Job Description

Faculty:

Faculty of Engineering

Salary:

Grade 8 (Lecturer) \xc2\xa346,974 - \xc2\xa356,021 per annum. Potential to progress to \xc2\xa363,029 per annum through sustained exceptional contribution.

Grade 9 (Senior Lecturer) \xc2\xa359,421- \xc2\xa366,857 per annum. Potential to progress to \xc2\xa377,475 per annum through sustained exceptional contribution.

Summary:

This is an outstanding opportunity for a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing to join the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. The post is supported by a PhD studentship (paying UK student fees and stipend for 3.5 years) and a generous startup package for equipment and travel.

You will work within our internationally respected Natural Language Processing (NLP) Research Group. Established in 1993, the group is one of the largest and most successful language processing groups in the UK. It currently comprises twelve academics, with research interests that span machine learning, information extraction and text mining, social media and disinformation analysis, machine translation, language resources and architectures for NLP, biomedical text mining, human-computer dialogue systems, computational social science, natural language generation, and text summarisation. Together with the Speech and Hearing Group, the NLP group hosts a , which has funding to train 60 PhD students over an 8 year period and has close connections with industry partners.

To drive our research agenda in NLP forward, we are now seeking to appoint a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer. Ideally you will work in one of the following areas, which have been identified as a strategic priority:

• Social media analysis
• Computational social science
• Natural language generation and text summarisation
• Dialogue systems
• Biomedical text mining
• Machine translation

You will hold a PhD in Computer Science or a related area, and be able to conduct research to the highest standards. This will include securing research funding, publishing in high impact journals and conferences, supervision of research students and research project management. In addition, you will play a key role in maintaining our reputation for high-quality teaching by designing, delivering and assessing undergraduate and postgraduate level programmes in NLP and other topics in computer science.

We\'re one of the best not-for-profit organisations to work for in the UK. The University\'s Total Reward Package includes a competitive salary, a generous Pension Scheme and annual leave entitlement, as well as access to a range of learning and development courses to support your personal and professional development.

We pride ourselves on being a friendly place to work, where mutual respect for diversity and equality is a shared value. We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience. The Department of Computer Science holds a Silver Athena SWAN award, in recognition of our commitment to equality and diversity.

This role has been identified as a full-time post, but we are committed to exploring flexible working opportunities with our staff which benefit both the individual and the University. We would be pleased to consider flexible delivery of the role subject to meeting the business needs of the post.

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Apply now by clicking on the Apply button located above.

\xc2\xa346,974 to \xc2\xa366,857 per annum. Potential to progress to \xc2\xa377,475 per annum through sustained exceptional contribution (Grade 8 or 9).

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