[Corpora-List] senior researcher in bio-text mining, National Centre for Text Mining, University of Manchester

[Sophia Ananiadou]

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Senior Researcher in Bio-text Mining 

National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM)
School of Computer Science
University of Manchester, UK

We are looking for one senior researcher in text mining to work for a new project at NaCTeM (www.nactem.ac.uk) in text 
mining for systems biology (ONDEX project http://ondex.sourceforge.net/ ). The post is available immediately and for a duration 
of three years. The successful candidate will be appointed at a Research Fellow level (salary 
£ 33,779 - £ 41,545 p.a) and will be part of the growing team of researchers associated with both 
NaCTeM which is hosted by the School of Computer Science and the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (http://www.mib.ac.uk) as well as with several systems biology centres in the UK.

Essential skills: a PhD and a good first degree in an area relevant to text mining as well as excellent software engineering skills. The ability to develop algorithms and software for NLP/TM systems and to produce experiments for text mining applications using large data sets. Excellent knowledge of natural language processing/text mining using machine learning techniques and in particular named entity recognition, parsing, information extraction;  excellent knowledge of C, C++, Java, XML, Windows, Linux and Web Services. A strong publication record is a must. Experience with biomedical text mining would be an advantage.

Informal enquiries should be made to Dr Sophia Ananiadou, Sophia.Ananiadou[at]manchester.ac.uk 

Closing date for applications: 8th February 2008

Further details are available at: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=130141 

Please quote reference: EPS/80023

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Dr Sophia Ananiadou, Reader in Text Mining, School of Computer Science
Director, National Centre for Text Mining, www.nactem.ac.uk
Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, www.mib.ac.uk,
University of Manchester
131 Princess Street, M7 1DN
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/sophia.ananiadou/ 
sophia.ananiadou at manchester.ac.uk 
tel: +44 161 306 3098

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