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<P><FONT size=2>===============================</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT size=2>Postdoctoral Research Position in<BR></FONT><FONT 
size=2>Information Retrieval and Machine Learning</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT size=2>The Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications at 
the National Library of Medicine, a research component of the National 
Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Health and Human Services, is 
recruiting for postdoctoral fellows and visiting scholars to participate in 
collaborative research in Machine Learning, Information Modeling and Retrieval, 
Computational Linguistics and Biomedical Informatics. Fellows and scholars will 
have the opportunity to develop next generation information architectures to 
interpret and elucidate biomedical text and data, and improve access to 
biomedical information with optimal accuracy.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Postdoctoral candidates should hold a PhD or equivalent degree 
in computer science, engineering, or a related field. Applicants without a 
master or doctoral level computer science degree should possess exceptional 
programming skills in at least one language (preferably in Perl). A background 
in information retrieval/question-answering, machine learning, computational 
linguistics, biomedical informatics, scientific ontologies and/or Bayesian 
probability theory is a plus.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>The salary is commensurate with research experience and 
education. Interested applicants may contact Mehmet Kayaalp via email for 
information about the research position. Application instructions are available 
under the link "Postdoctoral Research" at </FONT></FONT><A 
title=http://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/training 
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title=http://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/training><FONT 
title=http://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/training 
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<P><FONT size=2>--mehmet </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>PS. US citizenship is not a 
requirement</FONT></FONT></FONT></P></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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