Corpora: Job at ITRI: Closing date next week

Adam Kilgarriff (Adam.Kilgarriff@itri.brighton.ac.uk)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:23:57 +0100

NB Closing date **next Fri** 30 April
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JOB ADVERTISEMENT
Research Fellow (Computational Linguistics)
ITRI
University of Brighton
UK
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This post offers an opportunity to undertake leading-edge research in
word sense disambiguation and computational lexicography at ITRI, an
internationally recognised centre of excellence in computational
linguistics. Working primarily on WASPS, a project to develop a
lexicographer's workstation, you will need an open-minded, analytical
and collaborative approach to research, extensive knowledge of natural
language processing, good programming skills and a proven research and
publication record. In return we offer excellent research facilities
and place great emphasis on research career management and
development. The post is fixed-term for 3 years.

WASPS is an EPSRC funded project, under the direction of Dr. Roger
Evans, Dr. Adam Kilgarriff and Sue Atkins. It will explore the
synergy between the lexicographer's task of identifying and describing
word senses, and the computational task of word sense disambiguation
(WSD). On the one side, lexicographers are asking for natural language
processing (NLP) software to pre-process and organise corpus data. On
the other, NLP needs formal, explicit descriptions of word behaviour,
particularly for WSD. The challenge now is to design an environment in
which the human lexicographer's perception and the power of the WSD
algorithms are successfully brought together.

The research fellow will have primary responsibility for producing a
semi-automatic lexicographer's workstation, as specified in the WASPS
grant proposal. This will include developing and implementing a
language which can be used both by humans for specifying and editing
word sense descriptions, and by a WSD algorithm for disambiguation. It
will also include implementing one or more state-of-the-art WSD
algorithms.

Salary: up to GBP 24,002
Term: 3 years fixed term
Further details, including application form in Word
http://www.bton.ac.uk/vacancies/
Postscript version of application form
http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/posts/appform.ps
ITRI web pages: http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk
Queries: Adam.Kilgarriff@itri.bton.ac.uk
Ref number: IR4012
Closing date: 30th April 1999