[Corpora-List] NLP Postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh

From: Theresa A. Wilson (twilson@cs.pitt.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 16 2006 - 16:03:27 MET DST

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    Postdoctoral Research Associate Position
    (http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~wiebe/adPostdoc.html)

    Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis
    University of Pittsburgh

    The Subjectivity and Sentiment research group at the University of
    Pittsburgh is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join ongoing projects:

        * Extracting opinions and beliefs from text
        * Developing lexical resources for subjectivity and sentiment analysis
        * Exploiting knowledge of opinions in NLP applications such as
          question answering and information extraction

    Applicants should have a PhD in Computer Science, Linguistics, or
    related field with a focus on Natural Language Processing. Interest
    and experience in some of the following are desirable: subjectivity
    and sentiment analysis, lexical semantics, corpus annotation,
    discourse processing, question answering and information extraction,
    and empirical methods for NLP.

    The initial term of the appointment will be two or three years, with
    possible extensions as funding permits. Salary will include full
    benefits. The targeted start date is January 1, 2007, but the position
    could begin earlier this fall.

    Please send a statement of interest, CV, and the names and addresses
    of 3 references to Jan Wiebe (wiebe@cs.pitt.edu,
    http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~wiebe).

    The position is located at the University of Pittsburgh in the
    Department of Computer Science (http://www.cs.pitt.edu). The
    Subjectivity and Sentiment group is also part of the Natural Language
    Processing Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh
    (http://nlp.cs.pitt.edu).



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