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The Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) is officially announcing a
full time academic position.

DESCRIPTION OF THE POST
As Director of the Research Centre for Natural Language Processing at the
Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, you will be responsible for:
- Organising the centre and related activities
- Directing and running a team of IT personnel
- Developing research projects in the Faculty in collaboration with
the centre's scientific committee
- Developing the centre's technical expertise in compiling and
analysing electronic linguistic resources (written and spoken text corpora,
lexica, grammars and terminological data necessary for natural language
processing, multilingual resources/processing). Key activities will include
database compilation (lexica, grammars and corpora), software development
(lemmatization, tagging and parsing, etc.) and statistical analysis.
- Keeping abreast of developments in the field of computational
linguistics, guiding the activities of the centre and personnel accordingly
and ensuring that new developments are reflected in Faculty research projects.
- Teaching computational linguistics, in particular with relation to
the fields outlined above.

REQUESTED QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD (or equivalent) combined with recognised expertise and/or a
qualification in computational linguistics
- Thorough knowledge of programming languages, web technologies and
operating systems
- Experience in research and team work
- Scientific publications in the field
- Good command of French and English

More information is available at:

http://www2.crct.ucl.ac.be/crct/

(post reference: FLTR 2001/01)

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