Academic

Text Mining Positions at the JULIE Lab
Friedrich-Schiller-Universit�t Jena, Germany
http://www.julielab.de

The Jena University Language & Information Engineering (JULIE) Lab has two vacant text mining positions available, a Post Doc and a Ph.D. position, to boost its research efforts in advanced text analytics, i.e., named entity and relation extraction, knowledge discovery from texts. Annual salary ranges from 40,000 ­ 45,000 € (approximately 60,000 $) for the post doc position and 35,000 ­ 40,000 € (approximately 55,000 $) for the Ph.D. position, both dependent on previous work experience. JULIE Lab has a strong reputation in biomedical information extraction and text mining and is an international leader in research in the field of text analytics (please, visit http://www.julielab.de).

Requirements for Candidates:

• outstanding degree in computational linguistics/language technology or related fields in computer science (information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence, machine learning, information systems, human-computer interaction, Semantic Web, etc.) from a major school/department/university

• necessary: good proficiency in statistics and machine learning methodologies

• desired: solid information extraction/text mining skills

• excellent programming skills (Java), awareness of software engineering discipline in coding (UIMA, coding conventions, SE tools, etc.)

• background knowledge in the life sciences (can also be acquired or deepened while staying in the lab)

• strong dedication to scientific excellence