LINGUIST List 10.1553

Mon Oct 18 1999

Jobs: Language acquisition, NLP

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

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1. Richard Dean, Language acquisition-Assistant/Associate Professor, Ohio University
2. Yorick Wilks, NLP - Four research positions, University of Sheffield

Ohio University is seeking faculty member with a specialties in
language acquisition and child language disorders. Complete
descriptions and details regarding this position is available from
Richard Dean (email: deanrohio.edu) or by visiting the School of
Hearing and Speech Science's web site
(http://cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu/hearingspeech)

Description of Position: This is a tenure track (Assistant/Associate
Professor) nine month academic year appointment. Candidates should
have special interests and experience in language acquisition and
child language disorders.

Responsibilities include teaching, scholarly work, and service. This
position will entail teaching of undergraduate and graduate courses,
academic advising, guidance of thesis and dissertation research, and
personal research and scholarly activity. Supervision is not required.
Research startup benefits are available.

Qualifications: Doctorate in speech-language pathology, CCC-SLP, and
eligibility for Ohio licensure. Clinical and teaching experience, an
active research agenda, and plans for seeking external research
support are highly desirable.

Starting Date: September 1, 2000

Richard Dean, Ph.D., Faculty Search Chair
School of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Lindley 204
Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701
Telephone: 740-593-1412 FAX: 740-593-0287 
Email: deanrohio.edu

Four researchers are required for a period of 2 years (in the first
instance) to work in the Natural Language Processing Group of the
Department of Computer Science, at the University of Sheffield.

Two positions involve working on Information Extraction (IE) and on
the General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE), which is a
domain-specific software architecture for research and development in
Human Language Technologies. The area of research in this project
(MUSE) will be the adaptivity of IE systems to new genres and
domains. The third post involves computational linguistics or
statistical expertise to work on an EPSRC-funded project (METER) on
the reuse of texts and its detection. The fourth post involves
adapting IE work within a new EPSRC-funded project on the contents of
crime scenes (jointly with the University of Surrey). The successful
candidates will preferably be competent programmers, probably with a
sound knowledge of Natural Language Processing theory and practice, or
statistical methods. Knowledge of some of the following will also be
an advantage:

*statistical language processing;
*Information Extraction research;
*user interface programming in Java;
*database programming, especially using JDBC (or ODBC);
*foreign languages, and the Unicode standard;
*corpus processing.

The NLP research group's work can be viewed at 
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/
The appointments will be made on the RA1A or RA1B scales.

Further details of how to apply from (quoting reference R1842):
The Personnel Department,
Firth Court,
Western Bank,
Sheffield
S10 2TN.
Phone: +44 (0)114 222 1631
Informal enquiries may be made to Yorick Wilks (yorickdcs.shef.ac.uk)