[Corpora-List] Research Fellow in Language Technology

[Timothy Baldwin]

RESEARCH FELLOW IN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

Position Description:

Title:		Research Fellow grade 1
Position No:	G0006621
Dept:		Computer Science and Software Engineering
Salary:		AUD $43,442 - AUD $58,952 p.a
Term:		12 months full time in the first instance, with the
		possibility of a 12 month extension 


Position Summary:

This position is within the Language Technology group
(http://lt.csse.unimelb.edu.au/), with sponsorship from the Australian
Research Council.  Under the supervision of Dr Timothy Baldwin, the appointee
will work on the applications of language technology to user forum-based web
data, and work specifically on the design and development of language
understanding and information extraction methods for web applications.


Selection Criteria:

Essential:

- Postgraduate qualifications/training and research/publication track record in language technology.
- Strong background in statistical natural language processing.
- Well-developed and demonstrable programming skills.
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and excellent time management skills.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively as a member of a research team. 
- Well-developed problem solving skills. 	

Desirable:

- Experience in a Computer Science research environment
- PhD in language technology/computational linguistics
- Expertise in information extraction and/or deep linguistic processing



For informal enquiries contact Timothy Baldwin
(tim at csse.unimelb.edu.au). Further particulars for this position can be found
at:

http://www.hr.unimelb.edu.au/pds/G0006621.pdf

The closing date for applications is 30 April 2006. Applicants must complete
an ‘Application Cover Sheet’ found at:

http://www.hr.unimelb.edu.au/jobs/appcoversheet.rtf 

Applications must address the selection criteria, quote the position number
and include the contact details of three referees.  Applications can be
forwarded to one of:

Email:	hr-applications at unimelb.edu.au 
Fax: 	+61 3 8344 6080
Mail: 	Vice-Principal (Human Resources), 
	The University of Melbourne
	Victoria 3010
	Australia