[Workshop] Speaking of Location 2019: Communicating about Space

A workshop to be held as part of the Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), 10th September 2019, Regensburg, Germany Call for Papers Research into the description of location using human (natural) language as been approached from linguistics, geospatial, and computer science perspectives. This interdisciplinary combined workshop and tutorial will explore current developments in the area with a particular emphasis on the need for communicating about location across different contexts and for diverse purposes, and the particular challenges these differences cause for automatic generation, extraction and interpretation of natural language descriptions of…

[JOB] Natural Language Processing (NLP) Engineer medCPU, Inc. – Pittsburgh, PA

  medCPU, a software company specializing in Clinical Decision Support (CDS) software for the healthcare industry, is looking for an NLP Engineer to join our growing Pittsburgh team! The NLP engineer will design, implement, test, and maintain medCPUs clinical information extraction systems. Works with an interdisciplinary team of clinical professionals, software engineers, and decision support analysts to deliver value on key healthcare outcomes such as quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness of health care delivery. Fast-paced, start-up environment, with immediate impact on patient care. At medCPU, we work in small teams (4-6…

Speaking of Location: Future Directions in Geospatial Natural Language Research,4/9/2017, L’Aquila, Italy

A workshop to be held as part of the Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), 4th September 2017, L’Aquila, Italy Call for Papers Research into the description of location using human (natural) language has been approached from linguistics, geospatial, and computer science perspectives.  This multidisciplinary workshop will explore current developments in the area with a particular view to considering directions and priorities for future research.  It will include both peer-reviewed presentations and group discussions. The scope approaches to automated extraction and understanding of natural language descriptions of location in textual…

[JOB] Research Engineer in Natural Language Processing, Manchester, UK

Department – Computer Science Salary – Salary of up to £27,629 Location – Manchester, UK Vacancy Overview – Fixed term contract for 2 years, with the potential for permanent employment. Based in Manchester, UK. Opportunity: Data science company Metafused, in partnership with the University of Warwick, have a unique opportunity for an enthusiastic and skilled computer scientist to play a critical role in the development of industry standard target dependent sentiment and intent analysis by sharing knowledge with experts in the field. • Develop state of the art methodology for determining specific sentiment…

Call for grant applications – UOC (Barcelona-Catalonia-Spain)

The call for grant applications for the Information and Knowledge Society Doctoral Programme; Education and ICT (e-learning) Doctoral Programme, and Network and Information Technologies Doctoral Programme is open. The deadline for applications for the doctoral programmes is 31 January 2017. The UOC is offering grants for these three doctoral programmes for the 2017/2018 academic year. To be eligible for the UOC Doctoral Grants Programme students must be full-time and physically present at the University’s premises. The grants normally cover three years, but in some cases they can be extended to…