30 June: fyi -- postdoctoral research, Dublin
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Two Postdoctoral Research Positions in NLP (NCLT, Dublin, Ireland)
The National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT) and the School of
Computing at Dublin City University, Ireland, invite applications for two
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) funded Postdoctoral research positions in
probabilistic, transfer-based machine translation and probabilistic
generation using treebank-based LFG resources (Cahill et al. 2004, O'Donovan
et al. 2005, Cahill and van Genabith 2006):
* PD1: Treebank-Based Acquisition of Wide-Coverage Probabilistic
Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) Resources and Machine Translation (2 years:
2006-2008)
* PD2: Probabilistic Generation Using Treebank-Based, Wide-Coverage,
Probabilistic Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) Resources (1 year: 2006-2007)
The starting dates for the positions are early September (PD1) and late
September (PD2), 2006. The salary is euro 39,500 (approx) p.a. The positions
are available to both EU- and non-EU-applicants.
Ideal candidates have a strong background in Computational Linguistics,
Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning or Computer Science. Knowledge
of constraint-based grammar formalisms such as LFG, HPSG, CCG, TAG, PATR-II
and statistical NLP is a strong asset. Programming experience and a keen
interest in problem solving and research are essential.
The successful applicants will work in a large NLP team of 20+ Ph.D.
students and 6 Postdoctoral researchers at the National Centre for Language
Technology (NCLT) in the School of Computing at Dublin City University.
In order to apply, please mail your CV and contact details for two
references by Friday, July 28th, 2006 to: josef@computing.dcu.ie Please also
use this email address for informal inquiries.
Prof. Josef van Genabith
National Centre for Language Technology NCLT
School of Computing
Dublin City University,
Dublin 9, Ireland.
http://www.computing.dcu.ie/research/nclt/
References:
(Cahill et al. 2004) Long-Distance Dependency Resolution in Automatically
Acquired Wide-Coverage PCFG-Based LFG Approximations, A. Cahill, M. Burke,
R. O'Donovan, J. van Genabith, and A. Way. ACL-04, July 21-26, pp. 320-327,
Barcelona, Spain, 2004
(O'Donovan et al. 2005) Large-Scale Induction and Evaluation of Lexical
Resources from the Penn-II and Penn-III Treebanks, R. O'Donovan, M. Burke,
A. Cahill, J. van Genabith and A. Way. Computational Linguistics, 31(3), pp.
329 - 365, 2005
(Cahill and van Genabith 2006) Robust PCFG-Based Generation using
Automatically Acquired LFG Approximations, A. Cahill and J. van Genabith,
COLING/ACL 2006, Sydney, Australia, 2006
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