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The Blue Brain Project, led by Prof.Henry Markram, is looking for a PostDoctoral Researcher - Text mining
Specific responsibilities include:
- Build and update lexical and semantic resources to describe neuroscientific data from mining the scientific literature
- Build automated and semi-automated curation workflows leveraging existing tools, to accelerate the extraction and curation of information about neurons, brain regions and disease from the literature
- Develop and extend SciGraph annotation service to suggest ontological annotations for experimental methods
- Integrate OpenMinTed text mining tools and infrastructure to support the development of curation and knowledge integration workflows
- Lead and manage the collaboration with OpenMinTeD consortium
- Implement best-practices for maintainable software development, including but not limited to: continuous integration, documentation, adherence to and improvement of coding standards
Experience and preferred skills:
- Expertise in NLP and processing large volumes of textual information
- Expertise in Python and Java
- Experience with UIMA framework
- Agile software development, testing
Profile:
- PhD degree in NLP or equivalent
- Strong communications and problem solving skills
- Excellent written and spoken English. French would be a plus
What we offer:
- An internationally visible and rising project in simulation-based research in neuroscience using supercomputers
- A young, dynamic, inter-disciplinary, and international working environment
- A modern working environment at the Biotech Campus in Geneva Sécheron
Start date: asap ; Activity rate: 100%; Duration of contract: 2 years, renewable Ref: NIP3
Applicants should submit a cover letter and a detailed CV in PDF format only, with file name “Surname_position applied to _Cover Letter” and “Surname_position applied to _CV” electronically to jobs.bbp@epfl.ch. Please use the position title and the reference in the “subject” field.
