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>Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:40:05 +0100
>From: "Matthew W. Crocker" <crocker@coli.uni-sb.de>
>Subject: Position in Sentence Processing
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>                 POSITION IN HUMAN SENTENCE PROCESSING
>
>The Department of Computational Linguistics at the University of
>Saarland, Saarbruecken, Germany, invites applications for the position
>of Research Scientist ("Wissenschaftlicher Assistent") in the area of
>HUMAN SENTENCE PROCESSING. The ideal candidate will have interests and
>experience in some of the following areas:
>
>   + Experimental psycholinguistics: designing, running and analysing
>   experiments on human subjects using various paradigms such as
>   self-paced reading, eye-tracking, language production etc.
>
>   + Corpus-based, probabilistic methods: the analysis of corpora,
>   including the extraction of lexical and syntactic biases,
>   estimation of probabilities and measures of association.
>
>   + Computational psycholinguistics: implementation of computational
>   models of human sentence processing, including stochastic
>   modelling (connectionist or probabilistic).
>
>The position involves the pursuit of independent and collaborative
>research, as well as a contribution to administrative, supervisory and
>teaching activities, within the newly established Psycholinguistics
>group. Candidates should have a PhD degree in a relevant subject
>area. The position is on the BAT IIa scale (up to DM 80K, depending on
>age and family status) and is tenable for 3 years in the first
>instance with the possibility of renewal for 2 further years.
>Applicants should be proficient in either English or German.
>
>The University of Saarland has an international profile in the area of
>computational linguistics (Depts. of Computational Linguistics,
>Informatics and DFKI: The German Research Centre for Artificial
>Intelligence). The University also has an active programme of research
>in cognitive science, with participation of the Depts. of Psychology
>and Philosophy, which is further supported by a Graduate School for
>Cognitive Science and a Centre of Excellence (SFB 378) in the area of
>"Resource Adaptive Cognitive Processing".
>
>The position is available from early 2000. Applications will be
>accepted until the position is filled. Interested persons should send
>a letter of application giving contact details for three possible
>referees, a full CV, and statement of research interests to:
>
>   Dr. Matthew W. Crocker
>   Department of Computational Linguistics
>   University of Saarland
>   66041 Saarbruecken
>   Germany
>
>   Applications and inquiries by email are also welcome, and should
>   be sent to: crocker@coli.uni-sb.de
>
>The University of Saarland seeks to increase the proportion of women
>in positions where they are under-represented, and therefore
>particularly encourages applications from women. In the selection
>procedure, disabled persons with equivalent qualifications will be
>favoured.
>

Lise Menn
Professor, Department of Linguistics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0295
303-492-1609

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