Corpora: Job Opportunities, Edinburgh LTG

From: Claire Grover (grover@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jul 11 2001 - 18:24:02 MET DST

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    Research Positions in Edinburgh: Information Extraction;
                                      Corpus Markup Architecture

    The HCRC Language Technology Group in the Division of Informatics at the
    University of Edinburgh is a world leader in Natural Language
    Processing and XML research and development. We are looking for two
    people to join our team to work on two projects funded by the EU
    and by the UK EPSRC in the areas of Information Extraction and Corpus
    Markup Architecture.

    Appointment 1: Research Fellow in Information Extraction

    The Language Technology Group has an established record in the area of
    named entity recognition and is extending this work into information
    extraction in general. Our technology is based around XML and combines
    symbolic and statistical processing. We are looking for someone with a
    background in statistical NLP and/or information extraction to join
    our information extraction team. The successful candidate would work
    primarily on a European-funded project which applies information
    extraction techniques in the e-retail domain.

    We are looking to appoint someone with a background in statistical NLP
    and/or information extraction, with some knowledge of XML, and
    preferably with experience programming in C, C++ or Java. If you are
    interested in working in a stimulating environment where you will not
    only take responsibility for carrying out a part of our information
    extraction research, but also have the opportunity to contribute to
    other LTG projects in areas such as information retrieval, text
    summarisation, corpus creation and annotation and XML tool creation,
    we'd like to hear from you.

    Appointment 2: Research Fellow in Corpus Markup Architecture

    The Language Technology Group has a long history of innovative work in
    collecting, structuring and publishing collections of linguistic data
    resources for research purposes. We use XML to structure our
    resources, to provide for flexible annotation of them, and to publish
    them via the World Wide Web. We are looking for someone with a
    background in XML and corpus linguistics to join our XML team. The
    successful candidate will work primarily on an EPSRC-funded project to
    create and publish a pilot corpus of language resources drawn from
    minority languages in Scotland.

    If you have experience with SGML or XML, preferably including their
    application to corpus linguistics, and are interested in working in a
    stimulating environment where you will not only take responsibility
    for carrying out a part of our XML research, but also have the
    opportunity to contribute to other LTG projects, we'd like to hear
    from you.

    The ideal candidates will hold a degree in Computer Science,
    Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics or a related discipline and will
    have experience in the development and implementation of XML or
    SGML-based systems. If s/he has programming expertise in one or more
    programming languages, with a preference for Python, Java or C, and
    experience with PC-based or Unix-based application development
    environments, that would be a definite advantage.

    Appointment 1 is for a fixed term of 2 years and will be on the AR1A
    salary scale, 16,775 -- 25,213 p.a, or AR2 scale 23,256 -- 30,967
    p.a. Informal enquiries to grover@cogsci.ed.ac.uk

    Appointment 2 is for a fixed term of 1.5 years and will be on the AR1A
    salary scale, 16,775 -- 25,213 p.a. Informal enquiries to
    ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk

    Please quote ref: C16579 for Appointment 1 and C16580 for Appointment 2.

    For further particulars and application pack visit our web site
    (www.ed.ac.uk) or telephone the recruitment line on 0131 650 2512
    The closing date is Friday 10 August 2001.



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