20 June: fyi -- junior and senior research positions, Geneva
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Job Vacancy, June 2002 -- Senior researcher in language engineering
ISSCO has an immediate opening for a senior researcher in language
engineering
and computational linguistics. The position involves participation in one or
more Swiss and European language engineering projects.
The qualified candidate will carry on research and collaborate on software
design and implementation in one or more of the following areas:
- parsing and semantic tagging
- document indexing and retrieval
- evaluation of NLP software
- ontologies
- knowledge engineering
- multilingual text processing
Requirements:
- doctorate (PhD) in computer science or computational linguistics
- experience in collaborative language engineering projects
- programming skills in, e.g., Java, Perl, C/C++
- experience in developing software for NLP applications
- knowledge of XML and Internet technologies
- fluency in either French or English (with knowledge of the other language)
Additional qualities:
- expertise in knowledge engineering for the medical domain
- expertise in probabilistic and statistical methods for NLP
- good communication skills
- fluency in German and/or Italian and/or other languages
ISSCO offers excellent working conditions in a well-established research
group
at the University of Geneva. The position provides opportunities to
collaborate
in a variety of international projects. The salary is calculated
according to
qualifications, based on the University of Geneva scales. The University of
Geneva is an equal opportunity employer.
Duration: initial contract for one year with good prospects of renewal
We invite interested candidates to send us a letter of interest along with a
detailed CV, publication list and the names of three references to:
ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva
Attn: Professor Susan Armstrong
University of Geneva
40, bvd. du Pont d'Arve
CH-1211 Geneva 4
Switzerland
Email: Susan.Armstrong@issco.unige.ch
Tel: (+41 22) 705 87 64
Fax: (+41 22) 705 86 89
http://www.issco.unige.ch
Submission by email is preferred and should be also addressed in CC: to
Andrei
Popescu-Belis (Andrei.Popescu-Belis@issco.unige.ch).
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Job Vacancy, June 2002 -- Junior researcher in natural language processing
ISSCO has an immediate opening for a junior researcher in natural language
processing and computational linguistics. The position involves
participation in
one or more Swiss and European language engineering projects. The
position also
offers the possibility to prepare a doctoral thesis (PhD) at the
University of
Geneva, on a subject related to a research project that is ongoing at ISSCO.
The main research themes related to this position are:
- parsing and semantic/discourse tagging
- general statistical NLP tools
- lexical semantics and conceptual structures
- ontologies
- knowledge engineering
- human-computer interaction
The qualified candidate will carry out research and collaborate in the
construction of language resources and evaluation techniques in one or
more of
the above areas. Furthermore, the qualified candidate is encouraged to
register
as a student either at the DEA level (French equivalent of a Masters
Degree) or
at the PhD level, at the School of Translation and Interpretation of the
University of Geneva, on a subject related to one of the research
projects. For
more information about the degrees, please follow this link:
http://www.unige.ch/eti/index.cgi?http://www.unige.ch/eti/enseignement/contenu.html
Requirements:
- university degree in computational linguistics or computer science
- interest for theoretical and applied research in natural language
processing /
semantics
- fluency in either French or English (with knowledge of the other language)
Additional qualities:
- good communication skills
- programming/IT skills in, e.g., Perl, C/C++, Java, Unix/Linux, HTML, XML
- experience in developing software for NLP applications
- fluency in German and/or Italian and/or other languages
ISSCO offers excellent working conditions in a well-established research
group
at the University of Geneva. The position provides opportunities to
collaborate
in a variety of international projects. The salary is calculated
according to
qualifications, based on the University of Geneva scales. The University of
Geneva is an equal opportunity employer.
Duration: initial contract for one year with good prospects of renewal
We invite interested candidates to send us a letter of interest along with a
detailed CV and the names of three references to:
ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva
Attn: Professor Susan Armstrong
University of Geneva
40, bvd. du Pont d'Arve
CH-1211 Geneva 4
Switzerland
Email: Susan.Armstrong@issco.unige.ch
Tel: (+41 22) 705 87 64
Fax: (+41 22) 705 86 89
http://www.issco.unige.ch
Submission by email is preferred and should be also addressed in CC: to
Andrei
Popescu-Belis (Andrei.Popescu-Belis@issco.unige.ch).
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Alexander Clark
asc@aclark.demon.co.u
khttp://www.issco.unige.ch/staff/clark/index.html
ISSCO/ETI, University of Geneva
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