8 June: FYI -- Postdoc in NLP & ML, UK
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POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE in Statistical Natural Language Processing
and Machine Learning
Computer Science Department
University College London
Application Closing Date: 1 Jul 2016
Interviews: Mid-July
Position:
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Applications are invited for a postdoctoral Research Associate in
Statistical Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to work with
Dr Sebastian Riedel (UCL Computer Science) to develop novel methods and
models for knowledge extraction from text.
The project will focus on multi-lingual knowledge base construction in the
context of the EU Horizon 2020 project SUMMA (
http://summaproject.eu.carnation.arvixe.com/). Consortium partners are
the BBC, Deutsche Welle, the Universities of Edinburgh and Sheffield, the
Latvian Information Agency (LETA), IDIAP, QCRI and Priberam Labs.
The associate will be part of the UCL Machine Reading lab (mr.cs.ucl.ac.uk)
in the Computer Science department—the top-ranked CS department in the UK
according to the REF2014 assessment. The machine reading lab consists of 10
researchers in the intersection of NLP and machine learning, and is also
affiliated with the Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine
Learning that brings together CS, the Gatsby unit and the Statistics
department. He or she will be physically located on the UCL Bloomsbury
campus in the heart of London. Several close links to relevant industry in
London exists (Elsevier, BBC, Google, Microsoft, Google Deepmind), as well
as to the vibrant academic NLP scene in the South England Area (Cambridge,
Oxford, Sussex to name only a few).
The post is funded for two years initially.
Key Requirements:
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The Research Associate is expected to have a PhD degree and top-tier
peer-reviewed publications in statistical natural language processing
and/or machine learning. We are particularly looking for experience in
information extraction, compositional semantics, factorization methods and
deep learning. The candidate is also expected to be capable of working
under limited supervision, have strong communication and coding skills, and
to work in a team.
If you have any queries regarding the vacancy or the application process,
please contact Dr Sebastian Riedel, tel: ++44 20 3549 5254, email:
s.riedel@cs.ucl.ac.uk.
For more details, and to apply, please visit
http://tinyurl.com/hzqseza
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