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</span><span style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
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Associate - Natural Language Processing</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;
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</span><span style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica;color:#1235A6;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Specialty: Computational
Linguistics, Natural Language Processing</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;
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</span><span style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
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accepted until position is filled</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;
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</span><span style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica;color:#1235A6;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Date Posted: January 9th, 2012</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1235A6;
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Helvetica;color:#1235A6;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:25.0pt;mso-pagination:
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US">About Us</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US">IHMC is a not-for-profit research institute of the
Florida University System and is affiliated with several Florida universities.</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1235A6;
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Researchers at IHMC pioneer technologies aimed at
leveraging and extending human capabilities. These systems fit the human and
machine components together in ways that exploit their respective strengths and
mitigate their respective weaknesses. The design and fit of computational <b>prostheses</b>
require a broader interdisciplinary range than is typically found in one
organization, thus IHMC staff includes computer scientists, cognitive
psychologists, neuroscientists, physicians, philosophers, engineers and social
scientists of various stripes, as well as some <b>researchers</b> who resist
all attempts to classify them.</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Current active research areas include: knowledge
modeling and sharing, adjustable autonomy, robotics, advanced interfaces and
displays, communication and collaboration, computer-mediated learning systems,
intelligent data and language understanding, software agents, expertise
studies, work practice simulation, knowledge representation, and other related
areas.</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US">IHMC faculty and staff collaborate extensively with
industry and government to develop science and technology that can be enabling
with respect to society's broader goals. IHMC researchers receive funding
(current funding in force exceeds $25,000,000) from a wide range of government
and private sources. IHMC research partners have included: DARPA, NSF, NASA,
Army, Navy, Air Force, NIH, DOT, IDEO, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft,
Boeing, Lockheed, and SAIC, among others.</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><i><u>The candidate will be appointed on a new US Government
project on metaphor detection and understanding, due to start in the coming
months and run for up to five years. Ocala, Florida is an excellent location,
close to Florida’s major university and about an hour from both coasts. IHMC is
housed in an excellent, state of the art building in the city center</u></i>.</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1235A6;
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Required:</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;
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</span><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica;color:#1235A6;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Natural language processing /
computational linguistics background. Ideal: metaphor and/or machine learning
applications</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
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</span><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica;color:#1235A6;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Substantial skills in processing
large scale corpora. Ideal: Java skills and standard statistical procedures.</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1235A6;
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</span><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica;color:#1235A6;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Ph.D. in computational
linguistics / natural language processing or related areas.</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1235A6;
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</span><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica;color:#1235A6;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">3+ plus years experience in
natural language processing / computational linguistics in industry or large
scale academic research project.</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;
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</span><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica;color:#1235A6;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Expertise in at least some of
the following specific NLP areas and topics: question answering, lexical
semantics, collocations, terminology extraction, <b>disambiguation</b>,
multi-word expressions, (shallow) parsing, named entity recognition, lexical
acquisition, paraphrasis acquisition, information extraction, text
classification, evaluation methodologies.</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;
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Helvetica;color:#1235A6;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Familiarity with existing data
resources and tools: Wordnet, POS taggers, parsers, LingPipe, SVMLight, NLTK,
Weka, and similar tools.</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
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</span><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica;color:#1235A6;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Ideal: experience with
ontologies, RDF, other semantic web resources or tools.</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1235A6;
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