Job Offering
Text Mining Positions (2009/09)
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.
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
- 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
Informal inquiries can be addressed to:
Katrin Tomanek, Research Assistant @ JULIE Lab, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, e-mail:
Applications (e-mail preferred) should be sent to:
Udo Hahn, Professor, Head of the JULIE Lab, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, e-mail:
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