19 December: fyi -- research, Michigan
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COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
The Group in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language
Processing at the University of Michigan is seeking a postdoctoral
researcher. Candidates should have previous experience in
relevant areas of Computer Science. We are particularly interested
in candidates with prior research experience in statistical NLP,
including parsing, language modeling, summarization, question
answering, generation, and machine translation.
The university of Michigan is located in Ann Arbor, MI, 25 miles
from Detroit Metropolitan Airport which has hundreds of direct
flights to the USA, Canada, Asia, and Europe. Ann Arbor,
population 110,000, is a diverse college town, with a large
selection of cultural and athletic facilities.
Our group is a cooperative effort involving Computer Science,
Linguistics, and the School of Information, and drawing on the
many resources in Computer, Cognitive, and Information Science
at this university. We also have strong connections to the
Program in Bioinformatics. The core members of the group include
Steven Abney, Dragomir Radev, and Richmond Thomason.
We are seeking an energetic, independent person with excellent
communication skills, whose primary duties will involve
coordinating and developing new research proposals. High
proficiency in the following areas will be particularly valuable:
programming; theoretical computer science, mathematics, and
statistics; technical writing in English.
The two-year position carries a starting salary of $48,000, with
fringe benefits. Starting time can be arranged, but should be
between January 1 and September 1, 2004. Applications received by
December 31, 2003 will receive maximum consideration.
To apply, please send (preferably in plain text) the following
documents:
(1) a c.v. including the names and email addresses of
2-4 people who know your work well and will be available as
references. Do not ask for letters to be sent at this time.
(2) a 1-2 page description of your research interests
in an email to rthomaso@eecs.umich.edu (Richmond Thomason). Use
"CL/NLP postdoc application from [your-name]" as the subject of
your email.
Please visit http://www.umich.edu/cl for more details about CL/NLP
at Michigan.
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Dragomir R. Radev radev@umich.edu
Assistant Professor of Information, Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science, and Linguistics, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Phone: 734-615-5225 Fax: 734-764-2475 http://www.si.umich.edu/~radev
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