Subject: Positions in Computational Linguistics at DFKI
Organization: DFKI Saarbruecken GmbH, D-66123 Saarbruecken (Germany)
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 15:53:18 +0200
From: hansu@dfki.uni-sb.de (Hans Uszkoreit)
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Positions in Computational Linguistics at DFKI
==============================================

The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) is
currently seeking research scientists to join the Computational
Linguistics Lab in Saarbruecken, Germany. The successful
candidates will work on different projects in the areas of information
access and navigation, message extraction and understanding, controlled 
language checking, and grammar engineering. The candidates should have 
a background in the development of research or application prototypes.

Applicants should have a degree in computational linguistics, computer
science or linguistics, and competence in several of the following
areas:

Programming: C, C++, Perl, Java, Lisp, Windows-programming (APIs, DLLs)

Computational linguistics: multilingual grammar development, German
     lexicography, syntax or semantics, corpus analysis

NLP-Technology: parsing, finite state technology, statistical 
     methods, machine learning methods, database applications,
     information retrieval

Applications: Information extraction, information retrieval,
     WWW-applications, testing and evaluation of NLP applications

The DFKI offers competitive salaries, excellent computational
facilities, and the opportunity to work in an expanding team
that combines leading-edge research in computational 
linguistics with the development of innovative applications. 
The DFKI is located on the campus of Saarbruecken University,
which has internationally recognised departments in computational 
linguistics and computer science.

Please refer to our web pages (http://cl-www.dfki.uni-sb.de/) 
for more information. 

The positions will become available from the fall of 1996 onwards
with an envisaged minimum duration of two years. Please send your
application (including a CV and list of publications) by e-mail
before September 30, 1996 to the following address:
cl-jobs@dfki.uni-sb.de

                Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit
                DFKI GmbH
                Computational Linguistics Lab
                Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
                D-66123 Saarbruecken
                Germany