Corpora: position available

[Harold Somers]

             Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST
                Lecturer in Computational Linguistics

The Centre for Computational Linguistics (CCL) was created
almost 25 years ago, and has an established reputation for
teaching and research in NLP, specializing in multilingual
applications of CL, notably Machine Translation and Computer-
Assisted Language Learning.

CCL now has a vacancy for a Lecturer in Computational
Linguistics. The successful candidate will conduct research in
any topic relevant to the Centre’s main research interests, CALL
and MT. The candidate will also contribute to postgraduate
teaching on MSc courses in MT and CALL and will be
expected to supervise MSc and PhD students. We are looking
for someone with a PhD, teaching experience, and plenty of
ideas for research grant applications. An active research profile
is essential, and the successful candidate will have a reasonable
publication record as well as experience of funded research, at
least as a contributor if not as principal investigator.

Salary will be within the Lecturer A scale:  £18,731–£23,256
per annum.

For an application form and further details please write to: The
Personnel Office, UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD,
enclosing a self-addressed envelope.  Please quote reference:
LE/A/122.  Informal enquiries can be addressed to
Harold.Somers at umist.ac.uk. The closing date is 30 June 2001.


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Harold Somers
Professor of Language Engineering
Director, Centre for Computational Linguistics
UMIST, Manchester

preferred email address for all correspondence:
Harold.Somers at umist.ac.uk