Post-Doctoral Position in "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems"
Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
International Post-Graduate College "Language Technology and Cognitive
Systems" is pleased to announce the availability of a two-year
post-doctoral position available from October, 2006. The programme,
established in 2001, is a collaborative PhD training programme between
Saarland University and the University of Edinburgh - two leading
institutions in the fields of computational linguistics, cognitive
science and artificial intelligence. The participating departments in
Saarbruecken are: the Department of Computational Linguistics and
Phonetics and the Department of Computer Science.
The college focuses on the computational and cognitive foundations of
human language processing, particularly emphasizing the following
research areas:
- Language understanding (including spoken language processing,
cognitive modelling, and experimental psycholinguistics)
- Knowledge representation, inference, the lexicon, and ontologies
- Data-intensive language models (including corpus-based and machine
learning methods)
- Dialogue and language generation (computational and cognitive models)
Candidates must have completed all requirements for their PhD degree by
the time of appointment. The ideal candidate for the post-doctoral
position will have research interests which span computational and
cognitive aspects of language processing, and have experience
overlapping several of the above areas. In addition to the opportunity
to carry out independent and collaborative research, the position also
includes some administrative duties associated with the program. Some
teaching is also possible, but not a requirement of the post. The
position comes with access to state-of-the-art computing facilities, and
the possibility to use the range of lab facilities on-site - such as
eye-tracking, dialog, speech, and robotics - by arrangement with the
relevant lab directors. Salary is on the German BAT IIa scale (approx.
40K Euros per annum, depending on age and marital status). Support for
travel to conferences is also available. The position is available from
1 October, 2006 but a slightly later start date is possible.
For more information about the graduate college and current members,
prospective applicants are encouraged to look at our website:
http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/projects/igk/
The final deadline for applications is 31 July, 2006 but applications
will be considered as they are received so interested candidates are
encouraged to submit their materials as soon as possible. Any inquiries
concerning the post should be directed to Prof. Crocker at the e-mail
address below. Complete applications including: (1) a statement of
research interests, (2) a full CV, (3) two example publications, and
(4) the names (and e-mail addresses) of two referees, should be sent
(preferably via e-mail) to:
Prof. Dr. Matthew Crocker
e-mail: crocker@coli.uni-sb.de
Department of Computational Linguistics
Saarland University
P.O. Box 15 11 50
66041 Saarbruecken, Germany
Tel. +49 (0)681 302-6560
Fax +49 (0)681 302-6561
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