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Specialty Areas: Logic Programming, Computational Linguistics

The Institute of Computational Linguistics at the University of Zurich,
Switzerland, invites applications for a research studentship in Computational
Linguistics.

The successful candidate will work on the use of constraint based techniques in
syntax parsing and logical form generation, on the general background of
Question Answering and Answer Extraction.

We are looking for candidates with a good honours degree in Computational
Linguistics or Computer Science, with good programming skills and, ideally, with
specific knowledge in the domain of CLP applications in NLP.

The successful candidate must start the studentship before or on April 1st,
2006. Duration: Initially 2 years. Current value of bursary approx. CHF 34'000/y.

For further information and queries, please contact Prof. Dr. Michael Hess by
e-mail at jobs@cl.unizh.ch.

Address for Applications:

Prof. Michael Hess
Institute of Computational Linguistics
University of Zurich
Winterthurerstr. 190
Zurich CH-8057
Switzerland
Websites: http://www.cl.unizh.ch; http://www.cl.unizh.ch/Address.html

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