27.3060, Jobs: Computational Linguistics; Semantics: Post Doc, University of Arizona

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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:29:50
From: Peter Jansen [pajansen at email.arizona.edu]
Subject: Computational Linguistics; Semantics: Post Doc, University of Arizona, Arizona, USA

 
University or Organization: University of Arizona 
Department: School of Information
Job Location: Arizona, USA 
Job Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Semantics 


Description:

Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate I
Department: School of Information (0481)
Location: Main Campus

Position Summary:

The School of Information at the University of Arizona seeks a postdoctoral
researcher in natural language processing to work on several projects in
question answering and automated inference, in both the science and health
domains.

Duties & Responsibilities:

- Assist with research in and management of projects in natural language
processing, in particular question answering, automated inference, and
information extraction. 
- Assisting with preparing grant proposals, manuscripts, and conference
presentations

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

Minimum Qualifications 

- A PhD in computer science, linguistics, cognitive science, or a closely
related field.
- As an empirical lab, we need someone who likes to build and experiment with
moderately complex, large-scale, multi-investigator systems. 
- Interest in working in a highly collaborative interdisciplinary team

Preferred Qualifications 

- The ideal candidate will know about modern natural language processing and
machine learning techniques, though this isn’t necessary if the candidate has
expertise in other relevant areas.
- Prior experience writing grant proposals
- Interest in graphical models, knowledge representation, and/or
visualization.

For the full posting, or to apply, please see the application URL below.

This position will be supervised by Dr. Peter Jansen, a new faculty member in
the School of Information, and part of the broader interdisciplinary
Computational Language Understanding (CLU) Lab: http://www.clulab.org



Application Deadline: 15-Aug-2016 (Open until filled)
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://uacareers.com/postings/12163 
Contact Information:
	Assistant Professor Peter Jansen 
	Email: pajansen at email.arizona.edu 


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