21.2429, Jobs: Stochastic Text Normalization; NLP: Postdoctoral Fellow, CSLU

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Subject: 21.2429, Jobs: Stochastic Text Normalization; NLP: Postdoctoral Fellow, CSLU

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Date: 01-Jun-2010
From: Richard Sproat < rws at cslu.ogi.edu >
Subject: Stochastic Text Normalization; Natural Language Processing: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon, USA
 

	
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Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:40:54
From: Richard Sproat [rws at cslu.ogi.edu]
Subject: Stochastic Text Normalization; Natural Language Processing: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon, USA

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University or Organization: Oregon Health & Science University 
Department: The Center for Spoken Language Understanding
Job Location: Oregon, USA 
Web Address: http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/projects/researchprojects.html

Job Rank: Post Doc  

Specialty Areas: Text/Corpus Linguistics; Stochastic Text Normalization; Natural Language Processing

Required Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                      English (eng) 

Description:

The Center for Spoken Language Understanding (CSLU) at the Oregon Health &
Science University (OHSU), located in Portland, Oregon, has an immediate
opening for a Postdoctoral Fellow in the area of Stochastic Text Normalization
and Automatic Genre Adaptation for Structured Text Processing. The Fellowship
is for two years, with a possible extension to a third year.

The candidate will be working with Richard Sproat
(http://www.cslu.ogi.edu/~sproatr/) and Brian Roark
(http://www.cslu.ogi.edu/people/roark/). The project will involve developing
algorithms for the automatic induction of text normalization, parsing and
semantic role labeling models for social media texts. We will be working with
text in both Chinese and English, and the initial part of the project will
involve collecting training and testing corpora. Results of the work will be
packaged as tools based on the OpenFst weighted finite-state toolkit.

The candidate must have a PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering,
Linguistics or related discipline, and a background in Natural Language
Processing. Starting salary will be $70,000.

US Citizenship is required. 

Candidates should send a CV, statement of interest, and  arrange for two
letters of recommendation to be sent to:

Richard Sproat
rws at cslu.ogi.edu

CSLU conducts research on a wide range of topics, including projects focused on
core speech processing and natural language processing algorithms (Technology
Research Projects) and projects focused on biomedical applications (Biomedical
Research Projects), specifically on creation of diagnostic, remedial, and
assistive methods for neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders and
diseases. More details of some of the projects at CSLU can be found at

http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/projects/researchprojects.html

OHSU is an equal opportunity affirmative action institution.


Application Deadline: 01-Nov-2010 (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: rws at cslu.ogi.edu 
Contact Information:
	Richard Sproat 
	Email: rws at cslu.ogi.edu 



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