Natural language research announcements

["Girju, Corina R" <girju AT illinois.edu>]

FYI.
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From: Daniel Bauer 
[bauer AT cs.columbia.edu]
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 9:50 AM
To: Girju, Corina R
Subject: [SIGLEX] Postdoc in Semantic Parsing at CCLS/Columbia University, 
New York

Position available: Postdoc in Natural Language Processing (Semantic Parsing)

Start Date: September 1, 2011 (possibly earlier)

Duration: 1 year, renewable for a second year

Description: the postdoc will work in the context of a large, multi-site 
project
which aims at predicting the emergence of technical trends from scientific
literature in English, German, and Chinese. The specific issues the postdoc
will work on revolve around natural language processing (NLP) tasks, in
particular semantic parsing, and detecting degree of commitment.  The
postdoc will also be involved in issues of system integration, working with a
full-time programmer.

Required background:

- Ph.D. in hand in computer science, linguistics, or related discipline.  
(Note:
in exceptional circumstances, a candidate with only a masters degree could
be considered as a "pre-doc".)

- Programming skills.

- Ability to work in a group.


Desired background:

- Knowledge of German, German linguistics, and/or German NLP.

- Acquaintance with FrameNet.

- Knowledge of parsing.

- Knowledge of machine learning techniques.


Location: Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University,
New York City

If interested, please mail to Owen Rambow, 
rambow AT ccls.columbia.edu,
 a CV
along with a short note explaining how you meet each of the required and
desired background elements above.  (A bulleted list would be fine, with a
sentence per background element.)


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