Part-time Research Assistant/PhD Student (60 Months) Computing Science *COLLEGE OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES
£22,540 - £25,369 pro rata per annum*
Computing Science within the Engineering and Physical Sciences School invites applications for the above post, to provide programming and system development support for an ambitious programme of research in Natural Language Generation (NLG), funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
The Natural Language Generation group within Computing Science is one of the leading NLG research groups in the world. More information about the group can be found from its web site at http://www.csd. abdn.ac.uk/ research/ nlg. The group is embarking on an exciting five-year project entitled "Affecting People with Natural Language", which will extend existing knowledge of how to get computers to generate language which has effects on the actions and feelings of real people. The research assistant will provide technical backup to the project and help with the creation and maintenance of electronic data resources and software based on the group's existing and new research.
You should have a first class or upper second class honours in Computer Science or a related discipline. You are expected to be a competent programmer in Java and to be conversant with technologies for web-based software delivery. You should be able to learn and work with other programming languages. It is highly desirable that you have some background in Natural Language Processing and an interest in pursuing research in NLG.
The Research Assistant post is being offered for 60 months on a half-time basis, to start on *from 1st January 2007.* It is a condition of employment that the Research Assistant also be registered as a part-time research student (with the intention of obtaining a PhD) in the NLG area at Aberdeen. The University of Aberdeen will pay the necessary registration and tuition.
Informal enquiries can be made to: *Prof Chris Mellish* (Platform Grant Principal Investigator) cmellish@csd. abdn.ac.uk
Salary will be paid in the range of £22,540 - £25,369 pro rata per annum.
Online application forms and further particulars are available from http://www.abdn. ac.uk/jobs. Alternatively email jobs@abdn.ac. uk or telephone (01224) 272727 (24-hour answering service) quoting reference number *YCS059R * for an application pack.
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