24.1152, Jobs: Philosophy of Language; Psycholing: Researcher, Kings College London

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Subject: 24.1152, Jobs: Philosophy of Language; Psycholing: Researcher, Kings College London

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Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:57:40
From:  Recruitment [recruitmentteam3 at kcl.ac.uk]
Subject: Philosophy of Language; Psycholinguistics: Researcher, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom

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University or Organization: Kings College London 
Job Location: London, United Kingdom 
Web Address: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs
Job Rank: Researcher

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 


Description:

Research Associate
Department of Philosophy
King’s College London

Reference number: R6/AAN/119/13-JM
Closing date: 6 May 2013

The Department of Philosophy is looking for a Research Associate to work on an
ESRC Professorial Fellowship project devoted to the probabilistic modelling of
linguistic knowledge.

The successful candidate must have their PhD in hand by the date of the
application. Required knowledge and skills include good programming ability in
languages like Python, C++, Java, and Perl, experience with natural language
corpus work, and a solid background in probabilistic models of syntax and
statistical NLP.

The successful candidate will be a full participant in the research of the
project, helping to design, implement, and test an enriched stochastic
language model that generates graded grammaticality judgements for sentences.
They will co-author papers with the PI and other members of the project team,
attend conferences, and present the results of the project’s research in
public forums

For an informal discussion of the post please contact Professor Shalom Lappin
on 020-7848-2541 or via email at shalom.lappin at kcl.ac.uk

Interviews will be held on 20 May 2013.

Salary: 
The appointment will be made at Grade 6, currently £31,331 - £36,298 per
annum, plus £2,323 per annum London Allowance.

Post Duration:
Fixed term contract for 25 months with a start date of 1 September 2013.

Further details and application packs are available on the College’s website
at the application URL below. All correspondence should clearly state the job
title and reference number R6/AAN/119/13-JM. If you have any queries please
contact your Recruitment Co-ordinator at the contact email address below.

Equality of opportunity is College policy.



Application Deadline: 06-May-2013 
	  
Web Address for Applications: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/hr/jobs/index.aspx 
Contact Information
	Recruitment 
	Email: recruitmentteam3 at kcl.ac.uk 





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