Academic

The School of Computing and the National Centre or Language Technology (NCLT) at Dublin City University,Ireland, invite applications for six PhD scholarships funded by the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) on

Treebank-Based Induction of Wide-Coverage Probabilistic Lexical-Functional Grammar Resources for

• Chinese
• Japanese
• Arabic
• Spanish
• French
• German\English

Our ideal candidates have a strong background in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics or Linguistics. Programming experince in one (or more) of Java, C++, Perl, Prolog, Lisp etc. and strong interest in problem solving and research are essential. Native or near-native competence in one of Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Spanish, French, German\English is a definite asset. Good communication skills in English (written and oral) are important. Knowledge of one of LFG, HPSG or similar would be an asset.

In order to apply, please mail/send CV and contact details for two references by Monday Dec. 13th, 2004 to:

Prof Josef van Genabith, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland, josef@computing.dcu.ie

Please also use this email address for informal inquiries.

Prof Josef van Genabith
School of Computing
National Centre for Language Technology
Dublin City University,
Dublin 9, Ireland.
http://www.computing.dcu.ie/research/nclt/