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£24,886 - £29,715
Programmer, 2 years in the first instance, Ref: 2123
£24,886 - £29,715
PhD Student (Stipend £12,000 p.a. for 3 years) Ref: S2122A
Computational Linguistics
Faculty of Mathematics and Computing
Based in Milton Keynes
The recently inaugurated Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) at the Open University has various positions to work on the following topics from the perspective of Natural Language Generation: paraphrasing, report generation, query interfaces, ontology development, knowledge formation. This work will be applied to areas such as electronic health records, e-learning environments, the semantic web and information extraction.
For the Postdoctoral position you will have a PhD in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence or Linguistics. You will also have experience in the following areas: decision-support systems, affect in language, discourse structure, document structure, summarisation from data, referring expression generation, semantic web and information extraction. A proven record of publications and good programming skills would be advantageous.
For the Programmer position you will have strong programming experience, with a BSc or MSc in computer science or artificial intelligence, and experience in Java.
For the PhD place you will have a good honours degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence or Linguistics.
For informal enquiries please contact Dr Richard Power (r.power@open.ac.uk). For more information on the NLG group, see http://mcs.open.ac.uk/NLP/nlg/
For detailed information, and to apply online, go to www3.open.ac.uk/employment, or call the Recruitment Co-ordinator on 01908 654161 or email MCS-Recruitment@open.ac.uk quoting the relevant reference number. Closing date: 24 October 2005.
Disabled applicants who meet the essential job requirements will be interviewed. Further particulars are available in large print, disk or audiotape (minicom 01908 654901).
We promote diversity in employment and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
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Professor Donia Scott
Centre for Research in Computing
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
Tel: +44 (0) 1908 659032 (direct)
+44 (0) 1908 858462 (secretary, Mrs Sheelagh Huggins)
Fax: +44 (0) 1908 652140
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