14 September: fyi -- research and development, Dublin
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Applied R&D role - IR/QA
The Project:
We are looking for a research scientist for a new industry-focused project
which involves building a question-answering application for use in
real-world commercial environments. This presents an exciting opportunity
to apply research technology to create a novel QA application that will go
live over the course of the project, working in a small focused team within
a large and energetic research centre with significant international
standing.
The Role:
This is a key role where the successful candidate will take the lead in
information retrieval research as well as play a leading role in the design
and development of the system architecture. They will work closely with NLP
researchers, developers and end users to deliver a fast, high-precision
application. This is a great opportunity to take on a varied, hands-on role
and influence all aspects of the research and development of the
application, from text mining, search engine customisation and
experimentation with results reranking techniques, to user interface design
and integration with social media applications.
We are looking for an “all-rounder”, someone with a genuine interest in good
design and the ability to transform cutting edge research into practical
applications. Candidates must have core excellence in a given area and be
comfortable working in a start-up style environment, adapting quickly to
evolving requirements and eager to learn new things.
Required:
-PhD in computer science or equivalent work experience
-experience with rapid prototyping and system design and integration.
-excellent programming skills (especially in java, python/perl).
-proven track record in an IR related field
-experience with an IR system
Bonus:
- experience with: Solr/Lucene, UIMA/GATE, Hadoop, Amazon EC2.
- experience in question-answering, machine learning.
The Research Centre:
The National Centre for Language Technology (http://www.nclt.dcu.ie/) is
Ireland's foremost centre for statistical natural language processing with
over 40 researchers. It is based in the School of Computing in Dublin City
University. The Centre carries out basic and applied research in the areas
of machine translation, cross-language information retrieval, spoken
document retrieval, natural language parsing, question answering, sentiment
analysis, speech recognition and speech synthesis. The Centre is affiliated
with the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (http://www.cngl.ie/), a
dynamic Academia-Industry partnership with over 100 researchers.
Details:
The initial contract is for 15 months which, following a successful outcome
for the project, may lead to an opportunity to play an important role in the
further commercialisation of the product.
Salary: EUR 40,000 - 46,500 per annum depending on experience.
Please send CV and covering letter to Deirdre Hogan (deirdre.hogan@gmail.com
).
Position open until filled.
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*Dr Deirdre Hogan*
Research Scientist
National Centre for Language
Technology
School of Computing,
Dublin City University,
Glasnevin, Dublin 9,
Ireland.
Phone: +353 1 700 8712
http://nclt.computing.dcu.ie/~dhogan/
Room: L2.12
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