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Faculty of Arts
Vacancy number: 23.34.08
Closing date: 14-09-2008

Job description
The Text Mining for Intellectual Property (TM4IP) project aims to develop a text mining application which is geared to searching for information in the domain of intellectual property as held in English language patent documents and corroborative publications such as technical journal articles. The project is carried out in collaboration with the Department of Computer science in the Faculty of Science. Currently the project has vacancies for 4 PhD positions, two in the area of linguistics and two in computer science.
The PhD student employed on the PhD project entitled ‘Anaphora Resolution in Technical Texts’ will be developing an anaphora resolution system that will contribute to improving the recall obtained in search processes conducted on English technical texts. The system will make use of a thesaurus and a database of dependency triplets that have been observed in actual language use. In addition to developing the anaphora resolution system, the PhD student is expected to have completed a PhD thesis on the topic by the end of the contract.

Requirements:
The successful candidate has a background in natural language processing, with an interest in syntax. She/he has an affinity with interdisciplinary research, has excellent writing skills and is fluent in English.

Organization
The Faculty of Arts consists of eleven departments in the area of language and culture, history, history of arts, linguistics and business communication, which together cater for about 2,700 students and collaborate closely in teaching and research. The above-mentioned project will be carried out at the research institute Centre for Language and Speech Technology as part of the Linguistic Information Processing research programme.

Conditions of employment
The total duration of the contract is 3.5 years. The PhD student will receive an initial contract for the duration of 1.5 years with the possibility of prolongation for another 2 years.

Additional information
The starting gross salary is € 2.000 per month based on full-time employment.

For further information, please contact dr. Nelleke Oostdijk (n.oostdijk@let.ru.nl).

Application letters, including extensive CV and MA thesis or other publications, (with vacancy number: 23.34.08, preferably by e-mail) can be sent to:

Radboud University Nijmegen, Faculty of Arts,
Department of Human Resources, attn. of Ms. A. Graat
P.O. Box 9103, 6500 HD Nijmegen, the Netherlands
E-mail: vacatures@let.ru.nl