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Job offer: SICSA Readership/Lectureship, University of Edinburgh

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

Description:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deadline: 20th August 2007

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

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

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

Location: Cambridge, MA

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

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

Education Graduate degree in Computer Science is preferred.

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

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

Date Posted: July 19, 2007

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Postdoctoral Position Available -- News/Blog Analysis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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