Faculty positions at Edinburgh

[Steve Renals]

These two lectureship (= assistant professor) positions at the
University of Edionburgh may be of interest to some of you.

Steve Renals

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Lectureship in Statistical Natural Language Processing
School of Informatics

The successful candidate will be highly-qualified and have expertise
in statistical natural language processing, in one or more of the
following areas: statistical parsing, interpretation, or generation,
multimodal processing, machine learning for NLP, statistical machine
translation, information retrieval/extraction, or language resources. 
A track record of research in semantics or discourse, or an interest
in how human models of language processing can inform language
engineering would also be an advantage.  You should demonstrate a
world-class research record and both interest and ability in
teaching.   This is a permanent position.

Further information:
  https://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/jobs/index.cfm?action=jobdet&jobid=3002169
 
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Lectureship in Speech Technology
Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics /
Centre for Speech Technology Research

Following the appointment of Simon King to an EPSRC Advanced
Fellowship at Edinburgh, applications are invited for a fixed term
Lectureship in Speech Technology in the Centre for Speech Technology
Research (CSTR). The successful applicant will be highly qualified,
have expertise in spoken language processing, particularly speech
recognition, speech synthesis or speech signal processing, and will
demonstrate an excellent research record as well as interest and
ability in teaching. He or she will be expected to develop and
participate in research activities at CSTR, which is a collaborative
activity of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
(TAAL) and the School of Informatics.  The appointment is tenable from
1 January 2005 for a fixed term of five years.

Further information:
  https://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/jobs/index.cfm?action=jobdet&jobid=3002230