Corpora: RESEARCH POSITION / STUDENTSHIPS in COMPUTER SCIENCE (NLP)

[S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk]

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE/FELLOW IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (NLP)

The Natural Language Processing Group of Computer Science
(http://fw4.cms.salford.ac.uk/research/) has recently been awarded a grant
to carry out research in the context of a EUREKA funded European
collaborative project with industry and academia in the area of
bioinformatics. The group's role is to apply natural language processing
techniques to the analysis of molecular biology corpora.

Duties: to adapt and expand the Group's existing tools for automatic term
recognition and clustering; to interface the group's tools with existing
natural language parsers; to work on semantic tagging for domain specific
texts; and to aid in the design and construction of ontologies.

Expertise: MSc or preferably PhD in Computer Science, Artificial
Intelligence or Computational Linguistics. Good programming skills (Java,
Perl) are essential. Knowledge of at least basic natural language
processing techniques is highly desirable. Knowledge of statistics-based
methods in NLP is a plus.

Salary: Up to GBP 21,463 per annum (in first year), according to
qualifications and experience.

Duration: 30 months

Starting date: The post is immediately available.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr S.Ananiadou
(S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk).

Candidates should send a detailed CV with the names of 2 referees to:
Dr S.Ananiadou  (S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk)
Computer Science, School of Sciences,
University of Salford, Newton Building,
Salford, Greater Manchester, M5 4WT, UK
 Tel: +44 161 295 0480
Fax: +44 161 295 5559


Closing date:  15th July 2000.


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TWO RESEARCH STUDENTSHIPS  in COMPUTER SCIENCE (NLP)

The Natural Language Processing Group of Computer Science
(http://fw4.cms.salford.ac.uk/research/) has available two fully funded
three year research studentships. The group was recently awarded a EUREKA
funded grant in the area of NLP and Bio-informatics. Successful candidates
should have a minimum of a 2.1 honours degree (or equivalent) in Computer
Science or Artificial Intelligence. The successful candidates will be
involved (with researchers in the department and abroad) in innovative
research into:

     ---   novel ways of information extraction from scientific texts
     ----  design of domain specific ontologies
    ----   integration of ontologies with scientific databases
   ----    information retrieval

We are particularly interested in candidates able to engage in
multi-disciplinary research involving NLP.

Expertise: Good programming skills (Java, Perl). An ability to conduct
research, to work independently and to contribute to the group's research
activities. An ability to work with industrial collaborators. Knowledge of
NLP is a plus (but not essential).

The studentships carry a bursary of £6,800 plus fees  (at UK/EU rates).

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr S.Ananiadou
(S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk).

Candidates should send a detailed CV with the names of 2 referees to:
Dr S.Ananiadou  (S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk)
Computer Science, School of Sciences,
University of Salford, Newton Building,
Salford, Greater Manchester, M5 4WT, UK
Tel: +44 161 295 0480
Fax: +44 161 295 5559

Closing date: 7th August 2000.
Starting date: The studentships will run from 1st October 2000.