[Corpora-List] Research Associate Position in NLP

[Rob Gaizauskas]

The following Research Associate position in Natural Language Processing 
is now open for applications at the University of Sheffield. For further 
details, or to apply, please visit

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AGI707/research-associate-in-natural-language-processing/ 


and click the "Apply" button at the bottom.

Job Reference Number: UOS006366
Contract Type: Fixed-term for 24 months
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
Department: Department of Computer Science
Salary: Grade 7 £28,685 - £36,298 per annum.
Closing Date: 13 May 2013

The Department of Computer Science has a position for a Research 
Associate in Natural Language Processing. The position is supported by 
two externally funded research projects:

1. The Visual Sense (VISEN) project (www.chistera.eu/projects/visen), 
funded by the EPSRC as part of the CHiST-ERA programme.
2. The Terminology as a Service (TaaS) project (www.taas-project.eu/) 
funded by the European Commission as part of FP7.

The VISEN project is a multi-site, multi-disciplinary project involving 
researchers in computer vision, machine learning and natural language 
processing. It aims to advance the state-of-the-art in image 
understanding by moving beyond current keyword-based image annotation to 
derive semantic image representations that can be used to generate more 
informative sentence-based image annotations.

The TaaS project is a multi-site project that aims to deliver a 
cloud-based multi-lingual terminology service for human translators to 
assist them in the task of translating technical documents. The balance 
of work across the two projects is flexible and will be determined by 
the skills and interests of the successful applicant.

Given the projects’ aims, a strong background in natural language 
processing (NLP)/computational linguistics (CL) is essential, as is 
knowledge of machine learning based techniques as used in NLP/CL. Strong 
Programming skills in Java and Python are also essential. Experience 
with some or all of the following specific sub-areas in NLP/CL is 
desirable: information extraction/text Mining, Machine translation, NL 
generation/Summarisation. The successful candidate will have a strong 
publication track record and experience with multi-site collaborative 
projects.

This is an opportunity to work in a well-connected international team 
with a world-leading reputation in Natural Language Processing at The 
University of Sheffield. The NLP group is well known internationally for 
its research, and is one of the largest research groups in computational 
linguistics and text engineering in the UK.

This post is fixed-term for 24 months, in the first instance.

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