[Corpora-List] Mphil Studentship in Natural Language Processing

[Ruslan Mitkov]

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                   Mphil Studentship in Natural Language Processing
                     (Bursary of £ 18,000 for a period of 18 months)

                               Closing date: 22 November 2007
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The Research Group in Computational Linguistics, University of
Wolverhampton invites applications for a 18-months-funded PhD
studentship in Computational Linguistics. The successful candidate is
expected to work on a project investigating the 
claims of translation universals
by employing robust NLP-enhanced study over large corpora of translated
and non-translated texts for English and 
Spanish.  We are looking for candidates
with a good honours degree in Computer Science, with very good programming
skills and some experience in Natural Language Processing.

Required skills:
- degree in Computer Science
- experience with at least one of the following: Java, Perl, C++, .NET, Python
- experience in Natural Language Processing
- good command of the English language and good 
or at least some knowledge of Spanish

Desirable skills:
- experience in Translation Studies and Linguistics
- experience in statistics (statistical methods in NLP)
- familiarity with a wide range of programming environments and
operating systems

Applications should be sent to

      Prof. Ruslan Mitkov
      Research Institute of Information and Language Processing
      University of Wolverhampton
      Stafford St.
      Wolverhampton
      WV1 1SB
      United Kingdom
      E-mail: R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk

and must include:
- completed application form available from
<http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/jobs/Mphil-application.pdf>http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/jobs/Mphil-application.pdf 

- CV
- copy of university degree (in English)
- copy of transcript listing all university marks (in English)
- a covering letter in which candidates explain why they have applied
for the studentship, give details of their research
interests/experience, background, programming skills and an outline of
any experience in Natural Language Processing or Linguistics or Translation
Studies.

Applications should be made by email.
The closing date for applications is 22nd November 2007.
Interviews will be conducted (and the successful candidate
is expected to start) as soon as possible thereafter.

The studentship includes a maintenance grant of 18,000 GBP for the period
of 18 months.

If the Mphil project is completed successfully, funding for continuation
of the research towards a PhD thesis may be provided.


The RESEARCH GROUP IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
at the University of Wolverhampton 
(<http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/>http://clg.wlv.ac.uk)

Established by Prof. Mitkov in 1997, the Research Group in Computational
Linguistics is a highly successful one, delivering cutting-edge research
in a number of NLP areas such as anaphora resolution, automatic
summarisation, translation technology, terminology extraction,
question answering, lexical knowledge acquisition, text
categorisation, named entity recognition, information extraction, corpus
construction and annotation, multilingual processing, and
multiple-choice question generation. To a
large extent, this research has been undertaken in projects funded by
major UK funding bodies and commercial partners.

For further information/queries, please contact:
Prof. Ruslan Mitkov
E-mail: R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk


// Prof. Dr. Ruslan Mitkov
\\ Professor of Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering
// Head of the Research Group in Computational Linguistics
\\ Director of the Research Institute of Information and Language Processing
\\ University of Wolverhampton
// Stafford St.
\\ Wolverhampton WV1 1SB
// Telephone (office) + 44 1902 322471
\\ Telephone (PA/secretary) +44 1902 321630
// Mobile phone (business) +44 7791 340385
\\ Fax +44 1902 323543
// Email r.mitkov at wlv.ac.uk
\\ Web site <http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825>www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825
// Research Group web site <http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/>http://clg.wlv.ac.uk
\\ Research Institute website www.wlv.ac.uk/riilp



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