[Corpora-List] Research Position: Biomedical Text Mining (Melbourne, Australia)

[Lawrence Cavedon]

[Apologies for cross-postings]

Research / Senior Researcher in Biomedical Text Mining
NICTA Victoria Research Laboratory
Melbourne, Australia

Closing date for applications: February 26, 2010

National ICT Australia (NICTA) is Australia's ICT Research Centre of
Excellence. NICTA aims to bring together world-class researchers and
professional staff, enhance their skills, and build a culture of
entrepreneurship and achievement in use-inspired research that will
build Australia's ICT capacity.

We are seeking a Researcher /Senior Researcher for a project in Text
Mining for Biomedical Applications. The successful candidate will work
with an existing team---of researchers, software engineers, University
of Melbourne research students, and collaborators from biomedical
partners---in developing new techniques in Information Retrieval,
Language Technology, and Text Mining, of value to biomedical
researchers and clinicians.

The successful candidate will have a PhD in Computer Science,
Computational Linguistics, or a related field, with a proven research
contribution in the topic areas of this project. Good communication
and teamwork skills are also essential; previous experience in
biomedical applications and a demonstrated history of innovation are
highly desirable. Candidates for the Senior Researcher level are
expected to have 4+ years of postdoctoral experience, or equivalent
relevant industry experience, as well as demonstrated experience in
developing research agendas and supervising junior staff and research
students.

This is a fixed-term position, commencing May 2010 or as soon as
possible thereafter.

Further information:
Please contact Dr. Lawrence Cavedon (lawrence.cavedon at nicta.com.au) or
go to   http://www.nicta.com.au/research/projects/BioTALA

Application process:
Please visit NICTA Careers to view the criteria essential to this role
and apply online (http://nicta.com.au/director/careers.cfm).

Closing date:
February 26, 2010

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