[Corpora-List] Job announcement reminder: Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow in Question Answering

From: Constantin Orasan (C.Orasan@wlv.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Dec 10 2006 - 16:15:07 MET

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    Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow in QALL-ME project

    Salary £19,430 - £25,184* pa or £29,211 - £37,521* pa (level of
    appointment dependent on qualifications and experience)
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    Applications closing date: 15th December 2006
    Start date: no later than 1st March 2007
    Reference: A4642
    Salary: £19,430 - £25,184* pa or £29,211 - £37,521* pa (level of
    appointment dependent on qualifications and experience)

    As postdoctoral research fellow/senior research fellow you will work on
    a EU funded project to develop a system for question answering learning
    technologies in a multilingual and multimodal environment, focusing on
    implementation of various components, as well as evaluation of the
    system. This is a fixed contract for 30 months. You should have a degree
    in computer science and a PhD in computational linguistics or equivalent
    experience. Experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques
    and programming are required, as well as familiarity with Question
    Answering, Information Extraction and Machine Learning techniques for
    language processing. Publications in good journals, experience with
    grant applications and working with the industry, native or near native
    proficiency in English are a plus. For appointment at Senior Research
    Fellow level you will need to demonstrate a very good publications
    record, grant applications experience, and potential leadership
    qualities.

    Required skills:
          * PhD or equivalent research experience/output in Computational
            Linguistics/Natural Language Processing
          * Experience with Question Answering and/or Information Extraction
          * Experience with at least one of the following programming
            languages C, C#, Perl or Java
          * Experience with machine learning for computational linguistics

    Desirable skills:
          * Experience working with ontologies
          * Experience with database programming
          * Good journal publications

    Applications should include a completed application form, CV, and
    covering letter in which the candidates explain why they have applied
    for the position and give details of their research interests/experience
    and background. Candidates should also give the names of three referees
    with their email addresses and telephone numbers. The interviews are
    scheduled to take place in January 2007, and the starting date as soon
    as possible after the interviews, but no later than 1st March 2007.

    For informal inquiries, please contact Dr. Constantin Orasan
    (C.Orasan@wlv.ac.uk) or Prof. Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk).
    Applications to be sent to Personnel. If emailed, please cc to
    C.Orasan@wlv.ac.uk.

    For an application form, contact

        Personnel Services Department,
        University of Wolverhampton,
        Molineux Street,
        Wolverhampton WV1 1SB
        Phone +44 (0) 1902 321049 (ansaphone), and quoting the reference number.
        For hearing impaired candidates our Minicom number is +44 (0) 1902 321249.
        Email address: per@wlv.ac.uk

    The application form can also be downloaded from
    http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/jobs/app_form_jobs.pdf.

    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
    abstracting, 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.

    -- 
    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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