Apologies for cross-postings] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PHD STUDENTSHIP QUESTION ANSWERING (£10,000 first year, £11,000 second year, £12,000 third year) Closing date: 16th April 2007 http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/jobs/jobs.php ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Application deadline: 16th April 2007 Start date: as soon as possible 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 question answering. We are looking for candidates with a good honours degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or Information Sciences, with programming skills and some experience in Natural Language Processing. Required skills: * degree in Computational 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, Computer Science or Information Sciences * experience in question answering and/or information extraction * familiarity with a wide range of programming environments and operating systems Applications should be sent to Dr. Constantin Orasan School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences University of Wolverhampton Stafford St. Wolverhampton WV1 1SB United Kingdom E-mail: C.Orasan@wlv.ac.uk and must include: * completed application form (available at http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/jobs/jobs.php) * CV including publications if any * 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. * a PhD plan (about 1000 words) which explains the research question to be addressed, the academic or intellectual context in which the proposed work is located and the methodology likely to be employed. A brief action plan should also be provided. The field of this PhD MUST be question answering. Applications should be made by email. The closing date for applications is 16th April 2007. Short-listed applicants will be contacted and notified of the specific date of interviews to be held in April (email and telephone). Successful candidates will have to register no later than June. The studentship includes a maintenance grant of 10,000 GBP for the first year, 11,000 GBP for the second year and 12,000 GBP for the third year and also covers the tuition fees for 3 years. The successful candidate will be working in a vibrant research environment, engaging in active research. This studentship is funded by the EU-funded project QALL-ME, so it is expected that the appointed student will contribute to this project as well. In return, the student will have access and will benefit from the resources developed in the project. The RESEARCH GROUP IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS at the University of Wolverhampton (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk) Established by Prof. Mitkov in 1997, 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. For further information/queries, please contact Dr. Constantin Orasan Phone: +44 1902 322 623 Email: C.Orasan@wlv.ac.uk -- Constantin Orasan Lecturer in Computational Linguistics Research Group in Computational Linguistics http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~in6093/ University of Wolverhampton