LINGUIST List 22.3626 Sat Sep 17 2011 Jobs: Information Retrieval/QA: Researcher, Dublin City U Editor for this issue: Christy Bird <christylinguistlist.org> The LINGUIST List strongly encourages employers to engage in non-discriminatory hiring practices. We urge employers not to discriminate on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. However, we have no means of enforcing these standards. Job seekers should pay special attention to language in ads regarding employment requirements and are encouraged to consult our international employment page at http://linguistlist.org/jobs/jobnet.html. This page has been set up so that people can report on the employment standards of various countries. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/posttolinguist.cfm Directory         1.     Deirdre Hogan , Information Retrieval/Question Answering: Researcher, Dublin City University, Ireland Message 1: Information Retrieval/Question Answering: Researcher, Dublin City University, Ireland Date: 16-Sep-2011 From: Deirdre Hogan <deirdre.hogangmail.com> Subject: Information Retrieval/Question Answering: Researcher, Dublin City University, Ireland E-mail this message to a friend University or Organization: Dublin City University Department: School of Computing Job Location: Dublin, Ireland Web Address: http://www.nclt.dcu.ie/ Job Rank: Researcher Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Information Retrieval/Question Answering Description: Applied R&D role - IR/QA The Project: We are looking for a research scientist for a new industry-focused project which involves building a question-answering application for use in real-world commercial environments. This presents an exciting opportunity to apply research technology to create a novel QA application that will go live over the course of the project, working in a small focused team within a large and energetic research centre with significant international standing. The Role: This is a key role where the successful candidate will take the lead in information retrieval research as well as play a leading role in the design and development of the system architecture. They will work closely with NLP researchers, developers and end users to deliver a fast, high-precision application. This is a great opportunity to take on a varied, hands-on role and influence all aspects of the research and development of the application, from text mining, search engine customisation and experimentation with results reranking techniques, to user interface design and integration with social media applications. We are looking for an "all-rounder", someone with a genuine interest in good design and the ability to transform cutting edge research into practical applications. Candidates must have core excellence in a given area and be comfortable working in a start-up style environment, adapting quickly to evolving requirements and eager to learn new things. Required: - PhD in computer science or equivalent work experience - Experience with rapid prototyping and system design and integration - Excellent programming skills (especially in java, python/perl) - Proven track record in an IR related field - Experience with an IR system Bonus: - Experience with: Solr/Lucene, UIMA/GATE, Hadoop, Amazon EC2 - Experience in question-answering, machine learning The Research Centre: The National Centre for Language Technology (http://www.nclt.dcu.ie/) is Ireland's foremost centre for statistical natural language processing with over 40 researchers. It is based in the School of Computing in Dublin City University. The Centre carries out basic and applied research in the areas of machine translation, cross-language information retrieval, spoken document retrieval, natural language parsing, question answering, sentiment analysis, speech recognition and speech synthesis. The Centre is affiliated with the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (http://www.cngl.ie/), a dynamic Academia-Industry partnership with over 100 researchers. Details: The initial contract is for 15 months which, following a successful outcome for the project, may lead to an opportunity to play an important role in the further commercialisation of the product. Salary: EUR 40,000 - 46,500 per annum depending on experience. Please send CV and covering letter to Deirdre Hogan at the email address below. Application Deadline: (Open until filled) Email Address for Applications: deirdre.hogangmail.com Contact Information: Dr Deirdre Hogan Email: deirdre.hogangmail.com Phone: 353 1 7008712 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 17-Sep-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.