The research will be conducted as part of an undergoing project on semantic tagging of Wikipedia, in cooperation with Yahoo! Research and the Institute of Computational Linguistics of the CNR (http://medialab.di.unipi.it/wiki/index.php/ Analisi di testi per il Semantic Web e il Question Answering).
The research will be conducted at the Department of Informatics with an opportunity to spend periods at Yahoo! Research Barcelona.
The successful candidates will have a strong background in computer science and knowledge of statistical machine learning techniques, with emphasis on text and natural language analysis. They are expected to provide leadership on technical issues and well as to contribute to the development of object oriented high performance applications.
Skills and Experience
- A background in Computer Science with specialization in Computational Linguistics or Natural Language Processing
- Expertise in text mining or information retrieval
- Thorough understanding of software development methodologies
- Excellent programming skills in C++ and Python
- Expert-level understanding of statistical machine learning techniques as applied to text analytics, e.g., information extraction, summarization, classification, clustering, tone/sentiment analysis, relevance ranking
Education
PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or equivalent.
Application
The details of the call are available at: http://medialab.di.unipi.it/Announcement/BandoAssegno.pdf
Closing date for application is January 12, 2009.
General information about the Department of Informatics can be found at http://www.di.unipi.it.
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