Researcher, Parsing & Semantics group: Integrating rich terminologies
in NLP tools

The Parsing and Semantics group at Xerox Research Centre Europe
(located near Grenoble) is looking for a candidate for a one-year
position starting ideally in February or March 2012.

The candidate will work in a European-funded project EURECA (starting
Feb. 2012).

EURECA is aiming at building an advanced, standard-based and scalable
semantic integration environment in order to bridge the gap between
clinical research and clinical care systems. This will enable to:

- Improve efficiency by reducing the need for multiple data entry in
  the information exchange between clinical research and clinical
  care.

- Extract relevant clinical information from the EHR (Electronic
  Health Records) and contextualizing it to the patient case.

- Obtain good semantic interoperability among EHR and clinical trial
  systems in order to allow more efficient patient enrolment in
  clinical trials, which is a need shared by both clinical care and
  clinical research as it would improve care and speed up research.

- Build solutions for faster transfer and dissemination of relevant
  research results to the care.


Parsing and Semantics group at XRCE will contribute to the project as
a research and technology provider with the following main tasks:

- Semantic information extraction from EHR and clinical trial data
(extraction of concepts of the domain in accordance with existing
domain terminologies).

- Temporal processing of EHR in order to contextualize chronologically
  medical facts and events. .

The candidate will be involved in the first step of the project which
will deal with the integration of UMLS terminologies into our
linguistic and knowledge representation tools.

The candidate should have at least a Master's Degree or PhD in
computer science, computational linguistics or related field. The
candidate should have knowledge of terminologies (preferably in the
Healthcare domain). Interest or knowledge in Natural Language
Processing is also desirable. Knowledge of both French and English 
(as working languages) is required. Good knowledge of Java is also
required.


Starting date :  February or March 2012
Type of contract : 1 year temporary contract

Application instructions

Please email your CV and covering letter to Caroline Hagege -
Caroline.Hagege@xrce.xerox.com.