LINGUIST List 5.151

Fri 11 Feb 1994

Jobs: Research, Psycholinguistics, Newcastle, Leeds, French

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 INSTITUTE OF HISTORY & PHILOLOGY, ACADEMIA SINICA

 The Linguistics Section of the Institute of History &
Philology, Academia Sinica invites applications from citizens of
the Republic of China for research positions with the possibility
toward tenure track post. The area of specialization is open, but
preference will be given to those in following fields:

 Phonology, Semantics, Acoustic Phonetics,
 Sociolinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Chinese Dialects,
 Kadai
 Languages, and Austroasiatic Languages.

 Applicants already holding a PhD will be considered for the
position of Assistant Research Fellow (equivalent to an Assistant
Professor); applicants holding an M.A. only will be considered for
the position of Research Assistant. These are purely research
positions and no teaching is required. The beginning salaries for
these positions are NT56,270 (about $2,250) and NT40,010 (about
$1,600) per month respectively, plus bonuses.

 Applicants should send a vitae, transcripts from graduate
school, an abstract of the MA thesis or dissertation (including the
title, chapter by chapter summary, methodology, materials, and main
conclusions), and two letters of recommendation to:

 Professor Ho Dah-an, Head
 Linguistics Division
 Institute of History and Philology
 Taipei 115 Taiwan ROC.
 e-mail: hsphilccvax.sinica.edu.tw

 The deadline for receipt of these materials is March 31, 1994.
Those applying will be notified of our decision around the
beginning of December. Those notified of preliminary acceptance
would then be expected to send the complete text of the thesis or
dissertation by the end of January for evaluation.

 For more information, applicants should write to the address
above or send e-mail messages.

 POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

The Linguistics Program of Northeastern Illinois University in
Chicago has been authorized to search for a tenure-track assistant
professor for Fall 1994.

An earned doctorate in linguistics or applied linguistics is
required. We are interested in an individual with a strong
background in both general linguistics and psycholinguistics to
teach undergraduate and graduate courses.

Northeastern is a state-supported commuter university of 10,000
culturally diverse students on the northwest side of the city of
Chicago. Northeastern offers an M.A. in Linguistics, and M.A. in
Linguistics: TESL Concentration, and an undergraduate minor in
Linguistics.

Please submit a CV, three letters of recommendation (at least one
addressing teaching effectiveness), and a brief letter describing
your interests and teaching experience to:

 Dr. Audrey Reynolds
 Chair of Linguistics
 Northeastern Illinois University
 5500 N. St. Louis Ave.
 Chicago, IL 60625

 (No e-mail or fax)

Review of Applications Begins: March 14, 1994

Northeastern is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer
and invites applications from women and minorities as well as
other qualified individuals.

ESRC Studentships at Newcastle

The Department of Speech of University of Newcastle upon Tyne is able to offer
postgraduate supervision as a centre for research training recognised by the
Economic and Social Research Council of Great Britain. Successful applicants
will receive an ESRC postgraduate award. Applications are invited from
potential PhD candidates interested in the following areas:

Linguistic (including pragmatic) analysis of aphasia
Cognitive neuropsychology of language
Neurolinguistics
First language development and impairment
Sociolinguistics and conversation analysis (with special reference to
bilingualism)
Language and the cognitively impaired elderly
Aspects of dysfluency in adults and children
Instrumental and experimental phonetic investigation of normal or disordered
speech

For further information, please contact as soon as possible

Professor Lesley Milroy
Department of Speech
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU, Great Britain
Fax: +44 91 261 1182

NB. Onloy British and EC nationals are eligible for the Studentship.

Please post.

 THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

 Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech (CCALAS)

 PhD RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS

The University of Leeds has up to 5 Research Scholarships for full-time PhD
study available for take up by UK students in October 1994. The scholarships
cover academic fees at the UK rate and a maintenance grant of #4,950 a year.

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 11 MARCH 1994.

To join the CCALAS research centre, you will need a BSc/BA (ideally First
Class Honours) in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Education,
Engineering, English, Linguistics, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Psychology or
a related discipline; and interest in corpus-based computational linguistics.

Informal enquiries about research opportunities in CCALAS may be made to:
Eric Atwell, tel 0532 335761, fax 0532 335468, email ericscs.leeds.ac.uk ;
or Clive Souter, tel 0532 335460, email csscs.leeds.ac.uk ; or Peter Roach,
tel 0532 335759, fax 0532 335749, email peterrpsychology.leeds.ac.uk

Application forms may be obtained from the Research Degrees and Scholarships
Office (UK Studentships), The University, Leeds LS2 9JT, tel 0532 335771

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 COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS RESEARCH AT LEEDS UNIVERSITY

Computer Analysis of Language And Speech is a thriving research area, at Leeds
as well as nationally and internationally. We are still a long way from
general, robust systems that can fully `understand' Natural Languages such as
English. However, it is possible to identify specific subproblems or `niche'
applications where current theory and technology can be applied usefully.
Several research funding agencies support research in this interdisciplinary
area, including the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), Economic
and Social Research Council (ESRC), Ministry of Defence (MoD), Department of
Trade and Industry (DTI), British Council, and Higher Education Funding
Councils (HEFCs) special initiatives such as Knowledge Based Systems
Initiative (KBSI) and New Technologies Initiative (NTI). Leeds University
researchers have an excellent track record in winning research grants from
these sources, and will continue to seek external research funding; the
University is also contributing internal support.

CCALAS is a focus for researchers from a range of departments at Leeds
University, providing a `critical mass' of expertise and sharable resources
for research over a broad range of fundamental and application-oriented topics
involving the computer analysis of language and speech. CCALAS members offer
postgraduate research supervision and taught course modules leading to the
degree of MSc, MA, MPhil, or PhD. CCALAS members are also involved in
externally-funded Research and Development projects, and welcome PhD students
with research interests linked to these larger projects.

CCALAS covers a broad range of computer corpus- and dictionary-based research
including:
computers in lexicography (Atwell, Cowie, Roach, Setter, Souter),
corpus annotation (Arnfield, Atwell, Bull, Ghali, Hughes, Roach, Souter),
corpus collocation analysis (Howarth, Cowie, Davidson),
grammar-based reasoning (Mott, Silver),
grammatical inference (Arnfield, Atwell, Demetriou, Hanlon, Hughes, Jost,
 Souter, Tarver, Ueberla),
handwriting recognition (Atwell, Boyle, Hanlon),
language and linguistics teaching (Atwell, Davidson, Hunter, Roach, Shivtiel),
probabilistic parsing (Atwell, Hogg, Jost, O'Donoghue, Souter),
speech act theory (Holdcroft, Millican, Wallis, Wynne),
speech recognition (Atwell, Kirby, Lockhart, Mair, Sergant, Roach, Ueberla),
speech synthesis (Moore, Roach, Scully),
text generation (Cole, Grierson, Tawalbeh),
word-sense semantic disambiguation and tagging (Atwell, Demetriou, Jost).

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Leeds University has over 15,000 students and 2,000 academic and research
staff, making it one of the largest in Britain. Leeds is half-way between
London and Edinburgh, linked by rail, motorway and air to the rest of the UK
and Europe. It is the 20th largest city in the European Community, with the
excellent arts, sport and other social facilites expected of a growing,
multi-cultural metropolis; but it is also close to four National Parks. More
background information on CCALAS, the University, and Leeds and its environs
can be found in the University Postgraduate Prospectus.

 BIRKBECK COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
 REF: A53
 LECTURER IN FRENCH


Applications are invited for a newly created Lectureship in the
French Department in the field of French language teaching and
either linguistics or intellectual / cultural history. The post
has been created as a consequence of the award of a Grade 5
rating to the Department in the last Research Assessment
Exercise.

Applicants should be experienced language teachers, have a
doctoral-level qualification, a good publications record, and be
actively engaged in research in, for example, second-language
acquisition with specific reference to French, an aspect of
French linguistics, or of French cultural history.

The successful candidate will help to develop language-teaching
programmes and will teach at both undergraduate and postgraduate
levels. He/she will have the opportunity of supervising research
students, and will also be required to contribute to
interdisciplinary undergraduate and postgraduate courses within
the Centre for Language and Literature. The appointee will also
be required to play a significant role in the administration of
the Department.

The post is tenable from 1 October 1994. The salary range
available is UK sterling 15735 - 20989 p.a. inclusive of London
Weighting. This is based on Lecturer Grade A.

The closing date for receipt of completed application forms is
18 February 1994.

Interviews will be held on the afternoon of Friday 25 March 1994.
A 15-minute oral presentation of some aspect of the candidate's
research will form part of the selection process.

For full job description and application form telephone the
24-hour Birkbeck College recruitment line, (44) 71 631 6593.
Applicants who have further questions are invited to telephone
the Chairman of the Department of French, Dr Patrick Pollard
(44) 71 631 6318, or the Head of the Centre for Language and
Literature, Professor David Wells (44) 71 631 6103.

FAX: (44) 71 631 6270

February 1994