[Corpora-List] Job advert: RA NLP post on Spatial Humanities project in UCREL Lancaster

[Rayson, Paul]

Research Associate (Spatial Humanities Project: Computational Linguistics)
Department of History

http://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A553

Salary:   £25,251
Closing Date:   Monday 19 November 2012
Interview Date:   Monday 17 December 2012
Reference:  A553

We wish to appoint a Research Associate with expertise in Natural language Processing or Computational Linguistics as part of an interdisciplinary team working on a major Digital Humanities project bringing together staff from the Department of History, Department of Linguistics & English Language, and the School of Computing & Communications (SCC) at Lancaster University.  The project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and is working on analysing texts from a geographical perspective. Your role will be to provide computational linguistics expertise and support to this.

You should have a first or master's degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Digital Humanities, or a related field; and preferably a PhD and/or post-graduate research experience in the area of corpus-based analysis and/or natural language processing. You should also possess suitable software development skills and demonstrate the ability to work as part of a team as well as the capability to integrate diverse multi-disciplinary requirements into the design of the natural language processing tools to be developed.

The post is a fixed-term appointment at 1.0 FTE from 1 January 2013, or as soon as possible thereafter, for 18 months.

More details on the project are available from: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/spatialhum. Candidates are encouraged to make informal enquires to the project co-investigator Dr Paul Rayson (p.rayson at lancaster.ac.uk) in SCC or principal investigator Prof Ian Gregory (i.gregory at lancaster.ac.uk) in History.

Dr. Paul Rayson
Director of UCREL and Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
Faculty of Science and Technology Director of International Teaching Partnerships
School of Computing and Communications, Infolab21, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK.
Web: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~paul/
Tel: +44 1524 510357 Fax: +44 1524 510492

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