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*** Apologies for cross-postings ***<br>
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The Engineering Faculty at the <a href="http://www.shef.ac.uk/">University
of Sheffield</a> has announced 5 prize lectureships across 7
Engineering departments, including the <a
href="http://www.shef.ac.uk/dcs/">Department of Computer Science</a>,
which contains a strong research group in Natural Language Processing.
The key criterion is the "capacity to make an outstanding contribution
to the Faculty, and the University, as a research-led academic". <br>
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These lectureships come with a very attractive startup package
including (from the job advert):
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- an open-ended lectureship appointment within one of our seven
departments.
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- an allocation of funded PhD places to support your research.
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- a research start-up grant of £40K to £100K.
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- reduced teaching and administrative duties for the first 3 years.
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- access to a mentoring scheme tailored to suit your individual needs.
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Appointment can be at the Lecturer or Senior Lecturer/Reader grade.
Closing date is *** March 5 2010 ***.
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The NLP group is one of the largest and most successful language
processing groups in the UK and has a strong global reputation.
Interests include:<br>
* Information extraction, text mining and semantic annotation,
question answering, summarization.<br>
* Language Resources and Architectures for NLP (we are the home of <a
href="http://gate.ac.uk/">GATE</a>, the General Architecture for Text
Engineering)<br>
* Human-Computer Dialogue Systems<br>
* Detection of Reuse and Anomaly in Text<br>
* Machine translation<br>
* Various foundational topics, including word sense disambiguation,
semantics of time and events. <br>
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See<a href="http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/"> http://nlp.shef.ac.uk</a> for
further details about the NLP group. The group will enthusiastically
support applications from oustanding candidates with interests in
computational linguistics, natural language processing, language
processing or information retrieval.<br>
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Further details about the Prize lectureships can be found at:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://jobs.shef.ac.uk/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/hrrcf_a_posting_apply?PARAM=cG9zdF9pbnN0X2d1aWQ9NEI2MDU0MkM0NzEzMDgwMEUxMDAwMDAwOEZBNzAxNDQmY2FuZF90eXBlPUVYVA%3d%3d&sap-client=400&sap-language=EN&sap-accessibility=X&sap-ep-themeroot=%2fSAP%2fPUBLIC%2fBC%2fUR%2fuos">https://jobs.shef.ac.uk/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/hrrcf_a_posting_apply?PARAM=cG9zdF9pbnN0X2d1aWQ9NEI2MDU0MkM0NzEzMDgwMEUxMDAwMDAwOEZBNzAxNDQmY2FuZF90eXBlPUVYVA%3d%3d&sap-client=400&sap-language=EN&sap-accessibility=X&sap-ep-themeroot=%2fSAP%2fPUBLIC%2fBC%2fUR%2fuos</a>
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I am happy to try to answer any questions interested applicants might
have.
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Sincerely<br>
<br>
Rob Gaizauskas<br>
Professor in Computer Science and Head of the NLP group
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