----------------------------------------------------------------------- Senior Research Fellow in Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing *** Applications closing date: 16 March 2007*** Reference: A4686 Salary: 29,349 to 39,033* pa (level of appointment dependent on qualifications and experience) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are seeking a Senior Researcher in Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing with an excellent research record as evidenced by publications in reputable journals. Project experience or links with industry would be an advantage as would teaching or PhD supervision experience. Duties include collaborative research and producing first class research/publications, involvement in grant applications, and some teaching and student supervision. This appointment is for two years in the first instance. Applications should include a completed application form, CV, and covering letter in which you explain why you have applied for the position and give details of your research interests/experience and background. The covering letter should also present a research plan (about 1,000 words) which you would like to pursue. The interviews are scheduled to take place in April with the starting date as soon as possible thereafter. For informal enquiries, please contact Prof. Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk). Applications to be sent to Personnel. If emailed, please cc to R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk For an application form, contact: Personnel Services Department, University of Wolverhampton, Molineux Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1SB Phone +44 (0) 1902 321049 (ansaphone), and quoting the reference number. For hearing impaired candidates our Minicom number is +44 (0) 1902 321249. Email address: per@wlv.ac.uk The application form can also be downloaded from http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/jobs/app_form_jobs.pdf * In line with the University pay modernisation programme, salaries may be subject to review. Established by Prof. Mitkov in 1997, the Research Group in Computational Linguistics (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk) 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. // Prof. Dr. Ruslan Mitkov \\ Professor of Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering // Head of the Research Group in Computational Linguistics \\ Director of the Research Institute of Information and Language Processing \\ University of Wolverhampton // Stafford St. \\ Wolverhampton WV1 1SB // Telephone + 44 1902 322145 \\ Fax +44 1902 323543 // Email r.mitkov@wlv.ac.uk \\ Web site www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825 // Research Group web site http://clg.wlv.ac.uk \\ Research Institute website www.wlv.ac.uk/riilp