[Corpora-List] Postdoc in statistical NLP/ML for source code text

[Mirella Lapata]

The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh is seeking an
excellent postdoctoral researcher for a new EPSRC-funded project to
apply methods from statistical natural language processing and data
mining to find patterns in computer program source code. The project
is supervised by Dr Charles Sutton.

Modern software developers often find it necessary to use software
libraries and programming languages with which they are unfamiliar,
which can lead to longer development times and lower
reliability. However, on the Internet billions of lines of open
source code are readily available, code that contains a large amount
of implicit knowledge about good coding practice. The goal of the
project is to find patterns in large corpora of source code text,
which can be used to help developers to write better code, in effect
transferring knowledge from experienced developers to less
experienced developers.   

The researcher will be a part of the School of Informatics at the
University of Edinburgh. This is an opportunity to work in
world-leading groups for machine learning and NLP. More broadly, a
recent international review described the School as an "elite"
department of computer science in Europe, and in national research
assessment exercises, the School of Informatics has consistently
ranked at the top in the UK for research quality.

The successful candidate will have a background in statistical
language processing or machine learning and a strong interest in the
application area. We will also consider applications from researchers
in software engineering who have strong interest in building their
knowledge of techniques from statistical NLP and machine learning.

For informal enquiries, please contact Charles Sutton
 <csutton at inf.ed.ac.uk>

For full consideration, please apply by 19 JULY 2013.

For more information, see http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/csutton/ads/plnlp.html

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