[Corpora-List] Two Postdoctoral Research Positions in NLP (NCLT, Dublin, Ireland)

[Mary Hearne]

Two Postdoctoral Research Positions in NLP (NCLT, Dublin, Ireland)

The National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT) and the School of Computing at Dublin City 
University, Ireland, invite applications for two Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) funded 
Postdoctoral research positions in probabilistic, transfer-based machine translation and 
probabilistic generation using treebank-based LFG resources (Cahill et al. 2004, O'Donovan et al. 
2005, Cahill and van Genabith 2006):

* PD1: Treebank-Based Acquisition of Wide-Coverage Probabilistic Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) 
Resources and Machine Translation (2 years: 2006-2008)

* PD2: Probabilistic Generation Using Treebank-Based, Wide-Coverage, Probabilistic 
Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) Resources (1 year: 2006-2007)

The starting dates for the positions are early September (PD1) and late September (PD2), 2006. The 
salary is euro 39,500 (approx) p.a. The positions are available to both EU- and non-EU-applicants.

Ideal candidates have a strong background in Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, 
Machine Learning or Computer Science. Knowledge of constraint-based grammar formalisms such as LFG, 
HPSG, CCG, TAG, PATR-II and statistical NLP is a strong asset. Programming experience and a keen 
interest in problem solving and research are essential.

The successful applicants will work in a large NLP team of 20+ Ph.D. students and 6 Postdoctoral 
researchers at the National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT) in the School of Computing at 
Dublin City University.
In order to apply, please mail your CV and contact details for two references by Friday, July 28th, 
2006 to: josef at computing.dcu.ie Please also use this email address for informal inquiries.

Prof. Josef van Genabith
National Centre for Language Technology NCLT
School of Computing
Dublin City University,
Dublin 9, Ireland.
http://www.computing.dcu.ie/research/nclt/

References:

(Cahill et al. 2004) Long-Distance Dependency Resolution in Automatically Acquired Wide-Coverage 
PCFG-Based LFG Approximations, A. Cahill, M. Burke, R. O'Donovan, J. van Genabith, and A. Way. 
ACL-04, July 21-26, pp. 320-327, Barcelona, Spain, 2004

(O'Donovan et al. 2005) Large-Scale Induction and Evaluation of Lexical Resources from the Penn-II 
and Penn-III Treebanks, R. O'Donovan, M. Burke, A. Cahill, J. van Genabith and A. Way. Computational 
Linguistics, 31(3), pp. 329 - 365, 2005

(Cahill and van Genabith 2006) Robust PCFG-Based Generation using Automatically Acquired LFG 
Approximations, A. Cahill and J. van Genabith, COLING/ACL 2006, Sydney, Australia, 2006