[Corpora-List] PostDoc Position in NLP/CL

[Pavel Smrz]

POST DOCTORAL (RESEARCH) RECRUITMENT

Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology
www.fit.vutbr.cz

Multi-year Research Position


Job Description:

The successful candidate for this position will have the chance to participate
in the research and development in the following areas:
 * large-scale text mining and knowledge extraction
 * social media analysis
 * semantic web technologies
 * language and vision integration
 * distributed and high-performance computing for NLP 

Job responsibilities include among others the following:
 * participate in all aspects of a knowledge-based technologies with an
   emphasis on research, development, and implementation,
 * lead the research, design, and implementation of various components
   of realized systems,
 * help with the design, implementation, and data analysis of various
   experiments needed to fulfil the mission of our research projects,
 * interact with various members of the research team, supervise
   graduate students, publication and presentation, and 
 * evaluate, install, and maintain software packages.

The positions are initially limited to 12 months but can be extended to 
24 months based on a successful evaluation after the first 8 months. 
The gross salary will be 2,000 EUR per month. Anticipated starting date is
January 1st, 2012 (can be negotiated).


Qualifications:

Applicants should have (by the starting date) a PhD in computer science and/or
cognitive science or related areas and ideally should have a strong background
in at least one of the following research areas:
 * natural language processing,
 * machine learning,
 * knowledge representation and reasoning,
 * distributed computing.


How to Apply:

To apply, please send applications including a complete CV, 2 representative 
published manuscripts, and the names and contact information of 2 references 
to:

Pavel Smrz
e-mail: smrz at fit.vutbr.cz
Bozetechova 2
612 66  Brno
Czech Republic

Screening begins October 15, 2011 and will continue until the position is
filled. 

The scientific and research activities at the Faculty of Information Technology
at Brno University of Technology are directed towards up-to-date research areas
concerning the theory, methods and applications of information technologies.

We urge all qualified applicants to apply for this position.
Appointment will be based on qualifications as they relate to position
requirements without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion,
age, sex, disability or veteran status. Women and minority candidates
are encouraged to apply.


-- 
Pavel Smrz
Associate professor
Faculty of Information Technology
Brno University of Technology
Bozetechova 2, 61266 Brno
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 541 141 282
Fax: +420 541 141 290
http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~smrz

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