Post-Doctoral Position: Language Technology and Cognitive Systems

[Valia Kordoni]

Apologies for multiple postings
-----------------------------------
Post-Doctoral Position in "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems"

Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany

The International Research Training Group "Language Technology and 
Cognitive Systems" is pleased to announce the availability of a 
 post-doctoral position available from June, 2008. The programme, 
established in 2001, is a collaborative PhD training programme between 
Saarland University and the University of Edinburgh - two leading 
institutions in the fields of computational linguistics, cognitive 
science and artificial intelligence. The participating departments in 
Saarbruecken are the Department of Computational Linguistics and 
Phonetics and the Department of Computer Science.

The IRTG focuses on the computational and cognitive foundations of human 
language processing, particularly emphasizing the following research areas:

- Language understanding (including spoken language processing, 
cognitive modelling, and experimental psycholinguistics)
- Knowledge representation, inference, the lexicon, and ontologies
- Data-intensive language models (including corpus-based and machine 
learning methods)
- Dialogue and language generation (computational and cognitive models)

Candidates must have completed all requirements for their PhD degree by 
the time of appointment. The ideal candidate for the post-doctoral 
position will have research interests which span computational and 
cognitive aspects of language processing, and have experience 
overlapping several of the above areas. In addition to the opportunity 
to carry out independent and collaborative research, the position also 
includes some administrative duties associated with the program. Some 
teaching is also possible, but not a requirement of the post. The 
position comes with access to state-of-the-art computing facilities, and 
the possibility to use the range of facilities on-site - such as 
eye-tracking, dialog, speech, and robotics laboratories - by arrangement 
with the relevant lab directors. Salary is on the German TV-L E13 scale 
(approx. 35K Euros per annum, depending on age and marital status). 
Support for travel to conferences is also available. The position is 
available from June 1, 2008 until March 31, 2010.

For more information about the graduate college and current members, 
prospective applicants are encouraged to look at our website: 
http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/projects/igk/

The final deadline for applications is 3 March, 2008. Any inquiries 
concerning the post should be directed to the e-mail address below. 
Complete applications including: (1) a statement of research interests, 
 (2) a full CV, (3) two example publications, and (4) the names (and 
e-mail addresses) of two referees, should be sent (preferably via 
e-mail) to:

Prof. Dr. Matthew Crocker
e-mail: irtg-admin at coli.uni-sb.de <mailto:irtg-admin at coli.uni-sb.de>

Department of Computational Linguistics
Saarland University
P.O. Box 15 11 50
66041 Saarbruecken, Germany

Tel. +49 (0)681 302-6560
Fax +49 (0)681 302-6561