18 February: fyi -- information extraction, Belgium
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The Centre for Natural Language Processing (CENTAL) at UCLouvain, in
Belgium, has 2 job openings (post-doc & Research Engineer, contracts
between 6 months and 2 years) within the framework of the Eurostars/Eureka
project "Biograph". This project brings together academic and industrial
European partners (from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and Luxembourg).
Keywords: Information Extraction, Ontologies, English, French, Dutch
Job Description:
CENTAL is engaged in a research project aiming at developing a multi-
purpose people search platform, based on multi-source biographical
information extraction, offering multilingual search capabilities and
allowing to search for people, not only by name but also by any kind of
characteristics: technical skills, work experience, location...
The role of each selected candidate will be to participate in the
development of a linguistics-based information extraction system and to
contribute to the design of ontologies in the field of biography. 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
organizations involved in the project.
The ideal candidate:
* has a PhD or Master in Computational linguistics, Linguistics or
Computer science (or another close and relevant discipline);
* has good programming skills or experience in linguistic description for
NLP;
* 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 French or Dutch;
* is a hard worker... has good team spirit!
Additional information:
Duration of the contract: between 6 months and 2 years
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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