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General Information
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The School of Informatics is part of the College of Science and
Engineering. The post will be based at HCRC, 2 Buccleuch Place within
the central University area.
Principal Duties:
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The research programmer will be responsible for:
Implementing user interfaces designed by researchers;
Developing tools to extract lexical information from existing lexical
databases
Developing tools to analyse corpus data using Java and XML processing tools.
Candidate Profile
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The successful candidate will have the following profile:
Completed BSc or MSc in computer science or artificial intelligence;
Ability to work effectively and to meet deadlines;
Strong programming skills in Java;
Experience building graphical user interfaces.
In addition the following skills are desirable:
Experience in writing modules for large software systems
Knowledge of XML processing techniques in Perl;
Knowledge of Lisp, or natural language processing
techniques, will be an advantage.
Project Description
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The project will be based at The Human Communication Research Centre
(HCRC). The ongoing work of the tutorial systems group is on
developing robust and extensible tutorial dialogue systems. The goal
of this project is to develop tools for lexicon building and parser
development in new domains. Informal enquiries can be made to Dr
Myroslava Dzikovska (M.Dzikovska@ed.ac.uk), or Prof. Johanna
Moore(J.Moore@ed.ac.uk)