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<p class="MsoNormal">Research Associate (Spatial Humanities Project: Computational Linguistics)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Department of History<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A553">http://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A553</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Salary: £25,251 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Closing Date: Monday 19 November 2012<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Interview Date: Monday 17 December 2012 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Reference: A553<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We wish to appoint a Research Associate with expertise in Natural language Processing or Computational Linguistics as part of an interdisciplinary team working on a major Digital Humanities project bringing together staff from the Department
of History, Department of Linguistics & English Language, and the School of Computing & Communications (SCC) at Lancaster University. The project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and is working on analysing texts from a geographical perspective.
Your role will be to provide computational linguistics expertise and support to this.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You should have a first or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Digital Humanities, or a related field; and preferably a PhD and/or post-graduate research experience in the area of corpus-based analysis and/or
natural language processing. 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">The post is a fixed-term appointment at 1.0 FTE from 1 January 2013, or as soon as possible thereafter, for 18 months.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">More details on the project are available from: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/spatialhum. Candidates are encouraged to make informal enquires to the project co-investigator Dr Paul Rayson (p.rayson@lancaster.ac.uk) in SCC or principal investigator
Prof Ian Gregory (i.gregory@lancaster.ac.uk) in History.<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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