------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor or Reader in Computational Linguistics/NaturalLanguage Processing Reference number: B4553 **** Application deadline: 16 March 2007 **** Salary in the range: 36,675 - 46,114 (Reader) or 47,807 - 53,945* (Professor) ------------------------------------------------------------------- We are seeking a Professor or Reader (depending on track record and qualifications) in Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing with an outstanding research record as evidenced by publications in leading journals and successful grant applications. Commercial experience or links with industry would be an advantage as would teaching experience and experience in mentoring less experienced researchers. Duties include collaborative research and producing first class research/publications, grant applications, PhD student/researcher supervision and teaching. This is a permanent position. Applications should include a completed application form, CV, and covering letter explaining your reasons for applying for the position, including the level of appointment, and giving details of your research interests/experience and background. You should also give the names of three referees who can comment on your suitability for appointment at the appropriate level. The interviews are scheduled to take place in April, with the starting date as soon as possible thereafter. For informal enquires, 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