15 October: FYI -- post doctoral research, Dublin

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Applications are invited for one two-year post-doctoral position at the
National Centre for Language Technology, School of Computing, Dublin
City University.

The work will be conducted in collaboration with IBM Research
laboratories and will be focussed on the area of Natural Language
Processing for Risk Management. The project involves the automatic
identification of risk factors from text, understanding of their mutual
dependence and identification of related probabilistic information. It
is part of a wider IBM project on Risk Management. The candidate will be
required to work both in DCU and in IBM campus in Dublin.

The successful candidate will have a PhD in Computer Science, preferably
in the areas of natural language processing or information retrieval.
In particular, we are looking for candidates with a proven track record
in areas such as:

- relation mining
- information extraction
- named entity recognition
- chunking and parsing
- lexical semantics

Given the application domain, basic knowledge of probability is required
and advanced understanding of risk modeling certainly a plus.

The candidate should have a capacity for independent
research and will be happy to work in a collaborative research
environment.

The two year award will be co-funded by IRCSET and IBM through
IRCSET's Enterprise Partnership Scheme. Further details on the
Enterprise Partnership Scheme can be found at
http://www.ircset.ie/tabid/58/default.aspx

To apply please send a CV with at least two references to Deirdre Hogan
(dhogan@computing.dcu.ie) and Jennifer Foster (jfoster@computing.dcu.ie).

Applicants must meet IRCSET's eligibility criteria and will be assessed
independently by IRCSET.

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