[Corpora-List] Postdoctoral position in NLP/CL at the U. of Michigan

From: radev@umich.edu
Date: Wed Dec 10 2003 - 16:28:02 MET

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           COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

                       POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

                            University of Michigan
                             Ann Arbor, MI 48109

        The Group in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language
        Processing at the University of Michigan is seeking a postdoctoral
        researcher. Candidates should have previous experience in
        relevant areas of Computer Science. We are particularly interested
        in candidates with prior research experience in statistical NLP,
        including parsing, language modeling, summarization, question
        answering, generation, and machine translation.

        The university of Michigan is located in Ann Arbor, MI, 25 miles
        from Detroit Metropolitan Airport which has hundreds of direct
        flights to the USA, Canada, Asia, and Europe. Ann Arbor,
        population 110,000, is a diverse college town, with a large
        selection of cultural and athletic facilities.
                    
        Our group is a cooperative effort involving Computer Science,
        Linguistics, and the School of Information, and drawing on the
        many resources in Computer, Cognitive, and Information Science
        at this university. We also have strong connections to the
        Program in Bioinformatics. The core members of the group include
        Steven Abney, Dragomir Radev, and Richmond Thomason.

        We are seeking an energetic, independent person with excellent
        communication skills, whose primary duties will involve
        coordinating and developing new research proposals. High
        proficiency in the following areas will be particularly valuable:
        programming; theoretical computer science, mathematics, and
        statistics; technical writing in English.
        
        The two-year position carries a starting salary of $48,000, with
        fringe benefits. Starting time can be arranged, but should be
        between January 1 and September 1, 2004. Applications received by
        December 31, 2003 will receive maximum consideration.
            
        To apply, please send (preferably in plain text) the following
        documents:
        
        (1) a c.v. including the names and email addresses of
        2-4 people who know your work well and will be available as
        references. Do not ask for letters to be sent at this time.

        (2) a 1-2 page description of your research interests

        in an email to rthomaso@eecs.umich.edu (Richmond Thomason). Use
        "CL/NLP postdoc application from [your-name]" as the subject of
        your email.

        Please visit http://www.umich.edu/cl for more details about CL/NLP
        at Michigan.

    -- 
    Dragomir R. Radev                                         radev@umich.edu
    Assistant Professor of Information, Electrical Engineering and
    Computer Science, and Linguistics, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    Phone: 734-615-5225   Fax: 734-764-2475    http://www.si.umich.edu/~radev
    



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