Lectureship, Postdoctoral fellowship and PhD positions in Computational Musical Analysis / Computational Linguistics

1 Lectureship, 1 Postdoctoral Fellowship and 2 PhD Studentships in Computational Musical Analysis and/or Computational Linguistics

School of Computer Science
University of St Andrews
Scotland (UK)

We are seeking candidates for a Lectureship (permanent), a Postdoctoral Fellowship (2 years) and two fully funded PhD Studentships (3.5 years each) to reinforce the recently formed Cognitive Systems research group led by Professor Rens Bod.

Possible areas of expertise for the Lectureship and Postdoctoral fellowship include but are not limited to computational musical analysis, data-oriented parsing, unsupervised language learning, case-based reasoning and cognitive modeling.

Closing Date for Lectureship and Postdoc: 24 November 2005 Further particulars are given at: http://www.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/vacancies/2005-11-24.php

Candidates for the two PhD Studentships are expected to carry out research related to Data-Oriented Parsing and its applications including but not limited to Data-Oriented Musical Analysis, Data-Oriented Translation, Data-Oriented Language Learning, Data-Oriented Problem-Solving and Data-Oriented Reasoning.

Closing Date for the two PhD Studentships: 24 December 2005 Candidates for the PhD Studentships are invited to send a CV and a one-page statement of research interests to rb at dcs.st-and.ac.uk.

Further details on the Cognitive Systems group are given at http://cogsys.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/

Further details on Data-Oriented Parsing are given at http://cogsys.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/dop/dop.html