Corpora: Job Ad

[Jiawei Hu]

Canon Research Centre Europe (CRE) has a position for a top quality
researcher in Natural Language Processing (J32)

Overview

You will be working as part of a successful, growing group that investigates
and develops advanced information retrieval/natural language technologies
for Canon products. You will also play a key role in advancing the research
and development programme of the group, and will contribute to a variety of
projects. You will have sound knowledge of natural language processing and
its application to information retrieval and document analysis.

Job Specification

To perform research and development of natural language processing
techniques to support advanced information retrieval, user interfaces and
document analysis.
To develop and initiate first class research in one or more of these areas:
question & answering, text summarization, information extraction, text
generation.

Requirements

First class technical background: MSc or PhD, or equivalent level of
experience, in natural language processing, information retrieval, or
closely related discipline.
Proven track record of initiating and developing research projects.
Desire to work with internal or external customers.
Good software engineering skills in a variety of programming languages,
particularly C++ or Java.

Desirable

Expertise in the areas of:
* Multilingual information systems
* Document markup languages
* Statistical information processing
* Corpus analysis and lexical resource creation
Experience of full project life cycle and product-level software
development.
Proven publication record.


Application Procedure

To apply please send, fax or email your CV with a covering letter, quoting
reference J32, to:

      Recruitment Manager
      Canon Research Centre Europe
      The Braccans
      London Road
      Bracknell
      Berkshire RG12 2XH
      United Kingdom

      Tel: +44 (0) 1344 354800
      Fax: +44 (0) 1344 354801

      Email: jobs at cre.canon.co.uk

More information is available on the CRE web site:

      http://www.cre.canon.co.uk/

If you would like to discuss the job more informally, please phone
Dr Joe Bullock on +44 (0) 1344 354800.

Because of British law, preference will be given to applicants who
already have the right to work in the United Kingdom.