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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>Senior Researcher in Text Mining, National Centre for Text Mining, <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>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>We are looking for one senior researcher in text mining to work for a
new project at the National Centre for Text Mining (<a
href="http://www.nactem.ac.uk/" title="blocked::http://www.nactem.ac.uk/">www.nactem.ac.uk</a>)
in text mining for systems biology (ONDEX project <a
href="http://ondex.sourceforge.net/"
title="blocked::http://ondex.sourceforge.net/">http://ondex.sourceforge.net/</a>
). The post is available immediately for three years.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>The successful candidate will be appointed at a Research Fellow level
and will be part of the growing team of researchers associated with both NaCTeM
which is hosted by the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Computer Science</st1:PlaceName> and the Manchester Interdisciplinary
Biocentre (http://www.mib.ac.uk) as well as with several systems biology
centres in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>Essential skills: a PhD and a good first degree in an area relevant to
text mining as well as excellent software engineering skills. The ability to
develop algorithms and software for NLP/TM systems and to produce experiments
for text mining applications using large data sets. Excellent knowledge
of natural language processing/text mining using machine learning techniques
and in particular named entity recognition, parsing, information extractionÍž
excellent knowledge of C, C++, Java, XML, Windows, Linux and Web Services. A
strong publication record and experience with biomedical text mining would be
an advantage.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>Closing date for applications: 15/07/08<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>Further details are available at: <font color=blue><span
style='color:blue'><a
href="http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=137259">http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=137259</a>
<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:
11.0pt'>Please quote reference: EPS/80023<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>Associated with this project is a fully-funded PhD studentship
available for three years. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>Further details are available here: <a
href="http://www.nactem.ac.uk/ads/phd_studentship.pdf"><font color=black><span
style='color:windowtext'>http://www.nactem.ac.uk/ads/phd_studentship.pdf</span></font></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>Informal enquiries should be made to Dr Sophia Ananiadou, <a
href="mailto:Sophia.Ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk">Sophia.Ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk</a><font
color=blue><span style='color:blue'> </span></font> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
7.5pt'>=========================================================</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Dr Sophia Ananiadou, Reader in Text Mining, School of Computer Science</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>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><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=IT
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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
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lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt'>sophia.ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk</span></font></a></span></font><font
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