14 July: fyi -- phd & postdoctoral funding, Dublin
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The following funded research positions are now available in Dublin,
Ireland:
* A Post-doctoral position in Natural Language Processing
* Two PhD positions in Natural Language Processing
As part of the Creative Language Systems Group in UCD
(http://afflatus.ucd.ie) within the context of CNGL, the Center for
Next Generation Localization.
Applications are sought from candidates with experience in the
following areas of research and development:
NLP/Information Extraction for Subject-Modeling, inducing/populating
taxonomies and ontologies from domain-specific texts, evaluating
ontologies and taxonomies, translating ontologies, using ontologies
and taxonomies for IR, etc.
Starting date: fourth quarter 2008
The successful candidates will be expected to have a good primary
degree in Computer Science or related discipline and relevant PhD
experience in the areas of text processing / Natural Language
Processing. Programming aplomb is a strong plus, as well as an
interest in corpus-based approaches to NLP, figurative language
processing, affective reasoning, or cognitively-plausible models of
categorization, etc. Good English-language skills are also a plus, as
is an appreciation for creative language.
Salary/ Funding details:
-- Post-doc salary approx 45-50k euro p.a., depending on experience
-- PhD studentships carry a 16k euro p.a. stipend (tax free) + free fees
To apply, please email a CV and contact details for two referees by 1st Sept 2008 to
Tony.Veale@ucd.ie
Please also use this address (or the snail mail address below) for informal inquiries.
Dr. Tony Veale, UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics,
University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
The positions are part of a large research project "Next Generation
Localisation" involving a consortium of leading Irish Universities
(DCU, TCD, UCD and UL) and Industry Partners, funded by the Science
Foundation Ireland (SFI).
The project focuses on Language Technology and Digital Content
Management in Localisation. Localisation concerns the adaptation of
digital content to the specific domain, culture and language of
end-users, and is applied on a continuum from industry-scale bulk
localization on one end (the traditional view of localization) to the
personalization of individual user experiences at the other.
I fully expect there to be scope for interesting and novel approaches
to language processing, linguistic creativity and ontological
categorization in this project. To see our group?s view of creative
language processing, please check out http://afflatus.ucd.ie, and if
you feel you can contribute to such a project, send us your CV.
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