[Corpora-List] RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP IN SPATIAL REASONING FOR QUESTION ANSWERING (£10,000 per year)

From: Constantin Orasan (C.Orasan@wlv.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 03 2006 - 12:53:51 MET

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                            RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP IN
                   SPATIAL REASONING FOR QUESTION ANSWERING
                               (£10,000 per year)

                       http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/jobs/jobs.php
                          Closing date: 23rd Nov 2006
             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    The Research Group in Computational Linguistics, University of
    Wolverhampton invites applications for a three-year-funded research
    studentship in Computational Linguistics. The successful candidate is
    expected to carry out research in the domain of spatial reasoning for
    question answering. We are looking for candidates with a good honours
    degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or Information
    Sciences, with programming skills and some experience in Natural
    Language Processing.

    Required skills:
    - degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or Information
    Sciences
    - experience with at least one of the following: Java, Perl, C++, .NET
    - experience in Natural Language Processing
    - good command of the English language

    Desirable skills:
    - Master's degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or
    Information Sciences
    - experience in question answering, information extraction and/or
    spatial reasoning
    - familiarity with a wide range of programming environments and
    operating systems

    Applications should be sent to

         Constantin Orasan
         School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
         University of Wolverhampton
         Stafford St.
         Wolverhampton
         WV1 1SB
         United Kingdom
         E-mail: C.Orasan@wlv.ac.uk

    and must include:
    - completed application form available from
    http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/jobs/jobs.php
    - CV
    - copy of university degree (in English)
    - copy of transcript listing all university marks (in English)
    - evidence of postgraduate qualification if applicable
    - a covering letter in which candidates explain why they have applied
    for the studentship, give details of their research
    interests/experience, background, programming skills and an outline of
    any experience in Natural Language Processing or Linguistics.

    Applications should be made both by email and surface mail. The closing
    date for applications is 23rd November 2006. The short-listed applicants
    will be interviewed by email and telephone in the week beginning 27th
    November 2006.

    The studentship includes a maintenance grant of 10,000 GBP a year and
    also covers the tuition fees for 3 years.

    The successful candidate is expected to register in December 2006, and
    join the Research Group in Computational Linguistics in January 2007.
    She or he will be working in a vibrant research environment, engaging in
    active research. This studentship is funded by the EU-funded project
    QALL-ME, so it is expected that the appointed student will contribute to
    this project as well. In return, the student will have access and will
    benefit from the resources developed in the project.

    The RESEARCH GROUP IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS at the University of
    Wolverhampton (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk)

    Established by Prof. Mitkov in 1997, the Research Group in Computational
    Linguistics is a highly successful one, delivering cutting-edge research
    in a number of NLP areas such as anaphora resolution, automatic
    summarisation, question answering, lexical knowledge acquisition, text
    categorisation, named entity recognition, information extraction, corpus
    construction and annotation, automatic terminology processing,
    multilingual processing, and multiple-choice question generation. To a
    large extent, this research has been undertaken in projects funded by
    major UK funding bodies and commercial partners.

    For further information/queries, please contact:
    Constantin Orasan
    Phone: +44 1902 322 623
    Email: C.Orasan@wlv.ac.uk

    -- 
    Constantin Orasan <C.Orasan@wlv.ac.uk>
    Lecturer in Computational Linguistics
    Research Group in Computational Linguistics
    http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~in6093/
    University of Wolverhampton
    



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