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Research Associate in Natural Language Processing

RCEAL, University of Cambridge, UK

Applications are invited for a post-doctoral Research Associate position
on the 'PANACEA' project, funded by the EC 7th Framework Programme. This
project will design and implement novel techniques for the acquisition of
language resources from corpora and demonstrate their usefulness for
natural language processing applications.

The Research Associate will be responsible for developing models for
automatic acquisition of lexical information from texts and applying these
models to construct large lexical resources from corpora. The position is
suitable for a candidate with a PhD in natural language processing,
computer science or a related discipline. The successful applicant will
have strong programming skills and experience with natural language
processing techniques and machine learning. Previous experience with
parsing, automatic lexical acquisition, and large-scale data processing is
desired.

Informal enquiries can be made to Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk
).

Applicants should send a full CV, including a list of publications, a
description of previous research experience, names of TWO referees, and a
completed form PD18
Parts I and III (downloadable from
http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/personnel/forms/pd18/)
to Anna
Korhonen by email (alk23@cam.ac.uk ) by the
closing date.

Salary scale: ?27,183-?35,469

Duration: The funds for this post are available from 1 April 2010 until 30
September 2012

Closing date: 21 February 2010

Planned Interview dates: First week of March 2010.

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