Subject: Research Positions 
From: Donia.Scott@itri.brighton.ac.uk (Donia Scott)
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 17:53:08 GMT
To: salt@cstr.ed.ac.uk, elsnet-list@cogsci.ed.ac.uk

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TWO RESEARCH POSITIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON
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The Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is a dedicated
research department whose current programme focuses on 3 areas:
computational linguistics and language engineering, computer supported
collaborative design, and multimedia and multimodal interfaces.  We
are looking for well qualified researchers to join our
programme. Funding for these positions is available for 3 years.



RESEARCH FELLOW IN HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACES (HCI)
£17,474 - £21,838  Ref: IT914

This post involves research on document design environments which
include some of the advanced technologies being developed in the
Institute.  Examples of these include (multilingual) natural language
generation, collaborative writing, guided composition of technical
texts and control over constraints on document style and layout. The
research fellow will collaborate closely with interdisciplinary teams
working in these areas and should have a masters degree, a PhD or
equivalent experience in HCI. An important aspect of the job will be
to help develop a research group on interface design within the
Institute, and to seek external funding for continuing this work
beyond the initial 3-year period and attracting more staff.


RESEARCH OFFICER IN LANGUAGE ENGINEERING  
£13,834 - £16,739  Ref: IT915

The Research Officer will work on the ICONOCLAST project, which aims
to develop a system that generates instructions on how to use software
applications. This work extends previous language generation projects
within the ITRI by aiming to support constraints on the layout and
style of the documents generated. The main responsibility involves
collecting and analysing an on-line corpus of software manuals, and
meeting with professional technical authors to identify the relevant
constraints on document design. A secondary activity will be the
design and implementation of the user-interface to the system and
possibly the implementation of the constraints. Applicants should have
a good honours degree, a masters degree or equivalent experience in
linguistics or computer science. This project is funded through a
research grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
Council (EPSRC). Opportunities for undertaking an MPhil or PhD are
available.

More information on the work of the ITRI can be obtained on our web site at 
		http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk

Further details, including important information about the content of
your CV, and application forms are available from the Personnel
Department, University of Brighton, Brighton, BN2 4AT, or from our web
site at http://www.bton.ac.uk/vacancies/,
or on our 24 hour answerphone: (01273) 642849. Please quote the
reference number.

Closing date:	31 January 1997