26 January: fyi -- multilingual web parsing, BE

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The Centre for Natutal Language Processing at UCLouvain (CENTAL) is
recruiting 1 post-doc (6 months, with possible extension)

Keywords: Information Extraction, Semantic parsing, Ontologies, English,
Chinese

Job Description:

CENTAL and the Belgium-based company Bitong are engaged in a research
project aiming at developing new methodologies for the parsing of
information acquired from Web pages written in English and Chinese. To
strengthen the CENTAL research team (UCL) and collaborate on the Bitong
project, we are recruiting one post-doc (6 months, with possible
extension).

The role of the selected candidate will be to participate in the
development of a linguistics-based information extraction system and to
contribute to the design of ontologies for semantic parsing. He/she will
work at the University of Louvain, in Louvain-la-Neuve, a nice modern city,
located 30 kilometers away from Brussels. He/she will be part of the CENTAL
team, a dynamic research team of 15 people, involved in various regional,
national and international research projects in Natural Language
Processing. He/she will benefit from the lab infrastructure and from a
stimulating environment. He/she will work and stay in close contact with
other researchers and professors of the lab as well as with the other
organisations involved in the project. He/she will also have the
opportunity to work within Company Bitong which is located in Brussels,
capital of Europe.

The ideal candidate:

* has a PhD in Computational linguistics, Linguistics or Computer science
(or another close and relevant discipline);

* has good programming skills;

* is interested in Natural Language Processing and has a tangible
experience or knowledge of the field of Information Extraction, Semantic
parsing or Ontologies;

* speaks English and (ideally) Chinese;

* is a hard worker... has good team spirit!

Additional information:


Duration of the contract: 6 months (with possible extension, possible
opportunity at Bitong if project successful)

Starting date: March 2010 (with some flexibility)

- UCL: http://www.uclouvain.be

- Cental: http://www.uclouvain.be/cental

Application:

Interested candidates are invited to send their C.V. and a statement of
research interests to the address below.

For additional information about the position please contact:

Prof. C?drick Fairon
cedrick.fairon@uclouvain.be

Directeur du CENTAL
Centre de traitement automatique du langage
Universit? catholique de Louvain
Place Blaise Pascal, 1
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgique
tel: +32 10 47 37 88
fax: +32 10 47 26 06

http://cental.fltr.ucl.ac.be
http://glossa.fltr.ucl.ac.be

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