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PhD-position in sentiment mining and reputation analysis

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 (www.ets.org)
  • Job Title: Research Associate
  • Location: Princeton, NJ
  • Deadline: Open until filled
  • Date Posted: 28-Jan-2012
  • 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 Position at Aberdeen University

  • Employer: University of Aberdeen
  • Rank: Post-doctoral Research fellow
  • Speciality: Intelligent Language/Multimodal Interfaces
  • Location: Aberdeen, UK
  • Deadline: 10-Feb-2012
  • Date Posted: 19-Jan-2012
  • Contact email: yaji.sripada@abdn.ac.uk

Digital Economy is an RCUK cross-council programme, aimed at realising the transformational impact of ICT for all aspects of business, society and economy. The dot.rural Digital Economy Hub at the University of Aberdeen is one of three large multi-disciplinary research hubs funded through this programme, and commenced its activities in October 2009. The Hub award to Aberdeen is worth £11.8M and will fund five years of activity. The Hub brings together a large team of researchers (70+) working in and across the disciplines of computer science, communications engineering, transport, health, social sciences and environmental sciences. For further details, see: www.dotrural.ac.uk To support our ambitious research programme we are looking to appoint a postdoctoral research fellow to work in the area of intelligent language/ multimodal interfaces. The Research Fellow will help develop and be responsible for natural language generation (NLG) based and other creative forms of on-line communication in a research project on effective communication of river water levels to the public, as well as contributing to interfaces of similar kinds needed for other projects related to natural resource conservation. The successful candidate will have a good knowledge of natural language processing techniques or multimodal interfaces (at the PhD level). They will have some knowledge of NLG and a desire to learn more. 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. The ability to use GIS would be an advantage. As this post is externally funded it is available for a period of 2.5 years.

For more details

Go to: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/index.php Click on "External Applicants" Enter the Post Reference Number 1228867 and click "Search"

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.

Researcher speech/language processing - AT&T Labs, NJ

  • Employer: AT&T Labs - Research
  • Location: Florham Park, NJ
  • Deadline: applications accepted until position is filled
  • Website: http://www.research.att.com
  • Date posted: 23/12/2011

AT&T Labs - Research

Researcher and Research Software Engineer Positions

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
      * Adaptive learning
      * Pronunciation modeling
      * Natural language understanding and dialog
      * Speaker biometrics
      * Voice and multimodal search
      * Software engineering for speech and language processing

Positions will be based in New Jersey, New York, or California, depending on area of focus.

For more information, visit www.research.att.com and click on "Working with us".

AT&T Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. All qualified candidates submitting a complete application by January 31, 2012 will receive full and fair consideration for employment.

Euroscript-logo.jpgGlobalization Process Expert (M/F) - Berlin

  • Employer: euroscript Deutschland GmbH
  • Location: Berlin, Germany
  • Deadline: applications accepted until position is filled
  • Website: http://www.euroscript.de
  • Date posted: 22/12/2011
  • Start date: ASAP

euroscript International is a leader in providing customers with global solutions in content lifecycle management. The euroscript divisions deliver comprehensive solutions that help customers design, build and run content management operations of all sizes. Thanks to its employees' expertise in the fields of language services, content and document management and system integration, euroscript is able to help businesses around the world to manage content more efficiently. With a market presence in over 17 countries, euroscript serves customers in a variety of business sectors including the public sector, aerospace, defence and transport, manufacturing, life sciences, financial services and energy and environment.

We are looking for experts in linguistic technology (including but not limited to, authoring sys-tems, workflow automation, and CAT tools) to join our global team. The position is based in Berlin, Germany. euroscript Deutschland GmbH is part of euroscript International S.A.

Your responsibilities:

    • Design and implementation of technology components for euroscript’s internal language services production;
    • Analysis of authoring, translation and terminology workflows and tools both within euroscript and as part of consultancy services for euroscript customers;
    • Evaluation and optimization of such workflows and creation of recommendations, designs, and consultancy offers for our customers;
    • Project Management for internal and external technology projects;
    • Permanent monitoring of on-going market, technological and scientific developments in the area of translation, authoring and process automation

Your profile:

Required:

    • MSc/degree or comparable university degree, preferably in computer science, computational linguistics, technical authoring, engineering or similar;
    • Broad understanding of tasks, tools and developments in the area of technical documentation, translation and natural language processing;
    • At least five years of professional experience as expert or consultant in the area of technical documentation and/or translation management;
    • Experience in IT project management and methodologies;
    • Good communication and presentation skills both in German and English;
    • Ability to write technical documents or offers in German and English;
    • Independent, open–minded and proactive;
    • Able to work harmoniously with colleagues in an international, multidisciplinary team, and with a multilingual user community

Preferred:

    • Programming experience;
    • Familiarity with further EU languages

Are you looking for a new challenge? Are you ready to join an international, dynamic and goal-oriented environment? If so, please send us your full application, indicating the reference GPE- -12/2011, to the following e-mail address: jobapplication@euroscript.de.

euroscript Deutschland GmbH Alt-Moabit 91 D-10559 Berlin jobapplication@euroscript.de www.euroscript.de


Front-End Developer for Speech Applications (Fluential Inc.)

  • Title: Front-End Developer
  • Location: Sunnyvale
  • Status: Regular, Full-time, Exempt
  • Deadline: Until filled
  • Date Posted: 20 Dec 2011

Fluential is a well-funded, early-stage company that has developed a cutting-edge platform that uses natural language technologies to enable computers and smart phones to understand speech and either translate it to different language or perform other complex tasks. The company is now developing innovative commercial products that solve important, high-value problems in specific vertical industries including healthcare, construction, and travel.

Fluential offers excellent opportunities for employees to grow and share in our success. We offer competitive compensation, excellent benefits and a creative work environment.

Job Description

We are currently seeking talented software engineers to join our hands-on technical team to work on our next generation speech based technology. The ideal candidate will be capable of building usable, well-designed, and good-looking user interfaces using HTML, Javascript, or Ruby on Rails. The candidate should have a proven experience in anticipating customer needs. This position will work closely with a team of technology experts to define, develop, test, and deploy our target application.

Job Responsibilities

  • Be a contributing member of a cross-functional scrum team in charge of delivering new features on a regular basis
  • Interact with product owners and customers to understand the requirements before building a new feature.
  • Interact with server side developers and architects to deliver vertical slices of functionality
  • Participate with scrum team to plan and commit to each iteration of work.
  • Drive towards delivery of those commitments throughout the iteration and raise risks early.
  • Build quality user interfaces using best practices in design and usability.
  • Participate in code reviews, test plan reviews, and doc reviews.
  • Be open to learning new technologies and new problem domains.


Job Qualifications

  • BS or MS in Computer Science or related field of study
  • Minimum2-3 years development experience preferred
  • Experience with Client-side HTML, Javascript
  • Ruby on Rails, Python, PHP, Perl or Java is a plus
  • Excellent communication and teamwork skills
  • Passion for creating bleeding-edge technology
  • Creative thinker and problem solver


Qualified candidates are encouraged to send a resume & cover letter to jobs@fluentialinc.com

Fluential is an Equal Opportunity Employer. To learn more, please visit us online at http://www.fluentialinc.com


Mobile Engineer for Speech Applications (Fluential Inc.)

  • Title: Mobile App Engineer
  • Location: Sunnyvale
  • Status: Regular, Full-time, Exempt
  • Deadline: Until filled
  • Date Posted: 19 Dec 2011


Fluential, Inc. is a well-funded startup with a cutting-edge technology focused on speech recognition and machine translation. Our disruptive, capital-efficient, patent-pending platform is applicable to a variety of environments where multiple languages inhibit communication.

With an exciting, evolving product, Fluential, Inc. offers excellent opportunities for employees to grow and share in our success. We offer competitive compensation, excellent benefits and a creative work environment.

Job Description:

We are currently seeking talented software engineers to join our hands-on technical team to work on our next generation mobile apps. The mobile app engineer is instrumental in expanding our technology to the mobile platform, including design, implementation, testing, and support of the product on the mobile platform. This position will work closely with a team of technology experts to define, develop, test, and deploy software applications in the speech recognition and machine translation field.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Participate in all phases of development from definition and design through implementation, debugging and testing
  • Work closely with other developers in the team to find solutions for difficult problems
  • Produce clear and complete functional and design specifications
  • Provide expert and timely support for customer issues that reach the development team
  • Participate in analyzing customer requirements and defining product specifications

Job Qualifications:

  • BS or MS in Computer Science or related field of study
  • 1-2 years development experience preferred
  • Experience with App development on iOS or Android
  • Strong knowledge of one or more: C#, Objective C, Javascript, Java
  • Ability to quickly learn a complex existing code base with minimal instruction
  • Excellent communication and teamwork skills
  • Passion for technology, excellence and quality
  • Creative thinker and problem solver

Qualified candidates are encouraged to send your resume and cover letter to jobs@fluentialinc.com.

Fluential, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. To learn more, please visit us online at http://www.fluentialinc.com

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