Postdoctoral position in natural language processing and machine learning, Melbourne University

[Ali Reza Ebadat]

Postdoctoral position in natural language processing and machine learning

The University of Melbourne invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher position to work with Dr.  Trevor Cohn on modelling multilingual text corpora with low resource languages. The position is part of the DARPA project ‘ARIEL: Analysis of Rare Incident-Event Languages', in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University.

Application closing date:  29 September, 2015
Preferred starting date:   ASAP
Duration:                  2 years
Salary:                    $82k AUD
Location:                  Melbourne, Australia

We are looking for candidates with experience in natural language processing (NLP), in particular  empirical methods, and machine learning. The project will focus on modelling multi-lingual text corpora for low-resource scenarios with limited or no explicit supervision, bringing together technologies including active learning, reinforcement learning, multi-task learning and Bayesian optimisation. Candidates with interest in these areas as well as relevant experience are encouraged to apply.

Melbourne University is a world class university, regularly ranked as the best Australian university and among the elite universities worldwide (ranked #15 for Computing and Information Systems, QS 2014). The Computing and Information systems department has a leading group in Natural Language Technology, as well as other related disciplines of text processing and artificial intelligence.

For more information about the job, including details on the application process, please visit:
http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/886450/research-fellow-statistical-natural-language-processing

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Dr Trevor Cohn
Senior Lecturer and ARC Future Fellow
CIS, University of Melbourne
tc...@unimelb.edu.au
http://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/tcohn/

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Ali Reza Ebadat