Full professorship: Theoretical Computational Linguistics, Potsdam

[Shravan Vasishth]

Full Professorship (W3) in Theoretical Computational Linguistics,
University of Potsdam

The University of Potsdam invites applications for the post of full
professor in Theoretical Computational Linguistics. Theoretical
Computational Linguistics at Potsdam plays an important role in
connecting theoretical linguistics, clinical and psycholinguistics and
computational linguistics. The ideal candidate will have expertise in
one or more of these areas:

- Grammar formalisms and (probabilistic) parsing of natural language
- machine learning techniques for language processing
- computational semantics

Knowledge of symbolic and/or statistical methods and corpus-based
methods is presupposed. The research profile of the candidate should
fit into the interdisciplinary nature of the Excellence Center for
Cognitive Sciences at Potsdam
(http://www.uni-potsdam.de/humfak/hum-exzellenzbereich.html).
Participation is expected in the Collaborative Research Project
(Sonderforschungsbereich 632), Information Structure: the linguistic
means for structuring utterances, sentences and texts (see:
http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/main.html), and in other projects
related to cognitive science.  Experience in obtaining third-party
funding and an international presence is desirable.

The University of Potsdam is an Equal Opportunity employer and is
actively engaged in increasing the proportion of women in research and
teaching; qualified women are therefore encouraged to apply. All other
things being equal, handicapped candidates will be given preference.

Questions regarding the job opening should be directed to Shravan
Vasishth (vasishth at uni-potsdam.de)

Applications should be received by February 20 2010, and should be sent to:
The President
University of Potsdam
Am Neues Palais 10
14469 Potsdam, Germany

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Shravan Vasishth
Professor of Linguistics
Chair of Psycholinguistics & Neurolinguistics
Department of Linguistics
University of Potsdam, D-14476 Potsdam
http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~vasishth