The Human Language Technology Center of Excellence (HLTCOE) at Johns Hopkins University is hiring research scientists and postdocs. The HLTCOE already has a very strong group of researchers and is growing rapidly: http://hltcoe.jhu.edu/people/
Candidates interested in NLP, speech and applications of machine learning to language processing should apply. http://hltcoe.jhu.edu The full advertisement is below. Best, Mark The Human Language Technology Center of Excellence (HLTCOE) at Johns Hopkins University seeks to hire outstanding junior and senior researchers in all areas of speech and language processing. Positions include research scientist and post-doc. The HLTCOE, located near Johns Hopkins’ beautiful Homewood campus in Baltimore, Maryland, conducts long-term research on fundamental challenges that are critical for real-world problems. Its researchers publish widely. Applicants must hold a PhD in computer science, linguistics, electrical engineering, or a closely related field. Candidates should have a strong background in one or more of these areas: · *Natural Language Processing and Understanding:* Information extraction, knowledge distillation, semantics, sentiment, parsing, morphology, including low-resource languages · *Machine Translation:* Low-resource languages, large-scale training, phrase-based and syntax-based approaches · *Speech Processing:* Robust speech recognition and speaker identification (multiple languages, genres, and channels, limited resources), speech retrieval, language identification · *Machine Learning:* Large-scale learning, transfer learning, semi-supervised learning, data mining* * *Research Scientists* Research scientists are charged with setting the agenda for a program, working with other members of the HLTCOE research team to pursue the organization’s cutting edge research goals, publishing results in academic conferences, and (optionally) working with or directly advising students and teaching University courses. Applications will be considered until positions have been filled.** *Senior applicants *should be an experienced researcher with a track record of high quality publications, and should also have significant experience in project management and a demonstrated ability in building HLT systems. Senior applicants should have experience equivalent to the level of associate professor or 6+ years in industrial research. *Junior applicants *should have a strong record of publication, and demonstrated research experience. Applicants should have experience equivalent to those applying to assistant professor positions, or 1-5 years in industry. *Post-Docs* Recent PhD graduates may be considered for postdoctoral positions, which last from 1-2 years. Post-docs will be mentored by research scientists. Applications should be submitted here: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/1991 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://hltcoe.jhu.edu *Note: U.S. Citizenship and security clearance are required for most positions; the HLTCOE will seek a clearance for those who do not already have one.*
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