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Two posts in Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, The University of Manchester

Country/Region : UK - United Kingdom

Website : https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displa...

Description

The School of Computer Science, National Centre for Text Mining at the University of Manchester seeks to appoint two Research Associates in Natural Language Processing-based Text Mining to expand its text mining research portfolio.
They will join a strong team of 12+ staff who work on numerous national and international research projects, including industry, in areas of information extraction, disambiguation, topic analysis, natural language processing, biomedical text mining and machine learning.
Skills: You should have a PhD in Computer Science with an emphasis on Natural Language Processing and Text Mining. The focus of your research will be in developing (semi)-supervised methods for information extraction, in particular relation, event extraction and normalisation; a proven ability to develop algorithms for NLP/text mining problems using deep learning will be highly desirable; knowledge of developing text mining workflows using UIMA based environment will be a plus. You should have excellent programming skills, preferably in Java.
The research team: The National Centre for Text Mining (www.nactem.ac.uk) has been a leading centre for text mining since 2004, with areas of expertise in information extraction, terminology, text classification, text mining infrastructures and semantic search systems. NaCTeM is located in the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (www.mib.ac.uk) and its staff belong to the 4th ranked Computer Science school in the UK (REF2014) which has been further assessed as having the "best environment in the UK for computer science and informatics research”.
Informal enquiries: Prof. Sophia Ananiadou (Sophia.ananiadou-AT-manchester.ac.uk).
Deadline of applications: 13/03/2017
Application forms and further particulars: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?...

Last modified: 2017-02-12 21:21:11