Post of Research Assistant/Associate
A vacancy has arisen in the Unit for a graduate in computer science
with a good understanding of the nature of the English language, or a
graduate in computational linguistics.
The starting date will be as soon as possible and will run for twelve
months, and thre might be an opportunity for extension of contract on
further projects.
The post relates primarily to the main Unit activity for that period,
an EPSRC-funded research project known as APRIL, concerned with the
development of an automated system of classification for the rare,
newly-occurring words in journalistic text. There will also be some
involvement with other aspects of Unit work as required.
The Research Assistant/Associate will work under the supervision of
the Research Fellow responsible for the computing tasks in the Unit,
reporting also to the Director of the Unit.
The salary will be in the range £16,286 - £21,597.
Skills Required for the APRIL Project:
- at least one year's full-time (or equivalent) experience of
programming in C in a Unix environment is essential
- experience in programming in PERL is desirable
- familiarity with Unix tools, such as awk , is also desirable
Duties Associated with the APRIL Project:
- familiarisation with Unit computing resources and software
- development of project software
- attendance and presentation at conferences as required
Other Duties within the Unit will include:
- familiarisation with Unit approach to large-scale text handling
and corpus creation
- revision and improvement of existing text manipulation software
- some systems administration tasks
- occasional provision of data for people outside the Unit
Further particulars and details of the application procedure may be
requested from the Director of Personnel, The University of Liverpool,
Liverpool L69 3BX:
Telephone: +44 (0)151 794 2210 (24-hour answerphone)
Email: jobs@liv.ac.uk
www: http://www.liv.ac.uk (jobs)
The closing date for applications is Sept. 15th, 1999.
The University of Liverpool is committed to Equal Opportunities.