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Wed Aug 11 2004

Support: Computational Ling: PhD position, EML, Germany

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    Message 1: Support: Computational Ling: PhD position, EML Research, Germany

    Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 06:03:14 -0400 (EDT)
    From: strube <strubeeml-research.de>
    Subject: Support: Computational Ling: PhD position, EML Research, Germany




    University or Organization: EML Research gGmbH Department: NLP Group Rank of Job: PhD position Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics

    Description: Opening for a PhD student in the Natural Language Processing Group at EML Research in Heidelberg, Germany

    A position for a PhD student (equivalent BAT IIa/2) will become available in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) Group at EML Research starting in November 2004.

    EML Research gGmbH is a private non-profit research laboratory dedicated to basic and applied research in IT with a focus on bioinformatics and natural language processing. The NLP group is an interdisciplinary research group that works on applications in the area of discourse and dialogue. Our research interests include anaphora resolution, lexical semantics, text generation, information retrieval and automatic summarization (see http://www.eml-research.de/nlp).

    The position will be within the DFG-funded project DIANA-SUMM which starts in November 2004. The emphasis of the work will be research in the field of summarization of spoken dialogue including the integration of preprocessing components, the implementation of a summarization system and its evaluation.

    Cqandidates should have a strong background in computational linguistics and possess a masters or diploma degree in either computational linguistics, computer science or linguistics. Good programming and analytical skills are also required. The appointment will be for two years (an extension for a third year is possible depending on funding).

    Enquiries should be addressed to:

    Dr. Michael Strube Email: strube at eml-research.de WWW: http://www.eml-research.de/~strube

    To apply, please send curriculum vitae to: Prof. Dr. Andreas Reuter Scientific and Managing Director EML Research gGmbH EMLR02 2004 Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33 69118 Heidelberg Germany http://www.eml-research.de Email: baerbel.mack at eml-r.villa-bosch.de

    Address for Applications:

    Attn: Prof. Dr. Andreas Reuter EML Research gGmbH Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33 Heidelberg, 69118 Germany

    Applications are due by 15-Sep-2004

    Contact Information: Dr. Michael Strube Email: strubeeml-research.de Tel: +49-6221-533243 Fax: +49-6221-533298 Website: http://www.eml-research.de/nlp