<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -14.4pt 6pt 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB">Jena University Language and Information Engineering (JULIE) Lab at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Germany) is a major international player in the field of natural language processing and human language technology, with focus on biomedical text analytics. We invite applications for PhD positions both in applied areas such as<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm 0.0001pt 35.7pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -17.85pt; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">information extraction, text and data mining<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.7pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -17.85pt; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">information retrieval<o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.7pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -17.85pt; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; ">· </span><span lang="EN-GB">ontology engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -14.4pt 6pt 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB">as well as in methodological fields such as<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm 0.0001pt 35.7pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -17.85pt; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">statistical and machine learning foundations of NLP<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.7pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -17.85pt; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; ">· </span><span lang="EN-GB">knowledge representation and automatic reasoning, ontology design<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; "><u><span lang="EN-GB">Job Profile</span></u><span lang="EN-GB">:<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB">Candidates will be expected to have a strong educational background in the formal, statistical and empirical foundations of NLP, typically acquired from studies in computer science (preferably, with emphasis on Artificial Intelligence or Semantic Web technologies), computational linguistics or information science (including Human-Computer Interaction). Candidates with interests / expertise in anaphora resolution, named entity recognition, relation extraction or modelling of / reasoning with uncertain knowledge will be given preference. Working languages are English and German; JAVA programming skills are highly appreciated. Domain knowledge in the life sciences would be an asset (though not necessary).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB">Candidates should strive for international visibility and combine individual scientific excellence with strong team-playing capabilities. All positions are full-time (TV-L 13 on the German pay scale, approximately 40,000 to 45,000 € p.a.) and can be filled immediately or remain open until filled.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB">Applicants are kindly asked to send their complete application material or inquiries related to the vacancies, in electronic form only, to the Head of JULIE Lab, Prof. Dr. Udo Hahn (<a href="mailto:udo.hahn@uni-jena.de" style="color: purple; ">udo.hahn@uni-jena.de</a>). For information concerning JULIE Lab, please, visit our Web site at <a href="http://www.julielab.de/" style="color: purple; ">http://www.julielab.de</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB">Please quote reference “JULIE Lab Jobs 2013” on all correspondence.</span></div></body></html>