Stony Brook University (SUNY)
Computer Science Department

The Lydia project builds a relational model of people, places, and other entities through natural language processing of news sources and the statistical analysis of entity frequencies and co-locations. This model can be used to identify trends and other information flows through this entity network. Please visit http://www.textmap.org to see our analysis of recent news and blog postings obtained from over 500 daily online news sources.

A two-year postdoctoral position (potentially extensible to three years or beyond) is now available to join our team. I am looking for someone with a background in one of:

• natural language processing or artificial intelligence
• text mining or data mining
• graph algorithms and the science of networks
• data analysis or visualization

The applicant will be expected to use their expertise to improve the quality of our analysis, and help manage a team of roughly ten graduate students as we shift beyond technological issues to questions of what this data means and how best to exploit it.

As per sponsor requirements, applicants must be U.S. citizens who hold or will soon hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Linguistics, Economics, or any related field. The starting date is flexible; any time between now and May 2008. Please send your vita and contact information electronically to skiena@cs.sunysb.edu or by mail to:

Steven Skiena
Department of Computer Science
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4400
http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~skiena