22.3626, Jobs: Information Retrieval/QA: Researcher, Dublin City U

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Subject: 22.3626, Jobs: Information Retrieval/QA: Researcher, Dublin City U

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Date: 16-Sep-2011
From: Deirdre Hogan [deirdre.hogan at gmail.com]
Subject: Information Retrieval/Question Answering: Researcher, Dublin City University, Ireland

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Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:46:35
From: Deirdre Hogan [deirdre.hogan at gmail.com]
Subject: Information Retrieval/Question Answering: Researcher, Dublin City University, Ireland

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University or Organization: Dublin City University 
Department: School of Computing
Job Location: Dublin, Ireland 
Web Address: http://www.nclt.dcu.ie/
Job Rank: Researcher  

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Information Retrieval/Question Answering

Description:

Applied R&D role - IR/QA

The Project:
We are looking for a research scientist for a new industry-focused project 
which involves building a question-answering application for use in real-world 
commercial environments. This presents an exciting opportunity to apply 
research technology to create a novel QA application that will go live over the 
course of the project, working in a small focused team within a large and 
energetic research centre with significant international standing.

The Role:
This is a key role where the successful candidate will take the lead in 
information retrieval research as well as play a leading role in the design and 
development of the system architecture. They will work closely with NLP 
researchers, developers and end users to deliver a fast, high-precision 
application. This is a great opportunity to take on a varied, hands-on role and 
influence all aspects of the research and development of the application, from 
text mining, search engine customisation and experimentation with results 
reranking techniques, to user interface design and integration with social 
media applications.

We are looking for an "all-rounder", someone with a genuine interest in good 
design and the ability to transform cutting edge research into practical 
applications. Candidates must have core excellence in a given area and be 
comfortable working in a start-up style environment, adapting quickly to 
evolving requirements and eager to learn new things.

Required:
-  PhD in computer science or equivalent work experience
-  Experience with rapid prototyping and system design and integration
-  Excellent programming skills (especially in java, python/perl)
-  Proven track record in an IR related field
-  Experience with an IR system

Bonus:
-  Experience with: Solr/Lucene, UIMA/GATE, Hadoop, Amazon EC2
-  Experience in question-answering, machine learning

The Research Centre:
The National Centre for Language Technology (http://www.nclt.dcu.ie/) is 
Ireland's foremost centre for statistical natural language processing with over 
40 researchers. It is based in the School of Computing in Dublin City 
University. The Centre carries out basic and applied research in the areas of 
machine translation, cross-language information retrieval, spoken document 
retrieval, natural language parsing, question answering, sentiment analysis, 
speech recognition and speech synthesis. The Centre is affiliated with the 
Centre for Next Generation Localisation (http://www.cngl.ie/), a dynamic 
Academia-Industry partnership with over 100 researchers.

Details:
The initial contract is for 15 months which, following a successful outcome 
for the project, may lead to an opportunity to play an important role in the 
further commercialisation of the product.

Salary:  EUR 40,000 - 46,500 per annum depending on experience.

Please send CV and covering letter to Deirdre Hogan at the email address 
below.

Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)

Email Address for Applications: deirdre.hogan at gmail.com 
Contact Information:
	Dr Deirdre Hogan 
	Email: deirdre.hogan at gmail.com 
	Phone: 353 1 7008712 

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