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available at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural
Sciences,
In June 2009 the department
employs: 27 full professors, 30 associate/assistant professors, 53 adjunct
professors, and about 84 doctoral and post-doctoral research fellows, about 2/3
of whom have external funding.
The department awards degrees in computing science at three levels: Bachelor, Master, and PhD. There are approximately 900 undergraduate students, 400 Master students, and 195 PhD students at the department.
The Department of Informatics covers topics within mathematical modeling, computing sciences, microelectronics, communication technology, systems development and core computer science.
A further description of the
department can be found at http://www.ifi.uio.no/english/. In
2010 the whole department will move into
the new spacious Informatics building with state of the art facilities, see http://www.ifi.uio.no/ifi2/index.php.
The person hired will be a member of the research
group for Logic and Natural Languages. The group has currently five permanent
positions (professors/associate professors), this one included. The group has two key areas of research; one
is
natural language processing, the other is logic. The group carries the main
responsibility for the interdisciplinary teaching program in IT – Language,
Logic, Psychology. A description of the group may be found at http://www.ifi.uio.no/research/groups/lns/.
and five doctoral fellows active in natural language processing. A description
of the current research within natural language processing/language technology
may be found here: http://www.ifi.uio.no/research/groups/lns/lt.html.
This
associate professorship is in computer science with a specialization within the
area of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The successful candidate will play a
central role in the further development of NLP and language technology at the
Current group members have a
strong tradition in so-called “deep” approaches to NLP, combining formalisms
rooted in logic with detailed linguistic knowledge. Two specific areas of local
expertise are formal and computational semantics and large-scale parsing
and
generation with constraint-based grammars. The group is an activate member of
the international Deep Linguistic Processing with HPSG initative (DELPH-IN,
see: http://www.delph-in.net).
Current research activity has its focus on hybrid approaches to NLP,
seeking to
balance linguistic analysis and machine learning, which in past and current
projects have been applied to, among others, machine translation and semantic
parsing of scholarly literature.
network building is desirable.
Capability of external fund raising is also desirable.
The minimum requirement for the position is a PhD
degree, other corresponding doctoral degree, or equivalent academic
qualifications documented by scholarly production. The person appointed must be
able to participate in teaching, supervision and examination
work at all levels
and undertake administrative duties in accordance with current provisions.
their
qualifications shall be brought in, assessed and explicitly ascribed weight.
Particular weight is placed on qualifications that are closely related to the
area in which the post is advertised, cf. the Rules for appointments to
professorships and associate
professorships, which may be found here:
http://www.uio.no/admhb/reglhb/personal/tilsettingvitenskapelig/rulesappointprofessor-backup-20080314.xml
More information may be
found here:
http://www.uio.no/admhb/reglhb/personal/tilsettingvitenskapelig/rulesassessmentweight.xml
to learn enough Norwegian
to be able to participate actively in all functions the position may involve.
The application must contain complete information
about education, former positions, scientific and pedagogical activities and
administrative experience. The applicants must, within the application deadline,
deliver 4 - four copies of:
- The application, detailed CV and other
attachments.
- A research plan (2-4 pages) describing the applicant’s
scientific ambitions for the nearest future
- A list of all scientific production with bibliographic
references
- Up to 10 selected scientific publications the
applicant wishes to include in the evaluation
- Documentation of other competence of relevance for the
position such as teaching experience, publications in the popular press,
capabilities of fund raising, etc.
- Explanation or documentation of formal
pedagogical competence, outreach activities and other qualifications.
Further questions can be addressed to
Prof. Jan
Tore Lønning, phone +47 22 84 01 20, e-mail: jtl@ifi.uio.no or
to
administrative head of department, Narve Trædal, phone +47 22 85 24 18, e-mail narvet@ifi.uio.no
Ltr.: 66-72 (dep on experience/competence)
Det
matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet,
v/senior executive officer Grete Andresen,
N-0315