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Computational Linguistics, Georgetown University

Position in Computational Linguistics 

Location: Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA

The Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University Seeks to hire a
Computational Linguist at the Associate (tenured) or
Assistant(tenure-track) Professor level, with a specialty in Natural
Language Processing. Sub-specialty is open, and we invite applicants with
research interests in one or more of the following: syntactic, semantic,
phonological, or discourse modeling, information retrieval, machine
translation, text generation and summarization, spoken language
understanding and synthesis, CALL, and corpus linguistics.

Georgetown's Department of Linguistics has a large and diverse faculty and
enjoys research and curricular links with the Computer Science Department.
We seek a candidate who is able to teach students with a broad range of
interests, and whose research program provides points of articulation with
other areas of linguistic study in the department. The successful
candidate will provide leadership for a professional Master's Degree
program with a strong record of placing graduates in industry and
government, mentor a small group of Ph.D. students, expand ties with
Georgetown's Computer Science department, and maintain and develop
relations with academic, corporate and government researchers in the
Washington, D.C. area.

Ph.D. in Linguistics required; salary commensurate with experience. Send
CV, three letters of reference, and copies of representative publications
to:

                          Paul Portner
                          Chair, Search Committee
                          Department of Linguistics
                          Georgetown University
                          Washington, DC 20057-1051 USA 

                    
Priority will be given to applications received before November 1, 2002.
Georgetown University is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action
employer and strongly encourages applications from women and minority
candidates.

For more information, contact Paul Portner at portnerp@georgetown.edu.