4.0938 Job Announcements (2/92)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Fri, 25 Jan 91 00:01:10 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0938. Friday, 25 Jan 1991.


(1) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 91 09:25 EST (39 lines)
From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" <IDE@VASSAR>
Subject: job in english/linguistics

(2) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 91 09:36 EST (53 lines)
From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" <IDE@VASSAR>
Subject: job

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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 91 09:25 EST
From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" <IDE@VASSAR>
Subject: job in english/linguistics


[From Linguist List, Vol. 2, No. 0012. Wednesday, 23 Jan 1991.]


YORK UNIVERSITY
GLENDON COLLEGE
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

Applications are invited for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of
Assistant Professor.

Qualifications: Ph.D. in linguistics. The preferred candidate will
have demonstrated superiority in teaching and strong scholarly interest
in socio-cognitive and discoursal aspects of language.

Duties: Teaching at the undergraduate level with possible future
participation in graduate teaching, research, and service to the
University.

Salary: In accordance with the current collective agreement and
experience.

Date of appointment: July 1, 1991.

Application deadline: February 15, 1991.

Send applications including complete curriculum vitae to Professor
William S. Greaves, Chair, English Department, Glendon College, York
University, 2275 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M4N 3M6, and arrange
to have three referees send confidential letters to the same address.
York University is implementing a policy of employment equity, including
affirmative action for women faculty. In accordance with Canadian
immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian
citizens and permanent residents.

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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 91 09:36 EST
From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" <IDE@VASSAR>
Subject: job



POSITION AVAILABLE

The CENTER FOR INFORMATION AND LANGUAGE STUDIES has a position available
for a RESEARCH ASSOCIATE in COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS.

The Center is an interdisciplinary unit created to conduct research on
the organization and analysis of textual and natural language
information in a computerized environment. The current staff includes
Research Associates in language-oriented information retrieval --
including retrieval software systems and architecture, database
organization, and analytic retrieval techniques -- and others interested
in natural language parsing, pragmatics, and artificial intelligence.
The Center works with associated faculty in the Departments of Computer
Science, Linguisitics, and Psychology, and sponsors Graduate
Assistantships with these Departments.

The Center has an opening at the postdoctoral level for a Research
Associate in Computational Linguistics with an interest in natural
language processing. This is a research oriented position, with some
application development and teaching activities. Current Center
interests include morphological and syntactic parsing of French, English
and Japanese. The candidate will also work with the Natural Language
Software Registry housed at the Center. The position of Research
Associate is a one-year appointment with the possibility of
reappointment for a second year.

The Center has state of the art computing equipment, with research
centered around a network of Sun workstations connected to the
University ethernet. There is a high speed datalink to the
supercomputer center in Urbana. The University is the depository of the
ARTFL French language database of 2000 works and 750 megabytes of text;
this, as well as a number of other large full-text databases, is
available for research purposes through the University Network.

Please send a curriculum vitae, a list of publications, and a 750-word
one- to two-year research project proposal by electronic or surface mail
to:

Assistant Director
Center for Information and Language Studies
University of Chicago
JRL S-107
1100 East 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

mark@gide.uchicago.edu