Position as PhD Research Fellow (Stipendiat SKO 1017) is available at The Department of Informatics.

The Department of Informatics (IFI) is one of nine departments belonging to the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Oslo. IFI is Norway's largest university department for general education and research in Computer Science and related topics. You can read more about the Department here. The Department has close to 1000 students on the Bachelor level, about 400 Master students, and over 200 PhD students. The total staff of the Department is close to 250 employees. About 150 of these are full time scientific positions, with about 60 Professors and Associate Professors

The fellowship is for a period of 3 years. The starting date should ideally be not too late in the second half of 2011.

Job description:

The position is part of the Focal Research Area in Language Technology (LTG), hosted at the IFI Research Group in Logic and Natural Languages (LNS). For background on the research environment, please see here.

The LT research area has its specialization in hybrid approaches to Natural Language Processing, with emphasis on the interplay of grammar, semantics, and data-driven ap-proaches. This particular position is part of a research project on parsing larger volumes of so-called User-Generated Content (for example text from Wikipedia, blogs, user forums), in English or Norwegian. The ideal candidate will have an interest in linguistically informed data-driven approaches to syntactic and semantic analysis, and have a strong inter-disciplinary background. Prior knowledge of large-scale sequence classification, parsing, probabilistic disambiguation, or self-training is welcome, though not required. The group pursues a pre-dominantly applied research agenda, hence at least a minimal level of implementation expe-rience is desirable for this position.

Applicants may submit a project outline for the qualifying work during the PhD program. The project proposal should include a proposed research topic, main scientific issues, as well as the anticipated choice of theory and method.

Requirements/qualifications:

Applicants must hold a Masters degree or equivalent in Computational Linguistics or Com-puter Science (with a specialization relevant to Language Technology).

The purpose of the fellowship is research training leading to the successful completion of a PhD degree.

The fellowship requires admission to the research training programme at the Faculty of Ma-thematics and Natural Sciences. An approved plan for the research training, including a project outline, must be submitted no later than two months after taking up the position, and the admission must be approved within three months. For more information see here.

A good command of English is required.

Salary:

Pay grade: 48 - 56 (NOK 383 700 – 440 500 per year)

The application must include:

• Application letter
• CV (summarizing education, positions and academic work - scientific publications)
• Copies of educational certificates, transcript of records and letters of recommendation
• List of publications and academic work that the applicant wishes to be considered by the evaluation committee
• Names and contact details of 2-3 referees (name, relation to candidate, e-mail, and telephone number

Please remember that all documents should be in English or a Scandinavian language.

In accordance with the University of Oslo’s equal opportunities policy, we invite applications from all interested individuals regardless of gender or ethnicity.

UiO has an agreement for all employees, aiming to secure rights to research results a.o.