POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

       COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

		   POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

			University of Michigan
			 Ann Arbor, MI 48109


    The Group in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language
    Processing at the University of Michigan is seeking a postdoctoral
    researcher.  Candidates should have previous experience in
    relevant areas of Computer Science. We are particularly interested
    in candidates with prior research experience in statistical NLP,
    including parsing, language modeling, summarization, question
    answering, generation, and machine translation.

    The university of Michigan is located in Ann Arbor, MI, 25 miles
    from Detroit Metropolitan Airport which has hundreds of direct
    flights to the USA, Canada, Asia, and Europe. Ann Arbor,
    population 110,000, is a diverse college town, with a large
    selection of cultural and athletic facilities.
		
    Our group is a cooperative effort involving Computer Science,
    Linguistics, and the School of Information, and drawing on the
    many resources in Computer, Cognitive, and Information Science
    at this university.  We also have strong connections to the
    Program in Bioinformatics.  The core members of the group include
    Steven Abney, Dragomir Radev, and Richmond Thomason.

    We are seeking an energetic, independent person with excellent
    communication skills.  As well as independent cooperative
    research, duties will involve coordinating and developing new
    research proposals. High proficiency in the following areas will
    be particularly valuable: programming; theoretical computer
    science, mathematics, and statistics; technical writing in
    English.

    The two-year position carries a starting salary of $48,000, with
    fringe benefits.  There is some flexibility in starting time for
    this position, but ideally we would expect employment to begin on
    January 1, 2005. Applications will be considered on a rolling
    basis until the position is filled.  To apply, please send
    (preferably in plain text) the following documents:
    
    (1) a c.v. including the names and email addresses of
    2-4 people who know your work well and will be available as
    references. Do not ask for letters to be sent at this time.

    (2) a 1-2 page description of your research interests

    in an email to rthomaso@eecs.umich.edu (Richmond Thomason). Use
    "CL/NLP postdoc application from [your-name]" as the subject of
    your email.

    Please visit http://www.umich.edu/cl for more details about CL/NLP
    at Michigan.