[Corpora-List] Postdoctoral positions at Oxford University in Natural Language Dialogue Processing

From: Rada Mihalcea (rada@cs.unt.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 23 2006 - 16:18:16 MET DST

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    OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMPUTING LABORATORY

    Two Postdoctoral Research Assistant Posts in Machine
    Learning For Natural Language Dialogue Processing

    ** notice the short deadline: November 1, 2006 **

    The Computing Laboratory has two vacancies for postdoctoral research
    assistants to work in the area of machine learning for natural language
    dialogue processing. The posts are funded by the European Union as part of
    the FP6 Integrated Project COMPANIONS: Intelligent, Persistent,
    Personalised Multimodal Interfaces to the Internet, and are available for
    up to four years from November 1st 2006.

    Applicants should have, or expect shortly to obtain, a PhD in
    computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, or some other relevant
    discipline, and should have experience of one or more of the following:
    machine learning methods in language processing; knowledge representation
    and reasoning, particularly using Bayesian Networks and related
    formalisms; dialogue modelling for spoken language systems. Applicants
    should be experienced programmers. The posts will require occasional
    travel to other partner sites within the EU. The successful applicants
    will join a rapidly growing computational linguistics group
    (www.clg.ox.ac.uk).

    Further particulars, including details of how to apply, are given below or
    by contacting

    The Administrator,
    Oxford University Computing Laboratory,
    Wolfson Building,
    Parks Road,
    Oxford,
    OX1 3QD

    (email: jobs@comlab.ox.ac.uk).

    * Further particulars (PDF)
    http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/jobs/companions_fps.pdf

    Closing date for applications is by 5pm on Wednesday 1st November

    Oxford University is an Equal Opportunities Employer



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