[Corpora-List] Postdoctoral position at NUS, Web IR / NLP Group

[Min-Yen Kan]

Post doctorate positions available in terminology and relationship extraction
and semi-structured documentation analysis.

The Web, IR / NLP Group (WING) at the National University of Singapore
(NUS) has two vacancy positions for outstanding postdoctorate fellows
(2 years) in the fields of Information Retrieval and Natural Language
Processing.  The position is part of a new, multiyear, multigroup
project on media search.  The successful applicant will work with
graduate and have the opportunity to co-supervise undergraduate
students, and will focus on one of two open areas:

* Multidocument terminology and relationship extraction
* Semi-structured and Web document understanding and processing.

For more information about the group, see:

http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/

The applicant should have a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and
should have a set of published works in related web, information
retrieval (IR) and/or natural language processing (NLP) conferences.
The ideal applicant will also have strong computational modeling
and/or algorithmic skills.  Knowledge and experience in additional
areas such as statistical data analysis, data mining, signal
processing, machine learning and pattern recognition, and other topics
in artificial intelligence are desirable.

Conditions for applicants:

  * Doctoral thesis less than one year old (Oct 2006) or being
    defended before end of 2007.
  * No nationality requirement.

Applications should include a letter of motivation, a curriculum
vitae, and at least two referee letters in English.  should be sent to
Min-Yen KAN <kanmy at comp.nus.edu.sg>, with the subject line "WING
Postoc Application".  Screening of applications will begin immediately
and continue until the position is filled.  An initial appointment for
a one year term is anticipated with the possibility of reappointment.

Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Starting salary for the positions will be around 60-70,000 SGD per
annum.

-- 
Min-Yen KAN (Dr) :: Assistant Professor :: National University of
Singapore :: School of Computing, AS6 05-12, Law Link, Singapore
117590 :: 65-6516 1885(DID) :: 65-6779 4580 (Fax) ::
kanmy at comp.nus.edu.sg (E) :: www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy (W)

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