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.