Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing

Job Reference Number:UOS028919

Job Title:Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing

Contract Type:Open-ended

Working Pattern:Full-time

Faculty:Faculty of Engineering

Department:Department of Computer Science

Location:Sheffield

Salary:Grade 8 (Lecturer): £41,526 – £49,553 per annum with potential to
progress
to £55,750 through sustained exceptional contribution, and Grade 9
(Senior Lecturer): £52,560 –
£59,135 per annum with potential to progress to £68,529.

Closing Date:29th July 2021

Summary:

This is an outstanding opportunity for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing at the University of

Sheffield, a world top 100 University. Working in the Department of Computer Science, you will join our internationally

respected Natural Language Processing (NLP) Research Group.

Our NLP Research Group, established in 1993, is one of the largest and most successful language processing groups in the UK.

The group currently comprises twelve academics, with research interests that span information extraction and text mining,

question answering and summarisation, language resources and architectures for NLP, machine translation, social media and

disinformation analysis, human-computer dialogue systems, semantics and parsing, and biomedical text mining. Together

with the Speech and Hearing Group, the NLP group hosts a UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Speech and Language

Technologies, 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 at Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level. Ideally you

will work in one of the following areas, which have been identified as a strategic priority for the NLP research group:

# Social media analysis

# Health record analysis

# Dialogue systems

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 are committed to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit the individual and University.

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 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.

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remarkable place to work.