LINGUIST List 21.4646 Fri Nov 19 2010 Jobs: Arabic; Natural Lang Processing: Researcher, U of Wolverhampton Editor for this issue: Christy Bird <christylinguistlist.org> The LINGUIST List strongly encourages employers to engage in non-discriminatory hiring practices. We urge employers not to discriminate on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. However, we have no means of enforcing these standards. Job seekers should pay special attention to language in ads regarding employment requirements and are encouraged to consult our international employment page at http://linguistlist.org/jobs/jobnet.html. This page has been set up so that people can report on the employment standards of various countries. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/posttolinguist.cfm Directory         1.     Lucia Specia , Arabic; Natural Language Processing: Researcher, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Message 1: Arabic; Natural Language Processing: Researcher, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Date: 19-Nov-2010 From: Lucia Specia <lspeciagmail.com> Subject: Arabic; Natural Language Processing: Researcher, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom E-mail this message to a friend University or Organization: University of Wolverhampton Department: Computational Linguistics Research Group Job Location: Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Web Address: http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/ Job Rank: Researcher Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Processing Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Description: Research Fellow: Arabic NLP/MT Closing date: Nov, 30 2010 £28139 - £30747 Fixed term contract: 12 months The Research Group in Computational Linguistics (URL above), University of Wolverhampton, invites applications for a research fellowship in the area of Arabic Natural Language Processing. The candidate will be expected to carry out research in the topic of evaluation of Arabic-English machine translation. He/she will contribute to the collection of data, proposal, design and evaluation of quality estimation approaches. He/she may also contribute to the implementation of the proposed approaches, which will be performed by an experienced programmer. A successful applicant must: - Have a good honours degree or equivalent in Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Computer Science/Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or related areas. - Be a native or fluent speaker of Arabic or have sufficient knowledge of the language proved by previous research related to the language. - Have experience in Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing, particularly the area of Machine Translation evaluation. A PhD in the field is ideal, but masters level or work experience are also acceptable. - Be eligible to work in the UK, as the job requires an immediate start. Part-time applications from candidates currently studying in the UK will also be considered. The starting date is early December 2010. Applications should be sent by e-mail to Dr. Lucia Specia, email address below. Applications must include: 1) A curriculum vitae indicating degrees obtained, course covered, publications, relevant work experience, and names of 3 referees that could be contacted if necessary. 2) A 1-page cover letter with statement of research experience, indicating why you are interested in this position and why you consider your experience is relevant. 3) A job application form that can be downloaded from the application URL below. The successful candidate will work with the Computational Linguistics group. Established by Prof. Ruslan Mitkov in 1998, the Research Group in Computational Linguistics is highly successful, 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 EU and UK funding bodies and commercial partners. The results from the latest Research Assessment Exercise announced on 17 December 2008 confirm the Research Group in Computational Linguistics as one of the top performers in UK research. The research group was entered in Unit of Assessment 'Linguistics' and Wolverhampton was ranked joint 3rd with 2 more universities. According to the league tables of the Guardian, The Times and Research Fortnight, research in Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton is one of the top 6 best in the UK. Application Deadline: 30-Nov-2010 Email Address for Applications: lspeciagmail.com Web Address for Applications: http://www2.wlv.ac.uk/pers/jobdetails/pers_jobapp_word_oct10.doc Contact Information: Dr. Lucia Specia Email: lspeciagmail.com Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 19-Nov-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.