“I got a lot of blank looks,” says Eric Heisserer, who spent years pitching producers his screenplay about language, free will and destiny. Arrival is an apt title for a film that has journeyed long and far to get to the big screen. Screenwriter Eric Heisserer spent years wrestling to turn a brainy, emotional science
By Steven Zeitchik [Helpful note: This article assumes a knowledge of, and reveals details from, the plot of “Arrival.” Read at your own risk.] Large-scale Hollywood films employ a wide range of consultants, from ER doctors to military experts to veteran constitutional lawyers. Rare is the big-budget adventure, however, that retains a linguist specializing in syntax, morphology,
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research fellow in Text Mining at the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM), School of Computer Science, University of Manchester. The position is for 2 years. The objective of this BBSRC funded post is to conduct research into extracting complex information (entities and events) from the scientific literature to support
ELDA is opening an internship on Setup and Deployment of a Web service framework for Natural Language Processing in Paris (France), starting on January 2017 for 6 months. Profile Studies: MSc. Field: Computer Science Provisional starting date: January 2017 Duration: 6 months Duties In the software development team at ELDA and under the supervision of
The School of Computing and Communications, Security Lancaster, and the UCREL research centre at Lancaster University are seeking a researcher in Natural Language Processing to join an interdisciplinary team working on new methods for detecting native language influence. This is a full-time fixed-term post until 31 Jan 2019. The appointed researcher will join the Government