<h1>Research Associate</h1>
<h3>Faculty of Computer Science & Technology</h3>
<h4>Vacancy Reference No: NR08990 Salary: £27,428-£35,788</h4>
<p>Limit of tenure applies*</p>
<p>A short-term Research Associate position has become available on a
joint IARPA project with 4 US Universities (Columbia University,
Michigan University, University of Maryland, and University of
Washington). Project FUSE's aim is to detect emergent research ideas
from the scientific literature.
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<p>The project combines natural language processing, machine learning,
and citation analysis to detect the first mention of important ideas,
and trace their procession through time, both in linguistic expressions,
citation behaviour, and other textual and non-textual indicators. The
texts processed will be from several disciplines and several languages
(Chinese, Russian, and German). The part played by Cambridge University
concerns coherence, discourse structure and sentiment detection.
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<p>The appointee will be partially responsible for the implementation of
a sentiment detection module for citations, for the design and
implementation of a feature detector for machine learning and for domain
adaptation across scientific disciplines. They will also participate in
the design of a discourse annotation scheme, which will involve some
manual annotation for testing purposes. One responsibility of this
position is to interface Cambridge's tools with others in the project
and with IARPA's network.
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<p>The successful candidate should have a proven research track record, a
PhD or comparable research experience in computational linguistics and
have programming skills in Java or C++.
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<p>The following criteria are highly desirable:
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<p>- experience with linguistic analysis, in particular discourse
processing such as reference resolution, rhetorical relations or
sentiment detection.
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<p>- a knowledge of network analysis algorithms.
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<p>This post is intended to be filled as soon as practical after the
closing date although there is some flexibility concerning the starting
date.
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<p>Applications should include:
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<p>A CV, a brief statement of the particular contribution you would make to the project and a completed form CHRIS6: <a href="http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/hr/forms/chris6/">http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/hr/forms/chris6/</a>
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<p>Completed applications should be sent by post to: Personnel-Admin,
Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge, CB3 0FD, or by email to: <a href="mailto:personnel-admin@cl.cam.ac.uk">personnel-admin@cl.cam.ac.uk</a> </p>
<p> </p><p>* Limit of tenure: Up to one year in the first instance</p><p>
</p><p>Closing date: 9 November 2011.</p>
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