<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">University of Manchester, School of Computer Science, National Centre for Text Mining</span></font></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; ">This three year studentship will be based at the School of Computer Science, University of Manchester and is part of a collaboration between the National Centre for Text Mining (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; "><a href="http://www.nactem.ac.uk/">www.nactem.ac.uk</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; ">) and Lhasa ltd (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; "><a href="https://www.lhasalimited.org/">https://www.lhasalimited.org/</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; ">).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; "><span> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; ">Toxicity prediction is becoming increasingly important in a variety of industrial and regulatory settings. Publicly available toxicity data sources as well as structure-searchable databases of toxicity data are important for the development of toxicity prediction models.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; "></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; ">The aim of this studentship is to carry out original research into the development and adaptation of text mining tools for analysing toxicity data, such as named entity recognisers for small molecules, toxic agents, doses, species, and relations reporting on types of toxicity and associations between the above entities.<span> </span>The student will be supervised by Prof. Sophia Ananiadou and will work in areas such as domain adaptation, techniques for named entity recognition, disambiguation, event extraction using machine learning techniques and deep parsing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: medium; "><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p> </o:p></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; ">The successful candidate will have a good honours degree (ideally a first class) in computer science, natural language processing, or a related discipline. Excellent programming skills (Java, C, C++), and experience in natural language processing, parsing techniques, disambiguation are a must. <span> </span>Experience in machine learning will be an advantage<b>.</b></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; ">£13,570 maintenance per annum, plus tuition fee at EU/UK rate. Applications restricted to UK/EU citizens.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; ">Start date for studentship: September 2011<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: medium; "><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; "><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></span></p></div><div><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; ">To apply, p</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; ">lease email <a href="mailto:Sophia.Ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk">Sophia.Ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk</a> your CV listing any publications, 3 reference letters and a research statement.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; ">Closing date for applications: 21st May 2011.</span></p><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; ">Professor <st1:personname w:st="on">Sophia Ananiadou</st1:personname>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Computer</st1:placename></st1:place> Science,<br>Director, National Centre for Text Mining,<br><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Manchester</st1:place></st1:city> Interdisciplinary Biocentre<br><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Manchester</st1:placename></st1:place><br><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">131</st1:city> Princess Street, <st1:postalcode w:st="on">M1 7DN</st1:postalcode></st1:place><br><a href="http://www.nactem.ac.uk/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">www.nactem.ac.uk</a><br><a href="mailto:sophia.ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">sophia.ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk</a><br>tel: +44 161 306 3092</span></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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