Natural language research announcements

["Schwartz, Lane Oscar Bingaman" <lanes AT illinois.edu>]

NLP Postdoctoral Research Fellow Position at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School

The Health Natural Language Processing Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital is seeking a post-doctoral fellow to contribute to cutting edge research in the field of health natural language processing such as temporal relation extraction. Topics of study include lightly supervised or unsupervised methods, learning from vast amounts of unlabeled data, combining knowledge from multiple sources in a joint probabilistic framework. The research fellow will participate in designing innovative methods related to the processing of the clinical narrative. The diversity of subject matter will require a creative mind and a candidate capable of deploying imaginative strategies and who is dedicated to solving complex and challenging problems within an interdisciplinary environment.

These studies provide an excellent opportunity for the Research Fellow to work within a multidisciplinary research team to explore advanced areas in health information technology. The Research Fellow will be encouraged to prepare and submit a career development award proposal, as well as other research proposals as appropriate, and to lead publications.

The fellowship includes an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School, as well as a hospital appointment at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Qualifications

•   PhD degree in computer science, information science, computational linguistics, biomedical informatics, data mining, or a closely related field.

•   Experience in research; ability to plan and carry out research experiments and projects.

•   Candidates with experience in the areas of medical terminologies/ontologies, natural language processing/

  computational linguistics, and machine learning are strongly encouraged to apply.

•   Programming experience in computer programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, C#, etc).

•   Strong background in machine learning and statistical informatics methods.

•   Strong written and oral communication skills required.

•   Highly motivated, ability to identify potential problems and develop solutions.

•   Works independently and participates productively as a team player.

  Application materials

•   Cover letter/summary statement of personal objective and research interests

•   CV

•   Three letters of reference preferred, or contact info of references

•   Sample publication with clearly stated individual contributions

  Terms

  The position is available immediately and is renewable annually.

  How to apply

  Interested candidates should email their application materials to: Prof. Guergana Savova
  Associate Professor
  PI Natural Language Processing Lab

  Boston Children's Hospital 300 Longwood Avenue Mailstop: BCH3092 Enders 144.1

  Boston, MA 02115 Guergana.Savova AT childrens.harvard.edu

  Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply.