________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ [Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Postdoctoral position at UMass: ML and text ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ * Subject: Postdoctoral position at UMass: ML and text * From: Andrew McCallum * Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 08:56:22 -0500 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The following postdoc position is available. If you are interested and are planning to attend the NIPS conference in Vancouver (Dec 9-13) please email me and we can arrange to meet there. Sincerely, Andrew McCallum ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Postdoctoral Fellowship Machine Learning, Natural Language Information Extraction and Data Mining Department of Computer Science University of Massachusetts Amherst http://www.cs.umass.edu The UMass CS department is looking for an exceptional postdoc to work in Machine Learning applied to Natural Language, Information Extraction and Data Mining. We are especially interested in people with expertise in statistical machine learning, graphical models, Bayesian methods, approximate inference, and kernel methods. Previous experience applying these techniques to problems in natural language is not necessary. This is an opportunity to exercise your machine-learning know-how on real data and real problems. UMass offers an attractive environment for research at the intersection of machine learning and textual information---with significant strength in information retrieval (Bruce Croft, James Allan, R. Manmatha), machine learning (Andy Barto, Sridhar Mahadevan, Paul Utgoff, David Jensen, Hava Seigelmann, David Kulp, Robbie Moll, Andy Fagg), their intersection (Andrew McCallum), and other related areas (Victor Lesser, Shlomo Zilberstein, Rod Grupen, Oliver Brock, Al Hansen, and others). We also have strong ties to our statistics department, and other nearby universities. We have large staff and computing infrastructure to support significant projects that will enable you to put a big feather in your cap. Ranked among the top six AI groups in the U.S., UMass has an exciting and highly collaborative CS department. UMass CS will continue to have a vibrant atmosphere, as we are expecting to hire 15 new faculty in the coming few years. Located in idyllic western New England, surrounded by five other colleges, UMass is also within day-trip range of both Boston and New York. The University of Massachusetts is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Women and members of minority groups are encouraged to apply. http://www.cs.umass.edu/csinfo/join_fac_staff/joinfaculty.html. Prospective candidates should apply with a cover letter, CV, and names and email addresses of 2-3 referees. This should be sent by email to: jean@cs.umass.edu, preferably using plain text, Postscript or PDF formats only. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ * Prev by Date: Postdoctoral Positions * Next by Date: faculty positions in computer science and statistics at UC Irvine * Prev by thread: postdoctoral opening in computational olfaction * Next by thread: faculty positions in computer science and statistics at UC Irvine * Index(es): + Date + Thread