[comp.ai] New Chair in CL

jock@language-linguistics.umist.ac.UK (Jock McNaught) (03/19/88)

I  would be grateful if you could arrange for the display of  the
following announcement.

John McNaught
Lecturer

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  UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
                             (UMIST)



             Department of Language and Linguistics
                               and
              Centre for Computational Linguistics




               CHAIR IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS




Applications  are  invited  for  a  new  chair  in  Computational
Linguistics  whose  purpose is to provide new leadership in  this
subject  field  and  generally  to  strengthen  the  department's
research  base.   Candidates  should  have  a  strong  record  of
academic and/or professional experience within the broad field of
computation   applied  to  natural   language   processing.   The
department's well-established and funded Centre for Computational
Linguistics  concentrates  on  postgraduate studies  and  largely
applied research.  The successful applicant is expected to play a
leading  part  in  the  stimulation  of  research   as  well   as
developing  teaching programmes and generally contributing to the
administration of the department.

Informal  enquiries  may be made to Professor J C  Sager  or  the
Registrar.

Salary will be in the professorial range with a minimum of 23,380
pounds sterling per annum (max.  permitted average 28,820  pounds
sterling). Requests for application forms and further particulars
should  be sent to the Registrar,  Room B9,  UMIST,  P O Box  88,
Manchester M60 1QD, United Kingdom, to whom completed application
forms should be returned as soon as possible.

UMIST is an equal opportunities employer.


E-mail contact addresses:

 jcs%ccl.umist.ac.uk@ean-relay.ac.uk (ean)
 jcs%ccl.umist.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu (arpa)
      jcs%ccl.umist.ac.uk@ac.uk (earn)
  ... !ukc!ccl.umist.ac.uk!jock (uucp)

Telephone: +44.61.236.3311 extension 2333

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