[Corpora-List] Research Fellow: Arabic NLP/MT - University of Wolverhampton, UK

[Lucia Specia]

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Research Fellow: Arabic NLP/MT
Closing date: Nov, 30 2010
Fixed term contract: 12 months
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The Research Group in Computational Linguistics (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/),
University of Wolverhampton, invites applications for a research fellowship
in the area of Arabic Natural Language Processing. The candidate will be
expected to carry out research in the topic of evaluation of Arabic-English
machine translation. He/she will contribute to the collection of data,
proposal, design and evaluation of quality estimation approaches. He/she may
also contribute to the implementation of the proposed approaches, which will
be performed by an experienced programmer.

A successful applicant must:
- Have a good honours degree or equivalent in Computational Linguistics,
Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Computer Science/Engineering,
Mathematics, Statistics, or related areas.
- Be a native or fluent speaker of Arabic or have sufficient knowledge of
the language proved by previous research related to the language.
- Have experience in Computational Linguistics / Natural Language
Processing, particularly the area of Machine Translation evaluation. A PhD
in the field is ideal, but masters level or work experience are also
acceptable.
- Be eligible to work in the UK, as the job requires an immediate start.
Part-time applications from candidates currently studying in the UK will
also be considered.

The starting date is early December 2010.

The application deadline is November 30, 2010.

Applications should be sent by e-mail to:

Dr. Lucia Specia
l.specia at wlv.ac.uk

Applications must include:

1) A curriculum vitae indicating degrees obtained, course covered,
publications, relevant work experience, and names of 3 referees that could
be contacted if necessary.

2) A 1-page cover letter with statement of research experience, indicating
why you are interested in this position and why you consider your experience
is relevant.

3) A job application form that can be downloaded from:
http://www2.wlv.ac.uk/pers/jobdetails/pers_jobapp_word_oct10.doc

The successful candidate will work with the Computational Linguistics group.
Established by Prof. Ruslan Mitkov in 1998, the Research Group in
Computational Linguistics is highly successful, delivering cutting-edge
research in a number of NLP areas such as anaphora resolution, automatic
summarisation, question answering, lexical knowledge acquisition, text
categorisation, named entity recognition, information extraction, corpus
construction and annotation, automatic terminology processing, multilingual
processing, and multiple-choice question generation. To a large extent, this
research has been undertaken in projects funded by major EU and UK funding
bodies and commercial partners.

The results from the latest Research Assessment Exercise announced on 17
December 2008 confirm the Research Group in Computational Linguistics as one
of the top performers in UK research. The research group was entered in Unit
of Assessment "Linguistics" and Wolverhampton was ranked joint 3rd with 2
more universities. According to the league tables of the Guardian, The Times
and Research Fortnight, research in Linguistics at the University of
Wolverhampton is one of the top 6 best in the UK.

Informal inquiries and electronic applications can be sent by email to:

Lucia Specia
Senior Lecturer
Research Institute of Information and Language Processing
University of Wolverhampton
Stafford St.
Wolverhampton
WV1 1SB
United Kingdom
E-mail: l.specia at wlv.ac.uk
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