Saturday, November 1, 2008

Vacancy Post Doc, Unversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, US

English & Computational Linguistics: Post Doc, Unversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, US

University or Organization: Unversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Department: Health Sciences
Job Location: Wisconsin, USA
Web Address: http://www.biodiscourserelation.org/

Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Natural Language Processing

Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

We are looking for a consultant or a research associate for participating
in the Bio-Discourse Relation project. Bio-Discourse Relation is a project
to annotate discourse connectivity in biomedical text, and to explore
discourse connectivity for biomedical text-mining. This project explores
discourse representation, annotation, parsing, and the applications (e.g.,
information retrieval and summarization). 1-5 years of support.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is a doctoral/research extensive
university and Wisconsin’s premier public urban institution, offering a
comprehensive liberal arts, sciences and professional education at the
undergraduate and graduate level to its 28,000 students.

UWM offers competitive salary and startup packages, commensurate with
experience. Further information about UWM may be found at www.uwm.edu. UWM
is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Employment will
require a criminal background check. For the UWM Campus Security Report see
http://www.cleryact.uwm.edu, or call the Office of Student Life at (414)
229-4632 for a paper copy.

For those interested, please email or call Hong Yu.

Application Deadline: (Open until filled)

Email Address for Applications: hongyu@uwm.edu
Contact Information:
Hong Yu
Email: hongyu@uwm.edu
Phone: (414)229-3344