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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Text Mining Position, <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Computer</st1:PlaceName>
Science, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Manchester</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'> and National Centre for Text Mining </span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>One Research Associate is
required <font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>for 24 months </span></font>for
an EC 6th Framework Information Society Technologies collaborative project
entitled Bootstrapping of Ontologies and Terminologie<font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'>s</span></font>. The project aims at building reusable
wide-coverage lexical, conceptual and factual knowledge resources for the
biology domain, to support text mining. This involves both exploiting existing
terminological resources and automatically acquiring new terms and concepts and
associated linguistic information from the vast amount of literature.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The successful candidate
will be part of the growing team of researchers associated with both the
National Centre for Text Mining(<a href="http://www.nactem.ac.uk/">http://www.nactem.ac.uk</a>)
which is hosted by the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Computer Science</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> and
the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (<a href="http://www.mib.ac.uk/">http://www.mib.ac.uk</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Applicants should have a PhD
or equivalent research experience in Computer Science with emphasis in text
mining or a related topic. Candidates should preferably also have a good
working knowledge of natural language processing, machine learning techniques
and ontologies. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Informal enquiries should be
made to Dr Sophia Ananiadou, on +44 (0)161306 3092 or email <a
href="mailto:Sophia.Ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk">Sophia.Ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk</a>
<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Further details<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'>, including how to apply, </span></font>are
available at<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>:</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=84726">http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=84726</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Closing date: 15th December 2006<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Dr Sophia Ananiadou, Reader in Text Mining,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>School</span></font></st1:PlaceType><font
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size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Science,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Deputy Director, National Centre for Text Mining, </span></font><a
href="http://www.nactem.ac.uk"><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>www.nactem.ac.uk</span></font></a><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=IT
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, </span></font><a
href="http://www.mib.ac.uk"><font size=2><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>www.mib.ac.uk</span></font></a><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font><span lang=IT><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Email: </span></font><a href="mailto:Sophia.Ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk"><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Sophia.Ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Tel: +44 161 306 3092 Fax:+44 161 306 8918</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a href="http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/sophia.ananiadou/"><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/sophia.ananiadou/</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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