[Corpora-List] Job Opening: Post Doctoral Position in Clinical NLP

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Post Doctoral Position in Clinical NLP
Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah

In an effort to improve clinical NLP, the POET project researches ways
to preprocess raw clinical text into a form amenable for high-level NLP
systems. This postdoctoral fellowship offers an opportunity to play a
substantial role in the development of advanced technologies for
resolving clinical short forms (e.g., abbreviations and shorthand); to
rewrite templated text; and to formally explore clinical sublanguages.
The recipient of the fellowship, funded under an R21 grant from the
National Library of Medicine, will be expected to add his/her own
research project to the overall goals of POET and will be mentored in 1)
clinical NLP in a high-performance, clustered computing environment; 2)
in preparing manuscripts for publication; 3) and in biomedical
informatics grant writing (with a special focus on the NIH K99/R00
grant process). POET is being built around a UIMA pipeline architecture
and is implemented on a small, dedicated, HIPAA-compliant
high-performance compute cluster (56 cores and counting). POET
currently has access to > 700,000 clinical notes spanning multiple
clinical disciplines and clinical settings from two different
healthcare networks.

Qualifications: PhD-level experience in natural language processing is a
must. An NLP focus in biomedical NLP experience is desired but not
mandatory, as is some experience in machine learning techniques. UIMA
experience is a definite plus. For more information on POET, query
1R21LM00996701 at

http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/crisp/crisp_query.generate_screen

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The University of Utah is the oldest biomedical informatics in the
world, tracing its beginnings to the pioneering work of Dr. Homer
Warner in the 1950s. This funded postdoctoral position is for one year
(with a second year possible upon satisfactory performance and
additional funding). Applicants must have PhD in hand at the start of
the fellowship. Interested candidates should send a complete CV and a
letter of interest describing their research background and future
goals to:

POET NLP Postdoctoral Opportunity
Attn: Jo Ann Thompson
joann.thompson at hsc.utah.edu
Department of Biomedical Informatics
University of Utah School of Medicine
26 South 2000 East Suite 5700 HSEB
Salt Lake City, UT 841125750

The University of Utah is committed to policies of equal opportunity
and nondiscrimination. The University pursues a vigorous program of
affirmative action in all classifications of employment in order to
prevent any form of discrimination, harassment, or prejudicial
treatment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex,
age, sexual orientation, status as a disabled individual, disabled
veteran, or veteran of the Vietnam Era.


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