25 February: fyi -- postgraduate funding, Aberdeen
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Part-Time Research Assistant/PhD Student in Natural Language Generation
Closing date: 29th Feb 2008.
Computing Science within the Engineering and Physical Sciences School
invites applications for the above post, to provide programming and
system development support for an ambitious programme of research in
Natural Language Generation (NLG), funded by the Engineering and
Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
The Natural Language Generation group within Computing Science is one
of the leading NLG research groups in the world. More information about
the group can be found from its web site at
http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/research/nlg. The group is embarking on an
exciting five-year project entitled "Affecting People with Natural
Language", which will extend existing knowledge of how to get computers
to generate language which has effects on the actions and feelings of
real people. The research assistant will provide technical backup to the
project and help with the creation and maintenance of electronic data
resources and software based on the group's existing and new research.
You should have a first class or upper second class honours in Computer
Science or a related discipline. You are expected to be a competent
programmer in Java and to be conversant with technologies for web-based
software delivery. You should be able to learn and work with other
programming languages. It is highly desirable that you have some
background in Natural Language Processing and an interest in pursuing
research in NLG.
The Research Assistant post is being offered on a half-time basis, to
start on from 1st April 2008 or as soon as possible thereafter, ending
on 28 February 2012. It is a condition of employment that the Research
Assistant also be registered as a part-time research student (with the
intention of obtaining a PhD) in the NLG area at Aberdeen. The
University of Aberdeen will pay the necessary registration and tuition
for the period of employment as a research assistant.
Informal enquiries can be made to: Prof Chris Mellish (Platform Grant
Principal Investigator) who can be emailed as c.mellish at the address
abdn (dot) ac (dot) uk
For more information and how to apply, please see:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/display.php?recordid=YCS069R
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