12 May: fyi -- postdoc & phd position, Barcelona
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The NLP-group at the Technology Department of the University Pompeu
Fabra, Barcelona offers a Postdoc position in the area of Computational
Linguistics / Natural Language Processing. We are looking for a
researcher, ideally with the following competences:
- Research experience particularly in text summarization or multilingual
text generation
- Familiarity with dependency based language models
- Fluency in at least three of the following languages: Arabic,
Catalan, English, Finnish, French, German, Korean, Mandarin,
Polish, Portuguese Spanish, and Urdu
- Excellent programming skills in particular in Java, C, or Python.
- Experience in international research projects
The researcher will join a growing interdisciplinary NLP-team.
Depending on his/her competence and interests, he/she will
specialize in problems of summarization of technical documentation,
selected problems in multimodal, multilingual document generation,
or development oflinguistic resources.
The initial funding is foreeseen for two years. The salary is
dependent on the knowledge and experience of the researcher. It is
intended to continue to apply for further money from national and
European funds, so that longer contract periods are possible.
For further information, please, see
http://www.recerca.upf.edu/taln/index.htm
and contact Leo Wanner (leo.wanner@upf.edu).
Interested parties are asked to send the usual information including a
CV to leo.wanner@upf.edu.
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The NLP-group at the Technology Department of the University Pompeu
Fabra, Barcelona offers a PhD fellowship to a qualified and motivated
graduate student to pursue research in the areas of Technical Text
Summarization, Natural Language Generation, or Computational Lexicography.
The ambitious PhD program of the University Pompeu Fabra includes
classes and common research activities for all PhD students. The stipend
amounts to about 12000?/year for four years, renewable each year.
Further general information is available at http://www.upf.edu/dtecn/.
The applicant should hold (or be about to finish) a Master degree with
excellent results in Computational Linguistics (or neighbour areas such
as Formal Linguistics or Computer Science, with application to NLP).
- The candidate should have some experience in the development of
electronic grammars, in particular in the syntax-semantic fields
and/or in knowledge representation.
- He or she should be familiar with dependency approaches to language.
- He or she should have good programming skills and some experience in
project development and handling of large scale corpora and
dictionaries.
- The student is expected to participate in our ongoing European
research projects in Natural Language Processing.
If you are interested, please, contact Leo Wanner as soon as possible,
sending the usual information including a CV to Leo Wanner
(leo.wanner@upf.edu).
The complete application must be handed in by May 31 2006.
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