28.4273, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Post Doc, University of Pennsylvania

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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:45:54
From: Charles Yang [charles.yang at ling.upenn.edu]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Post Doc, University of Pennsylvania, USA

 
University or Organization: University of Pennsylvania 
Department: Computer Science and Linguistics
Job Location: Pennsylvania, USA 
Job Title: Post Doctoral Research
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 


Description:

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellow research associate position
in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of
Pennsylvania. This is a full time position for 18 months, starting
immediately. 

The main aim of this project is to develop new unsupervised algorithms to
extract several levels of linguistic structure including morphology, part of
speech (POS) tags, and noun phrases from unannotated corpora. The project will
exploit many different descriptive properties and constraints of language, all
of which are close to universal in applicability. Such so-called universals
have been developed across a wide range of often conflicting theoretical
frameworks by both theoretical and descriptive linguists over many years. Our
project is also inspired by the current understanding of how children acquire
their native language, in an unsupervised setting and with relatively small
amount of data. We intend to shamelessly exploit them all. 

The candidate will work under the supervision of Profs. Mitch Marcus and Lyle
Ungar in Computer and Information Science and Prof. Charles Yang in
Linguistics. 

Requirements: 

The candidate should have a very strong background in Natural Language
Processing and possess a PhD in either Computational Linguistics or Computer
Science with a good publication record. Experience in machine learning, good
programming skills, and a good knowledge of modern linguistics are required. 

If interested, please email your CV and the names and contact information of
three or more references to Mitch Marcus at the email provided below. 

Contact: Mitch Marcus (mitch at cis.upenn.edu), Lyle Ungar (ungar at cis.upenn.edu),
and Charles Yang (charles.yang at ling.upenn.edu)



Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: mitch at cis.upenn.edu 
Contact Information:
	Professor Charles Yang 
	Email: charles.yang at ling.upenn.edu 


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