PhD studentships in Portuguese NLP (Univ of Lisbon)

[Antonio Branco]

PhD studentships in Portuguese NLP


The NLX-Natural Language Group at the University of Lisbon has
various positions to work on the following topics: corpus and
treebanking, ontologies, shallow and deep linguistic processing.
This work is carried on in view of areas such as e-learning
environments, the semantic web, question-answering or machine
translation.


The PhD studentships are for 1 year in first instance, renewable
for up to 3 years in total. Positions start on 1st December 2005
(or a.s.a.p.), and provide an annual maintenance grant in a range
starting from euro 12,780 (tax free, social security and 24h
insurance included). The positions are available to both EU- and
non-EU-applicants. They all require residence in Lisbon, 35 hours/week
research, and the stipend must result in a PhD dissertation.


Our ideal candidates have a strong background in (one or more of)
natural language processing, artificial intelligence, computational
linguistics, cognitive science, or a related field. Good programming
skills and experience are a strong asset. Native or near-native
competence in Portuguese is crucial. Good communication skills in
English (written and oral) are important. Applicants should have
a keen interest in problem solving and NLP and a capacity to conduct
individual and collaborative research consonant with the projects
underway at NLX-Group.


The successful applicants will work in a team involved in research
activities being carried on in the scope of a number of national and
international projects, involving close collaboration with other
departments and numerous other Portuguese and international academic
institutions. For more information on the current activities of the
NLX - Natural Language Group, see http://nlxgroup.di.fc.ul.pt


Applicants should submit as soon as possible, or at the latest by
November 15th, 2005:

	* a letter of application
	* detailed curriculum vitae
	* copy of diploma together with a list of grades
	* list and copies of publications (if any)
	* names and email addresses of two referees

to <Antonio.Branco _at_ di.fc.ul.pt> with subject "PhD Studentship
application". This email address can be used also for informal inquiries
(applications conditional on the near completion of studies will be
considered).


Prof. António Branco
Department of Informatics
University of Lisbon
Campo Grande
1749-016 Lisboa
Portugal