14 November: fyi -- NLP, UK

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The University of Sheffield

Natural Language Processing Group
Department of Computer Science

RESEARCH POSTS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE ENGINEERING/E-SCIENCE/BIOINFORMATICS

Applications are invited for two Research positions in the Natural
Language Processing Research Group in the Department of Computer
Science, University of Sheffield. Both positions will be up to 3
years, starting as soon as appointments can be made. The research
positions are part of a multi-university, collaborative project called
"MyGrid: Directly Supporting the e-Scientist", funded by the UK
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under the
e-Science initiative (see http://www.mygrid.org.uk for further
details). Sheffield's role in the project is to further develop its
natural language processing-based Information Extraction software to
support the E-Scientist in extracting key information directly from
the scientific literature. To this end we are seeking two researchers:

Position 1: Computational Linguist

Position 2: Information Scientist with Molecular Biology/Biochemical
Background

Further detail may be found at:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/dept/jobs/mygrid_ad.html

Informal enquiries can be made to:
Dr. Robert Gaizauskas
R.Gaizauskas@dcs.shef.ac.uk.

To apply for either of the above positions, please request an
Information Pack from the Personnel Department.

by phone - 24 hour telephone answering service:- +44 (0)114 222 1631.
by email - jobs@sheffield.ac.uk
by fax:- +44 (0)114 222 1624
by post:- write to
The Personnel Department,
University of Sheffield,
Firth Court, Western Bank,
Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom.

**Please ensure that you include the reference number R2481 and your
full postal address when requesting details.**

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS IS DECEMBER 10, 2001.

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