Senior Research Fellow in Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing

[Ruslan Mitkov]

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       Senior Research Fellow in Computational Linguistics/Natural
                           Language Processing

                 *** Applications closing date: 16 March 2007***
                             Reference: A4686

     Salary: 29,349 to 39,033* pa (level of appointment dependent
                    on qualifications and experience)
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We are seeking a Senior Researcher in Computational Linguistics/Natural
Language Processing with an excellent research record as evidenced by
publications in reputable journals. Project experience or links with
industry would be an advantage as would teaching or PhD supervision
experience. Duties include collaborative research and producing first
class research/publications, involvement in grant applications, and some
teaching and student supervision. This appointment is for two years in
the first instance.

Applications should include a completed application form, CV, and
covering letter in which you explain why you have applied for the
position and give details of your research interests/experience and
background. The covering letter should also present a research plan
(about 1,000 words) which you would like to pursue. The interviews are
scheduled to take place in April with the starting date as soon as
possible thereafter.

For informal enquiries, please contact Prof. Ruslan Mitkov
(R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk). Applications to be sent to Personnel. If emailed,
please cc to R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk

For an application form, contact:

Personnel Services Department,
University of Wolverhampton,
Molineux Street,
Wolverhampton WV1 1SB
Phone +44 (0) 1902 321049 (ansaphone), and quoting the reference number.
For hearing impaired candidates our Minicom number is +44 (0) 1902
321249.
Email address: per at wlv.ac.uk

The application form can also be downloaded from
http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/jobs/app_form_jobs.pdf

* In line with the University pay modernisation programme, salaries may
be subject to review.

Established by Prof. Mitkov in 1997, the Research Group in Computational
Linguistics (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk) 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.


// Prof. Dr. Ruslan Mitkov
\\ Professor of Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering
// Head of the Research Group in Computational Linguistics
\\ Director of the Research Institute of Information and Language Processing
\\ University of Wolverhampton
// Stafford St.
\\ Wolverhampton WV1 1SB
// Telephone + 44 1902 322145
\\ Fax +44 1902 323543
// Email r.mitkov at wlv.ac.uk
\\ Web site <http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825>www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825
// Research Group web site <http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/>http://clg.wlv.ac.uk
\\ Research Institute website www.wlv.ac.uk/riilp