LINGUIST List 17.62
Wed Jan 11 2006
Jobs: Computational Ling: All Levels, U of Maryland
Editor for this issue: Vanessa Manion
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1. Fernanda
Saba,
Computational Linguistics: All Levels, University of Maryland, MD, USA
Message 1: Computational Linguistics: All Levels, University of Maryland, MD, USA
Date: 04-Jan-2006
From: Fernanda Saba <fsabacasl.umd.edu>
Subject: Computational Linguistics: All Levels, University of Maryland, MD, USA
University or Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Department: Center for Advanced Study of Language Job Rank: All Levels Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics
Description:
Human Language Technology/Computational Linguistics Assistant/Associate/Senior Research Scientists
The Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL), is seeking to expand its research team in areas related to Human Language Technology (HLT) development, evaluation, and adaptation for integration into the workplace.
CASL, a University-Affiliated Research Center located in a newly built facility at the University of Maryland, offers HLT researchers the opportunity to pursue innovative, transdisciplinary research in teams composed of linguists, computer scientists, engineers, psychologists, anthropologists and second language acquisition specialists.
Our mission is to pursue basic and applied research which will help government language professionals improve their on-the-job performance in linguistic analysis and foreign language training and testing. We work on complex problems with authentic data, and we test and evaluate systems with the help of working language professionals.
Our research emphasizes multilingual HLT applications (e.g. machine translation, multilingual summarization, information extraction and retrieval, and speech processing applications such as language, dialect, and speaker ID). For instance, we have used machine learning to speed the development of such language resources as dictionaries for emerging strategic languages, and data mining and classification methods to select relevant material to enhance foreign language learning.
In addition to our rich internal environment, CASL's affiliation with the University of Maryland provides opportunities for collaboration with faculty and students, participation in colloquia, and utilization of the many facilities of a large research university with a highly ranked HLT faculty.
Preference will be given to those candidates whose record indicates the ability to tackle complex, interdisciplinary research and to work with a range of institutes and researchers. Candidates must have earned a Ph.D. in an area providing training in Computational Linguistics or HLT (e.g., Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Science, or Linguistics). Candidates must hold U.S. citizenship and be willing to obtain a security clearance. For information on U.S. government security clearances, please see http://www.dss.mil/.
TO APPLY: Send a letter of application, curriculum vitae including potential referees, and three representative publications to HLT Positions, CASL, University of Maryland, Box 25, College Park, MD 20742 or email jobscasl.umd.edu Phone: (301)226-8814 Website: http://www.casl.umd.edu
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