19 February: fyi -- post docs, Tokyo
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Hosting JSPS Postdoctoral Fellows at NII, Tokyo
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I would very much like to draw your attention to the following Postdoctoral
Fellowship scheme run by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
(JSPS). Each
year approximately 300 JSPS fellowships are available under a competitive
scheme
that covers most fields of research. The Fellowships offer quite generous
terms
that include monthly salary, round trip air ticket, housing subsidy,
settling in
allowance, accident and sickness coverage, local travel grant, and a grant
in aid for research expenses. The JSPS Fellowships are awarded for a
period of 12 to 24 at Japanese universities and research institutes. The
conditions and further details for applications can be found at
http://www.jsps.go.jp/e-fellow/fellow.html
I am keen to host JSPS Postdoctoral Fellows to work at the National
Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo who have an interest in the fields
of corpus-based NLP, question answering, information extraction,
information retrieval, and/or machine learning. If you would like to apply
for the JSPS fellowship to spend from 12 to 24 months working at NII in
these areas, in the first instance please contact me (collier@nii.ac.jp) as
soon as possible to discuss the application and a research plan.
Summary of JSPS Fellowship Requirements
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(for full latest details please see the JSPS Web site)
Nationality: the applicant should be a citizen of a country that has
diplomatic relations with Japan. Candidates who apply through the foreign
nominating authority must be a national, citizen or permanent resident of
that country.
Qualifications: the applicant must have completed his/her doctorate within
six years prior to 1st April of the fiscal year in which the award commences.
Research plan: the applicant must have arranged in advance a research plan
with his/her host researcher employed at a Japanese university/research
institution.
Application proceedure: either through the host research institution (e.g.
NII) or through a foreign nominating authority (see details at
http://www.jsps.go.jp/e-fellow/fellow.html).
Deadlines: the next application deadline for submission through a foreign
nominating authority depends on the individual country so please confirm
this through the links above. For example, it is around late September for
applications through the UK's Royal Society.
In all cases, starting dates are between April 1st and November 30th 2002
depending on the applicant's agreed schedule with the host institute.
Our requirements
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We are currently starting work on a question-answering system that will make
extensive use of machine learning of natural language from XML annotated
texts in
addition to the integration of traditional robust NLP syntactic analysis
tools. In addition to the general requirements of the JSPS fellowship, the
applicants should have research experience in either:
(1) the field of statistical natural language processing as well as an
interest in applying machine learning methods such as HMMs, for information
extraction tasks such as named entity and coreference resolution
(2) information retrieval and its application to question answering
In both cases the applicant should have practical computer programming
experience and sufficient English communication skills. As a research
fellow you will benefit from exposure to a modern forward looking research
atmosphere at one of Japan's leading national research institutes.
Brief Description of Research Group:
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NII (http://www.nii.ac.jp) is located in the centre of Tokyo and is the
Japanese national inter-university research institute in the field of
information science.
Broadly speaking, there are over 40 full time faculty conducting research
in the following divisions: foundations of informatics, system
infrustructure, software engineering, multi-media, intelligent systems, and
human and social information research. Additionally we host two research
centers: the Research Center for Testbeds and Prototyping and the Research
Center for Information Resources.
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For further information contact:
Nigel Collier, Associate Professor, Information Foundation Research
Division, National Institute of Informatics, National Center of Sciences,
2-1-2
Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan.
TEL.: (81) 3-4212-2536 FAX.: (81) 3-3556-1916
EMAIL: collier@nii.ac.jp WWW: http://research.nii.ac.jp/~collier
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