Postdoctoral or Research Fellow in Biomedical Text Mining

Postdoctoral or Research Fellow in Biomedical Text Mining
Faculty of Medicine CENTRE FOR HEALTH INFORMATICS
http://www.chi.unsw.edu.au
UNSW Sydney Australia

We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated and experienced researcher, as a postdoctoral or research fellow in the Centre for Health Informatics, with a background in computational linguistics, computer science or a related area to develop and evaluate advanced text mining techniques and apply them in knowledge management applications in the biomedical domain.

The Centre for Health Informatics is Australia's largest academic health informatics research group conducting fundamental and applied research focusing on the design, evaluation and application of decision-support technologies for healthcare and the biosciences. The Centre is located at the University of New South Wales and collaborates with researchers in computer science, health services research and with industry and the public and private sectors.

This position offers an outstanding opportunity to work in a unique multi-disciplinary research environment encompassing information, communication, cognitive and organisational science to support health service and biomedical innovation.

Requirements for the position are:

• A PhD in Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science or a related area.
• A track record of publication in the peer reviewed literature.
• Skills in one or more of the following areas: text mining, information extraction, named entity and relation extraction, computational lexicon development, text categorization, automatic text
• summarization, information retrieval.
• Preferably a strong track record and experience in statistical machine learning approaches to natural language processing.
• Excellent programming skills (Java/Python/Perl/C++).
• Knowledge of research experimental methods; ability to develop, implement prototypes and validate algorithms.
• Good oral and written communication skills; ability to produce oral presentations and written
• technical reports of publishable quality.
• Demonstrated skills in working in a team and desire to coach junior researchers and students.

The position is for two years full time with the possibility of extension depending on further funding. This opportunity offers much flexibility in supporting individual career development, including the commencement of new initiatives. A part-time appointment may be considered.

FIXED TERM: This is a fixed term position available until June 2009. The salary range is: Postdoctoral Fellow (Level A) $50,014 - $66,686; Research Fellow - Level B $70,028 - $82,554 (plus up to 9% employer superannuation plus leave loading), depending on qualifications and experience. The salary includes a superable UNSW academic loading of $3,000 per annum payable to academic staff (pro rata for fractional academic staff). A part-time appointment may be considered..

Please direct any enquiries to Dr Grace Chung on 02 9385 9016 or by e-mail on graceyc@unsw.edu.au.

Applications close 29 February 2008.