[Apologies for cross-postings] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Research Fellow: Arabic NLP/MT Closing date: Nov, 30 2010 Fixed term contract: 12 months ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Research Group in Computational Linguistics (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/), 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. The application deadline is November 30, 2010. Applications should be sent by e-mail to: Dr. Lucia Specia [email protected] 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: http://www2.wlv.ac.uk/pers/jobdetails/pers_jobapp_word_oct10.doc 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. Informal inquiries and electronic applications can be sent by email to: Lucia Specia Senior Lecturer Research Institute of Information and Language Processing University of Wolverhampton Stafford St. Wolverhampton WV1 1SB United Kingdom E-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mt-list mailing list
