The Health On the Net (HON) Foundation, a Geneva-based
non-governmental international organization dedicated to improving the
quality of on-line health information for patients as well as health
professionals is looking for an NLP expert. We are looking for
somebody who combines an interest in NLP research with good
programming skills.

Key responsibilities:

    * Mapping out the research agenda, participating in (EU) research
      projects, writing deliverables and scientific articles,
      attending project meetings, giving presentations

    * Design and development of innovative techniques for improving
      search quality on text and multimedia formats - document
      classification, (multi-lingual) IR, automatic readability
      assessment and detection of ethical criteria in non-structured
      health web documents

    * Building fully scalable prototypes to test new algorithms and
      migrating from the research prototype to delivering the solution
      into production

Desired experience and skills

    * Post-graduate degree in Computer Science, Computational
      Linguistics, or 3+ years experience in R&D

    * Background in information retrieval, document classification, or
      question answering

    * Experience in scripting languages (Perl/Python)

    * Experience in multi-threaded programming, and web-service
      applications are a great plus

    * Good command of English, other languages are a plus

We offer:

    * An international research environment

    * A multi-disciplinary team of NLP researchers, web developers,
      health professionals etc.

    * A group active in the international NLP research scene,
      currently participating in the EU project Khresmoi

    * The opportunity to develop programming as well as research
      skills

More information on www.healthonnet.org.

Please send your CV, letter of motivation, and salary expectations
with the subject header 'JOB NLP' to HONsecretariat@healthonnet.org.