26 August: fyi -- text mining, Jena
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Text Mining Positions at the JULIE Lab
Friedrich-Schiller-Universit?t Jena, Germany
http://www.julielab.de
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The Jena University Language & Information Engineering (JULIE) Lab has two
vacant text mining positions available, a Post Doc and a Ph.D. position, to
boost its research efforts in advanced text analytics, i.e., named entity
and relation extraction, knowledge discovery from texts. Annual salary
ranges from 40,000 ? 45,000 ? (approximately 60,000 $) for the post doc
position and 35,000 ? 40,000 ? (approximately 55,000 $) for the Ph.D.
position, both dependent on previous work experience. JULIE Lab has a
strong reputation in biomedical information extraction and text mining and
is an international leader in research in the field of text analytics
(please, visit http://www.julielab.de).
Requirements for Candidates:
- outstanding degree in computational linguistics/language technology or
related fields in computer science (information retrieval, data mining,
artificial intelligence, machine learning, information systems,
human-computer interaction, Semantic Web, etc.) from a major
school/department/university
- necessary: good proficiency in statistics and machine learning
methodologies
- desired: solid information extraction/text mining skills
- excellent programming skills (Java), awareness of software engineering
discipline in coding (UIMA, coding conventions, SE tools, etc.)
- background knowledge in the life sciences (can also be acquired or
deepened while staying in the lab)
strong dedication to scientific excellence
Informal inquiries can be addressed to:
Katrin Tomanek
Research Assistant @ JULIE Lab
Friedrich-Schiller-Universit?t Jena
Email: katrin.tomanek@uni-jena.de
Applications (e-mail preferred) should be sent to:
Udo Hahn
Professor, Head of the JULIE Lab
Friedrich-Schiller-Universit?t Jena
07743 Jena, F?rstengraben 30, Germany
Email: udo.hahn@uni-jena.de
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