Job announcement: Post-Doctoral Fellow in Natural Language Processing

[Orasan, Constantin]

     Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Natural Language Processing 

              Research Group in Computational Linguistics
       Research Institute of Information and Language Processing


Salary £32,267 - £38,522 (level of appointment dependent on
qualifications and experience)
Duration: 3-year position
Deadline: 16th April 2014

The Research Group in Computational Lingustics at the University of
Wolverhampton, UK (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk) is inviting applications for a
3 year Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Natural Language Processing.

The applicant should have a PhD in Computational Linguistics, Computer
Science or Natural Language Processing and proven research experience in
these fields. The applicant should have experience of language
technologies. Publications in peer-reviewed conferences are essential
and publications in good journals are desirable.

Experience of project proposal writing is ideal. The applicant should
have some teaching experience within the field of Computational
Linguistics and good knowledge of machine learning is required. A solid
background in programming is required. 

The position also requires that the appointed person supports principal
investigators of EC-funded projects. Therefore, the post-holder will
have good communication and interpersonal skills including the ability
to communicate with staff at all levels, in person, by telephone or in
writing. The ability to work well in a team, to meet deadlines and
manage a varied workload by effectively prioritising tasks is
essential. 

Experience with general management of projects is desirable as well as
experience in producing technical reports, summaries and project
outlines.

For informal enquiries please contact Prof. Dr. Ruslan Mitkov at
R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk or his PA Pam Loi at pam.loi at wlv.ac.uk or +44 1902
321630.

To apply online please follow the following link:
https://jobs.wlv.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=3045&p_web_page_id=180574

The closing date for applications is 16 April 2014, with interviews
shortly after that.

The University is eager to attract larger numbers of applications from
groups of people currently under-represented in the staff population,
especially from women and people from ethnic minority groups.

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