LINGUIST List 12.1677

Wed Jun 27 2001

Jobs: NLP Postdoc, University of Maryland

Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara <naomilinguistlist.org>

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1. Philip Resnik, NLP postdoc position at University of Maryland

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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SEEKS POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER
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The University of Maryland is seeking a bright and energetic postdoc
to work on research in computational linguistics, information
retrieval, and related areas. Our laboratory has several cutting-edge
projects that explore a wide range of natural language processing
issues. Some of our top current interests include:

- Acquisition of lexicons 
- Computational psycholinguistics 
- Cross-language information retrieval 
- Human-computer interaction 
- Lexical semantics 
- Machine learning in NLP 
- Multimedia search 
- Question answering 
- Statistical machine translation 
- Stochastic parsing 
- Web as a linguistic resource 
- Word sense disambiguation 

We offer a friendly working environment with extensive interaction
across academic departments and neighboring institutions.

To apply, please send a resume and a description of your research
interests to Denise Best (denisecfar.umd.edu).

We're looking forward to hearing from you. 

Cheers, 

 David Doermann (http://www.cfar.umd.edu/~doermann/) 
 Bonnie Dorr (http://umiacs.umd.edu/~bonnie/) 
 Rebecca Hwa (http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~hwa/) 
 Gina Levow (http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~gina/cv/) 
 Doug Oard (http://glue.umd.edu/~oard/) 
 Philip Resnik (http://umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik/) 
 Amy Weinberg (http://umiacs.umd.edu/~weinberg/) 

 UMIACS strongly encourages applications from minorities and women.
 EOE/AA