Corpora: job opportunity: corpus-based NLP

Brigitte Krenn (brigitte@mail4.ai.univie.ac.at)
Sun, 6 Dec 1998 18:02:05 +0100 (MET)

JOB OPPORTUNITY
Research position in statistics-based NLP
at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OeFAI),
Vienna, Austria

We offer a position in OeFAI's Natural Language Processing Group. The
successful applicant will participate in a basic research project
funded by the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF). The project will be
headed by Ao.Prof.Harald Trost. It aims at the investigation of
lexicalization phenomena in natural language, particularly at the
relation between lexicalization and grammatical generativity. Lexical
information shall be amongst others exploited in stochastic parsing to
increase accuracy and to gain processing efficiency. The work will
focus on German, application to other languages, however, is possible
as well.

The candidate should have strong interest in statistical NLP.

She/he has finished her/his diploma or an equivalent degree in
- computational linguistics, or
- computer science, mathematics or a comparable study, plus a
background in linguistics.

She/he has experience in
- shallow processing including statistical approaches to NLP or
- general statistics and information theory,

She/he has programming experience, preferably in C and/or C++.

A good command of English and/or German is expected.

The project will start December 98, with a duration of three years.
We would like to fill the position as soon as possible but the exact
starting date can be negotiated. Continued employment after the end of
the project is possible. The candidate is encouraged to realize
her/his Ph.D. within the project.

The yearly gross salary will be about AS 260.000,- according to FWF
regulation.

More information about the OeFAI and its Natural Language Processing
group can be found at http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/oefai/ Inquiries and
applications (including a short CV and list of publications) should be
sent by mail or email to:

Harald Trost
OeFAI
Schottengasse 3
A-1010 Wien, Austria
Tel.: +43 1 535 32 810
Fax: +43 1 532 06 52
Email: harald@ai.univie.ac.at

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Brigitte Krenn | Austrian Research Institute for
email: brigitte@ai.univie.ac.at | Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)
phone: +43/1/533-61-12-24 | Schottengasse 3
| A-1010 Vienna, Austria
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