Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 391.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
[1] From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu> (74)
Subject: job opening
[2] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> (28)
Subject: Research Associate Scientist in Spoken Dialogue
Systems
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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:51:39 +0000
From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu>
Subject: job opening
FACULTY OPENING
Associate Director
Geospatial and Statistical Data Center
University of Virginia Library
The University of Virginia Library seeks an innovative and energetic
individual to serve as Associate Director of the Geospatial and Statistical
Data Center (Geostat). The Associate Director will have significant
opportunities to develop and advance services supporting numeric,
geospatial, and other electronic information needs at the University of
Virginia. The University and the Library have a strong commitment to
achieving diversity among faculty and staff.
ENVIRONMENT: The University of Virginia Library is a recognized leader in
digital library services. The Library system consists of eleven libraries,
with independent libraries for health sciences, law, and business. The
Library serves 12,000 undergraduates, 6,000 graduate students and 1,600
teaching faculty, and is a Virginia Regional Library for the US Depository
Program. The Library's homepage can be accessed at
http://www.lib.virginia.edu. The Library has begun implementation of its
plans for "Library of Tomorrow," a vision to create the model University
research library for the future (see http://staff.lib.virginia.edu/LofT/).
Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village and the historic Grounds provide an
inspiring environment for teaching, learning, and research.
The Geospatial and Statistical Data Center offers a dynamic team
environment and opportunities to collaborate in the development of
integrated digital library services and initiatives. Geostat is located in
Alderman Library, and assists users in most major schools of the
University, including Architecture, Arts and Sciences, Commerce, Education,
and Engineering and Applied Science. Geostat staff serve the University's
teaching and research needs by identifying, acquiring, and providing
assistance in the use of machine-readable data sets for geographic and
statistical analysis. Geostat's services are offered online and in a large
public computing lab/classroom featuring two dozen PC workstations. The
Center also houses a large map collection and serves as a resource for
statistical information in print. The Geospatial and Statistical Data
Center can be accessed on the web at http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu.
RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE: Reports to the Director of Geostat and will be
primarily responsible for planning, coordinating and delivering services
for numeric data collections, including reference services and collection
development; Develops outreach activities to promote Geostat's services to
users; Assists individuals and groups in the use of numeric resources and
tools, including US and international data sources and ICPSR; Provides
Library reference services as well as classroom and lab-based instruction
for these resources; Serves as a resource for geographic information
collections as necessary; Participates in teams consisting of other Library
and University staff to further the delivery of numeric and spatial data
resources for teaching and research; Oversees day-to-day management of the
public service computing lab and classroom; Supervises
Programmer/Consultant staff (2); Is professionally active, both within the
Library and nationally.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Master's degree or higher in a relevant field,
with experience using numeric data resources in a research or educational
setting; Extensive knowledge of computer software for statistical analysis,
e.g., SAS, STATA, or SPSS; Ability to advise faculty, staff and students in
a wide range of disciplines regarding the use of electronic data resources
for teaching and research; Excellent instructional abilities with strong
interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills; Creativity and
evidence of ability to learn quickly; Strong user-centered service
orientation; Commitment to diversity in the workplace and ability to serve
a diverse user community; Commitment to professional growth and
development; Supervisory experience desirable.
SALARY AND BENEFITS: Salary competitive, depending on
qualifications. General faculty status. The University of Virginia offers
excellent benefits, including 22 days of vacation and TIAA/CREF and other
optional retirement plans. Review of applications will begin on January
11, 2001 and will continue until the position is filled. Send letter of
application, resume, and names, addresses (including e-mail), and phone
numbers of three references to:
Mr. Alan Napier, Director of Library Human Resources
Alderman Library
University of Virginia
PO Box 400114
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4114
The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
employer. Minority candidates are encouraged to apply.
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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:52:28 +0000
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu>
Subject: Research Associate Scientist in Spoken Dialogue Systems
>> From: "David Horowitz" <dhorowitz@voxgeneration.com>
APPLICANTS: Please send CV to dhorowitz@voxgeneration.com addressed to
David Horowitz, Chief Scientist
In this position, you will assist in building up resources to establish a
strong pan-European R&D group. You will help write components of grants
and help define theoretical approaches towards conversational dialogue
systems.
The focus of the work is on Natural Language Parsing and Unified Language
Modelling. The Research Component that you will endeavour in is Unified
Language Modelling and Statistical Robust Parsing.
This is a highly technical position in mathematics and computer science.
The R&D department collaborates with Professor Yorick Wilks at the
University of Sheffield and the position will afford the candidate
mentorship from key researchers at Wilks' Natural Language Processing
Group.
Qualifications: Ph.D. in rigorous quantitative program such as Computer
Science, Mathematical Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence,
Machine Learning, Mathematics, Physics or Electrical Engineering or
Computational Linguistics.
Skills: Hands-on software development experience in Java, Prolog and/or
C++. Perl required.
David Horowitz
Chief Scientist
Spoken Language Sciences and Engineering
Vox Generation Ltd
Voice: +44 (0)20 7592 8155
Fax: +44 (0)20 7582 8156
Email: dhorowitz@voxgeneration.com
www.voxgeneration.com
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