Job: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics

[Lars Borin]

Job announcement
Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, Dept. of Linguistics, Uppsala
University, Sweden
Ref.no. 2930/99

Description: Teaching and course development in Computational Linguistics
on the four-year Master's program in Language Engineering
(http://stp.ling.uu.se), particularly in the areas of Formal and
Computational Grammar (morphology, syntax, and parsing), and Computational
Lexicography.

The applicant should have experience of research and teaching in the areas
mentioned, as well as course administration and course development.

Applications (in two identical sets) should contain
- CV, incl. certified photocopies of relevant documents
- a brief account of scientific and pedagogical achievments
- publication list
- publications

For further information, contact Professor Anna Sagvall Hein: anna at ling.uu.se
or Director of Studies Lars Borin: Lars.Borin at ling.uu.se

The application should be addressed to Uppsala University and sent to the
address:
Uppsala University, The Registrar, Box 256, SE - 751 05, Uppsala, SWEDEN,
fax no +46 18 471 2000. If the application is sent by fax, the originals
must be submitted by regular mail as soon as possible.

The deadline for applications is 28th June 1999.


About the Department of Linguistics and the Language Engineering program

There are several completed and ongoing research projects in Computational
Linguistics/ Language Engineering at the department, e.g.:
- A controlled-language/computer-aided translation project in cooperation
with Swedish truck manufacturer Scania.;
- SCARRIE, an EU project aiming at the development of Scandinavian
proof-reading tools for newspapers and publishing houses, in our case a
grammar checker for Swedish newspaper text;
- PLUG and ETAP, two projects where the extraction of linguistic
information from parallel translation corpora is investigated

There is also research going on in the areas of machine learning of natural
language, computational grammatical and semantic formalisms, and computer
aids for the learning of computational and general linguistics.

Since 1994, we offer a four-year Master's program in Language Engineering,
where we accept 20 students per year. There are two and a half years of
common courses, in formal linguistics, mathematics, computer programming
(Prolog, web programming and Unix shellscripts), and CL/LE. After this, the
students specialise into areas such as machine translation, language
revision tools, CALL, speech technology, or computational tools for
language engineering.