LINGUIST List 26.2642
Wed May 27 2015
Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Post Doc, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Editor for this issue: Andrew Lamont <alamontlinguistlist.org>
Date: 27-May-2015
From: Elaine Freund <elaine.freund
umassmed.edu>
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Post Doc, University of Massachusetts Medical School
E-mail this message to a friend University or Organization: University of Massachusetts Medical School
Department: QHS
Job Location: Massachusetts, USA
Web Address:
http://bio-nlp.org/ Job Title: Postdoc Fellow Position
Job Rank: Post Doc
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics
Description:
We are recruiting for multiple positions to participate research and software development in biomedical natural language processing (NLP) and biomedical informatics. The group’s research (
http://www.bio-nlp.org/index.php/projects) involves developing algorithms and tools for gathering, analyzing and interpreting heterogeneous data from multiple sources both clinically and research related. Recruits will lead development efforts in web service tools and search engines that: retrieve and summarize big data in biomedical domain, automatically extracting information from pdf files and extracting text from images, integrate novel biomedical text mining algorithms into the web tools and search engines to enable intelligent semantic search, and mining electronic health record data for pharmacovigilance.
If you are highly motivated and passionate about research in big data processing or software engineering or have in-depth knowledge and hands on implementation experience with web service tools and are interested in learning more about us, please contact the application email below with your resume or CV and a cover letter.
General Summary of Postdoc Fellow Position: PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or Biomedical Informatics with expertise in natural language processing, machine learning or information retrieval with excellent writing and communication skills and ability to work with the research team.
Application Deadline: 27-Nov-2015 (Open until filled)
Email Address for Applications: elaine.freund
umassmed.edu
Contact Information:
Program Director Elaine Freund
Email: elaine.freund
umassmed.edu
Phone: 774-455-3787
Page Updated: 27-May-2015