Subject: Job:  postdoc computational semantics
From: Robin Cooper <cooper@ling.gu.se>
To: elsnet-list@let.ruu.nl
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 10:03:28 +0100

The European Langauge Engineering project TRINDI (Task oriented
instructional dialogue) is seeking a postdoctoral researcher in the
area of computational dialogue semantics.  The position is for 24
months (with the possibility of an extension depending on funding and
how soon the position is taken up) and is available immediately.
Applicants should be able to start work within the next six months.
The successful candidate will work at the Linguistics Department at
the University of Gothenburg together with the coordinator of the
project, Robin Cooper,  Elisabet Engdahl, also at Gothenburg,  and in
close collaboration with the other partners (Edinburgh University
(Moens, Poesio), Saarbrücken University (Pinkal), SRI Cambridge
(Pulman, Milward) and Xerox Research Centre Europe (Karttunen,
Zaenen)).  Tasks and themes on which he or she will collaborate
include:
	a computational model of dialogue dynamics
	information structure in dialogue dynamics
	robust processing of dialogue
	project management
More details can be found on the project's homepage http://www.ling.gu.se/~cooper/trindi

The candidate will be joining an active new research group in
computational semantics and dialogue semantics and there will be
opportunity for collaboration with a number of related projects at
Gothenburg.  Information can be found on
http://www.ling.gu.se/~cooper/projects.html

Salary is negotiable depending on previous experience within the range
20 000 -- 25 000 SEK per month.


Interested applicants should contact Robin Cooper (cooper@ling.gu.se)
with a statement of interest, a CV and names and addresses of three
referees.  Applications received before 28th Feb will receive
preferential treatment.

Robin Cooper
Professor of Computational Linguistics

Department of Linguistics
University of Gothenburg
Renstroemsgatan 6
S-412 98 Gothenburg
Sweden

Email: cooper@ling.gu.se
Tel.: +46-31-773-2536
Fax:  +46-31-773-4853
www:  http://www.ling.gu.se/~cooper