26.4471, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Assistant Professor, Georgetown University

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Subject: 26.4471, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Assistant Professor, Georgetown University

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Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2015 13:34:24
From: Paul Portner [portnerp at georgetown.edu]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Assistant Professor, Georgetown University, District of Columbia, USA

University or Organization: Georgetown University 
Department: Linguistics and Computer Science
Job Location: District of Columbia, USA 
Web Address: http://linguistics.georgetown.edu/
Job Title: Assistant Professor
Job Rank: Assistant Professor

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Description:

Computational Linguistics for Big Data

The Departments of Computer Science and Linguistics at Georgetown University announce a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in Computational Linguistics with a specialization in very large data resources (so-called “Big Data”).  The appointment will be joint (50-50) in the Department of Linguistics (http://linguistics.georgetown.edu) and the Department of Computer Science (https://cs.georgetown.edu/).  Both departments include successful graduate programs and offer degrees at the Bachelor, Masters, and Doctoral levels.

We seek candidates with expertise in areas including but not limited to:

- Big Data NLP for social media and the Web
- Distributional semantics approaches to meaning
- Document classification and topic modeling
- Information extraction and textual entailment
- Multilingual big data for statistical machine translation and cross-language information retrieval

This expertise may be manifest in various ways, but in all instances candidates are sought who combine linguistic insight with robust computational theory and practice. We are seeking scholars doing cutting edge research who show promise of continuing that high level of achievement while being an exceptional teacher of undergraduate and graduate students. Collaboration with a wide variety of colleagues across the Departments and University is also expected.

Georgetown, which attracts some of the very best students in the country and the world, is located in the heart of Washington, D.C., a city that provides opportunities to connect with government agencies as well as high-tech industries. We are currently expanding graduate programs in Computational Linguistics and in Computer Science and expect the successful candidate to take an active role in shaping both. Both departments are committed to working with the successful candidate to foster cross-departmental collaboration. This position is part of a broader University investment in Big Data research across a number of programs.

Candidates must possess a PhD in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Linguistics or a related field at the time of appointment. The position begins on August 1, 2016. 

Georgetown University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer fully dedicated to achieving a diverse faculty and staff. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability or other categories protected by law.

Instructions for application: 

As we expect a large number of applications, please follow the instructions below carefully:

Complete applications will consist of a single PDF file named in the format:
<Name>_<Nonce>.pdf

Where:

<Name> is your full name separated by underscores and <Nonce> is a 4 digit number of your choosing.

The single PDF file attached will contain in order:

- Cover letter
- Current curriculum vitae
- Names and contact information for three references
- Teaching statement
- Research statement
- At least one representative publication

Please do not ask references to send letters at this time.

Applications and questions should be emailed to the application email address below.

Receipt of applications will be promptly acknowledged; please send a note if you do not receive a reply within three business days.

Applications should be received by December 1, 2015, to receive full consideration.  First round interviews will take place by video conference in early January.

Application Deadline: 01-Dec-2015 

Email Address for Applications: cl-search at georgetown.edu 
Contact Information:
	Professor Paul Portner 
	Email: portnerp at georgetown.edu 

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