18 February: fyi -- corpus linguistics, Italy
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The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has an opening for a
one-year position (auxiliary agent), starting approximately in May 2002. The
applicant will contribute to Language Technology projects at the JRC-Ispra
site near the Lago Maggiore in Northern Italy.
The candidate will work in a multi-disciplinary and international team of
scientists and developers and will mainly contribute to two projects. The
first one is concerned with the automatic assignment of keywords from a
multilingual thesaurus to text, using statistical methods and a manually
indexed text collection. The second project has the aim of gathering
potentially user-relevant documents from the internet and to analyse,
classify and store them. The ideal candidate is independent, has a practical
approach and knows how to discover, use, integrate and optimise various
tools.
Requirements:
- Citizenship of a EU country
- Working knowledge of English, French or Italian
- Degree in Computational Linguistics or related areas
- Programming experience
The candidate should have good skills in several of the following areas:
- PERL programming
- Programming in Java, C++, etc.
- Statistics for automatic classification, clustering and similar
applications
- Experience of working with large corpora or data collections
- Experience with applications such as indexing, search engines, etc.
- Experience with multilingual and cross-lingual NLP applications
- Knowledge of several EU and Eastern-European languages
- Web technology, CGI, Apache, HTML, XML
- Relational databases (Oracle, MySQL), SQL
- Windows NT and UNIX
- Technology overview and report writing
Remuneration depends on age, family status, experience and current
residence. The salary for a single person currently residing outside Italy
is 3.000 Euro per month net or more (after taxes).
We offer interesting work in an expanding team and in an attractive setting.
The JRC employs altogether 2400 staff from many different countries. 1800 of
these work at the Ispra site in Northern Italy, about 60 km West of the city
of Milan.
If you have questions, please have a look at the web site
http://www.jrc.it/langtech and contact Ralf Steinberger
(ralf.steinberger@jrc.it). If you are interested, please send your
application before Sunday 3 March 2002. Electronic applications are
preferred.
Dr. Ralf Steinberger (ralf.steinberger@jrc.it)
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (http://www.jrc.it/langtech/)
Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC)
Cybersecurity and New Technologies for Combating Fraud Unit (CSCF)
T.P. 361
I - 21020 Ispra (VA)
Tel: + 39 - 0332 78 6271
Fax: + 39 - 0332 78 9098
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