JOB AVAILABLE: Natural Language Engineering

eric@scs.leeds.ac.uk
Mon, 5 Feb 96 09:55:24 GMT

The University of Sunderland is appointing a Research
Assistant to work on the EU Framework IV Project MABLe for
approximately 2 years initially, with an expectation that
the project and hence the post will be extended for a
third year.

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:

http://www.mari.co.uk/~mable/

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