support for, conducting, managing, and disseminating results of research projects in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), or portions of large-scale research studies or programs in the same field.

* Develop and/or modify NLP theories to conceptualize and implement new capabilities in automated scoring and NLP systems to improve assessments, learning tools and test development practices.

* Apply scientific, technical and software engineering skills in designing and conducting research studies and capability development in support of educational products and services.

* Develop and oversee the conduct of selected portions of research proposals and project budgets.

* Design and conduct complex scientific studies functioning as an expert in major facets of the projects.

* Assist in the conduct of research projects by accomplishing directed tasks according to schedule and within budget.

* Participate in dissemination activities through the publications of research papers, progress and technical reports, the presentation of seminars or other appropriate communication vehicles.

* Develop professional relationships as a representative, consultant or advisor to external advisory and policy boards and councils, research organizations, educational institutions and educators.

'''EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS'''

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, with strong emphasis on NLP technology and preferably some education in linguistics is required.

EXPERIENCE

Evidence of substantive research experience and/or experience in developing and deploying NLP capabilities is required. Demonstrable contributions to new and/or modified theories of NLP and their implementation in automated systems are required. Demonstrable and practical expertise with NLP tools and fluency in at least one major programming language (e.g. java, perl, c/c++, python) is also required. Familiarity with the application of NLP tools to educational problems, and a very strong statistical background and a solid experience with machine learning algorithms would be an asset.

'''APPLYING'''

Interested parties can apply for the position through the following website:

http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=124335&type=True&cfcend

If there are any questions, please contact: Dave Yanchuk (609) 406-5291 dyanchuk@ets.org

== Associate Research Engineer at Educational Testing Service ==

* Employer: Educational Testing Service (www.ets.org)
* Job Title: Associate Research Engineer
* Location: Princeton, NJ
* Deadline: Open until filled
* Date Posted: 15-May-2012
* [http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=124339&type=True&cfcend Application Website]
* Contact email: dyanchuk@ets.org

'''JOB DESCRIPTION'''

ETS's Research & Development division has an opening for a researcher in the NLP & Speech Group. The Group currently consists of about 15 Ph.D. level research scientists in areas related to NLP and speech. Its main focus is on foundational research as well as on development of new capabilities to automatically score written and spoken test responses in a wide range of ETS test programs including TOEFL(R)iBT and GRE(R).

'''BASIC FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES'''
* Assist in the implementation of speech technology and natural language processing (NLP) components of medium- to large-scale, complex research projects for ETS researchers, testing program areas, and external clients. Consult with research scientists in the application, modification, and documentation of such systems using established technologies.

* Work effectively in a team setting and take an active role in contributing to team discussions and decisions.

* Analyze, design, modify, develop, document and implement technologies for executing medium- to large-scale, complex Speech technology and NLP research and development tasks. Identify unexpected problems in the application of Speech and NLP tools, and develop solutions.

* Consult with research supervisory staff on the development of technologies for executing medium- to large-scale, complex Speech technology and NLP research and development tasks. Contribute to the implementation and support of new Speech and NLP methodologies to support research system development.

* Assist in the preparation of NLP development components of proposals and cost/resource estimates.

* Maintain continuing awareness of recent advances in speech and natural language processing, machine learning, and software development methodologies.

* Implement components of technical documentation of NLP software systems, solutions and results.

* Attend area-wide staff training and development sessions.

'''EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS'''

EDUCATION

A Masters degree in Computer Science, NLP, Language Technology, Computational Linguistics, Linguistics or a closely related field is required.

EXPERIENCE

A strong programming background, in languages such as Java, Python, Perl, and C, and facility with computational algorithms are essential. Coursework in statistics and experience in using machine learning toolkits are highly desirable. Experience with speech processing software (e.g. HTK, Praat, Matlab) is desirable.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS
* Knowledge of UNIX and Windows computing environments.

* Familiarity with UNIX tools and scripting languages.

* Familiarity with algorithms, methods and data structures in common use in the processing of speech and language data.

* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

'''APPLYING'''

Interested parties can apply for the position through the following website:

http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=124339&type=True&cfcend

If there are any questions, please contact: Dave Yanchuk (609) 406-5291 dyanchuk@ets.org

== Junior Researcher at Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) ==

* Employer: Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
* Group: Language Technology
* Title: Junior Researcher
* Requirements:
** Permission to work within the European union
** Excellent English language skills; knowledge of the German language is a plus
** A degree in computational linguistics, computer science, or a related area (PhD is a plus, but experienced graduate students will be considered)
** Experience in statistical natural language processing (knowledge of unsupervised machine learning is a plus)
** Programming skills in C++, Perl and/or Java
** Strong ability to work independently and drive an original research agenda
* Deadline: June 15, 2012
* Date Posted: May 14, 2012
* Contact: harald.trost@ofai.at

The Language Technology group at the OFAI, Vienna, is looking for a motivated post-doctoral researcher or a well experienced graduate student to fill a research position within the basic research project "Machine Learning Techniques for Modeling of Language Varieties".

The position involves basic research on issues related to data sparsity in machine translation between non-central language pairs. In particular, morphological closeness shall be exploited and bootstrapping methods shall be employed to counter the data sparsity. Further information is available at http://varieties.ofai.at.

A basic gross salary of EUR 40,000-45,000 per anno will be offered depending on the experience of the candidate.

OFAI encourages its researchers to publish results in the top venues (ACL, EMNLP, etc.) and provides travel funding towards this end.

Please send your applications, including a CV and a brief research statement, to Harald Trost <harald.trost@ofai.at>. The position is to be filled as soon as possible, not later than September 1st, 2012, and will terminate with the end of the project (December 31st, 2013).

About the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI): Founded in 1984, OFAI is one of Europe's leading non-profit research institutions in AI. Further information is available at http://www.ofai.at.

About Vienna: Vienna is the Austrian capital and consistently ranked as one of the most livable cities in the world. At over 1,600,000 inhabitants, Vienna is one of the largest cities in the central European region and home to numerous universities and research institutions, providing an intellectually stimulating environment.

== Junior Research Group Leaders at Saarland University ==

* Employer: Saarland University, Germany
* Division: MMCI Cluster of Excellence
* Title: Junior Research Group Leaders
* Job ID: W490
* Specialty: Multimodal Computing and Interaction (incl. Speech and Language Processing)
* Location: Saarbrücken, Germany
* Deadline: April 30, 2012
* Date Posted: April 4, 2012
* Contact: http://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Campus/Service/Stellenausschreibung/Wissenschaftliches_Personal/W490.pdf

The Cluster of Excellence "Multimodal Computing and Interaction" at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, seeks applications for a number of new Junior Research Group Leader positions. The Cluster provides a highly interdisciplinary research environment with a strong Computational Linguistics component. One of the Cluster's central research areas is 'Speech and Language Processing'. Group leaders will receive junior faculty status at Saarland University, including the right to supervise Bachelor, Master and PhD students. Junior research groups are equipped with a budget of 80k to 100k Euros per year to cover research personnel and other costs.

Deadline for applications is April 30th, 2012.

For the complete announcement see:
http://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Campus/Service/Stellenausschreibung/Wissenschaftliches_Personal/W490.pdf

Additional information on the excellence cluster is available on
http://www.mmci.uni-saarland.de/

Please feel free to contact for further information any of the PIs (Matthew Crocker, Manfred Pinkal, Hans Uszkoreit) or JRG leaders (Vera Demberg, Caroline Sporleder, Ivan Titov) in the research area.

== Scientist Position in Statistical Machine Translation at Microsoft ==

* Employer: MICROSOFT
* Division: Online Services Division
* Title: Scientist Position
* Job ID: 789594
* Specialty: Statistical Machine Translation
* Location: Bellevue, WA or Mountain Vew, CA
* Deadline: As soon as possible
* Date Posted: March 30, 2012
* Contact: https://careers.microsoft.com/jobdetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=1&jid=77908&jlang=EN

Scientist Position in Statistical Machine Translation

Research and Development Opportunities for Next Generation Technology at Microsoft

Do you want to impact billions of people all over the world with speech technology that you create?

We are looking for PhD level scientists and senior scientists, who will work on research and development problems in statistical machine translation. The candidates with experience in large-scale syntax-based statistical machine translation,
weighted finite state transducers, natural language processing and machine learning will be preferred.

Microsoft is all-in on the Natural User Interface to bring computing to larger audiences in more applications. To drive this mission we are bringing together scientists and engineers in the areas of machine translation, speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialog modeling, machine learning and synthesis to develop and deliver robust, natural and scalable solutions across a rich set of scenarios and languages.

Join the excitement to be part of the newly formed team of scientists within Microsoft and to impact the lives of billions of people all over the world. We are talking about Bing, Windows, XBOX, Mobile, Exchange Server and Tellme, just to name a few. Microsoft is dedicated to improving everyday life using speech. And not just in a few countries - but around the world.

== Reasoning about Agent's Mental States in Dialog and Joint Activity (CMU Silicon Valley) ==

* Employer: Inst. for the Study of Learning and Expertise at CMU Silicon Valley
* Title: Post MS, Post Doc, or above
* Specialty: Logic, Reasoning (Abduction/Inference), Production systems, Discourse processes, Reasoning
* Location: Mountain Vew, CA
* Deadline: As soon as possible
* Date Posted: March 21, 2012
* Contact: patrick.w.langley@gmail.com

An ongoing project has an opening for a researcher who will help extend
Icarus, a cognitive architecture, to reason about other agents' mental
states in the context of dialogues and joint activities. The framework
uses a logical formalism to encode knowledge, beliefs, and goals, and
it relies on a form of abduction to make plausible inferences. Experience
in building reasoning systems that operate over rich representations is
essential, and a background in applied logic, knowledge-based systems,
and/or cognitive architectures is highly desirable.

The location of the project will be Carnegie Mellon's Silicon Valley
Campus. The start date is negotiable, but the position will be available
on May 1, 2012, and the project has funding for another two years.
Interested parties should send their curriculum vitae, along with
the contact details for two or more references, to Pat Langley
<patrick.w.langley@gmail.com>.

== Post-doctoral researcher in metaphor detection and analysis at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL ==

* Employer: Illinois Institute of Technology
* Title: Postdoc
* Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Metaphor
* Location: Chicago, IL
* Deadline: As soon as possible
* Date Posted: March 13, 2012
* Contact: argamon@iit.edu

The Illinois Institute of Technology Department of Computer Science in Chicago, IL is delighted to announce an opening for a Postdoctoral Research Associate, for a recent Ph.D. in computer science, computational linguistics, or related areas. We seek applicants to work with Prof. Shlomo Argamon in the Linguistic Cognition Laboratory, the PI of a federally-funded project to identify and analyze metaphors in multiple languages.

The ideal candidate will have a scholarly understanding of computational linguistics and metaphor, be an excellent programmer, and be comfortable with technologies for the analysis of big data. The postdoc will: (a) support development of automated language analysis and text mining for metaphor identification and analysis, (b) help manage the work of graduate research assistants on the project, (c) aid in developing research publications and external funding proposals, and (d) support other research and administration activities in the project.

Applicants from all areas relevant to the research are encouraged to apply. In addition to the core area of computational linguistics, training in machine learning, statistical analysis, and information retrieval will be helpful. Knowledge of Spanish, Russian, or Farsi is also a plus.

The position includes a competitive salary plus benefits. It will run through the end of 2012, beginning as soon as possible, with the possibility of a one-year renewal upon satisfactory performance and continued funding.

Interested candidates should apply via email to Dr. Shlomo Argamon (argamon@iit.edu). Applications should include a CV with cover letter, including the names of three references, giving contact information (email address and phone number) and relationship to the candidate for each reference. Inquiries can similarly be directed to the above email address. Prior to hiring, successful applicants will be required to submit either a transcript/diploma showing the date of an earned Ph.D. degree or a letter from their academic adviser confirming the expectation of the degree by May 2012.

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

== Post-doctoral position within the area of automatic text summarization at Google Zurich, Switzerland ==

* Employer: Google
* Job title: Postdoc
* Specialty: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, summarization
* Location: Zurich, Switzerland
* Deadline: we are looking to fill the position soon
* Date posted: 1 March 2012

A post-doctoral position in the area of automatic text summarization
within the RENDER project is available at the Google Switzerland R&D
office. RENDER is a EU FP7 research project focused on identifying
diversity of opinions, viewpoints, mindsets and backgrounds in texts
from different sources: news, (micro) blog streams, and in
collaboratively written resources like Wikipedia. More information on
the project goals is available at http://render-project.eu/.

The duration of the post-doctoral contract will be one year, with the
possibility of renewing for a second year. This position will allow
the candidate to perform research on several NLP-related areas,
to interact with the consortium partners and with other Google-internal
research and development projects, and to apply the results of the
research to real applications with a potentially large impact.

Requirements:
* The candidate should have a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics or Information Retrieval. Experience with automatic text summarization, machine learning or opinion mining is a plus.
* Extensive programming experience in C/C++.
* A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
* Fluency in English.

Responsibilities:
* Perform research in the context of the project (text summarization).
* Develop prototypes quickly, and implement industrial-strength production-quality high-volume applications.
* Publish the result of the research in top conferences or journals.
* Be available to attend project meetings with the partners in the project.

For applying to this position, please send an e-mail to Enrique
Alfonseca (ealfonseca@google.com) including a paragraph on why you
think you are a right person for the role, and a brief CV.

== 4 PhD positions in spoken dialogue systems research ==

* Employer: Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University in Prague
* Job title: 4 PhD positions in spoken dialogue systems research
* Specialty: spoken dialogue systems, machine learning, Bayesian methods, and natural language processing
* Location: Prague, Czech Republic
* Deadline: 1 June 2012
* Date posted: 16 February 2012
* Link to website: http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~jurcicek/jobs

Applications are invited for 4 PhD fellowships in the area of statistical spoken dialogue systems funded by the Czech Government. The students will join the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic with an anticipated start date of October 1st, 2012.

Topic description: In recent years, it has been suggested that statistical approach to spoken dialogue system offer a framework to naturally handle inherent uncertainty in the human speech. The two main advantages of statistical methods are increased robustness in noisy conditions and more natural behaviour learned from data. However, the current methods need large corpora effectively preventing these methods to be used for complex dialogue systems occurring in real-life. The successful PhD candidates will investigate and implement statistical models and methods with the aim of increasing the efficiency of the learning process and reducing the need for large corpora. The conducted research will cover areas of spoken language understanding, dialogue management, and natural language processing.

Skills: Candidates should hold a master degree in a relevant area, such as computer science, mathematics, engineering or linguistics. A strong mathematical background, excellent programming skills (e.g. C/C++, Java, MATLAB, and various scripting languages under Linux environment), aptitude for creative research and autonomy are expected. Experience in machine learning, Bayesian methods, and natural language processing is a plus.

The Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics is a top-level research group working in the area of computational linguistics and natural language processing. During the fellowship, there will be good opportunities to attend international conferences and workshops. The formal applications should be submitted before June 1. Prospective candidates are strongly encouraged to contact Dr Filip Jurcicek (jurcicek@ufal.mff.cuni.cz) as soon as possible to obtain details about the application process, the institute, and the research opportunities.
Additional information is available at http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~jurcicek/jobs.

== PhD-position in sentiment mining and reputation analysis==

* Employer: Erasmus University Rotterdam
* Job title: PhD-student
* Specialty: text mining, sentiment analysis, topic detection, reputation management
* Location: Rottterdam, The Netherlands
* Deadline: 1 March 2012
* Date posted: 6 February 2012
* Link to website: http://www.eur.nl/erasmusstudio/about_erasmus_studio/open_positions

In the context of the COMMIT project Information Retrieval for Information Services (COMMIT/Infiniti http://www.project-infiniti.nl/), applications are invited for a PhD student position. The research task will be to investigate the Mining of Economic Entities. As currently people easily share their sentiment regarding companies and products, reputation modeling has become increasingly important for commercial and non-commercial organisations. Due to the huge amount of opinions available through the Web, a manual approach for social media analysis for sentiment mining seems unfeasible, while there seems to be a huge potential for content-driven automated approaches. Through the mining of economic entities and the aggregated sentiment based on textual data, the aim is to support decisions on, e.g., product developments, marketing campaigns, etc. The envisaged prototype for a decision support tool will act as an indicator of public sentiment and trends. In addition, the variation in the dynamics of opinion forming for diverging domains such as economic news, political sentiment, and sentiment towards historical events will be studied.
The PhD track is embedded in the work of the EUR team working on the Infiniti project (Erasmus School of Economics/Econometric Institute/ Computer Science Group and Erasmus Studio) and the student will be able to collaborate on related topics with PhD students and researchers from other organizations participating in COMMIT.

For more information please visit this link: http://www.eur.nl/erasmusstudio/about_erasmus_studio/open_positions

To apply, send an email with the required documents (cv, motivation, relevant certificates and the names of two referees) to commit.eur@gmail.com.

== PhD-position in folktale classification and clustering ==
* Employer: University of Twente
* Job title: PhD-student
* Specialty: text classification, document clustering, natural language processing
* Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands / Enschede, The Netherlands
* Deadline: 4 March 2012
* Date posted: 6 February 2012
* Link to website: http://www.utwente.nl/vacatures/?VacatureID=199425

Applications are invited for a PhD-student in the FACT project (Folktales As Classifiable Texts), funded under the CATCH programme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). This is a multidisciplinary research project involving collaboration between computer science and humanities researchers. The PhD-student will work on automatic classification of Dutch folktales by their international folktale type and on unsupervised clustering of folktales, to provide new input for humanities research. For this position, familiarity with the Dutch language is a plus.

The PhD-student will be employed at the University of Twente, but will spend most of his/her time "on site" at the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam (http://www.meertens.knaw.nl), which maintains a large collection of Dutch folktales (http://www.verhalenbank.nl). The PhD-student will be part of a larger team within the e-Laboratory on Oral Culture at the Meertens Institute.

For more information and the application form, visit this link: http://www.utwente.nl/vacatures/?VacatureID=199425

==Research Associate Position at Educational Testing Service==
* Employer: Educational Testing Service ([http://www.ets.org www.ets.org])
* Job Title: Research Associate
* Location: Princeton, NJ
* Deadline: Open until filled
* Date Posted: 28-Jan-2012
* [http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=122972&BUID=2538 Application Website]
* Contact email: dyanchuk@ets.org

'''JOB DESCRIPTION'''

Educational Testing Service has an opening for a Research Associate position in the Research Coordination and Support Group. The successful candidate will primarily provide support to Research Scientists working on a branch of computer science and computational linguistics known as Natural Language Processing (NLP) by assisting in the management of resources across numerous projects, leading communication efforts both internally and externally, and participating in all phases of research projects, including research design, project management, data collection and analysis. He or she will also collaborate with researchers in responding to external requests for information, external grant applications, and in preparing study results for publication or presentation.

'''BASIC FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES'''

* Provide full professional support to and collaborate with a Director of Research; Senior Research Scientists; and Research Scientists.

* Participate in planning, management, and design of research. Serve as co-investigator in research areas; collaborate on research projects.

* Plan and manage annotations for a variety of projects.

* Design and develop plans for data collection; oversee data collection, reduction, and analysis; evaluate availability and usefulness of data; identify and collect additional data necessary for completing research projects.

* Monitor collection and quality of data; provide comprehensive review of data collected from field sites to ensure completeness and accuracy; oversee entry of data for computer analysis.

* Design original research instruments and methods and applications of research.

* Write, rewrite, and edit proposals, professional reports, research instruments, books (or sections thereof), speeches, handbooks, research articles, and correspondence. Specifically, develop standardized materials such as PowerPoint slides, capability descriptions, and research study templates for use in communicating about automated scoring capabilities; develop boilerplate text for external audiences and proposals; and craft proposal text on demand, based on existing standard materials and input from automated scoring researchers.

* Conduct or assist in direction and management of research projects. Conduct research of his or her own design, under general oversight of assigned supervisor. Manage resources across a wide-range of studies designed to support or enhance automated scoring technologies. Recruit and hire field staff; develop and monitor project budgets; coordinate and supervise field staff and consultants.

* Conduct literature searches; review current research on research models and methods; review and evaluate ongoing developments in automated scoring research; and evaluate evolving business needs. Perform independent analyses of information by reading, summarizing, and evaluating it preliminary to undertaking research. Update standard materials as needed, based on new developments in research or external conditions.

* Provide training and consultation on computer and systems applications, including customized annotation systems. Train and instruct staff on methods and procedures for annotation, data presentation, and explain methods of implementation to technical staff.

* Contact, establish, and develop relationships with research community and with data sources.

* Arrange and attend conferences and meetings; present research findings at professional meetings.

'''EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS'''

EDUCATION

A Master's degree in linguistics, computer science, and/or natural language processing (NLP) is necessary.

EXPERIENCE

The successful candidate will have four years of progressively responsible research experience in linguistics or natural language processing. Candidates must demonstrate the ability to craft high-quality written communications for technical and non-technical audiences and have experience managing a large number of concurrent projects.

APPLYING

Interested parties can apply for the position through the following website:

http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=122972&BUID=2538

If there are any questions, please contact:

Dave Yanchuk
(609) 406-5291
dyanchuk@ets.org

==Postdoc Position at HRL Laboratories==
* Employer: HRL Laboratories, LLC
* Job Title: POST DOC RESEARCH STAFF - Social Media Analysis & Data Mining
* Location: Malibu, CA
* Deadline: Open until filled
* Date Posted: 26-Jan-2012
* Contact email: hmoon@hrl.com

HRL Laboratories, LLC. (http://www.hrl.com) has openings for a postdoctoral researcher position in the area of social media analysis / data mining. HRL laboratories is one of the most innovative research organizations in industry. Overlooking the pacific ocean in the hills above Malibu, California, our beautiful surroundings are matched by our capabilities and commitment to being a world-class research and development lab. We collaborate with top researchers in academia to advance the fields of information and systems sciences, sensors and materials, applied electromagnetics, and microelectronics. Please visit http://www.hrl.com/careers/cars_jobs.html for more information.
For job considerations, please send your cover letter and CV to hmoon@hrl.com.

Job Description:

EDUCATION DESIRED: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Statistics, EE or related fields

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: Primary job function is to apply statistical data analysis and text processing techniques to problems and applications in data mining. Tasks will include the development, simulation, evaluation, and implementation of algorithms and models. Additional job functions include solving customer problems, writing invention disclosures, publishing papers, briefing customers, and assisting in marketing HRL expertise.

EXPERIENCE DESIRED: Research experience in one or more of the following areas: Text processing, sentiment analysis, data mining, web & social media processing, large-scale data processing, and machine learning. Experience developing innovative solutions based upon the application of relevant research results from a wide variety of sources.

KNOWLEDGE DESIRED: Background in one or more of the following areas: natural language processing, social network analysis, statistical analysis, data mining, strong programming skills, particularly proficient with C/C++, Java, R and/or Matlab. Experience with MapReduce or Hadoop, and proficiency in Spanish/Portuguese language is a plus.

ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS: Good communication (verbal and written) skills, active participation in R&D team activities is required. Able and willing to occasionally travel.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS (e.g. driver’s license, special tools or restrictions): U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status required.

We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

==Postdoc or Research Associate - Natural Language Processing==
* Employer: IHMC (www.ihmc.us)
* Rank or Title: Research Associate - Natural Language Processing
* Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing
* Location: Ocala, FL
* Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
* Date Posted: January 3rd, 2012
* Contact email ywilks@ihmc.us

'''About Us'''
IHMC is a not-for-profit research institute of the Florida University System and is affiliated with several Florida universities.
Researchers at IHMC pioneer technologies aimed at leveraging and extending human capabilities. These systems fit the human and machine components together in ways that exploit their respective strengths and mitigate their respective weaknesses. The design and fit of computational prostheses require a broader interdisciplinary range than is typically found in one organization, thus IHMC staff includes computer scientists, cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, physicians, philosophers, engineers and social scientists of various stripes, as well as some researchers who resist all attempts to classify them.
Current active research areas include: knowledge modeling and sharing, adjustable autonomy, robotics, advanced interfaces and displays, communication and collaboration, computer-mediated learning systems, intelligent data and language understanding, software agents, expertise studies, work practice simulation, knowledge representation, and other related areas.
IHMC faculty and staff collaborate extensively with industry and government to develop science and technology that can be enabling with respect to society's broader goals. IHMC researchers receive funding (current funding in force exceeds $25,000,000) from a wide range of government and private sources. IHMC research partners have included: DARPA, NSF, NASA, Army, Navy, Air Force, NIH, DOT, IDEO, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Boeing, Lockheed, and SAIC, among others.

The candidate will be appointed on a new US Government project on metaphor detection and understanding, due to start in the coming months and run for up to five years. Ocala, Florida is an excellent location, close to Florida’s major university and about an hour from both coasts. IHMC is housed in an excellent, state of the art building in the city center.

Required:

▪ Natural language processing / computational linguistics background. Ideal: metaphor and/or machine learning applications

▪ Substantial skills in processing large scale corpora. Ideal: Java skills and standard statistical procedures.

▪ Ph.D. in computational linguistics / natural language processing or related areas.

Skills and Experience:

▪ 3+ plus years experience in natural language processing / computational linguistics in industry or large scale academic research project.

▪ Expertise in at least some of the following specific NLP areas and topics: question answering, lexical semantics, collocations, terminology extraction, disambiguation, multi-word expressions, (shallow) parsing, named entity recognition, lexical acquisition, paraphrasis acquisition, information extraction, text classification, evaluation methodologies.

▪ Familiarity with existing data resources and tools: Wordnet, POS taggers, parsers, LingPipe, SVMLight, NLTK, Weka, and similar tools.

▪ Ideal: experience with ontologies, RDF, other semantic web resources or tools.

Apply to Yorick Wilks at: ywilks@ihmc.us

== Visiting Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Queens College of CUNY ==
* Employer: Queens College of the City University of New York
* Location: New York, NY
* Deadline: Review of applications to begin on March 1, 2012
* Website: http://www.cs.qc.cuny.edu/
* Date posted: January 4, 2012

'''Visiting Assistant/Associate/Full Professor'''

The Department of Computer Science at Queens College of The City University of New York (CUNY) is pleased to announce a visiting faculty position for academic year 2012-2013, beginning September 1. This is a research-focused temporary position, and we encourage applications from candidates with a successful publication history in machine translation, speech recognition, or other research areas of natural language processing or machine learning.

Both junior and senior researchers are encouraged to apply; compensation and title are commensurate with qualifications and experience. Candidates are expected to collaborate with members of our current faculty in computational linguistics -- either on existing research projects or on new joint endeavors. If interested in teaching experience, the visiting faculty member is also invited to teach one course on a topic closely related to his or her research specialty.

The department's computational linguistics faculty, which include two current NSF CAREER Award winners, participate actively in the Ph.D. programs in computer science and linguistics, based at CUNY Graduate Center. These faculty members have active research grants from the NSF, DARPA, the Army Research Lab, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. More information about the growing research community in computational linguistics across CUNY is available on this website: http://nlpatcuny.cs.qc.cuny.edu/

Qualifying candidates must have an earned Ph.D. by August 2012 in computer science, linguistics, or a closely related field, with a demonstrated research record in the areas listed above. Also required are the ability to work with Ph.D. students, interest in productive scholarship, teaching and communication skills, and ability to cooperate with others for the good of the institution.

Candidates should submit a letter of application detailing their teaching, research, and grant writing interests and experience, and a curriculum vitae to:

Dr. Matt Huenerfauth, Search Committee Chair

Department of Computer Science

Queens College-CUNY

65-30 Kissena Blvd.

Flushing, New York 11365-1597

matthew.huenerfauth (at) qc.cuny.edu

Email submissions with PDF attachments are preferred. In addition, please arrange for three current letters of reference to be submitted directly by the recommenders. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2012, and will continue until the position is filled.

CUNY offers a comprehensive benefits package to employees and eligible dependents based on job title and classification. We are committed to enhancing our diverse academic community by actively encouraging people with disabilities, minorities, veterans, and women to apply. We take pride in our pluralistic community and continue to seek excellence through diversity and inclusion. EO/AA Employer.

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== Assistant Professor Position in Computational Linguistics in NAIST (Nara, Japan) ==

* Employer: Nara Insititute of Science and Technology
http://www.naist.jp/en/
* Rank or Title: Assistant Professor
* Specialty: Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning
* Location: Nara, Japan
* Deadline: February 28, 2013
* Date Posted: January 30, 2013
* Start Date: after April, 2013
* Duration: 5 years (reappointment is possible)
* Contact email: matsu@is.naist.jp

'''For Detailed Description'''

http://www.naist.jp/en/about_naist/job_opportunities/index.html

==Researchers - AT&T Labs Research==
* Employer: AT&T Labs - Research
* Rank or Title: Researchers and Research Software Engineers
* Specialty: Natural Language Processing, Speech Processing, Machine Learning
* Location: NJ
* Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
* Date Posted: 8 January 2013
* Contact email: vkumar@research.att.com

'''Position Description'''

AT&T Research, one of the premier industrial research laboratories in the world, is looking for
talented individuals to make a difference in the world of communications. Our researchers and
research software engineers are dedicated to solving real problems in speech and language
processing, and are involved in inventing, creating and deploying innovative services. We also
explore fundamental research problems in these areas. Outstanding Ph.D.-level candidates at
all levels of experience are encouraged to apply. Candidates must demonstrate excellence in
research, a collaborative spirit and strong communication and software skills.

Areas of particular interest are

* Large-vocabulary automatic speech recognition
* Acoustic and language modeling
* Robust speech recognition
* Signal processing
* Text-to-speech synthesis
* Natural language understanding and dialog
* Machine translation (speech and text)
* Speaker biometrics
* Voice and multimodal search
* Software engineering for speech and language processing

Speech and language positions are based in Bedminster, NJ; New York, NY and Middletown, NJ (note: we are moving from our Florham Park office).

Outstanding PhD-level candidates at all levels of experience and experienced M.S. candidates
are encouraged to apply. Interviews will be conducted in early 2013. For more information,
visit http://www.research.att.com/ and click on "Working with us", or access the page directly:

http://www.research.att.com/evergreen/working_with_us/careers.html

Candidates must demonstrate a proven research track record and the ability to identify technical
problems and research opportunities. Candidates with strong analytical and programming skills (Python, C, C++)
are desired. Access to massive amounts of real-world data, the ability to work with internal and external
collaborators across departments, the possibility of making an impact by developing solutions that will be used
by millions, and the freedom to publish your results are some of the reasons AT&T Labs -
Research is an exciting place to work.

AT&T Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. Applications will continue to be considered until positions are filled.

==Engineer 4, NLP Software Development - Comcast Corporation (Washington DC or Philadelphia PA)==
* Employer: Comcast
* Rank or Title: Engineer 4
* Specialty: Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition, Machine Learning
* Location: Washington DC or Philadelphia
* Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
* Date Posted: 6 December 2012
* Contact email: brian_curtis@cable.comcast.com

'''Position Description'''

Comcast is the largest cable TV company in the world. We are looking for talented engineers to help us shape the future of content discovery for television.

To help get us there, we are hiring an experienced software engineer to develop new technology and adapt/apply existing technologies to NLP problems for the Comcast Voice Control platform. This position is part of a small team that uses Speech Recognition, Natural Language Understanding/Processing, Machine Learning along with search technologies such as SOLR/Lucene, tf/idf and relevance ranking, to extract contextually correct entity and verb semantics from speech and apply them to real world solutions across millions of connected homes.

'''About you'''

* Education Level: Bachelors Degree or Equivalent
* Field of Study: Computer Science, Engineering
* Extensive experience using Java technologies including J2SE, XML/XSLT, Apache Jakarta components and other open source software.
* Experience with statistical/modeling techniques such as CRF, HMM, SVM, KNN.
* Experience with Topic Classification, Parsing, Narrative Thread analysis, parts of speech tagging, Sphinx, metadata extraction.
* Experience with machine learning and/or algorithms.
* Experience with Hibernate, MySQL and/or NoSQL, preferably Hadoop/HBase.
* Experience with search technologies such as SOLR/Lucene and/or recommender systems.
* Experience with and understanding of Unix systems (RHEL) desirable.
* Experience in Agile development methodologies.
* Strong problem solving ability with excellent written/verbal communication and presentation skills.

If you are interested in this position and you think you might have what it takes, send your resume to brian_curtis@cable.comcast.com.

==NLP Research Scientist - Nuance Communications, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA Research Group)==
* Employer: Nuance Communications, Inc.
* Rank or Title: NLP Research Scientist
* Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Dialog Systems
* Location: Sunnyvale, CA, USA
* Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
* Date Posted: November 20th, 2012
* Contact email: Jennifer.Garvale@nuance.com

'''General Description'''

Nuance is the world-wide leader in voice technologies. We are now making substantial research and development investments to add natural language processing capabilities to our speech infrastructure. We are expanding our new Silicon Valley Natural Language Research laboratory. The goal of this group is to develop the next generation of intelligent, conversational agents. We seek research scientists with the following backgrounds:

* Dialog processing
* Discourse and anaphora resolution
* Multimodal generation
* Parsing
* Entity recognition
* Morphology
* Multilingual NLP
* Semantic interpretation

'''Responsibilities'''

* Ownership of a major component of the conversational system.
* Conduct research on the dialog, generation, or reasoning components, and incorporate the latest advances from major conferences in the field.
* Adapt existing components within Nuance and from previous research in the field to a new problem space and domain.
* Understand the trade-offs between multiple competing approaches, and choose the ones that are likely to have future impact on the company's products.
* Design components in a way that will generalize across domains. Minimize the code change and human effort needed for the system to work in a new domain.
* Collaborate with other scientists and engineers inside and outside of the team.
* Patent or publish experimental results or designs when appropriate.

'''Education/Experience'''
* Ph.D. in computer science, computational linguistics, linguistics, or another technical field with a focus on natural language processing.
* Solid track record in both projects and publications for natural language processing.
* Solid implementation skills in C++, Java, scripting languages.
* Knowledge of both statistical and rule-based methods for natural language processing.

Interested candidates should contact Jennifer Garvale at Jennifer.Garvale@nuance.com. For additional information about the technical aspects of the position, feel free to contact Joel Tetreault at Joel.Tetreault@nuance.com.

==Postdoctoral Fellowship - Natural Language Processing==
* Employer: University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
* Rank or Title: Postdoctoral Fellow - Natural Language Processing
* Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Generation
* Location: Cincinnati, OH, USA
* Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
* Date Posted: November 9th, 2012
* Contact email Imre.Solti@cchmc.org

'''Position and Requirements'''
Are you a recent PhD graduate or getting ready to graduate with a degree in computational linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence or closely related field? Do you want to apply your computational skills, machine learning and NLP experience to solve real world challenges to help patients by automating the clinical decision making? Do you have excellent command of both written and oral English, and first author peer reviewed journal publications?

If the answers are yes and you would like to join our team of seven dedicated researchers, programmers and annotators then please, send your most recent CV, a brief research statement and three publications in PDF file format to: Imre.Solti@cchmc.org (include "Postdoctoral Fellow - ACL Wiki" in the subject line).

We provide competitive salaries and excellent benefits. We will sponsor H1B visas for qualified candidates as necessary.

'''About the Institution'''
Cincinnati Children's has over one million physician-patient encounters a year and is the second largest recipient of NIH funding among children hospitals. The hospital has over 12,000 employees. The Division of Biomedical Informatics manages a state-of-the-art 500+ CPU computing cluster. The research of the Solti Lab is funded from institutional and external (NIH) grants.

== Research Programmer position - speech and language processing ==
* Employer: University of Minnesota
* Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
* Deadline: open until filled
* Date posted: November 7, 2012
* Duration: Minimum 2 years committment
* Informal inquiries can be sent to Serguei Pakhomov at spakh001@gmail.com

'''General Description'''
The College of Pharamcy at the University of Minnesota is seeking a talented, pro-active and innovative individual for a Research Programmer position to work on several projects in Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuropharmacology (C3N). C3N is engaged in conducting interdisciplinary research focused on cognitive effects of medications and neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. Computerized assessment is used to measure these cognitive effects. The successful candidate for this position will be responsible for a variety of computer-related tasks including creating and maintaining innovative computer-based neuropsychological testing applications that involve spontaneous speech and language collection and analysis. The successful candidate will also be expected to interact with graduate and undergraduate students on specific programming and research projects to meet the needs of the Center.

'''Skills and characteristics'''

* Education: Master’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, computational linguistics or equivalent combination of training and experience

* Required Skills: Excellent analytical, technical and problem-solving skills. Deep understanding and experience with audio and speech processing. Strong application programming skills in C/C++, Java, Python and/or Perl programming languages. Familiarity with speech recognition toolkits and APIs (e.g., HTK, Sphinx, KALDI, SRILM), acoustic analysis tools (e.g., Praat) and good understanding or experience with speech recognition and analysis technology.

* Preferred skills and characteristics: Familiarity with natural language processing (NLP) techniques and toolkits (e.g., NLTK). Experience with programming applications for mobile devices. Familiarity with computerized or paper-and-pencil neuropsychological testing.

* Other: The successful candidate will be a self-motivated and proactive individual, a good communicator interested in working in an academic environment. Participating in research and experimentation leading to scientific publication are not required but would be highly encouraged and supported.

If you are someone who has the necessary skills and thrives on working in an exciting and dynamic research environment, please send us a letter stating your interest and qualifications, and a resume. Please use this website to apply: https://employment.umn.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.jsp?postingId=576008.

== One Postdoctoral Position In Statistical Machine Translation - Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) ==
* Employer: Sapienza University of Rome
* Location: Rome, Italy
* Deadline: 18th October 2012
* Date Posted: 01st October 2012
* Starting date: 1st December 2012
* Duration: 1+1 years
* Salary: 35000-50000 euros per annum, depending on qualifications. Note that this type of research contract is exempt from most taxes (e.g., 40000 euros per annum corresponds to around 2600 euros net per month)..
* Informal inquiries can be sent by email to Roberto Navigli (navigli@di.uniroma1.it).

One position of POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW in Natural Language Processing is open in the Department of Computer Science of the Sapienza University of Rome, with a specific focus on statistical machine translation for Asian languages. The position is part of a 5-year ERC Starting Grant on multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and headed by Prof. Roberto Navigli (see http://lcl.uniroma1.it/multijedi for details). The successful candidate will participate in a frontier research project and will work in the stimulating environment of a leading and highly-active research team comprising 2 faculty members, 2 post-docs and 6 Ph.D. students.

'''REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS'''

* Ph.D. in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing or Computational Linguistics.
* Strong publication record in Statistical Machine Translation. Publication record in lexical semantics is a plus.
* Willingness to coordinate and supervise part of the research work of the ERC project.
* Ability to work in a collaborative environment, with a strong commitment to achieving research goals.
* Fluent English. Proficiency in at least two major Asian languages. Knowledge of Italian is NOT a requirement.
* Solid programming skills.

'''HOW TO APPLY'''

Please send a detailed CV and contact details for up to three references to Roberto Navigli (navigli@di.uniroma1.it). Please include the job reference (LCL3-2012) in the subject line.

'''ABOUT LA SAPIENZA'''

The Sapienza University of Rome is a seven-century-old university in the heart of Rome. It is one of the largest universities in Europe, with around 150,000 students. Its Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics and Statistics (that includes the Department of Computer Science) is one of the youngest, most energetic and scientifically active environments at the Sapienza. The Sapienza University is an equal opportunity employer.

'''ABOUT THE COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT'''

The Department of Computer Science is a modern, well-equipped research institution with a top-class faculty and a strong Ph.D. program. The Department comprises 44 faculty members (among whom 3 ERC grant holders), 15 postdocs and around 30 Ph.D. students. The successful candidate will be based in Rome, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. The Department is situated just beside the main Sapienza University campus and is in easy walking distance of San Lorenzo, a nice lively area with lots of bookshop-cafes, bars and restaurants. Prospective candidates should not be afraid of the language barrier, as Italians are in general very friendly.

==Postdoc or Research Associate - Natural Language Processing==
* Employer: IHMC (www.ihmc.us)
* Rank or Title: Research Associate - Natural Language Processing
* Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, in particular dialogue processing
* Location: Ocala, FL
* Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
* Date Posted: September 26th, 2012
* Contact email ywilks@ihmc.us

'''About Us'''
IHMC (www.ihmc.us) is a not-for-profit research institute of the Florida University System and is affiliated with several Florida universities.
Researchers at IHMC pioneer technologies aimed at leveraging and extending human capabilities. These systems fit the human and machine components together in ways that exploit their respective strengths and mitigate their respective weaknesses. The design and fit of computational prostheses require a broader interdisciplinary range than is typically found in one organization, thus IHMC staff includes computer scientists, cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, physicians, philosophers, engineers and social scientists of various stripes, as well as some researchers who resist all attempts to classify them.
Current active research areas include: knowledge modeling and sharing, adjustable autonomy, robotics, advanced interfaces and displays, communication and collaboration, computer-mediated learning systems, intelligent data and language understanding, software agents, expertise studies, work practice simulation, knowledge representation, and other related areas.
IHMC faculty and staff collaborate extensively with industry and government to develop science and technology that can be enabling with respect to society's broader goals. IHMC researchers receive funding (current funding in force exceeds $25,000,000) from a wide range of government and private sources. IHMC research partners have included: DARPA, NSF, NASA, Army, Navy, Air Force, NIH, DOT, IDEO, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Boeing, Lockheed, and SAIC, among others.

The candidate will be appointed on a new project on dialogue processing, due to start in the coming months and run for one year initially, with extensions expected. The aim of the project is to produce a prototype conversational Companion-in-an-iPad for a brain-damaged patient in a domestic setting. Ocala, Florida is an excellent location, close to Florida’s major university and about an hour from both coasts. IHMC is housed in an excellent, state of the art building in the city center.

Required:

▪ Natural language processing / computational linguistics background. Ideal: dialogue applications experience (in NLP not ASR),

▪ Substantial skills in processing corpora. Ideal: Java skills and standard statistical procedures.

▪ Ph.D. in computational linguistics or some equivalent in terms of experience in natural language processing or related areas.

Skills and Experience:

▪ 3+ plus years experience in natural language processing / computational linguistics in industry or large scale academic research project.

▪ Expertise in at least some of the following specific NLP areas and topics: question answering, lexical semantics, collocations, disambiguation, multi-word expressions, (shallow) parsing, named entity recognition, lexical acquisition, RDF-style data, speech-language interfaces, information extraction, text classification, evaluation methodologies.

▪ Familiarity with existing data resources and tools: Wordnet, GATE, Nuance ASR, NLTK, Weka, and similar tools.

▪ Ideal: experience with ontologies, RDF, other semantic web resources or tools.

Apply to Yorick Wilks at: ywilks@ihmc.us

== NLP Research Scientist - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ==

NLP Research Scientist wanted for work impacting National Security
Company: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Job ID: 301731 http://www.jobs.pnnl.gov/
Location: PNNL - Richland, WA
Contact: jill.schroeder@pnnl.gov

This position requires significant contributions to the development and evolvement of natural language processing research at PNNL. The incumbent will possess skills in both natural language processing and software design and development. Expertise in natural language processing should include one or more applications including, but not limited to, information extraction, knowledge base population, machine reading, sentiment analysis and social media analytics. Software development skills should include, but are not limited to, object oriented programming and development, data modeling, building demonstrable and functional prototypes, and contributing to deployment-ready software.

In carrying out these duties, the incumbent will be responsible for maintaining strategic alliances with specified clients, managing individual or small team assignments for multiple projects, performing assignments with minimal oversight, working effectively within interdisciplinary development teams, and contributing to proposals, publications and presentations.

Specific responsibilities include:
- apply computational linguistics approaches and algorithms
- contribute to the translation of client requests and needs into a set of project requirements and tasks
- contribute to software design
- construct functional applications and prototypes using PHP, Perl, Python and Java
- perform algorithmic development and implementation, especially as they pertain to NLP
- evaluate natural language processing methods and results
- develop client server and database aware applications
- design and implement graphical user interfaces
- develop on Linux and Windows environments
- effectively manage individual tasks, schedule, workload, budget, and deadlines
- contribute to technical presentations and demonstrations of designs, prototypes and operational software to existing and potential clients; group, division, and sector managers
- contribute to or lead efforts in publishing research
- help grow the natural language processing business portfolio through proposal writing and client engagement

Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

This position reports to the Technical Group manager for Knowledge Discovery and Informatics within PNNL’s National Security Directorate, and is responsible for work activity as assigned by PNNL project managers for both internal and external clients. The incumbent is expected to develop knowledge of the goals of any projects to which they are assigned and the clients they support. The incumbent is expected to maintain a customer-service focus commensurate with this position.

The incumbent normally receives task instructions from their project managers, which are performed with minimal oversight. The incumbent will work both as task lead, and as a staff member under the direction of project managers and senior software scientists. The incumbent will be expected to attend regular project meetings and KDI group meetings. The incumbent may also be expected to attend offsite team meetings with other team members, clients, and users.

A level II scientist contributes to the completion of project milestones by leading specific tasks of the project to meet scope, schedule and budget. Level II scientists are contributing professionals who are building a professional reputation for their technical expertise in NLP. They are expected to continue to develop their technical expertise and knowledge, and develop new skills. In addition, strong contributions to the technical content of proposals will be made.

A level III scientist will lead small to moderate research projects, contribute to the completion of programs and projects, and mentor other staff members. Level III scientists will be skilled professionals able to apply existing NLP methods to new work and will maintain skills consistent with the state of the art in NLP. Level III scientists will generate ideas for new proposals and lead the development of technical content for small to medium proposals, and will contribute to scoping, scheduling and budgeting for projects. .
Minimum Requirements
Level II:
A Bachelor's degree with 2-3 years experience or a Master's degree with 0-2 years experience or a Ph.D. is required. Expected to contribute professionally, building a professional reputation for technical expertise. Fully applying and interpreting standard theories, principles, methods, tools and technologies. All staff at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory must be able to demonstrate the legal right to work in the United States.

Level III:
A Bachelor's degree with at least 5 years experience or a Master's degree with 3 years experience or a Ph.D. with 1-2 years experience is required. Must be a skilled professional who applies a broad basis of existing theories, principles, and concepts to a specialty field. All staff at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory must be able to demonstrate the legal right to work in the United States.
Qualifications
Professional Expertise: Expertise in NLP algorithm development and strong software design and development skills.

Work-related Experience:
- Demonstrated ability and willingness to perform as a team member on multiple projects simultaneously and work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic team environment with high expectations for quality.
- Experience leading project teams in research, design and development a plus.

Breadth of Relevant Specialized Knowledge and Skills:
- Well-developed oral and written communication skills, including ability to convey complex technical information accurately.
- Above-average client interaction skills including the ability to quickly understand a client’s business needs and communicate at the proper level of detail
- Proficient in the use of Windows, Macintosh, and Linux environments
Preferred Education/Credential
A PhD in computational linguistics is preferred.

Level II:
PhD in computational linguistics, natural language processing or related field within the last 5 years or Masters of Science in computer engineering, computer science or related field and 1+ years of experience in NLP within the last 5 years

Level III PREFERRED:
PhD in computational linguistics, natural language processing or related field and 1-2 years of experience in NLP within the last 5 years or Masters of Science in computer engineering, computer science or related field and + years of experience in NLP within the last 5 years
Equal Employment Opportunity
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer and supports diversity in the workplace. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital or family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or genetic information. All staff at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory must be able to demonstrate the legal right to work in the United States.
Other Information
This position requires the ability to obtain a federal security clearance in a timely manner. Which requires:
* US Citizenship
* Background Investigation: Applicants selected will be subject to a Federal background investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified matter in accordance 10 CFR 710, Appendix B.
* Drug Testing: All Security Clearance (L or Q) positions will be considered by the Department of Energy to be Testing Designated Positions which means that they are subject to applicant, random, and for cause drug testing. In addition, applicants must be able to demonstrate non-use of illegal drugs for the 12 consecutive months preceding completion of the requisite Questionnaire for National Security Positions (QNSP).

Note: Applicants will be considered ineligible for security clearance processing by the U.S. Department of Energy until non-use of illegal drugs for 12 consecutive months can be demonstrated.

== Faculty Positions (open rank) in multiple areas, particularly Biomedical NLP / Text Mining, The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH, USA) ==
* Employer: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering and Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
* Rank or Title: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor
* Specialty: Multiple openings, including targeted hire in Biomedical Natural Language Processing / Text Mining
* Location: Columbus, OH USA
* Deadline: Review of applications will begin in November and continue until the positions are filled
* Date Posted: August 30, 2012
* Contact email or link to website: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/department/positions.shtml

The Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Ohio State University seeks faculty candidates for multiple tenured or tenure-track appointments at the assistant, associate or full professor level. The department is slated for significant growth as part of a multi-year expansion in size and scope, including targeted faculty hires in core areas as well as in areas that bridge CS with other disciplines. The specific searches being conducted this year include:

* One targeted position, open rank, in the area of big data, broadly defined. These include, but are not limited to, applicants that have core training in databases, systems, data analytics, or cloud computing, with experience in managing and analyzing big data stores.
* One targeted position, open rank, in the area of cybersecurity, broadly defined. We are specifically interested in applicants with research interests in network security, physical layer/information theoretic security, cyberphysical systems, data privacy, cryptography, or programming language security.
* One targeted position, open rank, at the interface of computer science and mathematics broadly defined. We are specifically interested in researchers working in theoretical computer science, scientific computing, or complex systems.
* Multiple targeted positions, open rank, jointly searched with the Department of Biomedical Informatics. Priority consideration will be given to applicants whose research interests lie in the processing of biomedical text (e.g. NLP or text mining) as well as those interested in the multi-scale modeling and visualization of high-throughput and/or high-content molecular or image data. Outstanding applicants in other areas at the intersection of biology, clinical science, informatics, and computer science will also be considered.
* In addition to the above targeted searches the department is conducting a search for an additional position (open rank) that is open to all areas of computer science and engineering.

The department is committed to enhancing faculty diversity; women, minorities, and individuals with disabilities are especially encouraged to apply.

Applicants should hold or be completing a Ph.D. in CSE or a closely related field, have a commitment to and demonstrated record of excellence in research, and a commitment to excellence in teaching.

To apply, please submit your application via the online database. The link can be found at: https://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/portal/fsearch/apply.cgi.

Review of applications will begin in November and will continue until the positions are filled.

The Ohio State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

== Postdoctoral Position in Natural Language Processing in Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan) ==

* Employer: Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
http://www.sinica.edu.tw

http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw
* PI: Lun-Wei Ku (Language Processing Group)
http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/pages/lwku/index_en.html

http://nlg18.csie.ntu.edu.tw:8080/lwku/lwku.html

* Rank or Title: Post Doctorial Researcher - Natural Language Processing
* Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning
* Location: Taipei, Taiwan
* Deadline: open until filled
* Date Posted: August 21st, 2012
* Start Date: before October, 2012 or after April, 2013
* Duration: 1+1+1 years
* Contact email: lwku@iis.sinica.edu.tw

'''REQUIRED'''

Ph.D. in computational linguistics / natural language processing or related areas.

Natural language processing / computational linguistics background.
Substantial skills in programming and processing large scale corpora.

Ideal: Java skills and standard statistical procedures.

'''SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE'''

3+ plus years experience in natural language processing / computational linguistics in industry or large scale academic research project.
Expertise in at least some of the following specific NLP areas and topics: question answering, lexical semantics, collocations, terminology extraction, disambiguation, multi-word expressions, (shallow) parsing, named entity recognition, lexical acquisition, paraphrasis acquisition, information extraction, text classification, evaluation methodologies, sentiment analysis.
Familiarity with existing data resources and tools: Wordnet, POS taggers, parsers, SVMLight, Weka, and similar tools.

Ideal: with experience of interests in processing Asia language (ex. Chinese)

'''PAYMENT'''

Around 1900~2000 USD/Month, depends on the currency rate.

'''HOW TO APPLY'''

Apply to Lun-Wei Ku at: lwku@iis.sinica.edu.tw. Please provide your CV, publication list and contact information.

Please also note the date you wish to start the job, and send your documents at your earliest convenience so we can review them asap.

== Two Postdoctoral Positions in Natural Language Processing at the Sapienza University of Rome ==
* Employer: Sapienza University of Rome
* Location: Rome, Italy
* Deadline: open until filled
* Date Posted: 16th August 2012
* Starting date: fall/winter 2012
* Duration: 1+1+1 years
* Salary: 30000-45000 euros per annum, depending on qualifications. Note that this type of research contract is exempt from most taxes (e.g., 40000 euros per annum corresponds to around 2600 euros net per month).
* Informal inquiries can be sent by email to Roberto Navigli (navigli@di.uniroma1.it).

Two positions of POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW in Natural Language Processing are open in the Department of Computer Science of the Sapienza University of Rome. The positions are part of a 5-year ERC Starting Grant funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and headed by Prof. Roberto Navigli (see http://lcl.uniroma1.it/multijedi for details). The successful candidates will participate in a frontier research project on multilingual lexical semantics and will work in a stimulating environment of a leading and highly-active research team including 2 faculty members, 1 postdoc and 6 Ph.D. students.

'''REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS'''

* Ph.D. in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing or Computational Linguistics.
* Strong publication record in Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing (see below).
* Willingness to coordinate and supervise part of the research work of the ERC project.
* Ability to work in a collaborative environment, with a strong commitment to achieving research goals.
* Fluent English. Knowledge of Italian is NOT a requirement.
* Solid programming skills: Java and practical expertise with standard NLP tools are required, knowledge of Perl/Python is a plus.

Experience in research project management is a plus.

'''SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS'''

* POSITION #1 (LCL1-2012): research record in computational lexical semantics, large-scale knowledge acquisition and validation, open information extraction, or data-intensive machine learning
* POSITION #2 (LCL2-2012): research record in statistical machine translation, unsupervised acquisition of bilingual/multilingual lexicons, or cross-lingual methods for NLP

'''HOW TO APPLY'''

Please send a detailed CV and contact details for up to three references to Roberto Navigli (navigli@di.uniroma1.it). Please include the job reference (LCL1-2012 or LCL2-2012) in the subject line.

'''ABOUT SAPIENZA'''

The University of Rome "La Sapienza" is a seven-century-old university in the heart of Rome. It is one of the largest universities in Europe, with around 150,000 students. Its Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics and Statistics (that includes the Department of Computer Science) is one of the youngest, most energetic and scientifically active environments at Sapienza. The Sapienza University is an equal opportunity employer.

'''ABOUT THE COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT'''

The [http://w3.uniroma1.it/dipinfo/english/index.asp Department of Computer Science] is a modern and well-equipped research institution with a top-class faculty and a strong Ph.D. program. The Department comprises 44 faculty members (among whom 3 ERC grant holders), 15 postdocs and around 30 Ph.D. students. The successful candidate will be based in Rome, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. The Department is situated in a nice lively area with lots of cafes, bars, restaurants, and at walking distance from the city centre. Prominent candidates must not be afraid of the language barrier, as Italians are in general very friendly.

== Engineer with NLP / ML/ IR background - Curata (Cambridge, MA) ==

'''Curata, Inc.'''
Curata, Inc. provides easy-to-use marketing solutions for content curation and content marketing. Curata's product, Curata, allows marketers to easily find, organize and share content on specific issues or topics in order to establish thought leadership, own industry conversations and drive qualified web traffic. Curata was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.curata.com.

'''Role Description'''
We are looking for an individual who enjoys building and shipping code as an engineer, first and foremost, but also enjoys prototyping new product ideas leveraging natural language processing, information retrieval, and machine learning skills. You are a fit if you enjoy experimenting with a large text corpus, innovating new product concepts, and ultimately packaging and shipping your work.

In the past two years, our customer base, comprising of marketing, information services, and knowledge management professionals, have curated millions of pieces of content through our complex content procurement and processing pipeline. We release new code many times a day, and have fun continually optimizing and enhancing our product. As a start-up, we need someone who can match the high energy and enthusiasm of our team.

Technologies in our stack include Linux, Django, Python, git, MySQL, jQuery, Sphinx, and memcached.

'''Responsibilities'''

* Prototyping concepts and working with engineering team to see them through deployment.
* Suggesting new product concepts.
* Optimizing machine learning algorithms through iterative experimentation and parameter tuning.
* Architect, build and maintain flexible and highly scalable web applications
* Participate in the full engineering life cycle from design through implementation and deployment.
* Think in terms of the end-user and design accordingly
* Actively contribute to product design and feature selection discussions

'''Preferred Skills and Experience'''
* Significant research experience with natural language processing (NLP), information retrieval, machine learning or related fields.
* Strong software development skills, preferably with web applications.
* Versatile attitude towards technology -- ready and willing to learn and grow on the job.

'''Location:''' Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA / Boston

'''Type:''' Full-Time

'''Contact:''' engmgt.jobs@curata.com

== Research Fellowship at University of Aberdeen ==

* Employer: University of Aberdeen
* Job Title: Research Fellow in Natural Language Generation
* Location: Aberdeen, UK
* Deadline: 23rd July 2012
* Date Posted: 11th July 2012
* [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/index.php Application Website: click on "external applicants", search for the post with reference number 1260664
* Contact email: c.mellish@abdn.ac.uk

To support our ambitious research programme we are looking to appoint a postdoctoral research fellow to do research on natural language generation in the MIME project. MIME (see http://www.dotrural.ac.uk/mime/ ) investigates ways to underpin reconfigured rural emergency response services, by examining how technology could support responders to incidents such as road accidents. It is exploring the use of networked monitors to support decision making and information management in the management of casualties and the automatic generation of handover reports from responders when more expert help arrives.
The successful candidate will have a good knowledge of natural language processing techniques in general (at the postgraduate level) and preferably some practical experience with NLG. The candidate will have a PhD or be about to complete a PhD in Computer Science/ Artificial Intelligence or a relevant discipline. Enthusiasm for digital technology and innovation relevant to society and the economy is essential as is the ability to work in a cross-disciplinary team including colleagues in computer science and engineering.

This post is funded by the EPSRC and it is anticipated that the project activities will be completed within 9 months of the agreed start date. This appointment will be made subject to the usual terms and conditions of employment of the University.

== Executive Director at University of Maryland ==

** Employer: University of Maryland, Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL)
** Title: Executive Director
** Location: College Park, MD
** Deadline: Open until filled
** Date Posted: July 2, 2012
** Link to website: http://jobs.umd.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=57086
** Contact email: tswallst@umd.edu

The University of Maryland, College Park, invites applications for the position of Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL). Since its establishment in 2003, CASL’s mission has been to conduct cutting-edge research that results in improved performance on foreign language and analysis tasks relevant to the work of government language professionals. Visit www.casl.umd.edu for more information about CASL.

'''DUTIES:''' The Executive Director (ED) has leadership responsibility for research, operations, strategic planning, and compliance with university and government requirements and regulations associated with CASL’s designation as a University Affiliated Research Center (UARC). The ED’s duties include developing and implementing the US Government-approved research agenda; developing and managing external relations and outreach to academia, industry, and government for purposes of collaborative research and consultation; and overseeing relevant UARC-designated activities and outreach, collaboration, education, policy and evaluation. The ED ensures the hiring and retention of the best researchers and research managers in CASL’s core compentencies and other relevant disciplines as well as highly qualified financial, information technology, operations, logistics, and security support staff. In addition to aligning CASL’s strategic plan with its mission to meet the needs of clients, the ED provides leadership in identifying opportunities for partnering and collaborating with academic departments and other research centers on campus. The ED reports to the Vice President for Research and directly supervises the directors of CASL’s various units.

'''QUALIFICATIONS:''' Candidates must have an advanced degree, preferably a Ph.D., in a discipline related to one of CASL’s core competencies (e.g., Less Commonly Taught Languages and Cultures; Second Language Acquisition; Computational Linguistics; Linguistics; Cognitive or Social Psychology; Cognitive Science or Cognitive Neuroscience), with a distinguished record of scholarly achievement and/or leadership in one or more areas relevant to the research foci of the center. Candidates' experience, research and publications should show evidence of ability to tackle complex, interdisciplinary research and to work collaboratively with a range of institutions and researchers. Experience working closely with US government and/or industry colleagues in non-academic settings is essential. Candidates must qualify for an academic appointment either as a tenured professor or as a professor of the practice in a department consistent with their background.

'''Candidates must hold U.S. citizenship and be willing to obtain the appropriate security clearance.'''

'''TO APPLY:''' For best consideration, applicants should submit a letter of application, CV, and contact information for three professional references online at http://jobs.umd.edu click on “Faculty” (or direct link: http://www. jobs.umd.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=57086) by Monday, August 20, 2012. Address questions to the search committee chair, Professor Thomas S. Wallsten, at tswallst@umd.edu

The University of Maryland, College Park, actively subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity, and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, age, sex, color, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry or national origin, marital status, genetic information, or political affiliation. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. The University of Maryland offers an excellent benefits package which includes: health benefits, retirement plans, generous leave package, flexible spending accounts, tuition remission, and long-term, disability, and life insurance. Please visit the University’s web page at http://www.uhr.umd.edu/benefits/ to see a full list of benefits and the providers.

== Several Positions in Data2Text (Natural Language Generation) ==

* Employer: Data2Text
* Job title: Natural Language Generation Engineer, Analytics Engineer, Lead Engineer
* Specialty: natural language generation, analytics
* Location: Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
* Deadline: 29 June 2012
* Date posted: 8 June 2012
* Link to website: http://www.data2text.com/careers

Data2Text is a spinout from the University of Aberdeen's Natural Language Generation (NLG)
research group. We are looking to hire several people; please see our website for details
http://www.data2text.com/careers

This is a great opportunity for people who are keen on getting NLG technology
out into the real world. In addition to the advertised positions, we're happy to talk
to people who are knowledgeable about NLG and keen to develop commercial applications,
but whose profiles do not fit the advertised positions.

Information inquiries (from the ACL community) should be sent to Ehud Reiter
(e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk or ehud.reiter@data2text.com)

== Associate Research Scientist (SPEECH) at Educational Testing Service ==

* Employer: Educational Testing Service (www.ets.org)
* Job Title: Associate Research Scientist (SPEECH)
* Location: Princeton, NJ
* Deadline: Open until filled
* Date Posted: 16-May-2012
* [http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=124337&type=True&cfcend Application Website]
* Contact email: dyanchuk@ets.org

'''JOB DESCRIPTION'''

ETS's Research & Development division has an opening for a Speech research scientist in the NLP and Speech group. The Group currently consists of about 15 Ph.D. level research scientists in areas related to NLP and speech. Its main focus is on foundational research as well as on development of new capabilities to automatically score written and spoken test responses in a wide range of ETS test programs including TOEFL(R)iBT and GRE(R).

'''BASIC FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES'''

* Provide scientific and technical skills in conceptualizing, designing, obtaining support for, conducting, managing, and disseminating results of research projects in the field of speech technology, or portions of large-scale research studies or programs in the same field.

* Develop and/or modify NLP theories to conceptualize and implement new capabilities in automated scoring and NLP systems to improve assessments, learning tools and test development practices.

* Apply scientific, technical and software engineering skills in designing and conducting research studies and capability development in support of educational products and services.

* Develop and oversee the conduct of selected portions of research proposals and project budgets.

* Design and conduct complex scientific studies functioning as an expert in major facets of the projects.

* Assist in the conduct of research projects by accomplishing directed tasks according to schedule and within budget.

* Participate in dissemination activities through the publications of research papers, progress and technical reports, the presentation of seminars or other appropriate communication vehicles.

* Develop professional relationships as a representative, consultant or advisor to external advisory and policy boards and councils, research organizations, educational institutions and educators.

'''EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS'''

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Language Technologies, Natural Language Processing, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, with strong emphasis on speech technology and preferably some education in linguistics is required.

EXPERIENCE

Evidence of substantive research experience and/or experience in developing and deploying speech capabilities is required. Demonstrable contributions to new and/or modified theories of speech processing and their implementation in automated systems. Demonstrable expertise in the application of speech recognition systems and fluency in at least one major programming language (e.g., Java, Perl, C/C++, Python).

'''APPLYING'''

Interested parties can apply for the position through the following website:

http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=124337&type=True&cfcend

If there are any questions, please contact: Dave Yanchuk (609) 406-5291 dyanchuk@ets.org

== Associate Research Scientist (NLP) at Educational Testing Service ==

* Employer: Educational Testing Service (www.ets.org)
* Job Title: Associate Research Scientist (NLP)
* Location: Princeton, NJ
* Deadline: Open until filled
* Date Posted: 16-May-2012
* [http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=124335&type=True&cfcend Application Website]
* Contact email: dyanchuk@ets.org

'''JOB DESCRIPTION'''

ETS's Research & Development division has an opening for an NLP research scientist in the NLP and Speech group. The Group currently consists of about 15 Ph.D. level research scientists in areas related to NLP and speech. Its main focus is on foundational research as well as on development of new capabilities to automatically score written and spoken test responses in a wide range of ETS test programs including TOEFL(R)iBT and GRE(R).

'''BASIC FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES'''

* Provide scientific and technical skills in conceptualizing, designing, obtaining support for, conducting, managing, and disseminating results of research projects in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), or portions of large-scale research studies or programs in the same field.

* Develop and/or modify NLP theories to conceptualize and implement new capabilities in automated scoring and NLP systems to improve assessments, learning tools and test development practices.

* Apply scientific, technical and software engineering skills in designing and conducting research studies and capability development in support of educational products and services.

* Develop and oversee the conduct of selected portions of research proposals and project budgets.

* Design and conduct complex scientific studies functioning as an expert in major facets of the projects.

* Assist in the conduct of research projects by accomplishing directed tasks according to schedule and within budget.

* Participate in dissemination activities through the publications of research papers, progress and technical reports, the presentation of seminars or other appropriate communication vehicles.

* Develop professional relationships as a representative, consultant or advisor to external advisory and policy boards and councils, research organizations, educational institutions and educators.

'''EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS'''

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, with strong emphasis on NLP technology and preferably some education in linguistics is required.

EXPERIENCE

Evidence of substantive research experience and/or experience in developing and deploying NLP capabilities is required. Demonstrable contributions to new and/or modified theories of NLP and their implementation in automated systems are required. Demonstrable and practical expertise with NLP tools and fluency in at least one major programming language (e.g. java, perl, c/c++, python) is also required. Familiarity with the application of NLP tools to educational problems, and a very strong statistical background and a solid experience with machine learning algorithms would be an asset.

'''APPLYING'''

Interested parties can apply for the position through the following website:

http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=124335&type=True&cfcend

If there are any questions, please contact: Dave Yanchuk (609) 406-5291 dyanchuk@ets.org

== Associate Research Engineer at Educational Testing Service ==

* Employer: Educational Testing Service (www.ets.org)
* Job Title: Associate Research Engineer
* Location: Princeton, NJ
* Deadline: Open until filled
* Date Posted: 15-May-2012
* [http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=124339&type=True&cfcend Application Website]
* Contact email: dyanchuk@ets.org

'''JOB DESCRIPTION'''

ETS's Research & Development division has an opening for a researcher in the NLP & Speech Group. The Group currently consists of about 15 Ph.D. level research scientists in areas related to NLP and speech. Its main focus is on foundational research as well as on development of new capabilities to automatically score written and spoken test responses in a wide range of ETS test programs including TOEFL(R)iBT and GRE(R).

'''BASIC FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES'''
* Assist in the implementation of speech technology and natural language processing (NLP) components of medium- to large-scale, complex research projects for ETS researchers, testing program areas, and external clients. Consult with research scientists in the application, modification, and documentation of such systems using established technologies.

* Work effectively in a team setting and take an active role in contributing to team discussions and decisions.

* Analyze, design, modify, develop, document and implement technologies for executing medium- to large-scale, complex Speech technology and NLP research and development tasks. Identify unexpected problems in the application of Speech and NLP tools, and develop solutions.

* Consult with research supervisory staff on the development of technologies for executing medium- to large-scale, complex Speech technology and NLP research and development tasks. Contribute to the implementation and support of new Speech and NLP methodologies to support research system development.

* Assist in the preparation of NLP development components of proposals and cost/resource estimates.

* Maintain continuing awareness of recent advances in speech and natural language processing, machine learning, and software development methodologies.

* Implement components of technical documentation of NLP software systems, solutions and results.

* Attend area-wide staff training and development sessions.

'''EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS'''

EDUCATION

A Masters degree in Computer Science, NLP, Language Technology, Computational Linguistics, Linguistics or a closely related field is required.

EXPERIENCE

A strong programming background, in languages such as Java, Python, Perl, and C, and facility with computational algorithms are essential. Coursework in statistics and experience in using machine learning toolkits are highly desirable. Experience with speech processing software (e.g. HTK, Praat, Matlab) is desirable.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS
* Knowledge of UNIX and Windows computing environments.

* Familiarity with UNIX tools and scripting languages.

* Familiarity with algorithms, methods and data structures in common use in the processing of speech and language data.

* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

'''APPLYING'''

Interested parties can apply for the position through the following website:

http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=124339&type=True&cfcend

If there are any questions, please contact: Dave Yanchuk (609) 406-5291 dyanchuk@ets.org

== Junior Researcher at Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) ==

* Employer: Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
* Group: Language Technology
* Title: Junior Researcher
* Requirements:
** Permission to work within the European union
** Excellent English language skills; knowledge of the German language is a plus
** A degree in computational linguistics, computer science, or a related area (PhD is a plus, but experienced graduate students will be considered)
** Experience in statistical natural language processing (knowledge of unsupervised machine learning is a plus)
** Programming skills in C++, Perl and/or Java
** Strong ability to work independently and drive an original research agenda
* Deadline: June 15, 2012
* Date Posted: May 14, 2012
* Contact: harald.trost@ofai.at

The Language Technology group at the OFAI, Vienna, is looking for a motivated post-doctoral researcher or a well experienced graduate student to fill a research position within the basic research project "Machine Learning Techniques for Modeling of Language Varieties".

The position involves basic research on issues related to data sparsity in machine translation between non-central language pairs. In particular, morphological closeness shall be exploited and bootstrapping methods shall be employed to counter the data sparsity. Further information is available at http://varieties.ofai.at.

A basic gross salary of EUR 40,000-45,000 per anno will be offered depending on the experience of the candidate.

OFAI encourages its researchers to publish results in the top venues (ACL, EMNLP, etc.) and provides travel funding towards this end.

Please send your applications, including a CV and a brief research statement, to Harald Trost <harald.trost@ofai.at>. The position is to be filled as soon as possible, not later than September 1st, 2012, and will terminate with the end of the project (December 31st, 2013).

About the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI): Founded in 1984, OFAI is one of Europe's leading non-profit research institutions in AI. Further information is available at http://www.ofai.at.

About Vienna: Vienna is the Austrian capital and consistently ranked as one of the most livable cities in the world. At over 1,600,000 inhabitants, Vienna is one of the largest cities in the central European region and home to numerous universities and research institutions, providing an intellectually stimulating environment.

== Junior Research Group Leaders at Saarland University ==

* Employer: Saarland University, Germany
* Division: MMCI Cluster of Excellence
* Title: Junior Research Group Leaders
* Job ID: W490
* Specialty: Multimodal Computing and Interaction (incl. Speech and Language Processing)
* Location: Saarbrücken, Germany
* Deadline: April 30, 2012
* Date Posted: April 4, 2012
* Contact: http://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Campus/Service/Stellenausschreibung/Wissenschaftliches_Personal/W490.pdf

The Cluster of Excellence "Multimodal Computing and Interaction" at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, seeks applications for a number of new Junior Research Group Leader positions. The Cluster provides a highly interdisciplinary research environment with a strong Computational Linguistics component. One of the Cluster's central research areas is 'Speech and Language Processing'. Group leaders will receive junior faculty status at Saarland University, including the right to supervise Bachelor, Master and PhD students. Junior research groups are equipped with a budget of 80k to 100k Euros per year to cover research personnel and other costs.

Deadline for applications is April 30th, 2012.

For the complete announcement see:
http://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Campus/Service/Stellenausschreibung/Wissenschaftliches_Personal/W490.pdf

Additional information on the excellence cluster is available on
http://www.mmci.uni-saarland.de/

Please feel free to contact for further information any of the PIs (Matthew Crocker, Manfred Pinkal, Hans Uszkoreit) or JRG leaders (Vera Demberg, Caroline Sporleder, Ivan Titov) in the research area.

== Scientist Position in Statistical Machine Translation at Microsoft ==

* Employer: MICROSOFT
* Division: Online Services Division
* Title: Scientist Position
* Job ID: 789594
* Specialty: Statistical Machine Translation
* Location: Bellevue, WA or Mountain Vew, CA
* Deadline: As soon as possible
* Date Posted: March 30, 2012
* Contact: https://careers.microsoft.com/jobdetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=1&jid=77908&jlang=EN

Scientist Position in Statistical Machine Translation

Research and Development Opportunities for Next Generation Technology at Microsoft

Do you want to impact billions of people all over the world with speech technology that you create?

We are looking for PhD level scientists and senior scientists, who will work on research and development problems in statistical machine translation. The candidates with experience in large-scale syntax-based statistical machine translation,
weighted finite state transducers, natural language processing and machine learning will be preferred.

Microsoft is all-in on the Natural User Interface to bring computing to larger audiences in more applications. To drive this mission we are bringing together scientists and engineers in the areas of machine translation, speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialog modeling, machine learning and synthesis to develop and deliver robust, natural and scalable solutions across a rich set of scenarios and languages.

Join the excitement to be part of the newly formed team of scientists within Microsoft and to impact the lives of billions of people all over the world. We are talking about Bing, Windows, XBOX, Mobile, Exchange Server and Tellme, just to name a few. Microsoft is dedicated to improving everyday life using speech. And not just in a few countries - but around the world.

== Reasoning about Agent's Mental States in Dialog and Joint Activity (CMU Silicon Valley) ==

* Employer: Inst. for the Study of Learning and Expertise at CMU Silicon Valley
* Title: Post MS, Post Doc, or above
* Specialty: Logic, Reasoning (Abduction/Inference), Production systems, Discourse processes, Reasoning
* Location: Mountain Vew, CA
* Deadline: As soon as possible
* Date Posted: March 21, 2012
* Contact: patrick.w.langley@gmail.com

An ongoing project has an opening for a researcher who will help extend
Icarus, a cognitive architecture, to reason about other agents' mental
states in the context of dialogues and joint activities. The framework
uses a logical formalism to encode knowledge, beliefs, and goals, and
it relies on a form of abduction to make plausible inferences. Experience
in building reasoning systems that operate over rich representations is
essential, and a background in applied logic, knowledge-based systems,
and/or cognitive architectures is highly desirable.

The location of the project will be Carnegie Mellon's Silicon Valley
Campus. The start date is negotiable, but the position will be available
on May 1, 2012, and the project has funding for another two years.
Interested parties should send their curriculum vitae, along with
the contact details for two or more references, to Pat Langley
<patrick.w.langley@gmail.com>.

== Post-doctoral researcher in metaphor detection and analysis at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL ==

* Employer: Illinois Institute of Technology
* Title: Postdoc
* Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Metaphor
* Location: Chicago, IL
* Deadline: As soon as possible
* Date Posted: March 13, 2012
* Contact: argamon@iit.edu

The Illinois Institute of Technology Department of Computer Science in Chicago, IL is delighted to announce an opening for a Postdoctoral Research Associate, for a recent Ph.D. in computer science, computational linguistics, or related areas. We seek applicants to work with Prof. Shlomo Argamon in the Linguistic Cognition Laboratory, the PI of a federally-funded project to identify and analyze metaphors in multiple languages.

The ideal candidate will have a scholarly understanding of computational linguistics and metaphor, be an excellent programmer, and be comfortable with technologies for the analysis of big data. The postdoc will: (a) support development of automated language analysis and text mining for metaphor identification and analysis, (b) help manage the work of graduate research assistants on the project, (c) aid in developing research publications and external funding proposals, and (d) support other research and administration activities in the project.

Applicants from all areas relevant to the research are encouraged to apply. In addition to the core area of computational linguistics, training in machine learning, statistical analysis, and information retrieval will be helpful. Knowledge of Spanish, Russian, or Farsi is also a plus.

The position includes a competitive salary plus benefits. It will run through the end of 2012, beginning as soon as possible, with the possibility of a one-year renewal upon satisfactory performance and continued funding.

Interested candidates should apply via email to Dr. Shlomo Argamon (argamon@iit.edu). Applications should include a CV with cover letter, including the names of three references, giving contact information (email address and phone number) and relationship to the candidate for each reference. Inquiries can similarly be directed to the above email address. Prior to hiring, successful applicants will be required to submit either a transcript/diploma showing the date of an earned Ph.D. degree or a letter from their academic adviser confirming the expectation of the degree by May 2012.

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

== Post-doctoral position within the area of automatic text summarization at Google Zurich, Switzerland ==

* Employer: Google
* Job title: Postdoc
* Specialty: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, summarization
* Location: Zurich, Switzerland
* Deadline: we are looking to fill the position soon
* Date posted: 1 March 2012

A post-doctoral position in the area of automatic text summarization
within the RENDER project is available at the Google Switzerland R&D
office. RENDER is a EU FP7 research project focused on identifying
diversity of opinions, viewpoints, mindsets and backgrounds in texts
from different sources: news, (micro) blog streams, and in
collaboratively written resources like Wikipedia. More information on
the project goals is available at http://render-project.eu/.

The duration of the post-doctoral contract will be one year, with the
possibility of renewing for a second year. This position will allow
the candidate to perform research on several NLP-related areas,
to interact with the consortium partners and with other Google-internal
research and development projects, and to apply the results of the
research to real applications with a potentially large impact.

Requirements:
* The candidate should have a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics or Information Retrieval. Experience with automatic text summarization, machine learning or opinion mining is a plus.
* Extensive programming experience in C/C++.
* A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
* Fluency in English.

Responsibilities:
* Perform research in the context of the project (text summarization).
* Develop prototypes quickly, and implement industrial-strength production-quality high-volume applications.
* Publish the result of the research in top conferences or journals.
* Be available to attend project meetings with the partners in the project.

For applying to this position, please send an e-mail to Enrique
Alfonseca (ealfonseca@google.com) including a paragraph on why you
think you are a right person for the role, and a brief CV.

== 4 PhD positions in spoken dialogue systems research ==

* Employer: Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University in Prague
* Job title: 4 PhD positions in spoken dialogue systems research
* Specialty: spoken dialogue systems, machine learning, Bayesian methods, and natural language processing
* Location: Prague, Czech Republic
* Deadline: 1 June 2012
* Date posted: 16 February 2012
* Link to website: http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~jurcicek/jobs

Applications are invited for 4 PhD fellowships in the area of statistical spoken dialogue systems funded by the Czech Government. The students will join the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic with an anticipated start date of October 1st, 2012.

Topic description: In recent years, it has been suggested that statistical approach to spoken dialogue system offer a framework to naturally handle inherent uncertainty in the human speech. The two main advantages of statistical methods are increased robustness in noisy conditions and more natural behaviour learned from data. However, the current methods need large corpora effectively preventing these methods to be used for complex dialogue systems occurring in real-life. The successful PhD candidates will investigate and implement statistical models and methods with the aim of increasing the efficiency of the learning process and reducing the need for large corpora. The conducted research will cover areas of spoken language understanding, dialogue management, and natural language processing.

Skills: Candidates should hold a master degree in a relevant area, such as computer science, mathematics, engineering or linguistics. A strong mathematical background, excellent programming skills (e.g. C/C++, Java, MATLAB, and various scripting languages under Linux environment), aptitude for creative research and autonomy are expected. Experience in machine learning, Bayesian methods, and natural language processing is a plus.

The Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics is a top-level research group working in the area of computational linguistics and natural language processing. During the fellowship, there will be good opportunities to attend international conferences and workshops. The formal applications should be submitted before June 1. Prospective candidates are strongly encouraged to contact Dr Filip Jurcicek (jurcicek@ufal.mff.cuni.cz) as soon as possible to obtain details about the application process, the institute, and the research opportunities.
Additional information is available at http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~jurcicek/jobs.

== PhD-position in sentiment mining and reputation analysis==

* Employer: Erasmus University Rotterdam
* Job title: PhD-student
* Specialty: text mining, sentiment analysis, topic detection, reputation management
* Location: Rottterdam, The Netherlands
* Deadline: 1 March 2012
* Date posted: 6 February 2012
* Link to website: http://www.eur.nl/erasmusstudio/about_erasmus_studio/open_positions

In the context of the COMMIT project Information Retrieval for Information Services (COMMIT/Infiniti http://www.project-infiniti.nl/), applications are invited for a PhD student position. The research task will be to investigate the Mining of Economic Entities. As currently people easily share their sentiment regarding companies and products, reputation modeling has become increasingly important for commercial and non-commercial organisations. Due to the huge amount of opinions available through the Web, a manual approach for social media analysis for sentiment mining seems unfeasible, while there seems to be a huge potential for content-driven automated approaches. Through the mining of economic entities and the aggregated sentiment based on textual data, the aim is to support decisions on, e.g., product developments, marketing campaigns, etc. The envisaged prototype for a decision support tool will act as an indicator of public sentiment and trends. In addition, the variation in the dynamics of opinion forming for diverging domains such as economic news, political sentiment, and sentiment towards historical events will be studied.
The PhD track is embedded in the work of the EUR team working on the Infiniti project (Erasmus School of Economics/Econometric Institute/ Computer Science Group and Erasmus Studio) and the student will be able to collaborate on related topics with PhD students and researchers from other organizations participating in COMMIT.

For more information please visit this link: http://www.eur.nl/erasmusstudio/about_erasmus_studio/open_positions

To apply, send an email with the required documents (cv, motivation, relevant certificates and the names of two referees) to commit.eur@gmail.com.

== PhD-position in folktale classification and clustering ==
* Employer: University of Twente
* Job title: PhD-student
* Specialty: text classification, document clustering, natural language processing
* Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands / Enschede, The Netherlands
* Deadline: 4 March 2012
* Date posted: 6 February 2012
* Link to website: http://www.utwente.nl/vacatures/?VacatureID=199425

Applications are invited for a PhD-student in the FACT project (Folktales As Classifiable Texts), funded under the CATCH programme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). This is a multidisciplinary research project involving collaboration between computer science and humanities researchers. The PhD-student will work on automatic classification of Dutch folktales by their international folktale type and on unsupervised clustering of folktales, to provide new input for humanities research. For this position, familiarity with the Dutch language is a plus.

The PhD-student will be employed at the University of Twente, but will spend most of his/her time "on site" at the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam (http://www.meertens.knaw.nl), which maintains a large collection of Dutch folktales (http://www.verhalenbank.nl). The PhD-student will be part of a larger team within the e-Laboratory on Oral Culture at the Meertens Institute.

For more information and the application form, visit this link: http://www.utwente.nl/vacatures/?VacatureID=199425

==Research Associate Position at Educational Testing Service==
* Employer: Educational Testing Service ([http://www.ets.org www.ets.org])
* Job Title: Research Associate
* Location: Princeton, NJ
* Deadline: Open until filled
* Date Posted: 28-Jan-2012
* [http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=122972&BUID=2538 Application Website]
* Contact email: dyanchuk@ets.org

'''JOB DESCRIPTION'''

Educational Testing Service has an opening for a Research Associate position in the Research Coordination and Support Group. The successful candidate will primarily provide support to Research Scientists working on a branch of computer science and computational linguistics known as Natural Language Processing (NLP) by assisting in the management of resources across numerous projects, leading communication efforts both internally and externally, and participating in all phases of research projects, including research design, project management, data collection and analysis. He or she will also collaborate with researchers in responding to external requests for information, external grant applications, and in preparing study results for publication or presentation.

'''BASIC FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES'''

* Provide full professional support to and collaborate with a Director of Research; Senior Research Scientists; and Research Scientists.

* Participate in planning, management, and design of research. Serve as co-investigator in research areas; collaborate on research projects.

* Plan and manage annotations for a variety of projects.

* Design and develop plans for data collection; oversee data collection, reduction, and analysis; evaluate availability and usefulness of data; identify and collect additional data necessary for completing research projects.

* Monitor collection and quality of data; provide comprehensive review of data collected from field sites to ensure completeness and accuracy; oversee entry of data for computer analysis.

* Design original research instruments and methods and applications of research.

* Write, rewrite, and edit proposals, professional reports, research instruments, books (or sections thereof), speeches, handbooks, research articles, and correspondence. Specifically, develop standardized materials such as PowerPoint slides, capability descriptions, and research study templates for use in communicating about automated scoring capabilities; develop boilerplate text for external audiences and proposals; and craft proposal text on demand, based on existing standard materials and input from automated scoring researchers.

* Conduct or assist in direction and management of research projects. Conduct research of his or her own design, under general oversight of assigned supervisor. Manage resources across a wide-range of studies designed to support or enhance automated scoring technologies. Recruit and hire field staff; develop and monitor project budgets; coordinate and supervise field staff and consultants.

* Conduct literature searches; review current research on research models and methods; review and evaluate ongoing developments in automated scoring research; and evaluate evolving business needs. Perform independent analyses of information by reading, summarizing, and evaluating it preliminary to undertaking research. Update standard materials as needed, based on new developments in research or external conditions.

* Provide training and consultation on computer and systems applications, including customized annotation systems. Train and instruct staff on methods and procedures for annotation, data presentation, and explain methods of implementation to technical staff.

* Contact, establish, and develop relationships with research community and with data sources.

* Arrange and attend conferences and meetings; present research findings at professional meetings.

'''EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS'''

EDUCATION

A Master's degree in linguistics, computer science, and/or natural language processing (NLP) is necessary.

EXPERIENCE

The successful candidate will have four years of progressively responsible research experience in linguistics or natural language processing. Candidates must demonstrate the ability to craft high-quality written communications for technical and non-technical audiences and have experience managing a large number of concurrent projects.

APPLYING

Interested parties can apply for the position through the following website:

http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=122972&BUID=2538

If there are any questions, please contact:

Dave Yanchuk
(609) 406-5291
dyanchuk@ets.org

==Postdoc Position at HRL Laboratories==
* Employer: HRL Laboratories, LLC
* Job Title: POST DOC RESEARCH STAFF - Social Media Analysis & Data Mining
* Location: Malibu, CA
* Deadline: Open until filled
* Date Posted: 26-Jan-2012
* Contact email: hmoon@hrl.com

HRL Laboratories, LLC. (http://www.hrl.com) has openings for a postdoctoral researcher position in the area of social media analysis / data mining. HRL laboratories is one of the most innovative research organizations in industry. Overlooking the pacific ocean in the hills above Malibu, California, our beautiful surroundings are matched by our capabilities and commitment to being a world-class research and development lab. We collaborate with top researchers in academia to advance the fields of information and systems sciences, sensors and materials, applied electromagnetics, and microelectronics. Please visit http://www.hrl.com/careers/cars_jobs.html for more information.
For job considerations, please send your cover letter and CV to hmoon@hrl.com.

Job Description:

EDUCATION DESIRED: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Statistics, EE or related fields

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: Primary job function is to apply statistical data analysis and text processing techniques to problems and applications in data mining. Tasks will include the development, simulation, evaluation, and implementation of algorithms and models. Additional job functions include solving customer problems, writing invention disclosures, publishing papers, briefing customers, and assisting in marketing HRL expertise.

EXPERIENCE DESIRED: Research experience in one or more of the following areas: Text processing, sentiment analysis, data mining, web & social media processing, large-scale data processing, and machine learning. Experience developing innovative solutions based upon the application of relevant research results from a wide variety of sources.

KNOWLEDGE DESIRED: Background in one or more of the following areas: natural language processing, social network analysis, statistical analysis, data mining, strong programming skills, particularly proficient with C/C++, Java, R and/or Matlab. Experience with MapReduce or Hadoop, and proficiency in Spanish/Portuguese language is a plus.

ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS: Good communication (verbal and written) skills, active participation in R&D team activities is required. Able and willing to occasionally travel.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS (e.g. driver’s license, special tools or restrictions): U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status required.

We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

==Postdoc or Research Associate - Natural Language Processing==
* Employer: IHMC (www.ihmc.us)
* Rank or Title: Research Associate - Natural Language Processing
* Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing
* Location: Ocala, FL
* Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
* Date Posted: January 3rd, 2012
* Contact email ywilks@ihmc.us

'''About Us'''
IHMC is a not-for-profit research institute of the Florida University System and is affiliated with several Florida universities.
Researchers at IHMC pioneer technologies aimed at leveraging and extending human capabilities. These systems fit the human and machine components together in ways that exploit their respective strengths and mitigate their respective weaknesses. The design and fit of computational prostheses require a broader interdisciplinary range than is typically found in one organization, thus IHMC staff includes computer scientists, cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, physicians, philosophers, engineers and social scientists of various stripes, as well as some researchers who resist all attempts to classify them.
Current active research areas include: knowledge modeling and sharing, adjustable autonomy, robotics, advanced interfaces and displays, communication and collaboration, computer-mediated learning systems, intelligent data and language understanding, software agents, expertise studies, work practice simulation, knowledge representation, and other related areas.
IHMC faculty and staff collaborate extensively with industry and government to develop science and technology that can be enabling with respect to society's broader goals. IHMC researchers receive funding (current funding in force exceeds $25,000,000) from a wide range of government and private sources. IHMC research partners have included: DARPA, NSF, NASA, Army, Navy, Air Force, NIH, DOT, IDEO, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Boeing, Lockheed, and SAIC, among others.

The candidate will be appointed on a new US Government project on metaphor detection and understanding, due to start in the coming months and run for up to five years. Ocala, Florida is an excellent location, close to Florida’s major university and about an hour from both coasts. IHMC is housed in an excellent, state of the art building in the city center.

Required:

▪ Natural language processing / computational linguistics background. Ideal: metaphor and/or machine learning applications

▪ Substantial skills in processing large scale corpora. Ideal: Java skills and standard statistical procedures.

▪ Ph.D. in computational linguistics / natural language processing or related areas.

Skills and Experience:

▪ 3+ plus years experience in natural language processing / computational linguistics in industry or large scale academic research project.

▪ Expertise in at least some of the following specific NLP areas and topics: question answering, lexical semantics, collocations, terminology extraction, disambiguation, multi-word expressions, (shallow) parsing, named entity recognition, lexical acquisition, paraphrasis acquisition, information extraction, text classification, evaluation methodologies.

▪ Familiarity with existing data resources and tools: Wordnet, POS taggers, parsers, LingPipe, SVMLight, NLTK, Weka, and similar tools.

▪ Ideal: experience with ontologies, RDF, other semantic web resources or tools.

Apply to Yorick Wilks at: ywilks@ihmc.us

== Visiting Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Queens College of CUNY ==
* Employer: Queens College of the City University of New York
* Location: New York, NY
* Deadline: Review of applications to begin on March 1, 2012
* Website: http://www.cs.qc.cuny.edu/
* Date posted: January 4, 2012

'''Visiting Assistant/Associate/Full Professor'''

The Department of Computer Science at Queens College of The City University of New York (CUNY) is pleased to announce a visiting faculty position for academic year 2012-2013, beginning September 1. This is a research-focused temporary position, and we encourage applications from candidates with a successful publication history in machine translation, speech recognition, or other research areas of natural language processing or machine learning.

Both junior and senior researchers are encouraged to apply; compensation and title are commensurate with qualifications and experience. Candidates are expected to collaborate with members of our current faculty in computational linguistics -- either on existing research projects or on new joint endeavors. If interested in teaching experience, the visiting faculty member is also invited to teach one course on a topic closely related to his or her research specialty.

The department's computational linguistics faculty, which include two current NSF CAREER Award winners, participate actively in the Ph.D. programs in computer science and linguistics, based at CUNY Graduate Center. These faculty members have active research grants from the NSF, DARPA, the Army Research Lab, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. More information about the growing research community in computational linguistics across CUNY is available on this website: http://nlpatcuny.cs.qc.cuny.edu/

Qualifying candidates must have an earned Ph.D. by August 2012 in computer science, linguistics, or a closely related field, with a demonstrated research record in the areas listed above. Also required are the ability to work with Ph.D. students, interest in productive scholarship, teaching and communication skills, and ability to cooperate with others for the good of the institution.

Candidates should submit a letter of application detailing their teaching, research, and grant writing interests and experience, and a curriculum vitae to:

Dr. Matt Huenerfauth, Search Committee Chair

Department of Computer Science

Queens College-CUNY

65-30 Kissena Blvd.

Flushing, New York 11365-1597

matthew.huenerfauth (at) qc.cuny.edu

Email submissions with PDF attachments are preferred. In addition, please arrange for three current letters of reference to be submitted directly by the recommenders. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2012, and will continue until the position is filled.

CUNY offers a comprehensive benefits package to employees and eligible dependents based on job title and classification. We are committed to enhancing our diverse academic community by actively encouraging people with disabilities, minorities, veterans, and women to apply. We take pride in our pluralistic community and continue to seek excellence through diversity and inclusion. EO/AA Employer.

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== NLP: Two Research Scientist positions: 1) NLG and 2) Computational Semantics ==
* Employer: University of Colorado Boulder
* Rank or Title: Research Scientists
* Specialty: NLG, NLU, Computational Semantics, Spoken Dialogue Systems
* Location: Boulder, CO, USA
* Deadline: Until filled
* Date Posted: 11 October 2011
* Contact email: Rodney.Nielsen@Colorado.edu
* Website: http://www.RodneyNielsen.com

The Companionbots project in the Computational Language and Education Research Center, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, invites applications for two postdoctoral Research Scientist positions in Human-Robot Dialogue: one in Natural Language Generation (NLG) and the second in Computational Semantics / Natural Language Understanding.

Project Description
---------------

CU Boulder is leading a large collaborative NSF-funded project, “Companionbots for Proactive Therapeutic Dialog on Depression”, to conduct research on a new class of dialog-based, home robotic healthcare assistants to facilitate in-home, real-time care. The research team integrates a broad spectrum of expertise including Clinical & Psychiatric Healthcare, Speech, Dialog, Natural Language Processing, Robotics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Human Factors and Cognitive Science. The immediate project will result in enabling technology for home healthcare Companionbots that integrates language, vision, and emotive technology to proactively recognize situations and dialog with isolated and elderly patients suffering from depression.

Object recognition and human activity recognition will augment natural language processing to provide current and historical context important to dynamic dialog. An emotive, physical avatar will provide an interaction mechanism with sufficient trust to extract meaningful information that may not be observable in the immediate environment. A central and unique aspect of the Companionbot’s dynamic dialog is the proactive generation of questions, which is driven by a user model including context, goals, health information, experiences, interests, and prior interactions. In addition to providing real-time intervention capabilities, the benefits of Companionbots include the continuous collection of physical and mental health data to improve doctor-patient interaction and enable data mining across patient cohort groups.

Natural Language Generation (NLG) Position
---------------

The successful applicant will research and develop natural spoken dialogue generation components, with an emphasis on question generation, in the context of emotive, companion robots (Companionbots) communicating with isolated elderly suffering from depression. NLG will span multiple genres from casual conversation to goal-directed mental health education and training. It will also explore multiple techniques from more traditional Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS) approaches to more recent text-to-text NLG methods. You will be encouraged to develop independent research ideas within the scope of the project, will play an active role in a variety of project areas, and will have the opportunity to apply your NLG expertise to a critical real-life problem in a multidisciplinary environment.

The Companionbots project includes numerous collaborators. Key to this position, Kathy McKeown, Columbia University, will consult on the Natural Language Generation components and co-advise this post-doc. You will also interact closely with the project’s clinical experts in understanding subjects and developing healthcare-related dialogue strategies, with users to help guide and evaluate research & development, and with project members involved in SDS, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), NLU, Vision, and the physical & visual expression of emotion. The project will involve significant bidirectional interaction between these constituents and their associated system components.

This position is available immediately and is initially for one year, with the possibility of an extension up to three years based on performance.

Qualifications

* A PhD or equivalent in computer science, computational linguistics, or a closely related discipline
* Rigorous experience and skills in NLG, preferably in conversational SDS, as evidenced by a publication record
* Solid skills in the application of Machine Learning to computational linguistics tasks, evidenced by publications
* Excellent software design and implementation skills
* Good verbal communication and English writing skills
* The ability to work both independently and in a multidisciplinary team

* It is a plus (but not a requirement) to have working knowledge or preferably a publication record indicating experience in usability, cognitive science, user modeling, or discourse analysis related to NLG and SDS

Computational Semantics Position
---------------

The successful applicant will research and develop NLP components, with an emphasis on semantic interpretation of spoken dialogue in the context of emotive, companion robots (Companionbots) communicating with isolated elderly who are suffering from depression. NLP will be used to develop a deep understanding and representation of a situation based on past and immediate context. The semantics extracted will be used to construct a user model and predict future adverse events and situations. You will be encouraged to develop independent research ideas within the scope of the project, will play an active role in a variety of project areas, and will have the opportunity to apply your NLP expertise to a critical real-life problem in a multidisciplinary environment.

The Companionbots project includes numerous collaborators. You will interact closely with the project’s clinical experts in understanding subjects and relevant healthcare-related dialogue, with users to help guide and evaluate research & development, with Vision researchers to enhance contextual understanding, with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) experts to improve ASR with semantic context, with a Natural Language Generation researcher to inform the spoken dialogue using deeper semantics, and with mechantronics researchers to ensure contextually appropriate emotive output. The project will involve significant bidirectional interaction between these constituents and their associated system components.

This position is available immediately and is initially for one year, with the possibility of extension based on performance.

Qualifications

* A PhD or equivalent in computer science, computational linguistics, or a closely related discipline
* Rigorous experience and skills in computational semantics, preferably in the context of conversational SDS, as evidenced by a strong publication record
* Solid skills in the application of Machine Learning to computational linguistics tasks, evidenced by publications
* Excellent software design and implementation skills
* Good verbal communication and English writing skills
* The ability to work both independently and in a multidisciplinary team

* It is a plus (but not a requirement) to have working knowledge or preferably a publication record indicating experience in user modeling, discourse analysis, and cognitive science related to SDS

The Center for Computational Language and Education Research (CLEAR)
---------------

You will be part of the Institute of Cognitive Science’s Center for Computational Language and Education Research (CLEAR), which includes prominent senior human language technology faculty Drs. James Martin (co-author of Speech and Language Processing), Martha Palmer (PropBank, VerbNet, …), Wayne Ward (an ASR and SDS pioneer, who will lead the speech aspects of Companionbots), and others. Including students, CLEAR consists of about 40 researchers with backgrounds in computer science, linguistics, machine learning, cognitive science, psychology, education and human computer interaction. The group’s research investigates a variety of topics and applications, but emphasizes the application of human language technologies to educational and medical applications. CLEAR is housed at the Center for Innovation and Creativity along side numerous researchers in allied fields including psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, reading, and cognitive disability research. All of these factors make CU Boulder one of the leading institutions for research in computational semantics.

Boulder, Colorado
---------------

Boulder, just 25 miles from Denver, is a mid-sized community of 300,000 residents nestled along the Flatirons, at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Boulder’s citizens report the highest quality of life ratings in the United States among mid-sized cities, perhaps because of its balance of intellectual and outdoor recreational capital. Apart from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado’s flagship university, Boulder is home to three major scientific National Institutes and numerous high-tech companies.

Boulder boasts outstanding outdoor recreational opportunities. It was rated the "#1 Sports Town in America" by Outside Magazine. Boulder residents enjoy over 300 sunny days per year and immediate access to climbing, hiking, kayaking, and fishing within walking distance of the city center. World-class outdoor recreation is available in the 30,000 acres of open space parks surrounding Boulder, Rocky Mountain National Park (just 40 miles away), and 8 outstanding ski resorts (within 20-100 miles).

In addition to its scientific and scholarly strengths, Boulder possesses a unique blend of cultural interests. Because of its desirability as a place to live, Boulder is also home to a high concentration of novelists, Olympic and other elite athletes. These groups together support over 300 restaurants, more than 30 art galleries, 4 local museums, 32 movie and stage theaters, and many festivals, including the Colorado Shakespeare Festival and the Colorado Music Festival.

Application
---------------

Please email questions about these positions to the Companionbot’s Principal Investigator:

Rodney.Nielsen@colorado.edu

Rodney Nielsen, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Computational Language and Education Research Center
Institute of Cognitive Science
University of Colorado, Boulder

To apply follow the instructions at the Jobs at CU link below to submit your CV (with details regarding research experience), a statement of research interests, links to your most relevant papers, and a list of at least 3 references with email addresses.

Natural Language Generation:
http://www.jobsatcu.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=66322

Natural Language Understanding:
http://www.jobsatcu.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=66325

The University of Colorado is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from women, racial and ethnic minorities, individuals with disabilities and veterans. Alternative formats of this ad can be provided upon request for individuals with disabilities by contacting the ADA Coordinator at (303) 492-1334.

The University of Colorado at Boulder conducts background checks on all final applicants being considered for employment.

== Four positions in folktale analysis, classification and clustering ==

Applications are invited for two PhD-students, a post-doc researcher, and a scientific programmer. They will work on the automatic analysis, classification and clustering of Dutch folktales in a collaborative project within The Netherlands. The first PhD will work as part of the Tunes & Tales project, funded under the Computational Humanities programme of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). The others will work in the FACT project (Folktales As Classifiable Texts), funded under the CATCH programme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Both are multidisciplinary research projects involving collaboration between computer science and humanities researchers. Because the research is focused on Dutch folktales, we expect the PhD-students and the postdoc to have at least passive knowledge of the Dutch language. For all positions, proficiency in Dutch is a plus.

1) The first PhD-student will work on the automatic detection of motifs in folktales, in the context of a project that investigates sequences of motifs in melodies as well as folktales, and their variability in oral transmission. More information and application:
http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/cms/nl/vacatures-othermenu-334/143642-phd-student-computational-linguistics

2) The second PhD-student will work on automatic classification of folktales by their international folktale type and on unsupervised clustering of folktales, to provide new input for humanities research. More information and application:
http://www.utwente.nl/vacatures/?VacatureID=169016

3) The postdoc will work on the automatic annotation of folktales. This will involve language identification, keyword detection, named entity recognition, genre classification, and automatic summarization. More information and application:
http://www.utwente.nl/vacatures/?VacatureID=169024

4) The scientific programmer will create user-friendly annotation and visualization tools for folktale researchers that incorporate the annotation and clustering techniques developed by the postdoc and the second PhD student. In addition, the programmer will develop an XML-based search system that allows the general public to search for folktales based on their annotations. More information and application:
http://www.utwente.nl/vacatures/?VacatureID=169177

The team members in the FACT project (positions 2-4) will be employed at the University of Twente, but will spend most of their time "on site" at the Meertens Institute (http://www.meertens.knaw.nl), which maintains the large collection of folktales that is the main focus of the research in FACT (http://www.verhalenbank.nl). All team members will be part of the e-Laboratory on Oral Culture at the Meertens Institute. More vacancies for this lab can be found here: http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/cms/nl/vacatures-othermenu-334

The closing date for applications is 15 October 2011.

== Senior Research Positions (Machine Translation) at the CNGL, Dublin City University ==
* Employer: CNGL, Dublin City University
* Rank or Title: Professor / Assoc. Professor (5 years, first 2 years research exclusively), Senior Research Fellow / Research Fellow (3 years)
* Specialty: Machine Translation, NLP, Computational Linguistics
* Location: Dublin, Ireland
* Deadline: 3rd October (Senior Research Fellow / Research Fellow); 7th October (Professor / Assoc. Professor)
* Date Posted: 20th September 2011
* Contact email: (for informal enquiries) josef@computing.dcu.ie, psheridan@computing.dcu.ie
* Website: http://www.cngl.ie

At the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL), Dublin, Ireland, we have a number of exciting career opportunities available and are seeking to recruit a Professor / Associate Professor and a Research Fellow/ Senior Research Fellow who have an established international track record and reputation in the area of Machine Translation (MT).

The Professor/Associate Professor is a 5 year appointment and is based within the School of Computing at Dublin City University (DCU), with the first 2 years focused exclusively on research/leadership within the CNGL MT group. Subsequently, the successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the normal teaching and administrative functions of a senior member of academic staff with the School but with continued contribution to the CNGL.

The Research Fellow / Senior Research fellow position is a 3 year appointment and the successful candidate will join the centre’s team to take a leading role in creating and establishing research projects in MT within the centre’s research programme.

These positions provide an excellent opportunity for strong and ambitious researchers to further develop their careers and to join a highly-regarded, dynamic and well-funded research centre in the area of language technology research.

We are interested in hearing from a wide range of applicants from a variety of backgrounds, focused around MT and related technologies.

The successful candidates will become part of the existing research team based at DCU, joining one of the world’s largest academic MT research groups comprising over 20 researchers, and together with CNGL’s PIs will co-lead/lead research teams and contribute to the supervision of postgrads and PhD students.

The post-holders will have the benefit of interaction and collaboration with the wider CNGL research teams, including the significant body of researchers working on other aspects of Language Technology across the four partner universities (DCU, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, University of Limerick) at the CNGL.

For more details please see the full job specifications at:

http://www.cngl.ie/drupal/sites/default/files/AP_Prof_in_Machine_Translation.pdf

http://www.cngl.ie/drupal/sites/default/files/Senior_Research_Fellow_MT.pdf

'''Indicative Salary (subject to experience and qualifications)''':

**Professor: €113,064 - €145,952
**Assoc. Professor: €82,974 - €110,062

**Senior Research Fellow: €63,125 - €68,817
**Research Fellow: €42,394 - €56,442

'''For informal enquiries please contact''':

Centre Director

Prof. Josef Van Genabith, CNGL, DCU

Phone: 353 (0)1 7006700

E-mail: josef@computing.dcu.ie

Associate Director

Dr. Páraic Sheridan, CNGL, DCU

Phone: 353 (0)1 7006707

E-mail: psheridan@computing.dcu.ie

'''To Apply''':

Application forms are available from http://www.dcu.ie/vacancies/APPLICATION_FORM_8pg.doc

Email the completed application form, together with your CV, to: hr.applications@dcu.ie

== NLP and text-mining researchers for a NLP centre of excellence at eBay-Research ==
* Employer: eBay
* Rank or Title: Research Scientist (at various levels)
* Specialty: Computational Linguistics, NLP, Text-mining
* Location: San Jose, CA, USA
* Deadline: Until filled
* Date Posted: 12 September 2011
* Contact email: researchlabs@ebay.com
* Website: http://labs.ebay.com

eBay Research Labs is a team of domain-area experts and researchers. With hundreds of millions of buyers and sellers, and hundreds of millions of live listings at any point of time, millions of daily transactions and billions of daily queries on eBay, the labs provides an amazing playground for researchers to work with data and conduct experiments at scale. The labs is currently starting a Natural Language Processing center of excellence and is hiring NLP and text mining experts. We have many positions available from post-doc and visiting faculty (why not spending your sabbatical with eBay?) to junior and senior permanent researchers.

'''Primary Job Responsibilities'''
* Conduct world-class research in the area of NLP and text mining
* Support the research activities of other members of the research labs
* Develop rapid prototypes to show-case new business ideas or the capabilities of emerging enabling technologies
* Participate in evolving business and technology innovation ideas and developing them to align with the business strategies

'''Job Requirements'''
* Ph.D. or equivalent in NLP or text mining
* Excellent hands-on algorithmic, server-side, and client-side programming skills
* Highly creative and innovative in problem solving and willing to experiment with new ideas and technologies
* Strong leadership skills, an ability to learn quickly, and a "can-do" attitude
* Excellent interpersonal skills and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate effectively in small and large groups, and at various levels of the organization

If you yearn to drive invention and innovation across eBay Marketplaces, Paypal, and beyond, and are looking for employment opportunities, please submit your resume at researchlabs@ebay.com.

== Assistant/Associate Professor in Computational Linguistics, The Ohio State University ==
** Employer: The Ohio State University
** Rank or Title: Assistant or Associate Professor
** Specialty: Computational Linguistics
** Location: Columbus, OH, USA
** Deadline: 15 December 2011
** Date Posted: 26 August 2011
** Contact email: mwhite@ling.ohio-state.edu
** Website: http://linguistics.osu.edu/clannounce

The Department of Linguistics at the Ohio State University seeks candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor or tenured Associate Professor position in computational linguistics, starting Autumn 2012. Candidates should have a strong background in statistical modeling and machine learning, but otherwise the area of specialization within computational linguistics is open. Candidates are expected to have their Ph.D. completed by the time of the appointment.

The new assistant or associate professor will be expected to be active in research and publication, to meet standard departmental teaching requirements and to perform service duties as required by the department and the university.

Review of applications will begin on December 15, 2011, and will continue until the position is filled.

Dossiers consisting of a letter of interest, current curriculum vitae and the names of three references should be sent to:

Computational Linguistics Search Committee 
Department of Linguistics 
The Ohio State University 
222 Oxley Hall 
1712 Neil Avenue 
Columbus, OH 43210-1298

For questions, please contact Michael White (mwhite@ling.ohio-state.edu). For information about the Computational Linguistics and Language Technology group and the Department of Linguistics, please visit http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/cllt/ and http://linguistics.osu.edu.

The Ohio State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Women, minorities, Vietnam-era veterans, disabled veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

== Computational Linguist Expert in SMT ==
** Employer : Sogeti Luxembourg
** Rank or Title : Consultant
** Specialty : Computational Linguist expert in SMT
** Location : Luxembourg, Europa
** Deadline : 1 September 2011
** Date Posted : 17 August 2011
** Contact email : laurent.marquis@sogeti.lu

We are looking for experts in statistical machine translation (SMT) for an
important project in the European Public Sector.
Required experience and qualifications:
- PhD or MSc/Diploma in computational linguistics or computer science with
excellent knowledge of machine translation (MT) and/or machine learning for
natural language processing
- Familiarity with recent developments in SMT and the motivation to apply novel
approaches emanating from ongoing research to practical translation tasks in
many languages and to systematically evaluate their suitability
- Ability to write scientific papers and technical documents in English
- Open-mindedness and the will to collaborate closely within an international,
multidisciplinary team, motivation to work with a multilingual user community
- Experience in designing and running large-scale experiments, including the
necessary skills to manage large data sets and long-running experiments in a
distributed computational environment would be highly desirable, interest in
developing such skills is mandatory
- Experience with both statistical and grammar-based approaches to MT would
be highly desirable
- Good oral and written command of English is required; familiarity with
additional EU languages (preferrably Eastern/Northern European) is a strong
plus
If you match with the profile, feel free to contact me at laurent.marquis@sogeti.lu

== Research Associate in Statistical Natural Language Processing ==
** Employer : University of Geneva
** Rank or Title : Post-doctoral Research Associate
** Specialty : Statistical Natural Language Understanding
** Location : Geneva, Switzerland
** Deadline : 1 September 2011
** Date Posted : 9 August 2011
** Contact email : James.Henderson@unige.ch

The University of Geneva, Department of Computer Science, invites applications for a post-doctoral research associate position in natural language processing. The successful candidate will be part of the EU-funded project PARLANCE. He/she will investigate statistical methods for natural language understanding, including spoken language understanding.

The PARLANCE project will design and build mobile applications that approach human performance in conversational spoken interaction, targeting interactive search and information provision applications. The PARLANCE systems will be based on probabilistic inference procedures and incremental dialog processing. Systems will be developed for English, Spanish and Mandarin. The other project partners are Cambridge University, Heriot-Watt University, CRSA, iSoco, and Yahoo! Iberia.

At the University of Geneva, the project will be lead by James Henderson (Department of Computer Science) and Paola Merlo (Department of Linguistics) within the research group Computational Learning and Computational Linguistics (http://clcl.unige.ch/). Work will focus on incremental models of spoken language understanding which integrate domain-general statistical models of syntactic-semantic parsing, as well as open-domain information extraction. The successful candidate will be expected to participate in this project, plus engage in research of their own choosing.

Applicants should have received a PhD in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics by the start of the project. The ideal candidate will have a background in natural language processing, statistical methods, machine learning, and spoken language understanding. Good programming skills are required. Fluency in either English or French is required.

The appointment is initially for a fixed term of 3 years, with a start date of 1 November 2011 or soon thereafter. Competetive salary, according to qualifications.

Review of applications will begin immediately, but will continue until the position is filled. Applications received by 1 September 2011 will be guaranteed full consideration.

Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, a statement of research interest, and names and addresses of at least 3 references to James Henderson at James.Henderson@unige.ch, with PARLANCE Postdoc as the subject line.

Informal inquiries can be addressed to James Henderson (James.Henderson@unige.ch) or to Paola Merlo (Paola.Merlo@unige.ch). The University of Geneva wishes to increase the proportion of female academic staff and, for this reason, especially welcomes applications from women.

== Electronic Health Record Data and Text Mining Postdoctoral Fellowship Position ==
** Employer: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
** Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
** Specialty: Data and Text Mining
** Deadline: Until filled
** Date Posted: 7/27/2011
** Contact Email: imre.solti@cchmc.org
** Website: https://research.cchmc.org/solti
Position:
- Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associate position in Clinical Informatics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
Project:
- Predictive modeling of patients' clinical outcomes based on the content including narrative notes of the electronic health record.
- Building stochastic and knowledge based models to predict changes in the patients clinical status and predict prognosis.
Further information and instructions to apply at: https://research.cchmc.org/solti/open-positions

== Practical Natural Language Processing and Text Mining Professional ==
** Employer: ComplaintLink
** Specialty: Specialty: entity named extraction, text mining, sentiment analysis, machine learning algorithms
** Location: H.O. in Toronto but you can work off-site anywhere in the world
** Deadline: Applications accepted until the position is filled
** Date Posted: July 14, 2011
** Start Date: ASAP
** Duration: contract postion - 3 to 6 momths

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

== Japanese Computational Linguist ==
** Employer : Appen Butler Hill
** Rank or Title : Japanese Computational Linguist
** Specialty : computational linguistics
** Location : Global - consultants may be based anywhere
** Deadline : Applications accepted until the position is filled
** Date Posted : May 27, 2011
** Contact email or link to website : http://tbe.taleo.net/NA5/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=BUTLERHILL&cws=4&rid=195

Job Description: A text analysis team focusing on Information Extraction technologies seeks a Computational Linguist for a nine month contract position to enhance a Japanese language module to process unstructured text. This person will enhance the Japanese language module component in a linguistic foundation application and an entity and fact extraction solution. The focus will be on the creation, maintenance and augmentation of machine-readable dictionaries, grammar rules and parsing algorithms. Effective linguists will know how to use finite-state technology to code grammatical patterns and be able to use a data manipulation language such as Perl or Python.

Primary Duties: 
-Builds, Tests and Enhances the Japanese language module 
-An in-depth understand of the algorithms 
-Meets product roadmap requirements 
-Participates in formal inspections 
-Contributes to the team with positive ideas in design discussions 
-Provides support, consultation and training to other areas of the company 
 
Required Skills: 
-B.A. in Computational Linguistics or equivalent 
-Native or near-native knowledge of written Japanese 
-Fluent in English 
-Strong background in syntax and morphology 
-Proficiency in at least one data manipulation language (Perl preferred) 
-Familiarity with modern quantitative techniques in NLP 

Additional Information: 
Projects require excellent English reading, writing and communication skills. Strong computer skills in a Windows environment and greater than average comfort with software and technology are expected. US residents must have US work authorization (US citizen or permanent resident). Unfortunately, Butler Hill Group cannot sponsor employment visas at this time. You will be required to sign a legally binding non-disclosure agreement at the time of contract negotiation.
 
This is a full-time contract position.
 
Compensation: 
We offer a competitive, hourly pay rate DOE (to be paid as 1099 self-employment income).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

== Research Engineer - Natural Language Processing ==

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

About Us

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

Summary

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

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

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

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

Apply at: www.ask.com/careers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Start Date: September 1, 2011 (possibly earlier)

Duration: 1 year, renewable for a second year

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

Required background:

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

Desired background:

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''QUALIFICATIONS'''

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

· Expertise in Information Retrieval and Nature Language Processing.

· Strong statistical and machine learning background.

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

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

'''JOB REQUIREMENTS'''

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

· Use deep domain expertise to individually drive innovative ideas.

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

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

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

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

· Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other team members.

· Lead and contribute to multiple small team projects.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Job Description:

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

Basic Functions and Responsibilities:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Required Experience:

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

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


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

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

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

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

== Assistant Professor Position at Graduate School of Information Science, NAIST, Japan ==
* Employer: Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
* Rank or Title: Assistant Professor (5 years + 3 year extension)
* Specialty: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Text Mining
* Location: Nara, Japan
* Deadline: 11th November, 2011
* Date Posted: 12th October, 2011
* Contact email: (for informal enquiries) matsu@is.naist.jp
* Website: http://www.naist.jp/en/about_naist/job_opportunities/academic_positions/20111006index.html