30 January: fyi -- Spanish NLP, Portugal

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language technology whose work has been internationally recognized in
last year QA@CLEF campaign. In the context of the application of the
company's NLP technology to other European languages, we are seeking a
full-time Spanish language specialist.

Responsibilities:
- Identifying, analysing, testing and correcting Spanish lexicographic material.
- Writing syntactical and morphological rules for specific NLP purposes.
- Selecting instruments and sources for solving linguistic problems, namely
spelling, syntactical and morphological ones.
- Serving as a Spanish language expert resource in a Portuguese team of
engineers and linguists.

Requirements:
- Native (or near-native) fluency in Spanish.
- Strong knowledge of general and Spanish linguistics.
- Familiarity and/or experience in natural language processing.
- Oral and written English proficiency.
- Completion of undergraduate degree in linguistics, computational linguistics
or related field.
- Linguistic description and explanation ability.
- Pragmatic attitude towards error and problem solving.
- Ability to work independently as well as cooperatively.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Good learning ability.

This is a 1 year contract position. Applicants must be eligible to live and work
in Portugal.

To apply, please submit your CV and a brief statement describing your experience
and abilities to the following email address: afonso@priberam.pt.

Address for Applications:

Mr. Afonso Mendes
Av. Defensores de Chaves, 32 - 3º Esq.
LISBOA 1000-119
Portugal

Application Deadline: 04-Mar-2006

Contact Information:

Mr. Afonso Mendes
Email: afonso@priberam.pt
Phone: +351 21 781 7260
Website: http://www.priberam.pt

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