LINGUIST List 8.1061

Fri Jul 18 1997

Jobs: Computational ling, Research in Essex

Editor for this issue: Ann Dizdar <annlinguistlist.org>

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  • Joachim Niehren, Research in Computational ling in Saarbruecken, Germany
  • Arnold D J, Job Vacancy: Research Officer in Essex, UK

    Message 1: Research in Computational ling in Saarbruecken, Germany

     Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 12:59:29 +0200 (MET DST)
    From: Joachim Niehren <niehrendfki.uni-sb.de>
    Subject: Research in Computational ling in Saarbruecken, Germany


    Research POSITION AVAILABLE

    Computer Scientist or Computational Linguist searched -----------------------------

    Department of Computational Linguistics Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, Germany

    A position of a researcher in computational linguists is available, in a collaboration with computer science. The position is part of the CHORUS project

    http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/cl/projects/chorus.html

    in the Special Research Division (SFB) 378, funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG). The successful candidate is supposed to develop algorithms and architectures for semantic processing of natural language. Experience in some of the following areas is required:

    - constraints and unification - natural language processing - programming in high-level languages

    Applicants should be graduated or hold a Ph.D in computer science or computational linguistics.

    Duration: 16 months, extendible to 5 years Salary: BAT2a (DM 60000-75000 per annum) Begin: preferably September 1, 1997 or slightly later

    Saarbruecken offers an excellent research environment in both computer science and computational linguistics. Research in these fields is conducted at the Universitaet des Saarlandes, the German Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), and the Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science. More information is available on the world wide web.

    http://www.cs.uni-sb.de/ http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/

    Candidates may get in contact with Dr. Joachim Niehren or Prof. Manfred Pinkal informally or may send a CV, a list of publications, and possibly a list of referees to one of us. E-mail communiation is encouraged.

    Manfred Pinkal Joachim Niehren Universitaet des Saarlandes Universitaet des Saarlandes Computerlinguistik Fachbereich Informatik Postfach 15 11 50 66041 Saarbruecken 66041 Saarbruecken Germany Germany

    pinkalcoli.uni-sb.de niehrenps.uni-sb.de http://coli.uni-sb.de/~pinkal/ http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~niehren/

    Message 2: Job Vacancy: Research Officer in Essex, UK

     Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 16:07:19 +0100
    From: Arnold D J <dougessex.ac.uk>
    Subject: Job Vacancy: Research Officer in Essex, UK


    (With apologies to those who receive this more than once).

    Job Vacancy: Research Officer Dept. of Language and Linguistics University of Essex, UK

    The Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex has a vacancy for a linguist or computational linguist to work on a project involving World Wide Web access to linguistic corpora.

    The successful candidate will be involved in the Essex contribution to JTAP project JTAP-2/247: ``Word Wide Web-Corpora/Internet Grammar of English'', which involves the University of Essex and the Survey of English Usage at University College London. (JTAP is the Joint Technology Applications Programme of JISC, Joint Information Systems Committee of the UK funding councils).

    The aim of the Essex part of the project is to provide WWW access to linguistic corpora.

    The successful candidate will have a background in linguistics or computational linguistics, ideally with a strong corpus orientation, and will be expected to contribute to a variety of project tasks, in particular:

    + testing and evaluation of prototypes; + design of questionnaires to elicit feedback from users, and analysis of such feedback; + documentation, particularly design of on-line help messages, examples and exercises. + The CL/MT group at Essex is involved in a number of language engineering and computational linguistics projects in which the successful candidate may be involved.

    Applicants should, ideally, have a strong backround in corpus linguistics, and should be computer literate (ideally with familiarity of working in a Unix environment).

    The appointement will be on the RA1A/RA1B scale, commensurate with age and experience (i.e. in the range UKL 15,159 to UKL 22,785 per annum).

    The period of the appointment will be until the end of the project (31 July 1998), with a possibility of extension. We are looking to appoint as soon as possible (which means, realistically, a starting date at the end of Septembmer).

    More information on the project, and the CL/MT research group at Essex can be found at the following pages:

    http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/ http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/group/ http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/w3c-ige/

    Applicants should send a CV to Martin Rondell (rondmessex.ac.uk), and can contact Martin Rondell (rondmessex.ac.uk) or Doug Arnold (dougessex.ac.uk) for more information.

    - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Doug Arnold, dougessex.ac.uk Dept. of Language & Linguistics, http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/~doug University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Tel: +44 1206 872084 (direct) Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK. Fax: +44 1206 872085 - ----------------------------------------------------------------