Data Scientist (text miner) : Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom : Naturejobs

"We are seeking to recruit a senior data scientist with a background in text mining to join the Literature Services Team at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) located on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus near Cambridge in the UK.

Our goal is to integrate the open research literature with public data resources, supporting better search technologies, browse experiences, and database curation workflows. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering text and data mining projects that impact on these goals. Our team is involved in a variety of projects in the area of Literature Services, and at the heart of these is our commitment to run Europe PMC, the database of life sciences abstracts and full text articles that incorporates both PubMed and PMC content. Based on Europe PMC content, we enable text mining groups to extract named entities, relationships, or events extracted from the content and highlight these on articles. In addition, we run daily text-mining pipelines to extract entities such as genes/proteins, organism names, chemicals, Gene Ontology terms, diseases, and data citations. Finally, we participate in projects that address wider EBI text mining requirements such as support for curation activities. We are therefore looking for a versatile data scientist who is ambitious to use their skills to build text and data mining solutions both directly and collaboratively, embedded in a service-driven team.  Specific job responsibilities include:

• Develop and improve core text mining services on full text articles and abstracts
• Data analysis and evaluation of extraction results
• Iterative improvement of solutions, with key stakeholders"