<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><br></div><div class="yiv1322148965MsoPlainText" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">(Apologies for cross-posting. </font><b style="text-align: center; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Please, distribute it among potentially interested colleagues</span></b>)<br></div><div class="yiv1322148965MsoPlainText" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;"><br></div><div class="yiv1322148965MsoPlainText" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color:
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none;text-autospace:none"><b>****PhD studentship </b><b>in processing
multiword units****</b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Closing date 24 February 2014<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The
Research Group in Computational Linguistics (</span><a href="http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext">http://clg.wlv.ac.uk</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt">) of the University of Wolverhampton invites
applications for a 3 year University of Wolverhampton PhD studentship in the
area of </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">multiword units.
The proposed topic of the PhD research will be NLP methodology to extraction
and translation of multiword units which has applications in a number of areas
including but not limited to terminology, language learning and translation. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> This is a
funded bursary which will consist of a stipend towards living expenses (£14,000
per year) and remission of fees. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The
application deadline is 24 February 2014. The starting date of the PhD position
is 15 March 2014 or any time as soon as possible after that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">A
successful applicant must have:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:10.0pt">A good honours
degree or equivalent in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or
Linguistics, with a strong programming and statistical / Mathematical
background or closely related areas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Experience in
computational linguistics / natural language processing, particularly the area
of Machine Learning applications to Natural Language Processing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Experience
in linguistics and/or translation would be a plus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Applications
must include:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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vitae indicating degrees obtained, courses covered, publications, relevant work
experience and names of two referees that could be contacted if necessary.</span></div>
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letter with statement of research interests, indicating why you are interested
in this position and why you consider your experience is relevant. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:10.0pt">An expression of
interest form: </span><a href="http://www.wlv.ac.uk/Docs/grad_sch_exp_of_int.doc"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">http://www.wlv.ac.uk/Docs/grad_sch_exp_of_int.doc</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The
shortlisted applicants will be interviewed by telephone the week following the
application deadline. They will then be asked to complete a research proposal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Established
by Prof Mitkov in 1998, the research group in Computational Linguistics
delivers cutting-edge research in a number of NLP areas such as anaphora
resolution, automatic summarisation, question answering, multilingual text
processing, multiple-choice question generation and text simplification. The
results from the latest Research Assessment Exercise announced on 17 December
2008 confirm the research group in Computational Linguistics as one of the top
performers in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>
research. The research group was ranked joint 3<sup>rd</sup> with 2 more
universities in the Unit of Assessment “Linguistics”. According to the league
tables of the Guardian, The Times and Research Fortnight, research in
Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton in one of the top 6 in the UK. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Informal enquiries and
electronic applications can be sent to by email to: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:18.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Ruslan Mitkov<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Director of Research Institute of Information and
Language Processing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">University</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Wolverhampton</st1:placename></span></st1:place><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify"><st1:street w:st="on">Stafford St</st1:street><span style="font-size:10.0pt">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United Kingdom</st1:country-region><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Email: <a href="mailto:R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk">R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="yiv1322148965MsoPlainText" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </div><div class="yiv1322148965MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></div><div class="yiv1322148965MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">-------------------------------- </span></div><div class="yiv1322148965MsoNormal" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Sanja Stajner</font></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent;"><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/~in3168/index.html<br></font></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">PhD student at the Research Group in Computational Linguistics</span><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Research Institute of Information and Language Processing (RIILP)</font></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent;"><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">University of Wolverhampton, UK</font></div></div></body></html>