16.2589, Jobs: Computational Ling: Post Doc, U of Birmingham

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Subject: 16.2589, Jobs: Computational Ling: Post Doc, U of Birmingham

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Date: 07-Sep-2005
From: Alan Wallington < A.M.Wallington at cs.bham.ac.uk >
Subject: Computational Ling: Post Doc, University of Birmingham, UK 

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Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:49:54
From: Alan Wallington < A.M.Wallington at cs.bham.ac.uk >
Subject: Computational Ling: Post Doc, University of Birmingham, UK 

This announcement was accompanied by a donation to the LINGUIST List! 

University or Organization: University of Birmingham 
Department: Computer Science
Job Rank: Post Doc  
Specialty Areas: Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Metaphor

Description:

Applications are invited for a Research Fellow in the Figurative Language
Research Group in the School of Computer Science at the University of
Birmingham. 

The successful applicant will join an EPSRC-funded project recently awarded
to Professor John Barnden and Drs Alan Wallington, Sheila Glasbey and Mark
Lee entitled Coping with the Open-Endedness of Everyday Metaphorical
Language: theory, corpus study and computational implementation, an
informal description of which can be found at
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~amw/Metaphor/informal.html 

The project is inter-disciplinary in scope and is concerned with
investigating, describing, and formalising the type of information that is
unchanging between the source/vehicle and the target/tenor of a
metaphorical utterance.

It is intended that the post-holder will concentrate primarily on the
formal description of the above type of 'invariant' information using an
'event-based' formalism and on helping to implement the resulting
descriptions within the 'ATT-Meta' system for reasoning with the contents
of metaphorical descriptions (see http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jab/ATT-Meta)
which was funded by the EPSRC during a previous project. However, we shall
consider applicants with interests in other aspects of the project.

Candidates should have a PhD or equivalent experience. They should want to
engage in a careful and sensitive investigation of English and should enjoy
working in an interdisciplinary field. Preference will be given to
candidates who are able to offer many of the following: computational
linguistics; linguistics; artificial intelligence; experience of developing
large systems; knowledge of formal approaches to reasoning; prolog;
evidence of sensitivity to the use of metaphor and figurative language;
publications skills and desire to publish; self motivation and the ability
to work collaboratively.

Informal enquiries (in strict confidence) to John Barnden email:
J.A.Barnden at cs.bham.ac.uk, tel +44 (0)121 414 3816 or Alan Wallington
email: A.M.Wallington at cs.bham.ac.uk, tel: 44 (0)121 414 2795 

Starting salary on scale £19,460- £23,643 a year depending on experience
and qualifications.  The post is available from 1 October 2005 until 30
June 2008 in the first instance.

Application forms (returnable by 15 September 2005, interviews will
commence during the last week of September) and details from Personnel
Services, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT. 
Tel: 0121 415 9000, web: www.punit.bham.ac.uk/vacancies  

Please quote reference S36933

Late applications will be considered until the post is filled. Please send
late applications to Prof. John Barnden email: J.A.Barnden at cs.bham.ac.uk,
tel +44 (0)121 414 3816 or Dr.Alan Wallington email:
A.M.Wallington at cs.bham.ac.uk, tel: 44 (0)121 414 2795.

Application forms can be found at:
http://www.personnel.bham.ac.uk/vacancies/howToApplyForAPost.htm

Address for Applications 

	Personnel Services 
	The University of Birmingham 
	Edgbaston 
	Birmingham B152TT 
	United Kingdom  

Application Deadline: Open until filled.

Contact Information:

	Prof John Barnden 
	Email: J.A.Barnden at cs.bham.ac.uk 
	Phone: +44 (0)1214143816 
	Website: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk

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