Senior Researcher in Bio-text Mining

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Senior Researcher in Bio-text Mining

National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM)
School of Computer Science
University of Manchester, UK

We are looking for one senior researcher in text mining to work for a new project at NaCTeM (www.nactem.ac.uk) in text mining for systems biology (ONDEX project http://ondex.sourceforge.net/ ). The post is available immediately and for a duration of three years. The successful candidate will be appointed at Research Fellow level (salary £33,779 - £41,545 p.a) and will be part of the growing team of researchers associated with NaCTeM which is hosted by the School of Computer Science.

Essential skills: a good first degree and a PhD in an area relevant to text mining as well as excellent software engineering skills. The ability to develop algorithms and software for NLP/TM systems and to produce experiments for text mining applications using large data sets. Excellent knowledge of natural language processing/text mining using machine learning techniques and in particular named entity recognition, parsing, information extraction; excellent knowledge of C, C++, Java, XML, Windows, Linux and Web Services. A strong publication record is a must. Experience with biomedical text mining would be an advantage.

Informal enquiries should be made to Dr Sophia Ananiadou, Sophia.Ananiadou[at]manchester.ac.uk

Closing date for applications: 8th February 2008

Further details are available at: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=130141

Please quote reference: EPS/80023

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