Post-Doc/Assistant Professor in NLP and Machine Learning

The Knowledge Management research group at the Institute of Applied 
Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB, 
http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/Forschungsgruppen/WBS) is an 
interdisciplinary team of computer scientists and related disciplines 
and among the leading international institutions in the field of 
semantic technologies. In this context, the institute seeks to fill a 
position for a

Postdoctoral Researcher / Assistant Professor
(TV-L E14 German public service salary scale)

for two years, with renewal possible.

We are seeking applications from individuals with a very good Ph.D. and 
expertise on an international level in at least one of the topic areas 
Large-Scale Information Retrieval, Text Mining, Natural Language 
Processing, Machine Learning, or Data Mining. Further, we require 
general competencies that qualify you for acquisition and coordination 
of research projects, for the guidance of Ph.D. students and for 
participation in lecturing. The position requires advanced German and 
English language skills.

We offer a first-class and international research environment with 
substantial freedom with respect to your thematic orientation and 
research activities. The close cooperation with the FZI Research Center 
for Information Technology in Karlsruhe, the Karlsruhe Service Research 
Institute (KSRI) and a large industry partner network allow for the 
combination of fundamental and applied research and a fast transfer of 
research results into practice.

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is an equal opportunities employer 
and welcomes applications from women. Handicapped persons having the 
same qualification will be preferred.

For further questions with respect to this position, please contact 
Sebastian Blohm (blohm@kit.edu).

For best consideration, please submit your application, preferably 
electronically as PDF, to bewerbung-studer@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de or to 
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer, Institut AIFB 
11.40, D-76128 Karlsruhe. The deadline for applications is November 
30th. However, review of application will continue until the position is 
filled.

This posting is available online:
http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/seb/E14-AIFB.ml-nlp-web-en.pdf

Received on Saturday, 31 October 2009 14:54:00 UTC