[Corpora-List] Postdoctoral researchers in NLP related disciplines: College of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa

[Laurette Pretorius]

Apologies for repeated postings


Duration of Call: 1 September – 31 October 2014


The College of Graduate Studies of the University of South Africa (Unisa)
is inviting outstanding candidates for Postdoctoral Researcher positions in
the fields of natural language processing ,  computational linguistics, and
semantic computing to collaborate in a project on Sustainable
Multilingualism in the South African Context.


The candidate should have a doctoral degree in computer science or a
related discipline, with specialisation in any one of the following or
closely related fields: natural language processing (NLP) , computational
linguistics, corpus linguistics, machine learning, or semantic computing.
Specific specialisation in any one of the following broad topics will be
advantageous:

·         Experience in the use of functional programming in NLP
applications and computational grammar development, specifically in GF
(Grammatical Framework);

·         The successful development and application of language resources
and computational techniques for under-resourced languages;

·         Experience in using Linked Data and natural language technologies
towards building the multilingual Semantic Web.

·         Knowledge of an African language.

The successful candidates will be expected to collaborate in an
interdisciplinary environment where the focus is on research, development
and deployment of computational approaches towards sustainable
multilingualism in the South African context. The candidates will form part
of a small team of researchers involved in innovative work towards
realising multilingual support for ten of the eleven official languages of
South Africa. The expectation is that the candidate’s work would increase
the international reputation of the research group and the institution
through world-class research, publications and applications through
collaborations with team members and other researchers, as appropriate, and
that it would also contribute towards the increased success of master’s and
doctoral research at Unisa.


Unisa (www.unisa.ac.za) is an Open Distance Learning (ODL) institution with
more than 12,000 master’s and doctoral students.


Call for applications:
http://www.unisa.ac.za/research/news/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/PDF-Call-for-Applications-2014.pdf

Application form:
http://www.unisa.ac.za/Default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=28500


For more information, please contact Prof Laurette Pretorius, College of
Graduate Studies, Unisa, pretol at unisa.ac.za
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