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Germany: 2 PhD positions : University of Heidelberg and EML Research gGm
Written by Administrator
Saturday, 26 July 2008
As part of the "Innovation Fonds for Frontier Research" (FRONTIER) of the Excellence Initiative, the University of Heidelberg advertises
two positions for researchers/PhD students (half-time positions, salary TV-L13/2)
for a joint research project between the Computational Linguistics Department of the University of Heidelberg and the Natural Language Processing Group at EML Research gGmbH, Heidelberg.
The project is about semantics-driven synchronous generation of natural language and 3D scenes. The research will be carried out in collaboration with the Visualisation and Numerical Geometry group of the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) at the University of Heidelberg.
The ideal candidates have a strong background in computational linguistics and possess a Masters or a Diploma degree in computational linguistics or a related field. A solid background in linguistics and knowledge about corpus-based methods as well as statistics is required. Java programming skills are expected. Strong candidates with high qualification (PhD) may apply for a full position.
The project will start on August 1st, 2008. A later starting date may be negotiated. The project will be funded for two years. Further funding is anticipated but cannot be guaranteed.
EML Research gGmbH is a private non-profit research laboratory dedicated to basic and applied research in IT. The NLP group is an interdisciplinary research group that works on applications in the area of discourse and dialogue, in particular coreference resolution, lexical semantics, text generation, automatic summarization, and knowledge extraction from semistructured input (http://www.eml-research.de/nlp).
The Computational Linguistics Department of the University of Heidelberg (http://www.cl.uni-heidelberg.de) undertakes research in the area of multilingual language processing, with focus on semantics and data- driven methods. The Computational Linguistics Department is associated with the Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences (http://www.mathcomp.uni-heidelberg.de). Doctoral students can associate with the graduate school and take part in special teaching programs.
Please send your application to:
Seminar für Computerlinguistik Universitaet Heidelberg Im Neuenheimer Feld 325 D-69120 Heidelberg Germany or electronically to: icl (at) cl.uni-heidelberg.de
Applications received by June 23, 2008 will receive fullest consideration. The positions remain open until filled. The University of Heidelberg is an equal opportunity employer. The candidates will be chosen by a joint committee of EML Research and the University of Heidelberg.
Inquiries should be addressed to:
Prof. Dr. Anette Frank Email: frank (at) cl.uni-heidelberg.de http://www.cl.uni-heidelberg.de/~frank
or: Dr. Michael Strube Email: strube (at) eml-research.de http://www.eml-research.de/~strube
-- Prof. Dr. Anette Frank Computational Linguistics Department University of Heidelberg Im Neuenheimer Feld 325 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
