17 July: fyi -- computational linguistics, Lisbon

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integrate in its SKAi (Sources, Knowledge and Modelling) group two
post-doctoral research fellows, specialized in Computational
Linguistics or Computer Science to develop and improve new and
existing resources combining NLP and statistics. Both positions have a
maximal duration of five years.

The work to be accomplished by the 2 post-doctoral fellows aims at
implementing infrastructures for the existing Linguistic Resources,
which should converge toward new applications and paths for
corpus-based approaches and primary sources exploitation.

The ultimate goal is to attain international high-quality standards in
this field.



The work involves tasks such as:

- Developing human language technology applications, including market
research and evaluation, planning, overseeing activities related to
development and programming;

- Developing an integrated infrastructure for large-scale resources
and other corpora and lexicons, assuring their availability;

- Participation in customizing, further developing and creating
linguistic relational databases;

- Establishing automatic processes of information extraction;

- Application of statistical NLP tasks;

- Development of corpus annotation systems.



Requirements:

- Ph.D. degree in Computational Linguistics or in Computer Science;

- Strong background in computational linguistics and linguistics (preferential);

- Knowledge about Natural Language Processing and corpus-based methods;

- Experience with statistical NLP techniques;

- Demonstrated proficiency in Portuguese (preferential) and in English;

- Programming experience (Perl, Python, Java, C/C++);

- Good working knowledge of SQL;

- Three years of postdoctoral experience (preferential).



For a description of the overall research and the different research
groups of the center, see http://www.clul.ul.pt
.

For more details on the application, see
http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global

&jobId=9744



Salary: 43k??? (annual)



Application:

Applications (by regular mail or by e-mail) should include (i) a
letter of motivation, (ii) a curriculum vitae, (iii) copies of degree
certificates, (iv) copy of an identification document, and (v) a
minimum of two letters of recommendation or two contacts of qualified
specialists who may recommend the candidate.



Application address:

Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa

a/c Prof. Ivo Castro

Av. Prof. Gama Pinto, 2

Lisboa - 1649-003

Portugal



Application email: directiva@clul.ul.pt
Application deadline: 08 September 2008



For further information, please contact Amália Mendes

amalia.mendes [AT] clul.ul.pt


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