28.3277, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Post Doc, Koç University

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Subject: 28.3277, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Post Doc, Koç University

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Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 11:17:22
From: Erdem Yörük [eryoruk at ku.edu.tr]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Post Doc, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey

 
University or Organization: Emerging Welfare ERC Project at Koç University 
Department: Sociology
Job Location: Istanbul, Turkey 
Web Address: https://emw.ku.edu.tr
Job Title: Post-doctoral position in Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 


Description:

Koç University, Istanbul, invites applicants for a position as a post-doctoral
researcher in natural language processing, information extraction and machine
learning. The successful candidate will work in a European Research Council
(ERC)-funded project, in which a protest events database will be created using
online newspaper archives.

ERC is the most prestigious, competitive and generous research fund in Europe,
which grants 1.5 million Euros to frontier research that would make
groundbreaking contributions. This project is the first sociology ERC project
in Turkey. The successful candidate will work together with Dr. Erdem Yörük on
his ERC-funded project that investigates the political causes of welfare state
development in emerging market economies (please see emw.ku.edu.tr and the
brief summary of the project below). The candidate will also be supervised by
and collaborate with Dr. Deniz Yuret from Koç University Computer Science
Department (http://www.denizyuret.com/). The position will not have any
teaching responsibilities. Candidates (i) who have a PhD in computer science,
(ii) who have extensive knowledge and experience in natural language
processing, machine learning, information extraction, and (iii) who are
interested in social science applications of these methods are encouraged to
apply. 

The work package of the project in which the successful candidate will be
working has two components: (i) classification of protest events-related news
reports in online archives, (ii) extraction of several protest characteristics
into a database such as participants, organizers, place, ideology, ethnicity,
race, religion, class.

The successful candidate is expected to:

- Have extensive knowledge and experience in Natural Language Processing,
Machine Learning, information extraction, event extraction, entity tagging,
co-reference and anaphora resolution, multilingual language processing,
dataset construction.
- Be based in Koç University, Istanbul, but remote work could also be accepted
for exceptional candidates who are not able to move to Istanbul.
- Have completed the PhD degree by the start date.

Initial duration of the position is a full year (subject to renewal). This is
a full-time position with a competitive salary as well as additional benefits
such as private health insurance, meal and housing. Funding for conferences is
available depending on relevance of the conference to the project.

Please send your application electronically as a one-pdf file comprising your
motivation letter, CV including a publication list, a writing sample and the
names of two references to the contact below. There is no strict deadline,
applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Early applications are
encouraged and the position will remain open until it is filled.

Koç University (KU) (http://www.ku.edu.tr) is an endowed, non-profit
institution of higher education, located in Istanbul, Turkey. Koç University
is highly reputable and has attracted accomplished, high-caliber researchers
from all over the world. The vast majority (97%) of 400 faculty members
received their Ph.D. degrees from the most reputable universities in the
United States and Europe. Times Higher Education has ranked Koç University as
the best university in Turkey in 2016, 250-300th among the best universities
in the world and 36th best in the list of universities under 50 years old.
Currently Koç University hosts 9 of 16 ERC projects in Turkey.



Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: eryoruk at ku.edu.tr 
Contact Information:
	Principal Investigator, Dr. Erdem Yörük 
	Email: eryoruk at ku.edu.tr 


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