9 March: fyi -- postdoc, PA

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Postdoctoral Research Associate Position, University of Pittsburgh

(http://web.cbmi.pitt.edu/chapman/postdoc.html)

Title of funded project:
D=7189418&uhf-token=GeHOs9aWA6CWUQDhmGLwFqUVdtg%3D> NLP Foundational Studies
& Ontologies for Syndromic Surveillance from Emergency Department (ED)
Reports

A multi-disciplinary NLP group at the University of Pittsburgh is seeking a
postdoctoral researcher to collaborate on a newly funded National Library of
Medicine project.

Applicants should have a PhD in Computer Science, Linguistics, Biomedical
Informatics, or a related field with a focus on Natural Language Processing.
Interest and experience in some of the following are desirable: information
extraction, corpus annotation, discourse processing, and empirical methods
for NLP.

The term of the appointment is 2-3 years. Salary will include full benefits.
The targeted start date is July 1, 2007.

Please send a statement of interest, CV, and the names and addresses of 3
references to Wendy Chapman (chapman@cbmi.pitt.edu
).

The research team includes:

* Wendy W. Chapman, PhD, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Intelligent
Systems Program (http://web.cbmi.pitt.edu/chapman/
)

* Janyce Wiebe, PhD, Computer Science Department, Intelligent Systems
Program (http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~wiebe )

* Rebecca Hwa, PhD, Computer Science Department, Intelligent Systems Program
(http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~hwa/ )

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