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Date: 01 Feb 2006
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Subject:Sohar University Job


University or Organization: Sohar University
Department: Faculty of Applied Science
Job Rank: Dean
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics
Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)


Description:

Sohar University seeks applications from suitably qualified academic  
staff for
the position of Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science. The Faculty  
of Applied
Science offers undergraduate degrees in a range of fields of computer  
science
and is active in postgraduate research.

Sohar University was the first private university in Oman and is  
affiliated with
the University of Queensland in Australia. The curriculum for the Sohar
University undergraduate degrees is modelled on the curriculum of  
equivalent
degrees at the University of Queensland, and all courses at Sohar  
University are
quality assured by the University of Queensland biannually. All  
courses in the
Faculty of Applied Science are taught in English.

Under the leadership of the former Dean, Professor Joachim Diederich,  
the
faculty developed an internationally recognized research profile in  
the areas of
machine learning, natural language processing and distributed systems.

Faculty research and teaching activity includes a focus on Arabic  
Natural
Language Processing. A fourth year undergraduate course on Natural  
Language
Processing seeks to develop students with skills relevant to information
processing in the Gulf region, and final year research projects may  
also focus
on topics in this area. Research projects include development of a  
wide-coverage
Lexical Functional Grammar of Arabic as part of the Parallel Grammar  
project in
collaboration with the Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC), and affiliated
international and regional institutions.

Related work includes the development of Arabic question answering  
systems;
development of techniques for the automated creation of transfer  
lexicons;
techniques for the creation of semantic resources for Arabic in the  
style of
WordNet; statistical and machine learning techniques for  
morphological analysis
and parsing of Arabic; the application of machine learning to text
classification and tasks related to classification of mental health  
and medical
data.

The new Dean would be expected to provide leadership in further  
developing these
and other areas of research.

Sohar is rapidly becoming the largest chemical industrial city in the  
Gulf
States with over USD13 billion being invested in new industries. The  
Faculty of
Applied Science already has strong research links with industries in  
Sohar, and
the new Dean would be expected to strengthen these links with industry.

Applicants for the position of Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science  
would be
expected to have an extensive teaching and research profile at the  
professorial
level. Remuneration is set at a base salary of 1800-2000 O.R per  
month, with a
living  allowance of 350 O.R per month and a transport allowance of  
175 O.R. per
month. Salaries and allowances are tax exempt. Expatriates are  
entitled to 49
days of annual leave including a return airfare to the country of  
origin for the
Dean, his wife and two children under the age of 18 years.

Applicants are requested to forward a comprehensive curriculum vitae,  
and the
names of at least four academic referees to Professor Michael Irving,
Vice-Chancellor of Sohar University, P.O. Box 44 Sohar, 311 Sultanate  
of Oman.
Applications close on 31 January 2006.

For further information, contact: Professor Michael Irving, Vice- 
Chancellor of
Sohar University. m.irving at soharuni.edu.om


Address for Applications:

	Prof Michael Irving
	Sohar University
	PO Box 44
	Sohar PC311
	Oman

Application Deadline: Open until filled.

Contact Information:

	Prof Michael Irving
	Email: m.irving at soharuni.edu.om
	Phone: +968 2670101 ext 404

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