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== 15 Research Positions (MT, Parsing, IR/E, Text Analytics, NLP) at CNGL at DCU ==
 
  
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* Employer: CNGL, Dublin City University http://www.cngl.ie
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==PhD position in statistical language modelling==
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* Rank or Title: PhD, Post-Doc and Research Programmer
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* Employer: Cardiff University
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* Specialty: Machine Translation, Natural Language Processing, Parsing, Information Retrieval/Extraction, Text Analytics
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* Title: PhD scholarship
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* Location: Dublin, Ireland
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* Topics: Statistical language modelling, relation extraction, social media
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* Deadline: February 25, 2013
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* Location: Cardiff, UK
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* Date Posted: January 30, 2013
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* Deadline: 1 June 2015
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* Start Date: March, 2013
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* Date Posted: 7 April 2015
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* Duration: 3 year (PhD), up to 2.5 years (Post-Doc)
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* Online application: http://courses.cardiff.ac.uk/funding/R2497.html
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* Contact email: dgroves@computing.dcu.ie
 
  
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'''For More Details'''
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'''Job Description'''
  
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http://www.cngl.ie/vacancies.html
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Applications are invited for a PhD Scholarship at the Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics in the area of statistical language modelling. Specifically, the aim of the project will be to develop methods for modelling the meaning of natural language terms, based on data from social media and other web sources. For example, by analysing the tags associated with Flickr photos, the developed methods will be able to learn that a church is a kind of building, that churches tend to be larger than typical buildings and that chapels are similar to churches. The results of this project will be used to improve methods from artificial intelligence for commonsense reasoning, and will among others enable more intelligent web search engines.
  
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'''Position Description'''
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'''Funding and eligibility'''
  
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CNGL is a €50M+ Academia-Industry partnership, funded jointly by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and our industry partners, and is entering its second cycle of funding. CNGL is looking to fill multiple posts associated with its second phase which will focus on expansion of our work into the challenging areas of social text sources and multimedia content.
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This studentship consists of full UK/EU tuition fees, as well as a Doctoral Stipend matching UK Research Council National Minimum (£14,057 p.a. for 2015/16, updated each year). This studentship is open to students of any nationality. Students classified as international for fee purposes have to self-fund the difference between home and international fees.
  
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CNGL is an active collaboration between researchers at Dublin City University (DCU), Trinity College Dublin (TCD), University College Dublin (UCD), University of Limerick (UL), as well as 10 industrial partners, including SMEs, Microsoft, Symantec, Intel, DNP, and Welocalize.
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Candidates should:
  
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CNGL comprises over 100 researchers across the various institutions developing novel technologies addressing key challenges in the global digital content and services supply chain. CNGL is involved in a large number of European FP7 projects, as well as commercial projects in the areas of language technologies, information retrieval and digital content management. CNGL provides a world class collaborative research infrastructure, including excellent computing facilities, and administrative, management and fully integrated and dedicated on-site commercialisation support.
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* either have (or expect to have by Autumn 2015) a good honours degree in a relevant discipline (minimum 2:1);
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* or have a masters degree with distinction in the research dissertation in a relevant discipline;
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* or have professional qualifications deemed by Cardiff University to be equivalent to the above;
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* or be over 25 and have relevant work experience in a position of responsibility.
  
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The successful candidates will become part of the research team based at DCU, joining two leading academic MT/NLP/IR and Translation research groups (www.nclt.dcu.ie/, cttsdcu.wordpress.com/). The team’s location at DCU, minutes from Dublin city centre, offers a highly conducive environment for research, collaboration and innovation with a wealth of amenities on campus.
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The methods will rely heavily on methods from statistics and linear algebra, hence a strong background in mathematics will be required, in addition to excellent programming skills. A strong mathematical background and excellent programming skills will also be required.
  
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DCU is ranked in the TOP 50 of young universities worldwide (under 50 years old) (QS Ranking) and in the TOP 100 under the Times Higher Education (under 50 years) ranking scheme.
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Applicants are particularly welcomed from candidates with a background in computer science.
  
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The research is supervised by Dr. Jennifer Foster, Dr. Sharon O'Brien, Dr. Gareth Jones, Prof. Qun Liu and Prof. Josef van Genabith.
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If your first language is not English you must provide evidence of competence in English. Our standard requirement is an overall IELTS result of at least 6.5, with a minimum of 6.5 in writing, and a minimum of 6.0 in speaking, listening and reading.
  
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'''PhD Studentships'''
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'''Further information'''
  
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*Parsing, Analytics and Information Extraction:
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For further information and instructions on how to apply, please see http://courses.cardiff.ac.uk/funding/R2497.html
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**Tuning Text Analytics to User-Generated Content: Parse quality estimation and targeted self-training.
 
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**Extracting Events and Opinions from User-Generated Content: Deep parsing-based methods.
 
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*Information Retrieval:
 
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**Self-Managing Information Retrieval Technologies: Query, search technique and parameter selection in information retrieval applications
 
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**Indexing and Search for Multimodal (Spoken/Visual) Content: Locating relevant content in multimodal sources
 
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**Application of Text Analytics in Information Retrieval: Enhancing information retrieval using features from text analysis
 
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**Investigating Human-Computer Interaction Issues for Search and Discovery with Multimodal (spoken/Visual) Content
 
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*Machine Translation:
 
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**Syntax- and Semantics-Enhanced Machine Learning Based MT
 
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**Domain Adaptation Based on Multi-Dimensional Quality Estimation, Similarity Metrics, Clustering and Search
 
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**Human interaction with MT output: Usability, Acceptability, Post-editing Research
 
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**MT and Multimodal Interaction
 
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**MT for Multimodal Cross Language Information Retrieval
 
  
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'''Post-Doctoral Positions'''
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==Postdoctoral Researcher in NLP at U.S. Army Research Lab==
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* Employer: U.S. Army Research Lab, Adelphi Laboratory Center
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* Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
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* Topics: Natural Language Processing
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* Location: Adelphi, MD, USA
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* Deadline: Open until filled
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* Date Posted: March 17, 2015
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* Contact: Dr. Stephen Tratz (stephen.c.tratz.civ@mail.mil)
  
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*Parsing, Analytics and Information Extraction:
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'''Job Description'''
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**Extracting Events and Opinions from User-Generated Content: Parsing-based deep methods (up to 2 year contract)
 
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**Extracting Events and Opinions from UGC: Shallow methods, including unsupervised methods (up to 2.5 year contract)
 
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*Machine Translation:
 
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**User/Human Centric MT (up to 2.5 year contract)
 
  
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'''Post-Doctoral Positions'''
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The Multilingual Computing Branch (MLCB) at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Adelphi Laboratory Center, located in the Washington, D.C. metro area, is seeking to hire new post-doctoral fellows. MLCB has several ongoing efforts in computational linguistics/natural language processing, including active projects in machine translation, human-robot communication, and social media analysis. The branch is also pursuing new interdisciplinary initiatives to address the language processing challenges in cyber-security and video analytics.
  
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*Research Programmer (up to 2.5 year contract)
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Candidates should have substantial research experience in machine learning methods (e.g., deep neural networks) as applied to emerging areas involving computational linguistics.  Areas of interest include:  text/video analytics, computational social science, machine translation, domain adaptation, data selection, low-resource language processing, morphologically complex languages, knowledge representation and reasoning, spoken language interfaces and dialogue, and multimedia processing.
  
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For more information please see: http://www.cngl.ie/vacancies.html
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The lab encourages external collaboration and maintains multiple partnerships with universities and research institutions, which enable faculty and student exchanges as well as joint research and publishing (http://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?page=93). ARL’s new open campus initiative is attracting national and international partners from academia and industry to work with ARL scientists and engineers in areas of common research interest (see http://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?page=2357), and ARL researchers have begun releasing open source code via GitHub (see http://www.army.mil/article/141734/Army_cyber_defenders_open_source_code_in_new_GitHub_project/).  ARL facilities include multiple high-end supercomputing clusters with over 10,000 cores and capable of at least 350 TFlops.  
  
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== Assistant Professor Position in Computational Linguistics in NAIST (Nara, Japan) ==
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'''Requirements'''
  
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* Employer: Nara Insititute of Science and Technology
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* Ph.D. or equivalent research experience in computer science, statistics, mathematics, or related field
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http://www.naist.jp/en/
 
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* Rank or Title: Assistant Professor
 
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* Specialty:  Foundation and/or Application areas of Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, Web Mining and Grammatical Error Correction/Detection
 
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* Location: Nara, Japan
 
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* Deadline: February 28, 2013
 
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* Date Posted: January 30, 2013
 
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* Start Date: after April, 2013
 
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* Duration: 5 years (reappointment is possible)
 
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* Contact email: matsu@is.naist.jp
 
  
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'''For Detailed Description'''
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'''How to Apply'''
  
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http://www.naist.jp/en/about_naist/job_opportunities/academic_positions/index_130129.html
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If interested, please email your CV and the names and contact information of three or more references to Dr. Stephen Tratz at the email provided above.
  
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==Researchers - AT&T Labs Research==
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==Postdoctoral Researcher in NLG for Narrative==
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* Employer: AT&T Labs - Research
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* Employer: Liquid Narrative Group, North Carolina State University
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* Rank or Title: Researchers and Research Software Engineers
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* Title: Postdoctoral Research Scholar
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* Specialty: Natural Language Processing, Speech Processing, Machine Learning
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* Topics: Natural Language Generation, Narrative Generation, Knowledge Representation, AI Planning
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* Location: NJ
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* Location: Raleigh NC, USA
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* Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
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* Deadline: Open Until Filled
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* Date Posted: 8 January 2013
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* Date Posted: March 10, 2015
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* Contact email: vkumar@research.att.com
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* Online Application: http://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/40524
  
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'''Position Description'''
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'''Job Description'''
  
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AT&T Research, one of the premier industrial research laboratories in the world, is looking for
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The Liquid Narrative group at North Carolina State University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to collaborate on a large-scale narrative generation project. The goal of this project is to build computational tools for the use of narrative in sense-making tasks. Research thrusts include the creation of formalisms for representing story and discourse knowledge and the development of narrative generation algorithms able to create multiple narrative discourses from a given story, adapt these discourses to an audience, and elicit different effects such as surprise or suspense. This project aims at creating a large-scale narrative-generation system that can extract story data from various sources (e.g., video game logs) and create narratives in and across several media such as text, animated movies or maps.
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talented individuals to make a difference in the world of communications.  Our researchers and
 
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research software engineers are dedicated to solving real problems in speech and language
 
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processing, and are involved in inventing, creating and deploying innovative services. We also
 
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explore fundamental research problems in these areas. Outstanding Ph.D.-level candidates at
 
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The postdoctoral researcher will contribute to the design and development of narrative generation and summarization technologies, focusing on the microplanning aspect of text generation. In particular, he or she will extend an existing narrative discourse generation prototype that outputs basic sentences using the SimpleNLG library. Our aim is to update this architecture by integrating an NLG system such as FUF/Surge, KPML or RealPro. To improve the quality of the generated text, the postdoctoral researcher will work on topics such as: aggregation, generation of referring expressions, discourse markers insertion, lexical choice and/or other aspects of realization that are specific to narrative as a genre.
  
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He/she may also participate in research efforts on the automated generation of multimedia presentations involving text, video and maps. He/she is expected to collaborate in performing scientific evaluations of the systems, and in writing academic research papers.
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    * Voice and multimodal search
 
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'''Requirements'''
  
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Outstanding PhD-level candidates at all levels of experience and experienced M.S. candidates
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The applicant must hold a PhD degree, preferably in the area of computational linguistics or natural language generation. He/she should have:
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* Experience with developing NLG systems
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visit http://www.research.att.com/ and click on "Working with us", or access the page directly:
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* Excellent software-design and problem-solving skills
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* Good programming skills
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* Excellent written and oral communication skills
  
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http://www.research.att.com/evergreen/working_with_us/careers.html
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* Automated discourse planning technologies
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* Dialogue generation
  
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problems and research opportunities. Candidates with strong analytical and programming skills (Python, C, C++)
 
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are desired. Access to massive amounts of real-world data, the ability to work with internal and external
 
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collaborators across departments, the possibility of making an impact by developing solutions that will be used
 
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by millions, and the freedom to publish your results are some of the reasons AT&T Labs -
 
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Research is an exciting place to work.
 
  
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This is a full-time position.
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Expected start date is April 1, 2015 and the initial funding for the position runs through December 31, 2015.  The position may be extendable depending on availability of funds.
  
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==Engineer 4, NLP Software Development - Comcast Corporation (Washington DC or Philadelphia PA)==
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Interested candidates should view the official Human Resources posting and submit applications through the NC State University HR web page at http://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/40524
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* Employer: Comcast
 
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* Rank or Title: Engineer 4
 
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* Specialty: Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition, Machine Learning
 
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* Location: Washington DC or Philadelphia
 
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* Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
 
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* Date Posted: 6 December 2012
 
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* Contact email: brian_curtis@cable.comcast.com
 
  
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'''Position Description'''
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NC State University is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, genetic information, status as an individual with a disability, or status as a protected veteran.  Individuals with disabilities requiring disability-related accommodations in the application and interview process, please call 919-515-3148.
  
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Comcast is the largest cable TV company in the world. We are looking for talented engineers to help us shape the future of content discovery for television.
 
  
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To help get us there, we are hiring an experienced software engineer to develop new technology and adapt/apply existing technologies to NLP problems for the Comcast Voice Control platform. This position is part of a small team that uses Speech Recognition, Natural Language Understanding/Processing, Machine Learning along with search technologies such as SOLR/Lucene, tf/idf and relevance ranking, to extract contextually correct entity and verb semantics from speech and apply them to real world solutions across millions of connected homes.
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==PhD-level Researchers in Language Technology or Computational Linguistics==
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* Employer: UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany)
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* Title: PhD-level Researchers in Language Technology or Computational Linguistics
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* Topics: Natural Language Processing, Summarization, Opinion Mining
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* Location: Darmstadt (Germany)
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* Deadline: open until the position is filled
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* Date Posted: March 4, 2015
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* Contact: Prof. Iryna Gurevych apply-for-aiphes(a-t)ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
  
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'''About you'''
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'''Job Description'''
  
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* Education Level: Bachelors Degree or Equivalent
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The newly established Research Training Group „[http://www.aiphes.tu-darmstadt.de Adaptive Information Processing of Heterogeneous Content]“ (AIPHES) at the Technische Universität Darmstadt and at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg is filling several positions for three years, starting as soon as possible:
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* Extensive experience using Java technologies including J2SE, XML/XSLT, Apache Jakarta components and other open source software.
 
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* Experience with statistical/modeling techniques such as CRF, HMM, SVM, KNN.
 
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* Experience with Topic Classification, Parsing, Narrative Thread analysis, parts of speech tagging, Sphinx, metadata extraction.
 
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* Experience with machine learning and/or algorithms.
 
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* Experience with Hibernate, MySQL and/or NoSQL, preferably Hadoop/HBase.
 
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* Experience with search technologies such as SOLR/Lucene and/or recommender systems.
 
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PhD-level Researchers in Language Technology or Computational Linguistics
  
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If you are interested in this position and you think you might have what it takes, send your resume to brian_curtis@cable.comcast.com.
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The positions provide the opportunity to obtain a doctoral degree with an emphasis within one of the following guiding themes:
  
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* A3: Opinion and Sentiment - extrapropositional aspects of discourse (Univ. of Heidelberg)
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* B1: Structured summaries of complex contents (TU Darmstadt)
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* B2: Content selection based on linked lexical resources (TU Darmstadt)
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* D1: Multi-level models of information quality in online scenarios (TU Darmstadt)
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* D2: Manual and Automatic Quality Assessment of Summaries from Heterogeneous Sources (TU Darmstadt)
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The funding follows the guidelines of the DFG, and the positions are paid according to the E13 public service pay scale.
  
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The goal of AIPHES is to conduct innovative research on multi-document summarization in a cross-disciplinary context. To that end, methods in computational linguistics, natural language processing, machine learning, network analysis, and automated quality assessment will be developed. AIPHES will investigate a novel summarization scenario for information preparation from heterogeneous sources. There will be close interaction with end users who prepare textual documents in an online editorial office, and who should therefore profit from the results of AIPHES. In-depth knowledge in one of the above areas is desirable but not a prerequisite.
  
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Participating research groups at the Technische Universität Darmstadt are Knowledge Engineering (Prof. Fürnkranz), Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (Prof. Gurevych, Dr. Eckle-Kohler), Algorithmics (Prof. Weihe), Language Technology (Prof. Biemann), Multimedia Communications (Dr. Rensing). Participants at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg are the Institute for Computational Linguistics (Prof. Frank) and the Natural Language Processing Group (Prof. Strube) of Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS). Cooperating partners are the Institute for Communication and Media of the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt and other partners in the area of online media.
  
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==NLP Research Scientist - Nuance Communications, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA Research Group)==
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AIPHES will emphasize close contact between students and their advisors, have regular joint meetings, a co-supervision by professors and younger scientists in the research groups, and an intensive exchange as part of the research and qualification program. The training group has the goal of publishing its results at leading scientific conferences and will actively support its doctoral researchers in this endeavor. The software that will be developed in the course of AIPHES should be put under the open source Apache Software License 2.0 if possible. Moreover, the research papers and datasets should be published with open access models.
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* Employer: Nuance Communications, Inc.
 
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* Rank or Title: NLP Research Scientist
 
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* Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Dialog Systems
 
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* Location: Sunnyvale, CA, USA
 
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* Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
 
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* Date Posted: November 20th, 2012
 
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* Contact email: Jennifer.Garvale@nuance.com
 
  
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'''Requirements'''
  
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Nuance is the world-wide leader in voice technologies. We are now making substantial research and development investments to add natural language processing capabilities to our speech infrastructure. We are expanding our new Silicon Valley Natural Language Research laboratory. The goal of this group is to develop the next generation of intelligent, conversational agents. We seek research scientists with the following backgrounds:
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We are looking for exceptionally qualified candidates with a degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related study program. We expect ability to work independently, personal commitment, team and communication abilities, as well as the willingness to cooperate in a multi-disciplinary team. Desirable is experience in scientific work. Applicants should be able to work with German-language texts, and, if necessary, to acquire German language skills during the training program. We specifically invite applications of women. Among those equally qualified, handicapped applicants will receive preferential consideration. International applications are particularly encouraged.  
  
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The Department of Computer Science of TU Darmstadt is regularly ranked among the top ones in respective rankings of German universities. Its unique research initiative "Knowledge Discovery in the Web” emphasizes natural language processing, text mining, machine learning, as well as scalable infrastructures for assessment and aggregation of knowledge. The Institute for Computational Linguistics (ICL) of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg is one of the large centers for computational linguistics both in Germany and internationally. The ICL and the NLP department of the HITS jointly run the graduate program „Semantic Processing“ with an integrated research training group “Coherence in language processing: Semantics beyond the sentence”, which has a close connection to the topics in computational linguistics of AIPHES.
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They should be submitted until March 23th, 2015 to the spokesperson of the research training group, Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych (Fachbereich Informatik, Hochschulstr. 10, 64289 Darmstadt) using the e-mail address apply-for-aiphes(a-t)ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de. The interviews may start any time. The positions are open until filled.
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* Ph.D. in computer science, computational linguistics, linguistics, or another technical field with a focus on natural language processing.
 
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==Research staff position in Natural Language Processing==
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* Employer: UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany)
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* Title: Research staff position in Natural Language Processing
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* Topics: Natural Language Processing, Question Answering
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* Location: Darmstadt (Germany)
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* Deadline: open until the position is filled
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* Date Posted: March 4, 2015
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* Contact: Nicolai Erbs erbs@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
  
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'''Job Description'''
  
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The [https://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab] (UKP Lab) at the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität (TU) Darmstadt, Germany, has an opening for a research staff position (TV-TU E13 German payscale) with a focus on question answering and summarization of social media content. This DFG-funded basic [https://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/research/current-projects/qa-eduinf research project] conducts research integrating semantic text analysis, such as semantic role labeling (SRL), into higher-level applications in information access to improve their overall results (Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych). Thereby, we pay special attention to graph-based techniques.
  
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The selected candidate will work with a large corpus from a social question-answer platform on the Web. He/she will be expected to identify interesting research problems, research ways of utilizing semantic role labeling in novel NLP tasks, and develop means and resources to evaluate the results. The newly established Research Training Group “[http://www.aiphes.tu-darmstadt.de Adaptive Information Processing of Heterogeneous Content]” (AIPHES) funded by the DFG [3] provides an excellent research environment for this kind of work. The funding is available for the duration of at least two years with an option for extension.
  
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==Postdoctoral Fellowship - Natural Language Processing==
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'''Requirements'''
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* Employer: University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
 
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* Rank or Title: Postdoctoral Fellow - Natural Language Processing
 
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* Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Generation
 
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* Location: Cincinnati, OH, USA
 
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* Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
 
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* Date Posted: November 9th, 2012
 
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* Contact email Imre.Solti@cchmc.org
 
  
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'''Position and Requirements'''
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We ask for applications from applicants in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics, preferably with completed PhD and research publications. Experience in Question Answering or a related field like summarization or information retrieval is a definite advantage. Excellent graduates of these disciplines willing to work towards a PhD are also encouraged to apply. Ideally, the candidates should have strong research skills as well as demonstrable experience in designing and implementing complex natural language processing (NLP) applications in Java and/or with graph-based algorithms. A very good command of German is a definite plus, since the target corpus is in the German language. Excellent communication skills in English and the ability to work in a team are required.
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Are you a recent PhD graduate or getting ready to graduate with a degree in computational linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence or closely related field? Do you want to apply your computational skills, machine learning and NLP experience to solve real world challenges to help patients by automating the clinical decision making? Do you have excellent command of both written and oral English, and first author peer reviewed journal publications?
 
  
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If the answers are yes and you would like to join our team of seven dedicated researchers, programmers and annotators then please, send your most recent CV, a brief research statement and three publications in PDF file format to: Imre.Solti@cchmc.org (include "Postdoctoral Fellow - ACL Wiki" in the subject line).
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Applications should include a CV, a motivation letter, an outline of research experience, as well as names and addresses of two referees. Applications from women are particularly encouraged.  All other things being equal, candidates with disabilities will be given preference. Please send the application to: erbs@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de by 23.03.2015. The position is open until filled.
  
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We provide competitive salaries and excellent benefits. We will sponsor H1B visas for qualified candidates as necessary.
 
  
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'''About the Institution'''
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==PhD-position in NLP/Text Mining==
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Cincinnati Children's has over one million physician-patient encounters a year and is the second largest recipient of NIH funding among children hospitals. The hospital has over 12,000 employees. The Division of Biomedical Informatics manages a state-of-the-art 500+ CPU computing cluster. The research of the Solti Lab is funded from institutional and external (NIH) grants.
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* Employer: UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany)
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* Title: PhD-position in NLP/Text Mining
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* Natural Language Processing, Text Mining
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* Location: Darmstadt (Germany)
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* Deadline: open until the position is filled
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* Date Posted: March 4, 2015
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* Contact:  Richard Eckart de Castilho (eckart (at) ukp (dot) informatik (dot) tu-darmstadt (dot) de)
  
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'''Job Description'''
  
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== Research Programmer position - speech and language processing ==
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The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab) at the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität (TU) Darmstadt, Germany, has an opening for a PhD student (TV-TU E13 German payscale) in a research project in Natural Language Processing (NLP) for a computer scientist or computational linguist. The project focusses on building an open text-mining infrastructure at the European level (Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych).
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* Employer: University of Minnesota
 
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* Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
 
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* Deadline: open until filled
 
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* Date posted: November 7, 2012
 
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* Duration: Minimum 2 years committment
 
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* Informal inquiries can be sent to Serguei Pakhomov at spakh001@gmail.com
 
  
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'''General Description'''
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Thereby, major NLP and Text Mining platforms, including UIMA and GATE, should be made interoperable and applied to knowledge discovery in scientific literature, e.g. entity disambiguation and linking to a background knowledge repository. In the past, the UKP Lab has developed several frameworks such as the Darmstadt Knowledge Processing Repository (DKPro) and UBY. They form the foundation for the research and implementation work to be done. The graduate program Knowledge Discovery in Scientific Literature provides further research environment for the work to be carried out.
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The College of Pharamcy at the University of Minnesota is seeking a talented, pro-active and innovative individual for a Research Programmer position to work on several projects in Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuropharmacology (C3N). C3N is engaged in conducting interdisciplinary research focused on cognitive effects of medications and neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. Computerized assessment is used to measure these cognitive effects. The successful candidate for this position will be responsible for a variety of computer-related tasks including creating and maintaining innovative computer-based neuropsychological testing applications that involve spontaneous speech and language collection and analysis. The successful candidate will also be expected to interact with graduate and undergraduate students on specific programming and research projects to meet the needs of the Center.
 
  
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'''Skills and characteristics'''
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'''Requirements'''
  
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* Education: Master’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, computational linguistics or equivalent combination of training and experience
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Applicants in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics must have demonstrable experience in designing and implementing complex natural language processing (NLP) systems or NLP-based applications and the programming language Java as well as strong research skills. Excellent communication skills in English and the ability to work in a team are required. Experience in open-source software development is a plus.
  
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* Required Skills: Excellent analytical, technical and problem-solving skills. Deep understanding and experience with audio and speech processing. Strong application programming skills in C/C++,  Java, Python and/or Perl programming languages. Familiarity with speech recognition toolkits and APIs (e.g., HTK, Sphinx, KALDI, SRILM), acoustic analysis tools (e.g., Praat) and good understanding or experience with speech recognition and analysis technology.
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The following academic qualification is necessary: completion of an M.A./M.Sc. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related field.
  
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* Preferred skills and characteristics: Familiarity with natural language processing (NLP) techniques and toolkits (e.g., NLTK). Experience with programming applications for mobile devices. Familiarity with computerized or paper-and-pencil neuropsychological testing.  
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Pending the successful completion of the ongoing administrative steps for the project, funding of this position is available from June 1st, 2015 for the duration of three years.
  
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* Other: The successful candidate will be a self-motivated and proactive individual, a good communicator interested in working in an academic environment. Participating in research and experimentation leading to scientific publication are not required but would be highly encouraged and supported.
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Applications should include a CV, a motivation letter, an outline of research experience, as well as names and addresses of two referees.
  
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If you are someone who has the necessary skills and thrives on working in an exciting and dynamic research environment, please send us a letter stating your interest and qualifications, and a resume. Please use this website to apply: https://employment.umn.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.jsp?postingId=576008. 
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Interviews may start at any time and will continue until the position has been filled. Email address for inquiries and applications: eckart (at) ukp (dot) informatik (dot) tu-darmstadt (dot) de
  
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The Department of Computer Science of TU Darmstadt is regularly ranked among the top ones in respective rankings of German universities. The UKP Lab is also home to the unique research initiative "Knowledge Discovery in the Web” which emphasizes natural language processing, text mining, machine learning, as well as scalable infrastructures for assessment and aggregation of knowledge.
  
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The Technische Universität Darmstadt promotes gender equality and in particular encourages women to apply. Preference will be given to physically handicapped persons if they are equally qualified.
  
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== One Postdoctoral Position In Statistical Machine Translation - Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) ==
 
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* Employer: Sapienza University of Rome
 
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* Location: Rome, Italy
 
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* Deadline: 18th October 2012
 
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* Date Posted: 01st October 2012
 
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* Starting date: 1st December 2012
 
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* Duration: 1+1 years
 
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* Salary: 35000-50000 euros per annum, depending on qualifications. Note that this type of research contract is exempt from most taxes (e.g., 40000 euros per annum corresponds to around 2600 euros net per month)..
 
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* Informal inquiries can be sent by email to Roberto Navigli (navigli@di.uniroma1.it).
 
  
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One position of POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW in Natural Language Processing is open in the Department of Computer Science of the Sapienza University of Rome, with a specific focus on statistical machine translation for Asian languages. The position is part of a 5-year ERC Starting Grant on multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and headed by Prof. Roberto Navigli (see http://lcl.uniroma1.it/multijedi for details). The successful candidate will participate in a frontier research project and will work in the stimulating environment of a leading and highly-active research team comprising 2 faculty members, 2 post-docs and 6 Ph.D. students.
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==Internship position available in Natural Language Processing at Adobe Research==
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* Employer: Adobe Systems Incorporated
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* Title: NLP Scientist Intern
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* Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Dialog Systems.
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* Location: San Jose, CA
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* Deadline: open until the position is filled
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* Date Posted: February 24, 2015
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* Trung Bui: bui@adobe.com
  
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'''REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS'''
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'''Description''':
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We are looking for an NLP scientist intern who will work on exploring deep learning for mapping between natural language queries and logic form and/or SQL.
  
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* Ph.D. in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing or Computational Linguistics.
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'''Key Qualifications'''
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* Strong publication record in Statistical Machine Translation. Publication record in lexical semantics is a plus.
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*Experience with semantic parsing, dialog systems.
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* Willingness to coordinate and supervise part of the research work of the ERC project.
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*Experience with machine learning, deep learning.
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* Ability to work in a collaborative environment, with a strong commitment to achieving research goals.
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*Good programming skills in Java and/or Python
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* Fluent English. Proficiency in at least two major Asian languages. Knowledge of Italian is NOT a requirement.
 
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* Solid programming skills.
 
  
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'''HOW TO APPLY'''
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'''Education'''
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M.S. or PhD student in Computer Science or related field
  
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Please send a detailed CV and contact details for up to three references to Roberto Navigli (navigli@di.uniroma1.it). Please include the job reference (LCL3-2012) in the subject line.
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'''Additional Requirements'''
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== Postdoc in Advanced Machine Learning (with an Emphasis on NLP) ==
  
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'''ABOUT LA SAPIENZA'''
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*Employer:  University of Notre Dame
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*Job Number:  4015639
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*Date Posted:  02/17/2015
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*Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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*Online application: http://www.postdocjobs.com/jobs/jobdetail.php?jobid=4015639
  
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The Sapienza University of Rome is a seven-century-old university in the heart of Rome. It is one of the largest universities in Europe, with around 150,000 students. Its Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics and Statistics (that includes the Department of Computer Science) is one of the youngest, most energetic and scientifically active environments at the Sapienza. The Sapienza University is an equal opportunity employer.
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'''Job Description'''
  
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'''ABOUT THE COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT'''
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The Computer Science Department at the University of Notre Dame in collaboration with the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis anticipates hiring a postdoctoral fellow starting as early as April 1st 2015 for one year and renewable for a second year. The position includes a full time salary and benefits and is jointly funded by sponsored research split between the University of Notre Dame and the University of Memphis. Review of applications will start immediately and continue until the position is filled.
  
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The Department of Computer Science is a modern, well-equipped research institution with a top-class faculty and a strong Ph.D. program. The Department comprises 44 faculty members (among whom 3 ERC grant holders), 15 postdocs and around 30 Ph.D. students. The successful candidate will be based in Rome, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. The Department is situated just beside the main Sapienza University campus and is in easy walking distance of San Lorenzo, a nice lively area with lots of bookshop-cafes, bars and restaurants. Prospective candidates should not be afraid of the language barrier, as Italians are in general very friendly.
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The successful candidate will conduct research in machine learning applied to dialog-centered natural language understanding. He/she will participate in the development and application of machine learning techniques in the hierarchical and temporal domains to multi-party speech data collected in authentic educational contexts.
  
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==Postdoc or Research Associate - Natural Language Processing==
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The candidate will work under the supervision of Dr. Sidney D’Mello, who has joint appointments in the Departments of Computer Science and Psychology at Notre Dame, and Dr. Andrew Olney in the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis.
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* Employer: IHMC (www.ihmc.us)
 
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* Rank or Title: Research Associate - Natural Language Processing
 
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* Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, in particular dialogue processing
 
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* Location: Ocala, FL
 
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* Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
 
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* Date Posted: September 26th, 2012
 
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* Contact email ywilks@ihmc.us
 
  
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'''About Us'''
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The position offers a unique postdoctoral training experience and unsurpassed publishing opportunities within a multi-department multi-institution grant-funded project. The postdoc will be encouraged to build advanced technical skills, strengthen their research portfolios via peer-reviewed publications, develop leadership skills by mentoring students, and gain expertise in authoring collaborative grant proposals.
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IHMC (www.ihmc.us) is a not-for-profit research institute of the Florida University System and is affiliated with several Florida universities.
 
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Researchers at IHMC pioneer technologies aimed at leveraging and extending human capabilities. These systems fit the human and machine components together in ways that exploit their respective strengths and mitigate their respective weaknesses. The design and fit of computational prostheses require a broader interdisciplinary range than is typically found in one organization, thus IHMC staff includes computer scientists, cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, physicians, philosophers, engineers and social scientists of various stripes, as well as some researchers who resist all attempts to classify them.
 
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Current active research areas include: knowledge modeling and sharing, adjustable autonomy, robotics, advanced interfaces and displays, communication and collaboration, computer-mediated learning systems, intelligent data and language understanding, software agents, expertise studies, work practice simulation, knowledge representation, and other related areas.
 
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IHMC faculty and staff collaborate extensively with industry and government to develop science and technology that can be enabling with respect to society's broader goals. IHMC researchers receive funding (current funding in force exceeds $25,000,000) from a wide range of government and private sources. IHMC research partners have included: DARPA, NSF, NASA, Army, Navy, Air Force, NIH, DOT, IDEO, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Boeing, Lockheed, and SAIC, among others.
 
  
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The candidate will be appointed on a new  project on dialogue processing, due to start in the coming months and run for one year initially, with extensions expected. The aim of the project is to produce a prototype conversational Companion-in-an-iPad for a brain-damaged patient in a domestic setting. Ocala, Florida is an excellent location, close to Florida’s major university and about an hour from both coasts. IHMC is housed in an excellent, state of the art building in the city center.
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'''Required'''
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Required:
 
  
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▪ Natural language processing / computational linguistics background. Ideal: dialogue applications experience (in NLP not ASR),
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(1) Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field at the time of hire; (2) Research experience in advanced machine learning techniques for sequential and hierarchical domains (e.g., probabilistic graphical models, sequence tagging, deep learning) ; (3) Evidence of a strong publication record in the aforementioned areas
  
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▪ Substantial skills in processing corpora. Ideal: Java skills and standard statistical procedures.
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'''Desired'''
  
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▪ Ph.D. in computational linguistics or some equivalent in terms of experience in natural language processing or related areas.
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(1) Research experience in one or more of the following research areas (acoustic signal processing, automatic speech recognition, natural language understanding, discourse modeling) ; (2) Experience working on interdisciplinary projects and/or on educational research; (3) Experience mentoring graduate and undergraduate students
  
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Skills and Experience:
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For more information see the application link above.
  
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▪ 3+ plus years experience in natural language processing / computational linguistics in industry or large scale academic research project.
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== Software Engineer/NLG Specialist in Sydney, Aus - Natural Lanaguage Generation==
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*Employer: Macquarie Group
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*Title: Software Engineer/NLG Specialist
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*Specialties: Natural Language Generation, Application Development, Linguistics
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*Location: Sydney, Australia
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*Date posted: 29 January 2015
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*Contact information: andy.logan@macquarie.com
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*Online application: http://www.careers.macquarie.com/cw/en/job/923649/software-engineers-nlpnlg-programming-equities-research
  
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▪ Expertise in at least some of the following specific NLP areas and topics: question answering, lexical semantics, collocations, disambiguation, multi-word expressions, (shallow) parsing, named entity recognition, lexical acquisition, RDF-style data, speech-language interfaces, information extraction, text classification, evaluation methodologies.
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'''Job Description'''
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*Unique opportunity within the Equities Research space for a Engineer with strong NLG experience
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*New Systems Implementation with Opportunity to push the envelope within Research
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*Permanent Opportunity – Sydney CBD Location
  
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▪ Familiarity with existing data resources and tools: Wordnet, GATE, Nuance ASR, NLTK, Weka, and similar tools.
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'''About the role'''
  
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▪ Ideal: experience with ontologies, RDF, other semantic web resources or tools.
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We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our Equities Research business team. This is a truly unique opportunity for someone to join Macquarie working on a pioneering project within the business which could be a big game changer. The role will utilise your strong NLG/NLP experience and you will be responsible for building and developing the NLG functionality within the team. If you are interested in gaining commercial experience with NLG, have excellent written communications and have a flair for English grammar, have a passion for finance and in particular Equities Trading and want the opportunity to really pioneer something, then this could be the position for you.  
  
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Apply to Yorick Wilks at: ywilks@ihmc.us
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'''Key Responsibilities'''
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*Design and Develop our first NLG/NLP Application within Equities Research
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*Work closely with the vendor to understand the application limitations and functionality
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*Drive the development with the Head of Research as well as industry analysts
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*Mature the offering and look for further areas of development within the business
  
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'''About You'''
  
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== NLP Research Scientist - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ==
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To be successful in this role as a Software Engineer you will possess a University Degree in Computer Science/Mathematics and would have probably undertaken further studies of some sort (Masters/PhD) and have previous Natural Language Generation/Processing experience in either a commercial or research environment. You will have a passion and flair for the English Language as well as having a interest in financial services and in particular traded products. Previous OO Development experience would be highly regarded. In addition you will possess the following:
  
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NLP Research Scientist wanted for work impacting National Security
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*Tenacity to produce different If Statements and to develop the platform further
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Company: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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*Strong interest in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Based Learning.
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Job ID:  301731  http://www.jobs.pnnl.gov/
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*Keen interest in finance
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Location:  PNNL - Richland, WA
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*Self Starter and strong attention to detail to really drive uptake of the platform
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Contact: jill.schroeder@pnnl.gov
 
  
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This position requires significant contributions to the development and evolvement of natural language processing research at PNNL. The incumbent will possess skills in both natural language processing and software design and development. Expertise in natural language processing should include one or more applications including, but not limited to, information extraction, knowledge base population, machine reading, sentiment analysis and social media analytics. Software development skills should include, but are not limited to, object oriented programming and development, data modeling, building demonstrable and functional prototypes, and contributing to deployment-ready software.  
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This is a unique opportunity within Macquarie and quite possibly a pioneering project within the Investment Banking space. We are looking to hire two developers into the team and are flexible across career levels from recent Grads to Senior Engineers. Here at Macquarie we truly believe in you owning your future, at Macquarie you’ll own it. Find out more at the new Careers website: '''macquarie.com/career'''
  
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In carrying out these duties, the incumbent will be responsible for maintaining strategic alliances with specified clients, managing individual or small team assignments for multiple projects, performing assignments with minimal oversight, working effectively within interdisciplinary development teams, and contributing to proposals, publications and presentations.  
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If you meet the above requirements, please apply via the following link.  Alternatively to find out more about the position and a confidential discussion, please contact '''Andy Logan on 02 8237 8472 or andy.logan@macquarie.com'''
  
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Specific responsibilities include:
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== PostDoc Position in Heidelberg (NLP, Networks, Databases, Machine Learning)==
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- apply computational linguistics approaches and algorithms
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*Employer: Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies gGmbH (HITS)
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- contribute to the translation of client requests and needs into a set of project requirements and tasks
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*Title: PostDoc
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- contribute to software design
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*Specialties: Natural Language Processing, Networks, Databases, Machine Learning
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- construct functional applications and prototypes using PHP, Perl, Python and Java
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*Location: Heidelberg, Germany
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- perform algorithmic development and implementation, especially as they pertain to NLP
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*Deadline: 20 February 2015
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- evaluate natural language processing methods and results
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*Date posted: 29 January 2015
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- develop client server and database aware applications
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*Contact information: michael.strube (at) h-its.org
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- design and implement graphical user interfaces
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*Online application: https://application.h-its.org/intern/register.php?id=o51kdq1
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- develop on Linux and Windows environments
 
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- effectively manage individual tasks, schedule, workload, budget, and deadlines
 
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- contribute to technical presentations and demonstrations of designs, prototypes and operational software to existing and potential clients; group, division, and sector managers
 
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- contribute to or lead efforts in publishing research
 
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- help grow the natural language processing business portfolio through proposal writing and client engagement
 
  
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'''Job Description'''
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PostDoc position available in the NLP group at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) in Heidelberg, Germany
  
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Responsibilities & Accountabilities:  
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One position is available for a PostDoc working in Natural Language Processing, in particular in the areas of Entity Linking, Cross-document Coreference Resolution, Coreference Resolution, Word Sense Disambiguation. The position is within a newly funded project on "Scalable Author Name Disambiguation in Bibliographic Databases". Project partners are DBLP (http://dblp.org/db/) and zbMATH (https://zbmath.org/), the two leading bibliographic databases in computer science and mathematics which will also supply the data to be disambiguated and the gold standard. The project will be funded for three years starting June 1st, 2015.
  
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This position reports to the Technical Group manager for Knowledge Discovery and Informatics within PNNL’s National Security Directorate, and is responsible for work activity as assigned by PNNL project managers for both internal and external clients. The incumbent is expected to develop knowledge of the goals of any projects to which they are assigned and the clients they support. The incumbent is expected to maintain a customer-service focus commensurate with this position.  
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The candidate should have a strong background in Natural Language Processing and possess a PhD in either Computational Linguistics or Computer Science. Experience with machine learning, databases, parallel programming, big data and networks as well as strong programming skills are required.
  
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The incumbent normally receives task instructions from their project managers, which are performed with minimal oversight. The incumbent will work both as task lead, and as a staff member under the direction of project managers and senior software scientists. The incumbent will be expected to attend regular project meetings and KDI group meetings. The incumbent may also be expected to attend offsite team meetings with other team members, clients, and users.  
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HITS gGmbH is a private non-profit research institute carrying out multidisciplinary research in the computational sciences. It receives its base funding from the HITS Stiftung.
  
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A level II scientist contributes to the completion of project milestones by leading specific tasks of the project to meet scope, schedule and budget. Level II scientists are contributing professionals who are building a professional reputation for their technical expertise in NLP. They are expected to continue to develop their technical expertise and knowledge, and develop new skills. In addition, strong contributions to the technical content of proposals will be made.  
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The NLP group (http://www.h-its.org/en/research/nlp/) at HITS is an interdisciplinary research group that works on applications in the area of discourse and dialogue, in particular coreference resolution, entity linking, automatic summarization, and knowledge extraction from semistructured input. The NLP group at HITS works closely together with the Computational Linguistics Department at the University of Heidelberg.  
  
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A level III scientist will lead small to moderate research projects, contribute to the completion of programs and projects, and mentor other staff members. Level III scientists will be skilled professionals able to apply existing NLP methods to new work and will maintain skills consistent with the state of the art in NLP. Level III scientists will generate ideas for new proposals and lead the development of technical content for small to medium proposals, and will contribute to scoping, scheduling and budgeting for projects. . 
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To apply, please enter your application via the following link: https://application.h-its.org/intern/register.php?id=o51kdq1 (reference Postdoc NLP HITS-01-2015)
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Minimum Requirements 
 
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Level II:
 
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A Bachelor's degree with 2-3 years experience or a Master's degree with 0-2 years experience or a Ph.D. is required.  Expected to contribute professionally, building a professional reputation for technical expertise.  Fully applying and interpreting standard theories, principles, methods, tools and technologies.  All staff at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory must be able to demonstrate the legal right to work in the United States.
 
  
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Level III:
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Applications must be submitted by February 20, 2015. Please note that applications not submitted via the online system will not be considered. Inquiries about the position can be directed at Michael Strube (michael.strube (at) h-its.org).
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A Bachelor's degree with at least 5 years experience or a Master's degree with 3 years experience or a Ph.D. with 1-2 years experience is required.  Must be a skilled professional who applies a broad basis of existing theories, principles, and concepts to a specialty field. All staff at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory must be able to demonstrate the legal right to work in the United States.
 
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Qualifications 
 
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Professional Expertise: Expertise in NLP algorithm development and strong software design and development skills.  
 
  
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Work-related Experience:
 
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- Demonstrated ability and willingness to perform as a team member on multiple projects simultaneously and work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic team environment with high expectations for quality.
 
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- Experience leading project teams in research, design and development a plus.
 
  
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Breadth of Relevant Specialized Knowledge and Skills:  
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==Postdoc position in Cardiff (NLP, IR, machine learning)==
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- Well-developed oral and written communication skills, including ability to convey complex technical information accurately.
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*Employer: Cardiff University
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- Above-average client interaction skills including the ability to quickly understand a client’s business needs and communicate at the proper level of detail
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*Title: Postdoc
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- Proficient in the use of Windows, Macintosh, and Linux environments 
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*Specialties: Natural language processing, information retrieval, machine learning, distributional models, relation extraction, commonsense resoning
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Preferred Education/Credential 
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*Location: Cardiff, UK
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A PhD in computational linguistics is preferred.  
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*Deadline: 3 February 2015
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*Date posted: 9 January 2015
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*Contact information: SchockaertS1@cardiff.ac.uk
  
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Level II:
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'''Job Description'''
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PhD in computational linguistics, natural language processing or related field within the last 5 years or Masters of Science in computer engineering, computer science or related field and 1+ years of experience in NLP within the last 5 years
 
  
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Level III PREFERRED:
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Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research associate post in the School of Computer Science & Informatics at Cardiff University. This is a full-time, fixed-term post for 30 months, starting on 1 May 2015 or as soon as possible thereafter.  
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PhD in computational linguistics, natural language processing or related field and 1-2 years of experience in NLP within the last 5 years  or Masters of Science in computer engineering, computer science or related field and + years of experience in NLP within the last 5 years 
 
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Equal Employment Opportunity 
 
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer and supports diversity in the workplace.  All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital or family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or genetic information.  All staff at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory must be able to demonstrate the legal right to work in the United States.
 
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Other Information 
 
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This position requires the ability to obtain a federal security clearance in a timely manner.  Which requires: 
 
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* US Citizenship
 
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* Background Investigation: Applicants selected will be subject to a Federal background investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified matter in accordance 10 CFR 710, Appendix B.
 
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* Drug Testing:  All Security Clearance (L or Q) positions will be considered by the Department of Energy to be Testing Designated Positions which means that they are subject to applicant, random, and for cause drug testing.  In addition, applicants must be able to demonstrate non-use of illegal drugs for the 12 consecutive months preceding completion of the requisite Questionnaire for National Security Positions (QNSP).  
 
  
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Note: Applicants will be considered ineligible for security clearance processing by the U.S. Department of Energy until non-use of illegal drugs for 12 consecutive months can be demonstrated.
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The main aim of this project is to learn fine-grained semantic relations from large text corpora. Initially such relations will be obtained in an unsupervised way, by identifying semantic relations with spatial relations between vector-space representations. Subsequently, open-domain, supervised relation extraction methods will be developed which use the output of the unsupervised methods as training data. This research will be part of an ERC funded project on the use of semantic relations between natural language terms in logics for commonsense reasoning. You will work closely with Dr Steven Schockaert. You will possess a PhD in Computer Science or a closely related area, or have equivalent experience.
  
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== Faculty Positions (open rank) in multiple areas, particularly Biomedical NLP / Text Mining, The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH, USA) ==
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'''Essential criteria'''
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* Employer: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering and Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
 
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* Rank or Title: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor
 
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* Specialty: Multiple openings, including targeted hire in Biomedical Natural Language Processing / Text Mining
 
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* Location: Columbus, OH USA
 
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* Deadline: Review of applications will begin in November and continue until the positions are filled
 
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* Date Posted: August 30, 2012
 
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* Contact email or link to website: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/department/positions.shtml
 
  
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The Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Ohio State University seeks faculty candidates for multiple tenured or tenure-track appointments at the assistant, associate or full professor level. The department is slated for significant growth as part of a multi-year expansion in size and scope, including targeted faculty hires in core areas as well as in areas that bridge CS with other disciplines. The specific searches being conducted this year include:
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*Proven ability to undertake research in a relevant research area (e.g. natural language processing, information retrieval, machine learning) at an international level, as evidenced by research output.
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*Excellent programming skills (java or C/C++).
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*A demonstrable history of contributing to excellent publications in relevant top-tier conferences (e.g. ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR, CIKM, IJCAI, AAAI, ICML) and journals (e.g. Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, ACM Trans. Information Systems, IEEE Trans. Knowledge and Data  Engineering).
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*Proven ability to communicate specialist ideas clearly in English using written media.
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*Excellent organisational skills with a proven ability to work independently and be self-managing, to prioritise your work and meet deadlines within the framework of an agreed programme.
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*A PhD in Computer Science or closely related area, or equivalent experience.
  
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* One targeted position, open rank, in the area of big data, broadly defined. These include, but are not limited to, applicants that have core training in databases, systems, data analytics, or cloud computing, with experience in managing and analyzing big data stores.
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'''Desirable criteria'''
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* One targeted position, open rank, in the area of cybersecurity, broadly defined. We are specifically interested in applicants with research interests in network security, physical layer/information theoretic security, cyberphysical systems, data privacy, cryptography, or programming language security.
 
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* One targeted position, open rank, at the interface of computer science and mathematics broadly defined. We are specifically interested in researchers working in theoretical computer science, scientific computing, or complex systems.
 
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* Multiple targeted positions, open rank, jointly searched with the Department of Biomedical Informatics. Priority consideration will be given to applicants whose research interests lie in the processing of biomedical text (e.g. NLP or text mining) as well as those interested in the multi-scale modeling and visualization of high-throughput and/or high-content molecular or image data. Outstanding applicants in other areas at the intersection of biology, clinical science, informatics, and computer science will also be considered.
 
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* In addition to the above targeted searches the department is conducting a search for an additional position (open rank) that is open to all areas of computer science and engineering.
 
  
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The department is committed to enhancing faculty diversity; women, minorities, and individuals with disabilities are especially encouraged to apply.
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*Knowledge of statistical natural language processing.
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*Knowledge of unsupervised and semi-supervised learning.
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*Knowledge of relation extraction.
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*Experience with analysing large text corpora using a high-performance computing environment.
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*Experience with dimensionality reduction methods such as multi-dimensional scaling, singular-value decomposition, and non-negative matrix factorisation.
  
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Applicants should hold or be completing a Ph.D. in CSE or a closely related field, have a commitment to and demonstrated record of excellence in research, and a commitment to excellence in teaching.
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'''More information'''
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For more details about the project and instructions on how to apply, please go to www.cardiff.ac.uk/jobs and search for job 2972BR.
  
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To apply, please submit your application via the online database. The link can be found at: https://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/portal/fsearch/apply.cgi.
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==Post‐Doctoral and all levels of Research Scientist at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence==
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*Employer: Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2)
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*Title: Post-doc/Research Scientist
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*Specialties (one or more): Natural language processing, machine reading, automatic knowledge base construction, large-scale textual inference and entailment, knowledge representation and reasoning, question answering and explanation
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*Location: Seattle, WA
 +
*Deadline: N/A, we are hiring throughout 2015
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*Date posted: 12/9/2014
 +
*Contact information: ai2-info@allenai.org, allenai.org
  
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Review of applications will begin in November and will continue until the positions are filled.
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'''Job Description'''
  
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The Ohio State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
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The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) is a non-profit research institute in Seattle founded by Paul Allen and headed by Professor Oren Etzioni.  The core mission of (AI2) is to contribute to humanity through high-impact AI research and engineering. We are actively seeking Post Docs and Research Scientists at all levels who are passionate about AI and who can help us achieve this core mission by teaming to construct AI systems with reasoning, learning and reading capabilities.  
  
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== Postdoctoral Position in Natural Language Processing in Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan) ==
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'''Position Summary'''
  
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* Employer: Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
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AI2 currently has projects in the following areas:
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http://www.sinica.edu.tw
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*Language and Vision
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*Information extraction and semantic parsing
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*Question answering
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*Language and reasoning
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*Machine learning and theory formation
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*Semantic search
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*Diagram understanding
  
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http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw
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AI2 Research Scientists will have a primary focus in one of these specific areas but will also have the opportunity to contribute and engage in a variety of other areas critical to our research and mission. These include opportunities to participate in or lead select R&D projects, work with management to develop the long term vision for knowledge systems R&D, take a leading role in overseeing and implementing software systems supporting the research, author and present scientific papers and presentations for peer-reviewed journals and conferences, and help develop collaborative and strategic relationships with relevant academic, industrial, government, and standards organizations.
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* PI: Lun-Wei Ku (Language Processing Group)
 
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http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/pages/lwku/index_en.html
 
  
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http://nlg18.csie.ntu.edu.tw:8080/lwku/lwku.html
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'''Applicant'''
  
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* Rank or Title: Post Doctorial Researcher - Natural Language Processing
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Applicants for Research Scientist at AI2 should have a strong foundation (typically PhD level) in one or more of the following areas: natural language processing, machine reading, automatic knowledge base construction, large-scale textual inference and entailment, knowledge representation and reasoning, or question answering and explanation. We look favorably upon extensive work experience demonstrating application of your research.
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* Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning
 
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* Location: Taipei, Taiwan
 
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* Deadline: open until filled
 
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* Date Posted: August 21st, 2012
 
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* Start Date: before October, 2012 or after April, 2013
 
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* Duration: 1+1+1 years
 
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* Contact email: lwku@iis.sinica.edu.tw
 
  
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'''REQUIRED'''  
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'''Application Process'''
  
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Ph.D. in computational linguistics / natural language processing or related areas.  
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All candidates are required to submit a resume, an expression of interest, and the names and contact information of at least 2 references (including email addresses) through our website: http://allenai.github.io/ai2website/jobs.html. We particularly welcome applications from women, people of color, members of the LGBT communities, and people with disabilities. Visa sponsorship is available.
  
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Natural language processing / computational linguistics background.  
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==Internship and Full-time positions available in Natural Language Processing at Apple Inc. (Siri)==
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Substantial skills in programming and processing large scale corpora.  
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* Employer: Apple Inc.
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* Title: Language Understanding / Dialog Scientist
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* Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Semantic Parsing, Dialog Systems.
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* Location: Cupertino, CA
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* Deadline: rolling
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* Date Posted: December 2, 2014
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* Thomas Kollar: tkollar@apple.com
  
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Ideal: Java skills and standard statistical procedures.  
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'''Description''':  
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Play a part in the next revolution in human-computer interaction. Contribute to a product that is redefining mobile computing. Create groundbreaking technology for large scale systems, spoken language understanding, big data, and artificial intelligence.  And work with the people who created the intelligent assistant that helps millions of people get things done — just by asking. Join the language understanding and dialog team at Apple. The Siri team is looking for exceptionally skilled and creative scientists and engineers eager to get involved in hands-on work improving the Siri experience.
  
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'''SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE'''
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'''Key Qualifications'''
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*Experience with semantic parsing, dialog modeling, information extraction, question answering, semantic web, syntactic parsing, machine translation, language modeling, sentiment analysis or speech processing.
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3+ plus years experience in natural language processing / computational linguistics in industry or large scale academic research project.
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*Experience with supervised, weakly-supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms.
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Expertise in at least some of the following specific NLP areas and topics: question answering, lexical semantics, collocations, terminology extraction, disambiguation, multi-word expressions, (shallow) parsing, named entity recognition, lexical acquisition, paraphrasis acquisition, information extraction, text classification, evaluation methodologies, sentiment analysis.  
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*Exceptional analytical, troubleshooting and problem solving skills
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Familiarity with existing data resources and tools: Wordnet, POS taggers, parsers, SVMLight, Weka, and similar tools.
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*Ability to implement algorithms in Java and C++ in addition to performing experiments using scripting languages (Python, Perl, Ruby, bash).
 +
*Strong software engineering skills
 +
*Experience working with multilingual datasets
 +
*Large scale data analysis experience using distributed clusters (e.g. Pig, Spark, GraphLab, GraphX, MapReduce) a plus
  
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Ideal: with experience of interests in processing Asia language (ex. Chinese)
+
'''Description'''
 +
You will be a part of a team that's responsible for a wide variety of natural language processing and spoken dialog systems research and development activities, including semantic parsing, dialog modeling, information extraction and question answering. Traditionally these conversational understanding applications have been focused on developing algorithms for a particular domain or language. Here at Siri, you will use large amounts of training data from Siri requests and the web to solve these problems across languages and domains. You are passionate about using your skills to implement and improve algorithms in order to create the phenomenal products. Because you'll be working closely with engineers from a number of other teams at Apple, you’ll need to be a team player who thrives in a fast paced environment.
  
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'''PAYMENT'''
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'''Education'''
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M.S. or PhD in Computer Science or related field
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Around 1900~2000 USD/Month, depends on the currency rate.
 
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'''HOW TO APPLY'''
 
  
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Apply to Lun-Wei Ku at: lwku@iis.sinica.edu.tw. Please provide your CV, publication list and contact information.  
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'''Additional Requirements'''
 +
2+ years of experience in natural language processing, speech processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence or dialog systems is desired.
  
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Please also note the date you wish to start the job, and send your documents at your earliest convenience so we can review them asap.
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==Multiple Tenure-Track Positions (w/focus in Data Analytics) at The Ohio State University Department of Computer Science and Engineering==
 +
* Employer: The Ohio State University
 +
* Title: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor
 +
* Specialty: open, two positions in Data Analytics
 +
* Location: Columbus, OH, USA
 +
* Deadline: January 31, 2015 (Consideration starts November 2014)
 +
* Date Posted: November 17, 2014
 +
* Website: https://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/portal/fsearch/apply.cgi
  
 +
The Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Ohio State University expects to fill multiple tenure-track positions and seeks applicants in all areas of computer science.
  
 +
Particular emphasis will be placed on filling two open rank positions in conjunction with a broad university-wide research initiative on Data Analytics (https://discovery.osu.edu/focus-areas/data-analytics/collaborative.html), and a recently announced undergraduate program in Data Analytics (https://data-analytics.osu.edu). Areas of interest for these positions include (but are not limited to): data mining, big data management, cloud computing systems, data analytics; application of machine learning or data mining or data visualization to problems in network science (including social networks), health, and climate science.
  
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== Two Postdoctoral Positions in Natural Language Processing at the Sapienza University of Rome ==
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The department is committed to enhancing faculty diversity; women, minorities, and individuals with disabilities are especially encouraged to apply.
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* Employer: Sapienza University of Rome
 
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* Location: Rome, Italy
 
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* Deadline: open until filled
 
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* Date Posted: 16th August 2012
 
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* Starting date: fall/winter 2012
 
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* Duration: 1+1+1 years
 
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* Salary: 30000-45000 euros per annum, depending on qualifications. Note that this type of research contract is exempt from most taxes (e.g., 40000 euros per annum corresponds to around 2600 euros net per month).
 
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* Informal inquiries can be sent by email to Roberto Navigli (navigli@di.uniroma1.it).
 
  
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Two positions of POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW in Natural Language Processing are open in the Department of Computer Science of the Sapienza University of Rome. The positions are part of a 5-year ERC Starting Grant funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and headed by Prof. Roberto Navigli (see http://lcl.uniroma1.it/multijedi for details). The successful candidates will participate in a frontier research project on multilingual lexical semantics and will work in a stimulating environment of a leading and highly-active research team including 2 faculty members, 1 postdoc and 6 Ph.D. students.
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Applicants should hold or be completing a Ph.D. in CSE or a closely related field, have a commitment to and demonstrated record of excellence in research, and a commitment to excellence in teaching.
  
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'''REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS'''
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To apply, please submit your application via the online database. The link can be found at: https://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/portal/fsearch/apply.cgi.
  
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* Ph.D. in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing or Computational Linguistics.
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Review of applications will begin in November 2014 and will continue until the positions are filled.
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* Strong publication record in Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing (see below).
 
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* Willingness to coordinate and supervise part of the research work of the ERC project.
 
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* Ability to work in a collaborative environment, with a strong commitment to achieving research goals.
 
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* Fluent English. Knowledge of Italian is NOT a requirement.
 
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* Solid programming skills: Java and practical expertise with standard NLP tools are required, knowledge of Perl/Python is a plus.
 
  
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Experience in research project management is a plus.
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The Ohio State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
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'''SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS'''
 
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* POSITION #1 (LCL1-2012): research record in computational lexical semantics, large-scale knowledge acquisition and validation, open information extraction, or data-intensive machine learning
 
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* POSITION #2 (LCL2-2012): research record in statistical machine translation, unsupervised acquisition of bilingual/multilingual lexicons, or cross-lingual methods for NLP
 
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'''HOW TO APPLY'''
 
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Please send a detailed CV and contact details for up to three references to Roberto Navigli (navigli@di.uniroma1.it). Please include the job reference (LCL1-2012 or LCL2-2012) in the subject line.
 
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'''ABOUT SAPIENZA'''
 
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The University of Rome "La Sapienza" is a seven-century-old university in the heart of Rome. It is one of the largest universities in Europe, with around 150,000 students. Its Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics and Statistics (that includes the Department of Computer Science) is one of the youngest, most energetic and scientifically active environments at Sapienza. The Sapienza University is an equal opportunity employer.
 
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'''ABOUT THE COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT'''
 
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The [http://w3.uniroma1.it/dipinfo/english/index.asp Department of Computer Science] is a modern and well-equipped research institution with a top-class faculty and a strong Ph.D. program. The Department comprises 44 faculty members (among whom 3 ERC grant holders), 15 postdocs and around 30 Ph.D. students. The successful candidate will be based in Rome, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. The Department is situated in a nice lively area with lots of cafes, bars, restaurants, and at walking distance from the city centre. Prominent candidates must not be afraid of the language barrier, as Italians are in general very friendly.
 
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== Engineer with NLP / ML/ IR background - Curata (Cambridge, MA) ==
 
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'''Curata, Inc.'''
 
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Curata, Inc. provides easy-to-use marketing solutions for content curation and content marketing. Curata's product, Curata, allows marketers to easily find, organize and share content on specific issues or topics in order to establish thought leadership, own industry conversations and drive qualified web traffic. Curata was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.curata.com.
 
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'''Role Description'''
 
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We are looking for an individual who enjoys building and shipping code as an engineer, first and foremost, but also enjoys prototyping new product ideas leveraging natural language processing, information retrieval, and machine learning skills. You are a fit if you enjoy experimenting with a large text corpus, innovating new product concepts, and ultimately packaging and shipping your work.
 
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In the past two years, our customer base, comprising of marketing, information services, and knowledge management professionals, have curated millions of pieces of content through our complex content procurement and processing pipeline. We release new code many times a day, and have fun continually optimizing and enhancing our product. As a start-up, we need someone who can match the high energy and enthusiasm of our team.
 
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Technologies in our stack include Linux, Django, Python, git, MySQL, jQuery, Sphinx, and memcached.
 
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'''Responsibilities'''
 
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* Prototyping concepts and working with engineering team to see them through deployment.
 
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* Suggesting new product concepts.
 
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* Optimizing machine learning algorithms through iterative experimentation and parameter tuning.
 
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* Architect, build and maintain flexible and highly scalable web applications
 
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* Participate in the full engineering life cycle from design through implementation and deployment.
 
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* Think in terms of the end-user and design accordingly
 
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* Actively contribute to product design and feature selection discussions
 
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'''Preferred Skills and Experience'''
 
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* Significant research experience with natural language processing (NLP), information retrieval, machine learning or related fields.
 
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* Strong software development skills, preferably with web applications.
 
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* Versatile attitude towards technology -- ready and willing to learn and grow on the job.
 
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'''Location:''' Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA / Boston
 
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'''Type:''' Full-Time
 
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'''Contact:''' engmgt.jobs@curata.com
 
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== Research Fellowship at University of Aberdeen ==
 
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* Employer: University of Aberdeen
 
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* Job Title: Research Fellow in Natural Language Generation
 
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* Location: Aberdeen, UK
 
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* Deadline: 23rd July 2012
 
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* Date Posted: 11th July 2012
 
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* [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/index.php Application Website: click on "external applicants", search for the post with reference number 1260664
 
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* Contact email: c.mellish@abdn.ac.uk
 
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To support our ambitious research programme we are looking to appoint a postdoctoral research fellow to do research on natural language generation in the MIME project. MIME (see http://www.dotrural.ac.uk/mime/ ) investigates ways to underpin reconfigured rural emergency response services, by examining how technology could support responders to incidents such as road accidents. It is exploring the use of networked monitors to support decision making and information management in the management of casualties and the automatic generation of handover reports from responders when more expert help arrives.
 
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The successful candidate will have a good knowledge of natural language processing techniques in general (at the postgraduate level) and preferably some practical experience with NLG. The candidate will have a PhD or be about to complete a PhD in Computer Science/ Artificial Intelligence or a relevant discipline. Enthusiasm for digital technology and innovation relevant to society and the economy is essential as is the ability to work in a cross-disciplinary team including colleagues in computer science and engineering.
 
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This post is funded by the EPSRC and it is anticipated that the project activities will be completed within 9 months of the agreed start date. This appointment will be made subject to the usual terms and conditions of employment of the University.
 
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== Executive Director at University of Maryland ==
 
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** Employer:  University of Maryland, Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL)
 
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** Title:  Executive Director
 
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** Location:  College Park, MD
 
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** Deadline:  Open until filled
 
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** Date Posted:  July 2, 2012
 
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** Link to website:  http://jobs.umd.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=57086
 
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** Contact email:  tswallst@umd.edu
 
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The University of Maryland, College Park, invites applications for the position of Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL). Since its establishment in 2003, CASL’s mission has been to conduct cutting-edge research that results in improved performance on foreign language and analysis tasks relevant to the work of government language professionals. Visit www.casl.umd.edu for more information about CASL.
 
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'''DUTIES:'''  The Executive Director (ED) has leadership responsibility for research, operations, strategic planning, and compliance with university and government requirements and regulations associated with CASL’s designation as a University Affiliated Research Center (UARC). The ED’s duties include developing and implementing the US Government-approved research agenda; developing and managing external relations and outreach to academia, industry, and government for purposes of collaborative research and consultation; and overseeing relevant UARC-designated activities and outreach, collaboration, education, policy and evaluation. The ED ensures the hiring and retention of the best researchers and research managers in CASL’s core compentencies and other relevant disciplines as well as highly qualified financial, information technology, operations, logistics, and security support staff. In addition to aligning CASL’s strategic plan with its mission to meet the needs of clients, the ED provides leadership in identifying opportunities for partnering and collaborating with academic departments and other research centers on campus. The ED reports to the Vice President for Research and directly supervises the directors of CASL’s various units. 
 
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'''QUALIFICATIONS:''' Candidates must have an advanced degree, preferably a Ph.D., in a discipline related to one of CASL’s core competencies (e.g., Less Commonly Taught Languages and Cultures; Second Language Acquisition; Computational Linguistics; Linguistics; Cognitive or Social Psychology; Cognitive Science or Cognitive Neuroscience), with a distinguished record of scholarly achievement and/or leadership in one or more areas relevant to the research foci of the center. Candidates' experience, research and publications should show evidence of ability to tackle complex, interdisciplinary research and to work collaboratively with a range of institutions and researchers. Experience working closely with US government and/or industry colleagues in non-academic settings is essential. Candidates must qualify for an academic appointment either as a tenured professor or as a professor of the practice in a department consistent with their background.
 
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'''Candidates must hold U.S. citizenship and be willing to obtain the appropriate security clearance.'''
 
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'''TO APPLY:''' For best consideration, applicants should submit a letter of application, CV, and contact information for three professional references online at http://jobs.umd.edu click on “Faculty” (or direct link:  http://www. jobs.umd.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=57086)  by Monday, August 20, 2012.  Address questions to the search committee chair, Professor Thomas S. Wallsten, at tswallst@umd.edu
 
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The University of Maryland, College Park, actively subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity, and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, age, sex, color, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry or national origin, marital status, genetic information, or political affiliation. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. The University of Maryland offers an excellent benefits package which includes:  health benefits, retirement plans, generous leave package, flexible spending accounts, tuition remission, and long-term, disability, and life insurance. Please visit the University’s web page at http://www.uhr.umd.edu/benefits/ to see a full list of benefits and the providers.
 

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PhD position in statistical language modelling

  • Employer: Cardiff University
  • Title: PhD scholarship
  • Topics: Statistical language modelling, relation extraction, social media
  • Location: Cardiff, UK
  • Deadline: 1 June 2015
  • Date Posted: 7 April 2015
  • Online application: http://courses.cardiff.ac.uk/funding/R2497.html

Job Description

Applications are invited for a PhD Scholarship at the Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics in the area of statistical language modelling. Specifically, the aim of the project will be to develop methods for modelling the meaning of natural language terms, based on data from social media and other web sources. For example, by analysing the tags associated with Flickr photos, the developed methods will be able to learn that a church is a kind of building, that churches tend to be larger than typical buildings and that chapels are similar to churches. The results of this project will be used to improve methods from artificial intelligence for commonsense reasoning, and will among others enable more intelligent web search engines.

Funding and eligibility

This studentship consists of full UK/EU tuition fees, as well as a Doctoral Stipend matching UK Research Council National Minimum (£14,057 p.a. for 2015/16, updated each year). This studentship is open to students of any nationality. Students classified as international for fee purposes have to self-fund the difference between home and international fees.

Candidates should:

  • either have (or expect to have by Autumn 2015) a good honours degree in a relevant discipline (minimum 2:1);
  • or have a masters degree with distinction in the research dissertation in a relevant discipline;
  • or have professional qualifications deemed by Cardiff University to be equivalent to the above;
  • or be over 25 and have relevant work experience in a position of responsibility.

The methods will rely heavily on methods from statistics and linear algebra, hence a strong background in mathematics will be required, in addition to excellent programming skills. A strong mathematical background and excellent programming skills will also be required.

Applicants are particularly welcomed from candidates with a background in computer science.

If your first language is not English you must provide evidence of competence in English. Our standard requirement is an overall IELTS result of at least 6.5, with a minimum of 6.5 in writing, and a minimum of 6.0 in speaking, listening and reading.

Further information

For further information and instructions on how to apply, please see http://courses.cardiff.ac.uk/funding/R2497.html

Postdoctoral Researcher in NLP at U.S. Army Research Lab

  • Employer: U.S. Army Research Lab, Adelphi Laboratory Center
  • Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Topics: Natural Language Processing
  • Location: Adelphi, MD, USA
  • Deadline: Open until filled
  • Date Posted: March 17, 2015
  • Contact: Dr. Stephen Tratz (stephen.c.tratz.civ@mail.mil)

Job Description

The Multilingual Computing Branch (MLCB) at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Adelphi Laboratory Center, located in the Washington, D.C. metro area, is seeking to hire new post-doctoral fellows. MLCB has several ongoing efforts in computational linguistics/natural language processing, including active projects in machine translation, human-robot communication, and social media analysis. The branch is also pursuing new interdisciplinary initiatives to address the language processing challenges in cyber-security and video analytics.

Candidates should have substantial research experience in machine learning methods (e.g., deep neural networks) as applied to emerging areas involving computational linguistics. Areas of interest include: text/video analytics, computational social science, machine translation, domain adaptation, data selection, low-resource language processing, morphologically complex languages, knowledge representation and reasoning, spoken language interfaces and dialogue, and multimedia processing.

The lab encourages external collaboration and maintains multiple partnerships with universities and research institutions, which enable faculty and student exchanges as well as joint research and publishing (http://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?page=93). ARL’s new open campus initiative is attracting national and international partners from academia and industry to work with ARL scientists and engineers in areas of common research interest (see http://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?page=2357), and ARL researchers have begun releasing open source code via GitHub (see http://www.army.mil/article/141734/Army_cyber_defenders_open_source_code_in_new_GitHub_project/). ARL facilities include multiple high-end supercomputing clusters with over 10,000 cores and capable of at least 350 TFlops.

Requirements

  • Ph.D. or equivalent research experience in computer science, statistics, mathematics, or related field

How to Apply

If interested, please email your CV and the names and contact information of three or more references to Dr. Stephen Tratz at the email provided above.

Postdoctoral Researcher in NLG for Narrative

  • Employer: Liquid Narrative Group, North Carolina State University
  • Title: Postdoctoral Research Scholar
  • Topics: Natural Language Generation, Narrative Generation, Knowledge Representation, AI Planning
  • Location: Raleigh NC, USA
  • Deadline: Open Until Filled
  • Date Posted: March 10, 2015
  • Online Application: http://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/40524

Job Description

The Liquid Narrative group at North Carolina State University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to collaborate on a large-scale narrative generation project. The goal of this project is to build computational tools for the use of narrative in sense-making tasks. Research thrusts include the creation of formalisms for representing story and discourse knowledge and the development of narrative generation algorithms able to create multiple narrative discourses from a given story, adapt these discourses to an audience, and elicit different effects such as surprise or suspense. This project aims at creating a large-scale narrative-generation system that can extract story data from various sources (e.g., video game logs) and create narratives in and across several media such as text, animated movies or maps.

The postdoctoral researcher will contribute to the design and development of narrative generation and summarization technologies, focusing on the microplanning aspect of text generation. In particular, he or she will extend an existing narrative discourse generation prototype that outputs basic sentences using the SimpleNLG library. Our aim is to update this architecture by integrating an NLG system such as FUF/Surge, KPML or RealPro. To improve the quality of the generated text, the postdoctoral researcher will work on topics such as: aggregation, generation of referring expressions, discourse markers insertion, lexical choice and/or other aspects of realization that are specific to narrative as a genre.

He/she may also participate in research efforts on the automated generation of multimedia presentations involving text, video and maps. He/she is expected to collaborate in performing scientific evaluations of the systems, and in writing academic research papers.

Requirements

The applicant must hold a PhD degree, preferably in the area of computational linguistics or natural language generation. He/she should have:

  • Experience with developing NLG systems
  • Excellent software-design and problem-solving skills
  • Good programming skills
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills

Experience in the following areas would be a plus:

  • Automated discourse planning technologies
  • Dialogue generation

Position details

This is a full-time position. Expected start date is April 1, 2015 and the initial funding for the position runs through December 31, 2015. The position may be extendable depending on availability of funds.

Interested candidates should view the official Human Resources posting and submit applications through the NC State University HR web page at http://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/40524

NC State University is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, genetic information, status as an individual with a disability, or status as a protected veteran. Individuals with disabilities requiring disability-related accommodations in the application and interview process, please call 919-515-3148.


PhD-level Researchers in Language Technology or Computational Linguistics

  • Employer: UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany)
  • Title: PhD-level Researchers in Language Technology or Computational Linguistics
  • Topics: Natural Language Processing, Summarization, Opinion Mining
  • Location: Darmstadt (Germany)
  • Deadline: open until the position is filled
  • Date Posted: March 4, 2015
  • Contact: Prof. Iryna Gurevych apply-for-aiphes(a-t)ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de

Job Description

The newly established Research Training Group „Adaptive Information Processing of Heterogeneous Content“ (AIPHES) at the Technische Universität Darmstadt and at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg is filling several positions for three years, starting as soon as possible:

PhD-level Researchers in Language Technology or Computational Linguistics

The positions provide the opportunity to obtain a doctoral degree with an emphasis within one of the following guiding themes:

  • A3: Opinion and Sentiment - extrapropositional aspects of discourse (Univ. of Heidelberg)
  • B1: Structured summaries of complex contents (TU Darmstadt)
  • B2: Content selection based on linked lexical resources (TU Darmstadt)
  • D1: Multi-level models of information quality in online scenarios (TU Darmstadt)
  • D2: Manual and Automatic Quality Assessment of Summaries from Heterogeneous Sources (TU Darmstadt)

The funding follows the guidelines of the DFG, and the positions are paid according to the E13 public service pay scale.

The goal of AIPHES is to conduct innovative research on multi-document summarization in a cross-disciplinary context. To that end, methods in computational linguistics, natural language processing, machine learning, network analysis, and automated quality assessment will be developed. AIPHES will investigate a novel summarization scenario for information preparation from heterogeneous sources. There will be close interaction with end users who prepare textual documents in an online editorial office, and who should therefore profit from the results of AIPHES. In-depth knowledge in one of the above areas is desirable but not a prerequisite.

Participating research groups at the Technische Universität Darmstadt are Knowledge Engineering (Prof. Fürnkranz), Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (Prof. Gurevych, Dr. Eckle-Kohler), Algorithmics (Prof. Weihe), Language Technology (Prof. Biemann), Multimedia Communications (Dr. Rensing). Participants at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg are the Institute for Computational Linguistics (Prof. Frank) and the Natural Language Processing Group (Prof. Strube) of Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS). Cooperating partners are the Institute for Communication and Media of the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt and other partners in the area of online media.

AIPHES will emphasize close contact between students and their advisors, have regular joint meetings, a co-supervision by professors and younger scientists in the research groups, and an intensive exchange as part of the research and qualification program. The training group has the goal of publishing its results at leading scientific conferences and will actively support its doctoral researchers in this endeavor. The software that will be developed in the course of AIPHES should be put under the open source Apache Software License 2.0 if possible. Moreover, the research papers and datasets should be published with open access models.

Requirements

We are looking for exceptionally qualified candidates with a degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related study program. We expect ability to work independently, personal commitment, team and communication abilities, as well as the willingness to cooperate in a multi-disciplinary team. Desirable is experience in scientific work. Applicants should be able to work with German-language texts, and, if necessary, to acquire German language skills during the training program. We specifically invite applications of women. Among those equally qualified, handicapped applicants will receive preferential consideration. International applications are particularly encouraged.

The Department of Computer Science of TU Darmstadt is regularly ranked among the top ones in respective rankings of German universities. Its unique research initiative "Knowledge Discovery in the Web” emphasizes natural language processing, text mining, machine learning, as well as scalable infrastructures for assessment and aggregation of knowledge. The Institute for Computational Linguistics (ICL) of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg is one of the large centers for computational linguistics both in Germany and internationally. The ICL and the NLP department of the HITS jointly run the graduate program „Semantic Processing“ with an integrated research training group “Coherence in language processing: Semantics beyond the sentence”, which has a close connection to the topics in computational linguistics of AIPHES.

Applications should include

  • a motivational letter that refers to one of the above listed guiding themes,
  • a CV with information about the applicant’s scientific work,
  • certifications of study and work experience,
  • as well as a thesis or other publications in electronic form.

They should be submitted until March 23th, 2015 to the spokesperson of the research training group, Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych (Fachbereich Informatik, Hochschulstr. 10, 64289 Darmstadt) using the e-mail address apply-for-aiphes(a-t)ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de. The interviews may start any time. The positions are open until filled.


Research staff position in Natural Language Processing

  • Employer: UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany)
  • Title: Research staff position in Natural Language Processing
  • Topics: Natural Language Processing, Question Answering
  • Location: Darmstadt (Germany)
  • Deadline: open until the position is filled
  • Date Posted: March 4, 2015
  • Contact: Nicolai Erbs erbs@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de

Job Description

The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab) at the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität (TU) Darmstadt, Germany, has an opening for a research staff position (TV-TU E13 German payscale) with a focus on question answering and summarization of social media content. This DFG-funded basic research project conducts research integrating semantic text analysis, such as semantic role labeling (SRL), into higher-level applications in information access to improve their overall results (Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych). Thereby, we pay special attention to graph-based techniques.

The selected candidate will work with a large corpus from a social question-answer platform on the Web. He/she will be expected to identify interesting research problems, research ways of utilizing semantic role labeling in novel NLP tasks, and develop means and resources to evaluate the results. The newly established Research Training Group “Adaptive Information Processing of Heterogeneous Content” (AIPHES) funded by the DFG [3] provides an excellent research environment for this kind of work. The funding is available for the duration of at least two years with an option for extension.

Requirements

We ask for applications from applicants in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics, preferably with completed PhD and research publications. Experience in Question Answering or a related field like summarization or information retrieval is a definite advantage. Excellent graduates of these disciplines willing to work towards a PhD are also encouraged to apply. Ideally, the candidates should have strong research skills as well as demonstrable experience in designing and implementing complex natural language processing (NLP) applications in Java and/or with graph-based algorithms. A very good command of German is a definite plus, since the target corpus is in the German language. Excellent communication skills in English and the ability to work in a team are required.

Applications should include a CV, a motivation letter, an outline of research experience, as well as names and addresses of two referees. Applications from women are particularly encouraged. All other things being equal, candidates with disabilities will be given preference. Please send the application to: erbs@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de by 23.03.2015. The position is open until filled.


PhD-position in NLP/Text Mining

  • Employer: UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany)
  • Title: PhD-position in NLP/Text Mining
  • Natural Language Processing, Text Mining
  • Location: Darmstadt (Germany)
  • Deadline: open until the position is filled
  • Date Posted: March 4, 2015
  • Contact: Richard Eckart de Castilho (eckart (at) ukp (dot) informatik (dot) tu-darmstadt (dot) de)

Job Description

The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab) at the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität (TU) Darmstadt, Germany, has an opening for a PhD student (TV-TU E13 German payscale) in a research project in Natural Language Processing (NLP) for a computer scientist or computational linguist. The project focusses on building an open text-mining infrastructure at the European level (Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych).

Thereby, major NLP and Text Mining platforms, including UIMA and GATE, should be made interoperable and applied to knowledge discovery in scientific literature, e.g. entity disambiguation and linking to a background knowledge repository. In the past, the UKP Lab has developed several frameworks such as the Darmstadt Knowledge Processing Repository (DKPro) and UBY. They form the foundation for the research and implementation work to be done. The graduate program Knowledge Discovery in Scientific Literature provides further research environment for the work to be carried out.

Requirements

Applicants in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics must have demonstrable experience in designing and implementing complex natural language processing (NLP) systems or NLP-based applications and the programming language Java as well as strong research skills. Excellent communication skills in English and the ability to work in a team are required. Experience in open-source software development is a plus.

The following academic qualification is necessary: completion of an M.A./M.Sc. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related field.

Pending the successful completion of the ongoing administrative steps for the project, funding of this position is available from June 1st, 2015 for the duration of three years.

Applications should include a CV, a motivation letter, an outline of research experience, as well as names and addresses of two referees.

Interviews may start at any time and will continue until the position has been filled. Email address for inquiries and applications: eckart (at) ukp (dot) informatik (dot) tu-darmstadt (dot) de

The Department of Computer Science of TU Darmstadt is regularly ranked among the top ones in respective rankings of German universities. The UKP Lab is also home to the unique research initiative "Knowledge Discovery in the Web” which emphasizes natural language processing, text mining, machine learning, as well as scalable infrastructures for assessment and aggregation of knowledge.

The Technische Universität Darmstadt promotes gender equality and in particular encourages women to apply. Preference will be given to physically handicapped persons if they are equally qualified.


Internship position available in Natural Language Processing at Adobe Research

  • Employer: Adobe Systems Incorporated
  • Title: NLP Scientist Intern
  • Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Dialog Systems.
  • Location: San Jose, CA
  • Deadline: open until the position is filled
  • Date Posted: February 24, 2015
  • Trung Bui: bui@adobe.com

Description: We are looking for an NLP scientist intern who will work on exploring deep learning for mapping between natural language queries and logic form and/or SQL.

Key Qualifications

  • Experience with semantic parsing, dialog systems.
  • Experience with machine learning, deep learning.
  • Good programming skills in Java and/or Python

Education M.S. or PhD student in Computer Science or related field

Additional Requirements No.

Postdoc in Advanced Machine Learning (with an Emphasis on NLP)

Job Description

The Computer Science Department at the University of Notre Dame in collaboration with the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis anticipates hiring a postdoctoral fellow starting as early as April 1st 2015 for one year and renewable for a second year. The position includes a full time salary and benefits and is jointly funded by sponsored research split between the University of Notre Dame and the University of Memphis. Review of applications will start immediately and continue until the position is filled.

The successful candidate will conduct research in machine learning applied to dialog-centered natural language understanding. He/she will participate in the development and application of machine learning techniques in the hierarchical and temporal domains to multi-party speech data collected in authentic educational contexts.

The candidate will work under the supervision of Dr. Sidney D’Mello, who has joint appointments in the Departments of Computer Science and Psychology at Notre Dame, and Dr. Andrew Olney in the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis.

The position offers a unique postdoctoral training experience and unsurpassed publishing opportunities within a multi-department multi-institution grant-funded project. The postdoc will be encouraged to build advanced technical skills, strengthen their research portfolios via peer-reviewed publications, develop leadership skills by mentoring students, and gain expertise in authoring collaborative grant proposals.

Required

(1) Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field at the time of hire; (2) Research experience in advanced machine learning techniques for sequential and hierarchical domains (e.g., probabilistic graphical models, sequence tagging, deep learning) ; (3) Evidence of a strong publication record in the aforementioned areas

Desired

(1) Research experience in one or more of the following research areas (acoustic signal processing, automatic speech recognition, natural language understanding, discourse modeling) ; (2) Experience working on interdisciplinary projects and/or on educational research; (3) Experience mentoring graduate and undergraduate students

For more information see the application link above.

Software Engineer/NLG Specialist in Sydney, Aus - Natural Lanaguage Generation

Job Description

  • Unique opportunity within the Equities Research space for a Engineer with strong NLG experience
  • New Systems Implementation with Opportunity to push the envelope within Research
  • Permanent Opportunity – Sydney CBD Location

About the role

We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our Equities Research business team. This is a truly unique opportunity for someone to join Macquarie working on a pioneering project within the business which could be a big game changer. The role will utilise your strong NLG/NLP experience and you will be responsible for building and developing the NLG functionality within the team. If you are interested in gaining commercial experience with NLG, have excellent written communications and have a flair for English grammar, have a passion for finance and in particular Equities Trading and want the opportunity to really pioneer something, then this could be the position for you.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and Develop our first NLG/NLP Application within Equities Research
  • Work closely with the vendor to understand the application limitations and functionality
  • Drive the development with the Head of Research as well as industry analysts
  • Mature the offering and look for further areas of development within the business

About You

To be successful in this role as a Software Engineer you will possess a University Degree in Computer Science/Mathematics and would have probably undertaken further studies of some sort (Masters/PhD) and have previous Natural Language Generation/Processing experience in either a commercial or research environment. You will have a passion and flair for the English Language as well as having a interest in financial services and in particular traded products. Previous OO Development experience would be highly regarded. In addition you will possess the following:

  • Tenacity to produce different If Statements and to develop the platform further
  • Strong interest in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Based Learning.
  • Keen interest in finance
  • Self Starter and strong attention to detail to really drive uptake of the platform

This is a unique opportunity within Macquarie and quite possibly a pioneering project within the Investment Banking space. We are looking to hire two developers into the team and are flexible across career levels from recent Grads to Senior Engineers. Here at Macquarie we truly believe in you owning your future, at Macquarie you’ll own it. Find out more at the new Careers website: macquarie.com/career

If you meet the above requirements, please apply via the following link. Alternatively to find out more about the position and a confidential discussion, please contact Andy Logan on 02 8237 8472 or andy.logan@macquarie.com

PostDoc Position in Heidelberg (NLP, Networks, Databases, Machine Learning)

  • Employer: Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies gGmbH (HITS)
  • Title: PostDoc
  • Specialties: Natural Language Processing, Networks, Databases, Machine Learning
  • Location: Heidelberg, Germany
  • Deadline: 20 February 2015
  • Date posted: 29 January 2015
  • Contact information: michael.strube (at) h-its.org
  • Online application: https://application.h-its.org/intern/register.php?id=o51kdq1

Job Description PostDoc position available in the NLP group at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) in Heidelberg, Germany

One position is available for a PostDoc working in Natural Language Processing, in particular in the areas of Entity Linking, Cross-document Coreference Resolution, Coreference Resolution, Word Sense Disambiguation. The position is within a newly funded project on "Scalable Author Name Disambiguation in Bibliographic Databases". Project partners are DBLP (http://dblp.org/db/) and zbMATH (https://zbmath.org/), the two leading bibliographic databases in computer science and mathematics which will also supply the data to be disambiguated and the gold standard. The project will be funded for three years starting June 1st, 2015.

The candidate should have a strong background in Natural Language Processing and possess a PhD in either Computational Linguistics or Computer Science. Experience with machine learning, databases, parallel programming, big data and networks as well as strong programming skills are required.

HITS gGmbH is a private non-profit research institute carrying out multidisciplinary research in the computational sciences. It receives its base funding from the HITS Stiftung.

The NLP group (http://www.h-its.org/en/research/nlp/) at HITS is an interdisciplinary research group that works on applications in the area of discourse and dialogue, in particular coreference resolution, entity linking, automatic summarization, and knowledge extraction from semistructured input. The NLP group at HITS works closely together with the Computational Linguistics Department at the University of Heidelberg.

To apply, please enter your application via the following link: https://application.h-its.org/intern/register.php?id=o51kdq1 (reference Postdoc NLP HITS-01-2015)

Applications must be submitted by February 20, 2015. Please note that applications not submitted via the online system will not be considered. Inquiries about the position can be directed at Michael Strube (michael.strube (at) h-its.org).


Postdoc position in Cardiff (NLP, IR, machine learning)

  • Employer: Cardiff University
  • Title: Postdoc
  • Specialties: Natural language processing, information retrieval, machine learning, distributional models, relation extraction, commonsense resoning
  • Location: Cardiff, UK
  • Deadline: 3 February 2015
  • Date posted: 9 January 2015
  • Contact information: SchockaertS1@cardiff.ac.uk

Job Description

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research associate post in the School of Computer Science & Informatics at Cardiff University. This is a full-time, fixed-term post for 30 months, starting on 1 May 2015 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The main aim of this project is to learn fine-grained semantic relations from large text corpora. Initially such relations will be obtained in an unsupervised way, by identifying semantic relations with spatial relations between vector-space representations. Subsequently, open-domain, supervised relation extraction methods will be developed which use the output of the unsupervised methods as training data. This research will be part of an ERC funded project on the use of semantic relations between natural language terms in logics for commonsense reasoning. You will work closely with Dr Steven Schockaert. You will possess a PhD in Computer Science or a closely related area, or have equivalent experience.

Essential criteria

  • Proven ability to undertake research in a relevant research area (e.g. natural language processing, information retrieval, machine learning) at an international level, as evidenced by research output.
  • Excellent programming skills (java or C/C++).
  • A demonstrable history of contributing to excellent publications in relevant top-tier conferences (e.g. ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR, CIKM, IJCAI, AAAI, ICML) and journals (e.g. Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, ACM Trans. Information Systems, IEEE Trans. Knowledge and Data Engineering).
  • Proven ability to communicate specialist ideas clearly in English using written media.
  • Excellent organisational skills with a proven ability to work independently and be self-managing, to prioritise your work and meet deadlines within the framework of an agreed programme.
  • A PhD in Computer Science or closely related area, or equivalent experience.

Desirable criteria

  • Knowledge of statistical natural language processing.
  • Knowledge of unsupervised and semi-supervised learning.
  • Knowledge of relation extraction.
  • Experience with analysing large text corpora using a high-performance computing environment.
  • Experience with dimensionality reduction methods such as multi-dimensional scaling, singular-value decomposition, and non-negative matrix factorisation.

More information For more details about the project and instructions on how to apply, please go to www.cardiff.ac.uk/jobs and search for job 2972BR.

Post‐Doctoral and all levels of Research Scientist at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

  • Employer: Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2)
  • Title: Post-doc/Research Scientist
  • Specialties (one or more): Natural language processing, machine reading, automatic knowledge base construction, large-scale textual inference and entailment, knowledge representation and reasoning, question answering and explanation
  • Location: Seattle, WA
  • Deadline: N/A, we are hiring throughout 2015
  • Date posted: 12/9/2014
  • Contact information: ai2-info@allenai.org, allenai.org

Job Description

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) is a non-profit research institute in Seattle founded by Paul Allen and headed by Professor Oren Etzioni. The core mission of (AI2) is to contribute to humanity through high-impact AI research and engineering. We are actively seeking Post Docs and Research Scientists at all levels who are passionate about AI and who can help us achieve this core mission by teaming to construct AI systems with reasoning, learning and reading capabilities.

Position Summary

AI2 currently has projects in the following areas:

  • Language and Vision
  • Information extraction and semantic parsing
  • Question answering
  • Language and reasoning
  • Machine learning and theory formation
  • Semantic search
  • Diagram understanding

AI2 Research Scientists will have a primary focus in one of these specific areas but will also have the opportunity to contribute and engage in a variety of other areas critical to our research and mission. These include opportunities to participate in or lead select R&D projects, work with management to develop the long term vision for knowledge systems R&D, take a leading role in overseeing and implementing software systems supporting the research, author and present scientific papers and presentations for peer-reviewed journals and conferences, and help develop collaborative and strategic relationships with relevant academic, industrial, government, and standards organizations.

Applicant

Applicants for Research Scientist at AI2 should have a strong foundation (typically PhD level) in one or more of the following areas: natural language processing, machine reading, automatic knowledge base construction, large-scale textual inference and entailment, knowledge representation and reasoning, or question answering and explanation. We look favorably upon extensive work experience demonstrating application of your research.

Application Process

All candidates are required to submit a resume, an expression of interest, and the names and contact information of at least 2 references (including email addresses) through our website: http://allenai.github.io/ai2website/jobs.html. We particularly welcome applications from women, people of color, members of the LGBT communities, and people with disabilities. Visa sponsorship is available.

Internship and Full-time positions available in Natural Language Processing at Apple Inc. (Siri)

  • Employer: Apple Inc.
  • Title: Language Understanding / Dialog Scientist
  • Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Semantic Parsing, Dialog Systems.
  • Location: Cupertino, CA
  • Deadline: rolling
  • Date Posted: December 2, 2014
  • Thomas Kollar: tkollar@apple.com

Description: Play a part in the next revolution in human-computer interaction. Contribute to a product that is redefining mobile computing. Create groundbreaking technology for large scale systems, spoken language understanding, big data, and artificial intelligence. And work with the people who created the intelligent assistant that helps millions of people get things done — just by asking. Join the language understanding and dialog team at Apple. The Siri team is looking for exceptionally skilled and creative scientists and engineers eager to get involved in hands-on work improving the Siri experience.

Key Qualifications

  • Experience with semantic parsing, dialog modeling, information extraction, question answering, semantic web, syntactic parsing, machine translation, language modeling, sentiment analysis or speech processing.
  • Experience with supervised, weakly-supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms.
  • Exceptional analytical, troubleshooting and problem solving skills
  • Ability to implement algorithms in Java and C++ in addition to performing experiments using scripting languages (Python, Perl, Ruby, bash).
  • Strong software engineering skills
  • Experience working with multilingual datasets
  • Large scale data analysis experience using distributed clusters (e.g. Pig, Spark, GraphLab, GraphX, MapReduce) a plus

Description You will be a part of a team that's responsible for a wide variety of natural language processing and spoken dialog systems research and development activities, including semantic parsing, dialog modeling, information extraction and question answering. Traditionally these conversational understanding applications have been focused on developing algorithms for a particular domain or language. Here at Siri, you will use large amounts of training data from Siri requests and the web to solve these problems across languages and domains. You are passionate about using your skills to implement and improve algorithms in order to create the phenomenal products. Because you'll be working closely with engineers from a number of other teams at Apple, you’ll need to be a team player who thrives in a fast paced environment.

Education M.S. or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Additional Requirements 2+ years of experience in natural language processing, speech processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence or dialog systems is desired.

Multiple Tenure-Track Positions (w/focus in Data Analytics) at The Ohio State University Department of Computer Science and Engineering

  • Employer: The Ohio State University
  • Title: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor
  • Specialty: open, two positions in Data Analytics
  • Location: Columbus, OH, USA
  • Deadline: January 31, 2015 (Consideration starts November 2014)
  • Date Posted: November 17, 2014
  • Website: https://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/portal/fsearch/apply.cgi

The Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Ohio State University expects to fill multiple tenure-track positions and seeks applicants in all areas of computer science.

Particular emphasis will be placed on filling two open rank positions in conjunction with a broad university-wide research initiative on Data Analytics (https://discovery.osu.edu/focus-areas/data-analytics/collaborative.html), and a recently announced undergraduate program in Data Analytics (https://data-analytics.osu.edu). Areas of interest for these positions include (but are not limited to): data mining, big data management, cloud computing systems, data analytics; application of machine learning or data mining or data visualization to problems in network science (including social networks), health, and climate science.

The department is committed to enhancing faculty diversity; women, minorities, and individuals with disabilities are especially encouraged to apply.

Applicants should hold or be completing a Ph.D. in CSE or a closely related field, have a commitment to and demonstrated record of excellence in research, and a commitment to excellence in teaching.

To apply, please submit your application via the online database. The link can be found at: https://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/portal/fsearch/apply.cgi.

Review of applications will begin in November 2014 and will continue until the positions are filled.

The Ohio State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

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