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<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Post-doctoral
Position in NLP and Biomedical Informatics (SECOND NOTICE)</span></font></p>

<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://web.cbmi.pitt.edu/chapman/postdoc.html">http://web.cbmi.pitt.edu/chapman/postdoc.html</a></span></font></p>

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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>**If
you will be at NAACL-HLT 2007, please email Jan Wiebe or Rebecca Hwa to set up
an in-person interview**</span></font></b></p>

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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> A
multi-disciplinary NLP group at the </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>University</span></font><font
 size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> of </span></font><font
  size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Pittsburgh</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> is seeking
a postdoctoral researcher to collaborate on a newly funded National Library of
Medicine project. Areas of focus include:</span></font></p>

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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>

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 <li class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
     face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>information
     extraction of clinical conditions from emergency department reports</span></font></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
     face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>negation</span></font></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
     face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>uncertainty</span></font></li>
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     face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>temporal
     discrimination</span></font></li>
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     face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>finding
     validation</span></font></li>
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     face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>coreference
     resolution</span></font></li>
</ul>

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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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. 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=Arial><span
 style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>July 1, 2007</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>.</span></font></p>

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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Please send a
statement of research interests, CV, and the names and email addresses of three
references to Wendy Chapman (<a href="mailto:chapman@cbmi.pitt.edu">chapman@cbmi.pitt.edu</a>).
</span></font></p>

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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>-----------------------------------------------------</span></font></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>* 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 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>* Jan 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 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>* 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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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>-----------------------------------------------------</span></font></b></p>

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