<span id="docs-internal-guid-fd6c9951-bfa2-0028-0733-acbf8e6f60dc"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Statistical Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to work with Dr Sebastian Riedel (UCL Computer Science).</span><br></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The overarching goal of this project is to develop reading and reasoning machines that perform tasks which require a deeper understanding of language, such as question answering, automatic fact checking, and passing multiple-choice science exams. Towards this end we will develop methods that integrate scalable and robust matrix/tensor factorization models [1] (and possibly deeper latent models) with expressive symbolic approaches [2]. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The associate will be part of the UCL Machine Reading lab in the Computer Science department, a rapidly-expanding group located in the Bloomsbury campus in central London. The lab is affiliated with the Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning (bringing together CS, the Gatsby unit and Statistics department). Several close links to relevant industry in London exists (BBC, Google, Microsoft, Google Deepmind), as well as to the vibrant academic NLP scene in the South England area.  </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The ideal candidate will have:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">a PhD in Computer Science or Statistics with a focus in machine learning and/or natural language processing,</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">presented publications at top NLP/ML conferences (e.g., ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, ICML, NIPS),</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">experience with matrix and tensor factorization, graphical models and neural networks,</span></p></li></ul><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">strong coding skills and</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">the ability to work independently and supervise students.</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Application Closing Date</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">: 15 Dec 2014</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Start Date</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">: January 2015 at the earliest, but there is some flexibility if the perfect candidate needs to start later if necessary.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Duration</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">: the post is funded for 3 years in the first instance.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">For more details, and to apply, please follow this link:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?SID=amNvZGU9MTQ0NDEyMSZ2dF90ZW1wbGF0ZT05NjUmb3duZXI9NTA0MTE3OCZvd25lcnR5cGU9ZmFpciZicmFuZF9pZD0wJmpvYl9yZWZfY29kZT0xNDQ0MTIxJnBvc3RpbmdfY29kZT0yMjQmcmVxc2lnPTE0MTU4MTI3NjEtMmI1NDlkYzZiZDAxMDlmNDJjZTdiYTMzYTY3ZmQwN2UwMTRkZThlZQ==" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?SID=amNvZGU9MTQ0NDEyMSZ2dF90ZW1wbGF0ZT05NjUmb3duZXI9NTA0MTE3OCZvd25lcnR5cGU9ZmFpciZicmFuZF9pZD0wJmpvYl9yZWZfY29kZT0xNDQ0MTIxJnBvc3RpbmdfY29kZT0yMjQmcmVxc2lnPTE0MTU4MTI3NjEtMmI1NDlkYzZiZDAxMDlmNDJjZTdiYTMzYTY3ZmQwN2UwMTRkZThlZQ==</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[1] </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(4,46,238);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><a href="http://www.riedelcastro.org/publications/details/riedel13relation.html">http://www.riedelcastro.org/publications/details/riedel13relation.html</a></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[2] </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(4,46,238);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><a href="http://www.riedelcastro.org/publications/details/rocktaschel14low.html">http://www.riedelcastro.org/publications/details/rocktaschel14low.html</a></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span></p><div><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div></span>