RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP IN SPATIAL REASONING FOR QUESTION ANSWERING (£10,000 per year)

[Constantin Orasan]

                     [Apologies for cross-postings]

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                        RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP IN 
               SPATIAL REASONING FOR QUESTION ANSWERING 
                           (£10,000 per year)

                   http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/jobs/jobs.php
                      Closing date: 23rd Nov 2006
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The Research Group in Computational Linguistics, University of
Wolverhampton invites applications for a three-year-funded research
studentship in Computational Linguistics. The successful candidate is
expected to carry out research in the domain of spatial reasoning for
question answering. We are looking for candidates with a good honours
degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or Information
Sciences, with programming skills and some experience in Natural
Language Processing.  

Required skills:
- degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or Information
Sciences
- experience with at least one of the following: Java, Perl, C++, .NET
- experience in Natural Language Processing
- good command of the English language

Desirable skills:
- Master's degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or
Information Sciences
- experience in question answering, information extraction and/or
spatial reasoning
- familiarity with a wide range of programming environments and
operating systems

Applications should be sent to

     Constantin Orasan
     School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
     University of Wolverhampton
     Stafford St.
     Wolverhampton
     WV1 1SB
     United Kingdom
     E-mail: C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk

and must include:
- completed application form available from
http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/jobs/jobs.php
- CV
- copy of university degree (in English)
- copy of transcript listing all university marks (in English)
- evidence of postgraduate qualification if applicable
- a covering letter in which candidates explain why they have applied
for the studentship, give details of their research
interests/experience, background, programming skills and an outline of
any experience in Natural Language Processing or Linguistics.

Applications should be made both by email and surface mail. The closing
date for applications is 23rd November 2006. The short-listed applicants
will be interviewed by email and telephone in the week beginning 27th
November 2006.

The studentship includes a maintenance grant of 10,000 GBP a year and
also covers the tuition fees for 3 years.

The successful candidate is expected to register in December 2006, and
join the  Research Group in Computational Linguistics in January 2007.
She or he will be working in a vibrant research environment, engaging in
active research. This studentship is funded by the EU-funded project
QALL-ME, so it is expected that the appointed student will contribute to
this project as well. In return, the student will have access and will
benefit from the resources developed in the project.

The RESEARCH GROUP IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS at the University of
Wolverhampton (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk)

Established by Prof. Mitkov in 1997, the Research Group in Computational
Linguistics is a highly successful one, 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 UK funding bodies and commercial partners.

For further information/queries, please contact:
Constantin Orasan
Phone: +44 1902 322 623
Email: C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk

-- 
Constantin Orasan <C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk>
Lecturer in Computational Linguistics
Research Group in Computational Linguistics
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~in6093/
University of Wolverhampton