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<p class="MsoNormal">Research Associate in Natural Language Processing of Corporate Financial Communications<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">School of Computing and Communications<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Salary: £25,251 to £29,249 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Closing Date: Friday 21 September 2012<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Interview Date: To be confirmed <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Reference: A489<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Applications are invited for a Research Associate position in natural language processing as part of an interdisciplinary team working on Corporate Financial Communications within the Department of Accounting and Finance and the School
of Computing and Communications (SCC) at Lancaster University.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You should have a first degree or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Text Mining, or a related field; and a PhD in the area of corpus-based analysis, natural language processing or a closely related subject.
You should also possess suitable software development skills and demonstrate the ability to work as part of a team as well as the capability to integrate diverse multi-disciplinary requirements into the design of the natural language processing tools to be
developed.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Candidates are encouraged to make informal enquires to the project investigators Dr Paul Rayson (p.rayson@lancaster.ac.uk) in SCC or Prof Steven Young (s.young@lancaster.ac.uk) in Accounting and Finance.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For more details, see <a href="http://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A489">
http://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A489</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr. Paul Rayson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Director of UCREL and Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Faculty of Science and Technology Director of International Teaching Partnerships<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of Computing and Communications, Infolab21, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Web: <a href="http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~paul/">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~paul/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Tel: +44 1524 510357 Fax: +44 1524 510492<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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