The research assistant will be expect to make a substantial
linguistic and technical contribution to the MABLe project, which is
providing a Computerised Assistant to help non-native speakers of
English produce good quality English Business Correspondence.
Information about Mable may be found on the World Wide Web via URL:
The Natural Language Engineering Group at the University of Sunderland
has 5 active members at present. Bran Boguraev of Apple is a visiting
professor with the group, and Eric Atwell (currently of Leeds
University) will be joining the group as Reseach Professor
on 1 September 1996.
In particular the appointed person will be expected to:
develop a formal structural description of business letters and a
database of commercial English phrases;
develop Greek/English and Spanish/Greek transfer lexica in
collaboration with our Spanish and
Greek partners (from existing linguistic resources);
contribute to software development on the Heidelburg PLAIN parser/generator
(with the University of Heidelburg).
contribute to the development of a hyper-text or wizzard like user interface
for the MABLE system;
contribute to miscellaneous documentation, system testing and
reporting activities.
Applicants will be expected to have a degree in Computer Science or
Linguistics or related disciplines, and ideally a masters degree in
Computational Linguistics or a related area.
Suitably qualified applicants will be given the opportunity to
register for a Ph.D.
Salary: upto 13 100 U.K. pounds
depending on age, qulaifications and experience.
(There may be an opportunity to appoint on the post-doctoral scale at
a higher salary for candidates with a Ph.D. or equivalent experience).
Clsoing date for applications 20 February 1996.
Further information from:
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Dr. John I. Tait
University of Sunderland
School of Computing and Information Systems
Priestman Building
Green Terrace
Sunderland
SR1 3SD
U.K.
Tel: +44-191-515 2712 Fax: +44-191-515-2781
Email: john.tait@sunderland.ac.uk
WWW home page: http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/jta/home