[Corpora-List] 1 year research assistant position, Saarland University

[Vera Demberg]

RESEARCH ASSISTANT IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Applications are invited for a full-time fixed-term (1 year) position as 
a research assistant in Natural Language Processing at the junior 
research group "Cognitive Models of Human Language Processing and their 
Application to Dialogue Systems" headed by Vera Demberg. The goal of the 
research position is to develop a compositional semantics framework for 
PLTAG, a strictly incremental version of tree-adjoining grammar (TAG). 
The scientific interest and challenge of this project lies in designing 
a semantic construction process which reflects the strict incrementality 
of the PLTAG syntactic derivation. A further goal of the project is to 
combine the to-be-developed compositional PLTAG semantics with a 
distributional model of semantics.

Saarland University is a European leader in Computer Science research 
and teaching, and is especially renowned for its research in 
Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. The newly 
established group is a part of the interdisciplinary MMCI Cluster of 
Excellence formed in partnership with top-ranked research institutions 
located on the Saarland University campus: Max Planck Institute for 
Informatics, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and German 
Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Researchers come 
from all over the world and the research language is English.

The ideal candidate for the position should have a doctoral degree or 
equivalent in computational linguistics, linguistics or computer science 
or a related field, and should previously have worked on semantics. 
Candidates with a MSc-level degree will be considered if they have 
experience with semantics and tree-adjoining grammars. A strong academic 
record, excellent analytical skills and a clear aptitude for autonomous, 
creative research will be priority selection criteria. Good programming 
skills are required for this position.
The candidate should have excellent verbal and written communication 
skills in English and/or German.

The salary and social benefits are according to Germany's public sector 
TV-L E13 scale (see http://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/tv-l/west/). The 
position is limited to 1 year. A part-time arrangement with 
corresponding longer contract duration is however also possible.


The applications should include:

   * CV
   * brief statement of research interests
   * 2-3 references (with email and phone number)
   * academic transcripts from degrees
   * list of publications (if any)
   * a copy of your MSc/PhD thesis

Applications (preferably, in a single PDF file) and inquiries should be 
directed by email to:

Vera Demberg, vera at coli.uni-saarland.de


Applications received before June 1st will receive full consideration.
The start date will be July 1, 2011 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Saarland University is an equal opportunity employer. Inaccordance with 
its policy of increasing the proportion of women in this type of 
employment, the University actively encourages applications from women. 
For candidates with equal qualification, preference will be given to 
people with physical disabilities.

Some relevant links:

   * MMCI Cluster of Excellence http://www.mmci.uni-saarland.de/

   * Vera Demberg's research group 
_http://www.mmci.uni-saarland.de/en/independent_research_groups/cognitive_models_of_human_language_processing_and_their_application_to_dialogue_systems_

   * Psycholinguistics at Saarland University
http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/groups/MC/

   * Computational Linguistics and Phonetics at Saarland University
http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/

   * Saarbruecken http://www.saarbruecken.de/en/home/

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