Job Openings

RESEARCHER POSITIONS OFFERED AT LABORATORIES FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, SINGAPORE

In the area of Information Extraction and other natural language understanding areas.

If you're interested, please contact Dr. Su Jian during COLING2002 main conference. You may also send in your resume and e-mail Dr. Su Jian at sujian@lit.a-star.edu.sg.

Qualifications:
Strong NLP, text processing, or machine learning background will be prefered.

For information on Laboratories for Information Technology, please check http://www.lit.a-star.edu.sg.

POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP AT ACADEMIA SINICA

Non-Tenure Track Research Positions (Computational Linguistics or Corpus Linguistics)
Academia Sinica,
Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Research Areas:

1. Chinese WordNet and Bilingual (Chinese-English) WordNet, OR
2. Chinese Lexical Semantics, OR
3. Language Archives

Highlights: In addition to research projects, a successful applicant can expect to participate in the following important academic activities

1. An international PhD program in computational linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, expected to start in 2003/4, and
2. Leading components of one or more of the following projects: a. Construction of Chinese WordNet, b. Building of various language resources and development of standard in conjunction with OLAC and ISLE. c. Inter-disciplinary of Sense and Sense-ability (including linguistics, computational, psychological, and neurological approaches).

Background:

1. The CKIP group has produced the first tagged and balanced Chinese corpus (the 5 million word Sinica Corpus), one of the first Chinese Treebanks (The Sinica Treebank). We are also the local organizers of COLING2002.
2. Past post-doctoral fellows received their doctorates from research universities in France, the Great Britain, Germany, Taiwan, and U.S. We have also worked with visiting students from Canada, Germany, and Ireland.

Qualifications:

1. Ph.D. in Linguistics or Computer Science by the commencement of fellowship.
2. Research experience in Corpus Linguistics and Computational Linguistics is preferred.
3. Ability to lead sub-projects a plus.
4. Fluency in Mandarin Chinese highly recommended.

Openings: 1 or more (pending on approval from Academia Sinica)

Term: January 2003-December 2004
(satisfactory first year performance a pre-requisite for second year continuation; further renewal possible pending budgetary approval and performance)

Starting Salary: roughly U.S. $21,600/year

Application:

1. By August, 2002: Email (1) cover letter (2) C.V. (including list of publications), and (3) short statement (2-5 pp.) on research interests and proposed research areas
   TO: churen@sinica.edu.tw
   OR Fax to Chu-Ren Huang at 886-2-2785-6622
2. BY August 26, 2002 [If Short-listed]
   Send (1), (2), (3) research proposal (5,000-6,000 words), (4) published work (including thesis), (5) proof of a valid doctorate (received or expected date), (6)application form, and (7) three letters of recommendation,
   TO: Professor Chu-Ren Huang
          Institute of Linguistics
          Academia Sinica
          Nankang, Taipei
          Taiwan 115
   [Or hand-deliver at COLING2002 site.]

Further Information:
Bylaws governing AS post-doctoral fellow application, and various forms
http://www.sinica.edu.tw/as/intro/advisory.html

In particular, English application form
http://www.sinica.edu.tw/as/law/advisory/post-doc-app-e.html

Project Website (in Chinese)
http://corpus.ling.sinica.edu.tw/project/LanguageArchive/

CKIP homepage
http://godel.iis.sinica.edu.tw/CKIP/

COLING2002 homepage
http://coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/

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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA, USA NLP TECHNIQUES IN MODELING BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCES

There are some opportunities at the graduate student level and postdoctoral level in the area of NLP techniques for modeling biological sequences at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

If you are interested please get in touch with Professor Aravind K. Joshi at COLING 2002, either during the tutorials or during the main conference. You should also send an e-mail at joshi@linc.cis.upenn.edu, enclosing a short resume, if possible.

Qualifications:

Strong background in NLP, especially in grammars, parsing and statistical NLP with strong interest in modeling biological sequences and willingness to learn the relevant aspects of biology.

Alternatively, strong background in biology and computational biology with strong interest in formal aspects of NLP such as grammars, parsing and statistical NLP and willingness to learn the relevant aspects of NLP.

If possible I would like to meet some qualified candidates during COLING 2002, either at the tutorials or at the main conference.

POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS AT LABORATORIES FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
(http://www.lit.a-star.edu.sg), SINGAPORE

In the area of Information Extraction(on bio-literature) & Computational Semantics.

If you're interested, please contact Dr. Su Jian during COLING2002 main conference. You may also send in your resume and e-mail Dr. Su Jian at sujian@lit.a-star.edu.sg on Information Extraction and Dr. Ji Dong Hong at dhji@lit.a-star.edu.sg on Computational Semantics.

Qualifications:
Strong NLP, text processing, or machine learning background will be prefered.

For Information Extraction on Bio-literature, candidates with strong biomedical or biocomputing background and being interested in text-based knowledge discovery will also be considered.

For information on Laboratories for Information Technology, please check http://www.lit.a-star.edu.sg.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA, USA NLP TECHNIQUES IN MODELING BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCES

There are some opportunities at the graduate student level and postdoctoral level in the area of NLP techniques for modeling biological sequences at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

If you are interested please get in touch with Professor Aravind K. Joshi at COLING 2002, either during the tutorials or during the main conference. You should also send an e-mail at joshi@linc.cis.upenn.edu, enclosing a short resume, if possible.

Qualifications:

Strong background in NLP, especially in grammars, parsing and statistical NLP with strong interest in modeling biological sequences and willingness to learn the relevant aspects of biology.

Alternatively, strong background in biology and computational biology with strong interest in formal aspects of NLP such as grammars, parsing and statistical NLP and willingness to learn the relevant aspects of NLP.

If possible I would like to meet some qualified candidates during COLING 2002, either at the tutorials or at the main conference.

POST-GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS OFFERED AT LABORATORIES FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, SINGAPORE

LIT invites you to consider competitive Ph.D. and Master degree scholarships that it offers to candidates with outstanding academic records. These LIT Postgraduate Research Scholarships enable you to pursue higher degree studies by research on a full-time basis and are awarded by the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Successful candidates will be registered with an appropriate Department in NUS/NTU and be attached to LIT to conduct research on a full-time basis.

Reasearch area is on natural language understanding such as information extraction, computation semantics, machine inducation of linguistic knowledge, and etc.

If you're interested, please contact Dr. Su Jian during COLING2002 main conference. You may also send in your resume and e-mail Dr. Su Jian at sujian@lit.a-star.edu.sg.

For more information, please check http://lit.a-star.edu.sg under Human Capital Development followed by Postgraduate & Internship Opptunity.

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