Corpora: Corpus Linguistics Post-doc position

[Rita Carol Simpson]

Post-doctoral Research Position in Corpus Linguistics & EAP

	University of Michigan, English Language Institute

The English Language Institute at the University of Michigan is inviting
applications for a post-doctoral research fellow  to work on research
involving the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE). The
position is for one year in the first instance, with the possibility of
renewal for an additional two years, with a start date between July and
September, 2002.

The MICASE project was started at the English Language Institute in
1997-98, and we are entering an exciting phase of development as we have
recently completed the transcription and initial SGML markup of the
1.7-million-word corpus and are actively expanding our research and
development program. Some of the projects that we would like to work on in
the near future include grammatical tagging, lemmatization and lexical
statistics, and the annotation of the corpus with additional pragmatic
metadata. In addition, we are moving forward with various research
projects beyond those already completed on features of spoken academic
English, and are keen to implement strategies for utilizing the corpus for
in-house teaching and testing applications. The main members of the MICASE
team at present are Dr. Rita Simpson (project manager), Professor John
Swales (faculty advisor), and Dr. Sarah Briggs (advisor for testing).

We are interested in hearing from candidates who have recently completed,
or are nearing completion of a Ph.D. with a strong corpus linguistics
component, preferably including some programming skills, as well as a good
background in spoken discourse analysis. The ideal candidate will also
have some ESL/EAP research or teaching experience.

The 12-month salary will be in the range of $30,000 to $34,000, depending
on qualifications, and includes excellent benefits, some moving expenses,
and generous reimbursement for conference travel.

To apply, please send a cover letter and cv, including contact information
for referees. For additional information or informal inquiries, please
contact Dr. Rita Simpson at ritacsim at umich.edu. General information about
MICASE is available the ELI website:
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/micase.htm and the online searchable
version of MICASE can be found at http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/micase.

Applications may be submitted as attachments to e-mail, or to the
following address:

Rita Simpson
University of Michigan, English Language Institute
3138 TCF Building
401 E. Liberty, Suite 350
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2298


The deadline for application is May 31, 2002.

NOTE: There is no US citizenship requirement for this position, so non-US
residents are encouraged to apply.

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Rita Simpson, PhD.
Project Manager, Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English
English Language Institute, University of Michigan   TEL:  734-763-7133
www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/micase.htm      www.hti.umich.edu/m/micase/
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