[Corpora-List] Postdoctoral position in NLP/CL at the U. of Michigan

[Dragomir Radev]

       COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

		   POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

			University of Michigan
			 Ann Arbor, MI 48109


    The Group in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language
    Processing at the University of Michigan is seeking a postdoctoral
    researcher.  Candidates should have previous experience in
    relevant areas of Computer Science. We are particularly interested
    in candidates with prior research experience in statistical NLP,
    including parsing, language modeling, summarization, question
    answering, generation, and machine translation.

    The university of Michigan is located in Ann Arbor, MI, 25 miles
    from Detroit Metropolitan Airport which has hundreds of direct
    flights to the USA, Canada, Asia, and Europe. Ann Arbor,
    population 110,000, is a diverse college town, with a large
    selection of cultural and athletic facilities.
		
    Our group is a cooperative effort involving Computer Science,
    Linguistics, and the School of Information, and drawing on the
    many resources in Computer, Cognitive, and Information Science
    at this university.  We also have strong connections to the
    Program in Bioinformatics.  The core members of the group include
    Steven Abney, Dragomir Radev, and Richmond Thomason.

    We are seeking an energetic, independent person with excellent
    communication skills, whose primary duties will involve
    coordinating and developing new research proposals. High
    proficiency in the following areas will be particularly valuable:
    programming; theoretical computer science, mathematics, and
    statistics; technical writing in English.

    The two-year position carries a starting salary of $48,000, with
    fringe benefits.  Starting time can be arranged, but should be
    between January 1 and September 1, 2004. Applications received by
    December 31, 2003 will receive maximum consideration.
	
    To apply, please send (preferably in plain text) the following
    documents:

    (1) a c.v. including the names and email addresses of
    2-4 people who know your work well and will be available as
    references. Do not ask for letters to be sent at this time.

    (2) a 1-2 page description of your research interests

    in an email to rthomaso at eecs.umich.edu (Richmond Thomason). Use
    "CL/NLP postdoc application from [your-name]" as the subject of
    your email.

    Please visit http://www.umich.edu/cl for more details about CL/NLP
    at Michigan.


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Dragomir R. Radev                                         radev at umich.edu
Assistant Professor of Information, Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science, and Linguistics, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Phone: 734-615-5225   Fax: 734-764-2475    http://www.si.umich.edu/~radev