22.3960, Jobs: Chinese; Syntax; Lexical Semantics; NLP: Post Doc, Brandeis U

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Date: 10-Oct-2011
From: Nianwen Xue [xuen at brandeis.edu]
Subject: Mandarin Chinese; Computational Linguistics; Syntax; Lexical Semantics; Natural Language Processing: Post Doc, Brandeis University, MA, USA


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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:07:05
From: Nianwen Xue [xuen at brandeis.edu]
Subject: Mandarin Chinese; Computational Linguistics; Syntax; Lexical Semantics; Natural Language Processing: Post Doc, Brandeis University, MA, USA

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University or Organization: Brandeis University 
Department: Computer Science Department
Job Location: Massachusetts, USA 
Web Address: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~clp
Job Rank: Post Doc  

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Syntax; Lexical Semantics; Natural Language Processing

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

Description:

Applications are invited for postdoc/research associate positions in the
Department of Computer Science at Brandeis University to work on a
large-scale Chinese language processing project funded by the U.S.
government. The postdoc/research associate is expected to conduct research
in Chinese language processing, and/or performing syntactic and semantic
analysis on large-scale Chinese language data sets in a variety of genres.
We are looking for either theoretical linguists who have a strong interest
in computer processing of natural languages and have acquired significant
programming skills, or computational linguists who are interested in
fundamental natural language processing problems such as sentence boundary
detection, word segmentation,part-of-speech tagging, syntactic parsing and
semantic role labeling.

Qualifications:
-  Ph.D. or M.A. in computational or theoretical linguistics, especially in
syntax and lexical semantics 
-  Native or near-native level of proficiency in Mandarin Chinese.
Expertise in Chinese syntax and lexical semantics is especially valuable
-  Project mangagement skills and able to supervise a small team of annotators.
-  Programming skills in Python, Perl and/or Java
-  Comfortable working with Unix/Linux platforms

Applications including a CV and the contact information of three references
should be sent via email to Prof. Nianwen Xue, Department of Computer
Science, Brandeis University.


Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: xuen at brandeis.edu 
Contact Information:
	Nianwen Xue 
	Email: xuen at brandeis.edu 




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