<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Apologies for repeated postings</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Duration of Call: 1 September – 31 October
2014</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The College of Graduate Studies of the
University of South Africa (Unisa) is inviting outstanding candidates for
Postdoctoral Researcher positions in the fields of natural language processing ,  computational linguistics, and semantic
computing to collaborate in a project on Sustainable Multilingualism in the
South African Context. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The candidate should have a doctoral degree
in computer science or a related discipline, with specialisation in any one of
the following or closely related fields: natural language processing (NLP) ,
computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, machine learning, or semantic
computing. Specific specialisation in any one of the following broad topics
will be advantageous:</span></p>

<p class="" style><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">        
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB">Experience
in the use of functional programming in NLP applications and computational
grammar development, specifically in GF (Grammatical Framework);</span></p>

<p class="" style><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">        
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB">The
successful development and application of language resources and computational techniques
for under-resourced languages;</span></p>

<p class="" style><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">        
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB">Experience
in using Linked Data and natural language technologies towards building the
multilingual Semantic Web.</span></p>

<p class="" style><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">        
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB">Knowledge
of an African language.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The successful candidates will be expected
to collaborate in an interdisciplinary environment where the focus is on
research, development and deployment of computational approaches towards
sustainable multilingualism in the South African context. The candidates will
form part of a small team of researchers involved in innovative work towards
realising multilingual support for ten of the eleven official languages of
South Africa. The expectation is that the candidate’s work would increase the
international reputation of the research group and the institution through
world-class research, publications and applications through collaborations with
team members and other researchers, as appropriate, and that it would also
contribute towards the increased success of master’s and doctoral research at
Unisa.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Unisa (<a href="http://www.unisa.ac.za">www.unisa.ac.za</a>) is an Open Distance
Learning (ODL) institution with more than 12,000 master’s and doctoral
students.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Call for applications: <a href="http://www.unisa.ac.za/research/news/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/PDF-Call-for-Applications-2014.pdf">http://www.unisa.ac.za/research/news/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/PDF-Call-for-Applications-2014.pdf</a></span></p>


<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Application form: <a href="http://www.unisa.ac.za/Default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=28500">http://www.unisa.ac.za/Default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=28500</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">For more information, please contact Prof
Laurette Pretorius, College of Graduate Studies, Unisa, <a href="mailto:pretol@unisa.ac.za">pretol@unisa.ac.za</a> </span></p></div>