5 June: fyi -- NLP, Unilever
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May 2001 / currently no fixed deadline Marie Curie Fellowship
Positions
- Industry Host Scheme Natural Language Processing/Computational
Linguistics in the UK
Totally committed to scientific exploration and discovery, Unilever invests
£550 million in pioneering new research so our products remain the
preferred choice, 150 million times a day. An ideal opportunity for a
recent PhD graduate to develop their career whilstkeeping their options
open on whether to work in industry or academia, we're looking for a
postdoctoral fellow to join our 2-year Marie Curie Scheme. Delivering
innovation and technology within a challenging environment, you'll be fully
integrated within the various research groups and benefit from
ourcomprehensive training and development opportunities offered to all
scientists. One of these training programmes is a 2-year scientist
development programmewhich is designed to develop business competencies.Our
Interactive Business Science Group is seeking an imaginative researcher
towork in one of the following areas of Language Engineering: text
analysis,message understanding, text categorisation, topic detection /
tracking,statistics for NLP, language generation, dialogue models and
dialogue management, question answering, knowledge representation and other
areas ofinterest. A key member of the group, you will participate in the
research and consultation with our business users, and in the design, the
development and the implementation of Language Engineering solutions.
You will also gain valuable network opportunities with our external
academic links.
In addition to the acquisition of valuable and sought-after transferable
skillsin the design and development of specialist language engineering
systems, you'll receive a subsistence and mobility allowance.
For further details visithttp://improving-mcf.sti.jrc.it/project/. Please
note that usual European UnionMarie Curie eligibility criteria apply, see
CORDIS websitehttp://www.cordis.lu/improving/
To apply, please send a full CV, together with the contact details of two
referees to Shail Patel, Unilever Research, Quarry Road East, Bebington,
WirralCH63 3JW. E-mail:
shail.patel@unilever.com
http://research.unilever.worldonline.nl
http://www.unilever.com
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