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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"'>Postdoctoral Research
Associate Position, </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>University</span></font><font
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of </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Pittsburgh</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"'>(http://web.cbmi.pitt.edu/chapman/postdoc.html)</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </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"'>Title of funded project: <a
href="https://commons.era.nih.gov/commons/genericStatus.do?actionRole=nonPI&applID=7189418&uhf-token=GeHOs9aWA6CWUQDhmGLwFqUVdtg%3D"
target="_blank"></a>NLP Foundational Studies & Ontologies for Syndromic
Surveillance from Emergency Department (ED) Reports</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"'>A multi-disciplinary NLP
group at the </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>University</span></font><font
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of </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Pittsburgh</span></font><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> is
seeking a postdoctoral researcher to collaborate on a newly funded National
Library of Medicine project. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </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"'>Applicants should have a PhD
in Computer Science, Linguistics, Biomedical Informatics, or a related field
with a focus on Natural Language Processing. Interest and experience in some of
the following are desirable: information extraction, corpus annotation,
discourse processing, and empirical methods for NLP.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </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"'>The term of the appointment is
2-3 years. Salary will include full benefits. The targeted start date is </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>July
1, 2007</span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </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"'>Please send a statement of
interest, CV, and the names and addresses of 3 references to Wendy Chapman (<a
href="mailto:chapman@cbmi.pitt.edu">chapman@cbmi.pitt.edu</a>). </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 research team includes:</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"'>* Wendy W. Chapman, PhD,
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Intelligent Systems Program (<a
href="http://web.cbmi.pitt.edu/chapman/">http://web.cbmi.pitt.edu/chapman/</a>)</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"'>* Janyce Wiebe, PhD,
Computer Science Department, Intelligent Systems Program (<a
href="http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~wiebe">http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~wiebe</a>)</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"'>* Rebecca Hwa, PhD, Computer
Science Department, Intelligent Systems Program (<a
href="http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~hwa/">http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~hwa/</a>)</span></font></p>
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