Job: GATE-related postdoc opportunity in Innsbruck

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 08:11:03 +0000
From: Hamish Cunningham <hamish at dcs.shef.ac.uk>
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X-url: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~hamish/
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[Apologies for multiple copies]

The postdoc position below is attached to a new project using GATE for
large-scale semantic annotation on a significant hardware platform,
and would be a good opportunity for an experienced GATE user/developer
to participate in scaling up Information Extraction methods and
developing practical annotation services.

Best,

Hamish
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Dr. Hamish Cunningham
Senior Research Scientist
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield             [I get too much email, and I use
Regent Court                         junk filters. If I don't reply,
211 Portobello St.                   please resend, or phone!]
Sheffield  S1 4DP
United Kingdom
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~hamish/

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Post Doctoral Research Associate (m/f) in Computational Linguistics

The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at the University of
Innsbruck (Austria) is seeking a candidate in the position of
postdoctoral research associate (m/f) in the area of Natural Language
Engineering and large- scale semantic annotation. The work will
involve statistical and symbolic language processing and knowledge
technologies, and their use in the eSWAN project.

DERI is one of the leading research groups in the area of Semantic Web
technologies with excellent ties to relevant research groups worldwide
and is located right in the heart of the Alps, with an exceptional
standard of living and an attractive combination of a beautiful city
and unique opportunities for sports activities all year round.

We expect

* an excellent PhD degree in Computational Linguistics or related
disciplines or an equivalent academic degree,

* the willingness to combine formal scientific work with
application-oriented research in projects funded by the European
Commission and national agencies.

The following skills (and others) will be relevant:

*	language processing, information retrieval, speech recognition
*	machine learning and information theory
*	technical authoring
*	research project administration
*	ontological data modelling and knowledge management
*	use of GATE (http://gate.ac.uk)
*	programming in Java and in script languages
*	software engineering, components, systems modelling and design
*	programming tools like CVS, JBuilder, make, ANT, ...
*	database programming in SQL and JDBC
*	finite state language analysis
*	computational linguistics

We are looking for individuals who will continue their existing stream
of research and lead a project that aims at large-scale information
extraction from the web, utilizing a a large, distributed cluster
architecture. Leading this project will also include management
responsibility for a number of junior researchers.

We offer

* the stimulating environment of a leading research group in the area
of Semantic Web research,

* excellent ties to research groups worldwide,

* up-to-date infrastructure and resources, including sufficient
funding for attending international conferences, and

* standardized exchange tracks with Stanford University and other
universities.

For further information regarding this position and DERI, please see
http://www.deri.at.

We invite your application by e-mail to hr at deri.org. Please include a
current resume, a list of publications, and digital versions of your
most relevant works.

Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) 
Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel 
Institut für Informatik 
University of Innsbruck 
Technikerstraße 21a
A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria

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