[Corpora-List] Job: Research posts, University of Edinburgh

[Benjamin Hachey]

The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh invites
applications for four research posts in the area of Information Extraction
and Text Mining. The appointments have a fixed duration of 2 1/2 years and
are expected to start April 2005, or shortly thereafter.

Three of the posts are part of a new project which uses Natural Language
Processing techniques to assist scientists in curating databases from the
online literature. Of the three posts, the first is in the area of
document retrieval, the second is in the area of shallow and statistical
methods of Information Extraction and the third is in the area of
statistical/hybrid computational semantics. The fourth post explores
similar techniques but involves a variety of application domains.

You will have skills in one or more of the following areas: Information
Retrieval, Information Extraction, Shallow Text Processing, Computational
Semantics, Ontologies, Statistical NLP, Machine Learning. Experience with
XML is highly desirable, as well as good programming skills in one of the
following languages: C, C + +, Perl, Python, Java.

The deadline for receipt of application materials is 11 March 2005.

For further information including detailed application instructions,
please visit:

  https://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/jobs/index.cfm?action=jobdet&jobid=3003789
  https://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/jobs/index.cfm?action=getFPS&fps=5739

Informal Enquiries:

  Dr Claire Grover <C.Grover at ed.ac.uk>
  Prof Ewan Klein <E.Klein at ed.ac.uk>