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* LCG TMR Network *
* Learning Computational Grammars *
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* POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES *
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with potential roles for graduate-student level participation
(see below).
LCG (Learning Computational Grammars) is a research network
shortlisted for funding by the EC Training and Mobility of Researchers
programme (TMR). LCG's contract is currently being negotiated. The
network is expected to run from 1st March 1998 for three years.
LCG will research the application of a variety of machine learning
techniques to natural language syntax, including techniques from
neural networks, statistical learning, and symbolic learning. Their
will be a focus comparison of results based on attempts to learn noun
phrase structure in English. Some work on other languages is possible.
The LCG partners are
University of Groningen, Netherlands (coordinator)
University of Tuebingen, Germany
SRI, The United Kingdom
University of Antwerp, Belgium
University College Dublin Ireland
SUISSETRA, Switzerland
Rank Xerox, France
For more details of LCG's programme, see
http://www.let.rug.nl/~nerbonne/tmr/lcg.html
Subject to successful contract negotiation, LCG will employ a number
of postdoctoral researchers. Under some circumstances graduate
students may be available.
* All these researchers (except those applying to Switzerland) must
be under 35 years of age,
be EU citizens and
be prepared to work outside their own country.
be prepared to work somewhere other than where they have
worked for 18 of the last twenty-four months.
* There will be opportunities to collaborate with other LCG
researchers at the sites above.
* Graduate students with some experience may be considered to work in the
network. In general, postdoctoral candidates are preferred.
* Payment is based on the Marie Curie TMR fellowship rates (details
from the web site)
* Applicants to the Swiss lab need not be European citizens.
See the web site for contacts at the various labs.
If you are interested, send your CV (including publication list) and
the names and addresses of two referees to the address below. Indicate
what LCG tasks (see the web site) and what LCG labs interest you, and
when you expect to be available. Please indicate in a 2-3 pp. sketch
of your interest in LCG how it is related to work you have done and
what special expertise you bring to the problem.
John Nerbonne, Alfa Informatica nerbonne@let.rug.nl
University of Groningen Tel. (31) +50 363 5815
P.O. Box 716 Fax 363 6855
Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26
NL-9700 AS GRONINGEN http://www.let.rug.nl/~nerbonne
The Netherlands