30.2488, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Post Doc, University of Maryland

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Subject: 30.2488, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Post Doc, University of Maryland

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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 14:29:20
From:  Madoo [jmadoo at arlis.umd.edu]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Post Doc, University of Maryland, USA

 
University or Organization: University of Maryland 
Department: Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS)
Job Location: Maryland, USA 
Web Address: https://www.casl.umd.edu/
Job Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate in social media, natural language processing
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 


Description:

The University of Maryland Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and
Security (ARLIS) seeks to hire a postdoctoral research associate to work on a
project exploring computational approaches to automated personality trait
identification from social media in languages other than English. 

The research associate will support the development of a social media data
collection and natural language processing (NLP) pipeline. The scope of work
encompasses developing a cloud-hosted, web-based survey platform that supports
social media collection, development of/interacting with APIs, deploying NLP
tools and machine learning algorithms for anonymizing and analyzing the
textual data collected, etc. The research associate is expected to take an
active role in preparing the eventual corpus for sharing with other
researchers, and in suggesting and developing additional experiments and
preparing materials for publication using the data collected; the
multi-disciplinary nature of the project and team will create opportunities
for publishing for a wide variety of audiences. The associate will be
responsible for some administrative tasks including management of web
developers and other programmers. 
This is a full-time position with benefits. The initial term is for 9 months
and is renewable subject to the availability of funding. For this postdoctoral
position, a Ph.D. or equivalent, in a field related to computer science,
computational social science, or computational linguistics, must be awarded
prior to the start date. 

Required skills:
- Minimum of 4 years’ programming experience (Python preferred; Java,
JavaScript, .Net also acceptable)
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience machine learning/AI, NLP, or data science
- Experience working in a team, work to strict deadlines, in established
parameters
- Ability to manage programmers and perform basic project management 
- Work with social media data collection, analysis, or processing

Preferred skills:
- Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud-based webhosting and data
management
- Familiarity with machine learning packages, esp. deep neural nets 
- Corpus collection, web-scraping, social media data collection, annotation 
- Comfortable working with programmers and non-programmers on a team 
- Some knowledge of linguistics
- Familiarity with statistical processing, e.g. Pandas, R, SAS
- Familiarity with processing of Russian language and/or Cyrillic script
textual data (particularly experience with automatic processing of informal
texts)
- Experience working with non-roman scripts in UTF-8 and Russian legacy
encodings
- Experience in website design and engineering
- Experience working with internal review board (IRB) human subjects protocols
- Experience anonymizing textual data

To apply, please send your cover letter and CV to the application email
provided below. 

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue on a rolling basis.
The preferred start date is as soon as possible.



Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: jmadoo at arlis.umd.edu 
Contact Information:
	Jacqueline Madoo 
	Email: jmadoo at arlis.umd.edu 


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