Post-Doctoral Position: Language Technology and Cognitive Systems
Valia Kordoni
kordoni at CoLi.Uni-SB.DE
Tue Feb 12 11:05:51 UTC 2008
Apologies for multiple postings
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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
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