Corpora: Research Post at ITRI, Brighton

[David Tugwell]

University of Brighton

Research Fellow
7 months, up to £26,163 pro rata

An opportunity has arisen within the IT Research Institute for a
Research
Fellow to work on the final phase of the three-year EPSRC  project, "A
semi-automatic lexicographer's workbench for writing word sense
profiles"
(WASPS).  The WASPS project is concerned with developing software for
producing 'word sense profiles' as an aid to the lexicographer's task of

producing accurate word sense distinctions in dictionaries, and also to
support word sense disambiguation in NLP systems.  A prototype software
system, called the WASPbench has been developed and deployed on a
limited
scale, including participation in the recent SENSEVAL exercise.
This post would suit a post-doctoral researcher with experience of
lexicography and/or designing and running experiments with human
subjects.
The post-holder will be responsible for designing and undertaking an
evaluation of the methodology and software implementation of the
project;
setting up the evaluation; recruiting and supervising subjects;
analysing
and reporting results and contributing to the completion of other
components
of the project as appropriate.

The post is fixed-term for seven months due to funding being limited to
this
period.

Call (01273) 642849 (24 hours) or visit
http://www.brighton.ac.uk/vacancies/

Further details about the project can be found at
http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/projects/wasps

Please quote the reference number.


Closing date:   7 November 2001 Ref: IR4013