PhD Studentship in Interactive Question Answering
(£12,000 per year)
Closing date: 16th Jan 2009
http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/jobs/
The Research Group in Computational Linguistics, University of Wolverhampton invites applications for a three-year-funded PhD studentship in Computational Linguistics. The successful candidate is expected to carry out research in the domain of interactive question answering. We are looking for candidates with a good degree in Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, Computer Science or Information Sciences, with programming skills and some experience in Natural Language Processing. The studentship is part funded by Unilever.
Required skills:
Desirable skills:
Applications should be sent to
Dr. Constantin Orasan
Research Institute of Information and Language Processing
University of Wolverhampton
Stafford St.
Wolverhampton
WV1 1SB
United Kingdom
E-mail: C.Orasan@wlv.ac.uk
and must include:
Applications should be made both by email and surface mail. The closing date for applications is 16th January 2009. The short-listed applicants will be interviewed by email and telephone in the week beginning 26th January 2009.
The studentship includes a maintenance grant of 12,000 GBP a year and also covers the tuition fees for 3 years.
The successful candidate is expected to start as soon as possible after 1st February 2009. She or he will be working in a vibrant research environment, engaging in active research. The studentship is part-funded by Unilever.
Established by Prof. Mitkov in 1998, the Research Group in Computational Linguistics is a highly successful one, delivering cutting-edge research in a number of NLP areas such as anaphora resolution, automatic summarisation, question answering, lexical knowledge acquisition, text categorisation, named entity recognition, information extraction, corpus construction and annotation, automatic terminology processing, multilingual processing, and multiple-choice question generation. To a large extent, this research has been undertaken in projects funded by major UK funding bodies and commercial partners. The recent UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) results have confirmed the Research Group in Computational Linguistics as one of the top research performers in the UK.
Required skills:
- degree in Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, Computer Science or Information Sciences
- experience with at least one of the following: Java, Perl, C++, .NET
- experience in Natural Language Processing
- good command of the English language
Desirable skills:
- Master's degree in Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, Computer Science or Information Sciences
- experience in question answering, information extraction and/or dialogue systems
- familiarity with a wide range of programming environments and operating systems
Applications should be sent to
Dr. Constantin Orasan
Research Institute of Information and Language Processing
University of Wolverhampton
Stafford St.
Wolverhampton
WV1 1SB
United Kingdom
E-mail: C.Orasan@wlv.ac.uk
and must include:
- completed application form available from http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/jobs/PhD-application.pdf
- CV
- copy of university degree (in English)
- copy of transcript listing all university marks (in English)
- evidence of postgraduate qualification if applicable
- a covering letter in which candidates explain why they have applied for the studentship, give details of their research interests/experience, background, programming skills and an outline of
- any experience in Natural Language Processing or Linguistics.
Applications should be made both by email and surface mail. The closing date for applications is 16th January 2009. The short-listed applicants will be interviewed by email and telephone in the week beginning 26th January 2009.
The studentship includes a maintenance grant of 12,000 GBP a year and also covers the tuition fees for 3 years.
The successful candidate is expected to start as soon as possible after 1st February 2009. She or he will be working in a vibrant research environment, engaging in active research. The studentship is part-funded by Unilever.
Established by Prof. Mitkov in 1998, the Research Group in Computational Linguistics is a highly successful one, delivering cutting-edge research in a number of NLP areas such as anaphora resolution, automatic summarisation, question answering, lexical knowledge acquisition, text categorisation, named entity recognition, information extraction, corpus construction and annotation, automatic terminology processing, multilingual processing, and multiple-choice question generation. To a large extent, this research has been undertaken in projects funded by major UK funding bodies and commercial partners. The recent UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) results have confirmed the Research Group in Computational Linguistics as one of the top research performers in the UK.
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