The Language and Computation Group at the University of Essex is looking to recruit a Senior Research Officer with strong Human Language Technology skills, to participate in a recently started EU project, SENSEI.
About the project
SENSEI is a multi-site, multi-disciplinary project involving researchers in human language technology and journalism and industrial partners in the call centre,
social media monitoring and news media businesses. The project aims to develop novel methods to extract, summarize/aggregate and present information from very large volumes of conversational data, specifically, transcriptions of call centre conversations and reader comment in on-line news, taking advantage of automatically extracted semantic and discourse information. Essex's primary responsibilities in the project will be in the area of multilingual coreference resolution, entity disambiguation, and summarization. We will also be involved in organizing an evaluation campaign on summarization in social media.
About the team
The Language and Computation Group at the University of Essex: http://lac.essex.ac.uk is one of the best known HLT teams in the UK. It counts three faculty, two post-doctoral researchers and more than ten PhD students, and has an international reputation in information extraction (in particular coreference and entity disambiguation), information retrieval, summarization, and multilingual NLP. The University is located in a beautiful area of the country, with easy access to London and to the rest of Europe through Stansted airport.
About the role
You will carry out research on the use of discourse information to support summarisation of conversations—both spoken conversations and social media conversations. You will also be involved in the organisation of an evaluation campaign on summarization in social media.
We are looking for candidates with a a strong background in Human Language Technology (HLT)/computational linguistics (CL) and in-depth knowledge of machine learning techniques as used in HLT/CL. Strong programming skills in Java are also essential. An MsC in Computer Sciences or a related subject is essential and a PhD in Natural Language Processing/ Information Retrieval would be an advantage. Experience with some or all of the following specific sub-areas in HLT/CL is desirable: coreference resolution and entity disambiguation, information extraction/text mining and summarisation. Experience with creating annotated corpora and running evaluation campaigns is also highly desirable. The successful candidate will have a strong publication track record, commensurate with their level of experience, and experience with multi-site collaborative projects. This post is full-time and fixed-term for between 31 and 34 months.
Salary: In the range £30,424-£33,230 per annum
Closing date: 15 December 2013
Please use the Apply button below to make an application and for further details about this job (Ref. RE165). Visit our website: http://www.essex.ac.uk for information about the University of Essex. If you have a disability and would like information in a different format, please telephone (01206) 874588.
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