23.2735, Jobs: Comp Ling: Post Doc/Researcher, U of Aberdeen

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Subject: 23.2735, Jobs: Comp Ling: Post Doc/Researcher, U of Aberdeen

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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:44:02
From: Chris Mellish [c.mellish at abdn.ac.uk]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Post Doc/Researcher, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

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University or Organization: University of Aberdeen 
Department: Computing Science
Job Location: Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom 
Web Address: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/index.php
Job Rank: Post Doc  

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 


Description:

The EPSRC-funded project 'WhatIf: Answering 'what if …?' Questions for 
Ontology Authoring' is seeking to build a dialogue system allowing a person 
who is building a semantic web ontology to ask 'what if …?' questions about 
possible additions and changes to the ontology and get meaningful answers. 
This involves automated reasoning about what the consequences of a 
change in the ontology would be and intelligent presentation of the results. 
Because in general there will be infinitely many new logical consequences, 
the system will have to understand something about what the person is trying 
to do and what sorts of results will be most interesting to them. It is assumed 
that this information can best be provided by the person in the context of a 
natural dialogue system. 

We are seeking a Computational Linguist to lead the theoretical and practical 
design and development of the dialogue system (other researchers will be 
investigating issues of efficient reasoning and issues of how to model the 
process of ontology authoring). The dialogue system is expected to use 
structured input (including an approach to specifying complex content based 
on "editing" natural text (see paper by Power in European Workshop on 
Natural Language Generation 2009) rather than free natural language text or 
speech, but nevertheless is required to be natural and to select and present 
information coherently. 

You should have, or be about to acquire, a PhD in Computer Science/ 
Artificial Intelligence/ Computational Linguistics, with experience of natural 
language processing research at the postgraduate level and experience of 
implementing software for users. Research interests in conversational 
implicature/ relevance, logics and reasoning, dialogue moves and structures, 
the semantic web and requirements elicitation/ evaluation with users would all 
be advantageous but are not essential.

For more information, please go to http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/index.php 
click on "external applicants" and search for the post with reference number 
1253433. Application is online via that web site. Questions about the post, 
but not applications, can be sent to Chris Mellish at the email address below.


Application Deadline: 28-Jun-2012 
	  
Web Address for Applications: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/index.php 
Contact Information:
	Chris Mellish 
	Email: c.mellish at abdn.ac.uk 





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