6 November: FYI -- computational linguistics, Italy

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There is an open call for interest to work at the European
Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC). As the most promising
candidates for at least two Language Technology positions in Ispra
(Italy) will be short-listed next week, please submit your application
NOW via the link:

https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/working-with-us/jobs/vacancies/function-group-iv-researchers .


The new positions as 'contract agents' can only be filled by persons
who have submitted their profile and CV via this central
interface. The procedure is described in detail in the following
document:

https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/sites/default/files/jrc-research-fgiv-contract-staff-2015-selection_en.pdf .



The maximum duration for contract agents is six years (consisting of
several shorter, renewable contracts). For a list of FAQs (salary,
eligibility, etc.), see:

https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/sites/default/files/jrc-research-fgiv-contract-staff-2015-selection-faq-en.pdf .


Subject areas: The successful candidates to work in the Europe Media
Monitor (EMM) team will work
in one or more of the following fields:



- Media monitoring (conventional and social media);

- Multilingual text mining;

- Cross-lingual applications;

- Information extraction;

- Trend monitoring;

- Statistical Machine Translation (SMT).



Useful knowledge and skills to work in the EMM team include:



- Good programming skills, especially in Java;

- Good working knowledge of English;

- Knowledge of at least one (better more) further languages;

- Experience with developing working systems for real-life users.





You will work as part of the Europe
Media Monitor (EMM) team of the JRC, which developed the highly multilingual
(20 to 70 languages) news analysis systems
NewsExplorer, NewsBrief and the
Medical Information System MedISys (Public
Health monitoring). The EMM applications integrate JRC-developed software
tools for event scenario template filling; named entity recognition and
disambiguation; name variant matching; quotation recognition; summarisation;
machine translation; sentiment analysis (opinion mining); topic detection
and tracking; document clustering and classification; trend detection and
visualisation; cross-lingual information aggregation; early warning systems;
social network analysis; personalised news monitoring; apps for phones and
tablets and more. The team also made available the
freely downloadable
multilingual parallel corpora and other text resources such as JRC-Acquis,
DGT-Translation Memory (and other TMs), JRC-Names, JRC Eurovoc Indexer, and
more. For a list of our
publications, go to

http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html.



Apologies for the late notification!



===========================================

Ralf Steinberger

European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC)

URL - Applications:
http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html

URL - Context:

https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/research-topic/internet-surveillance-systems

21027 Ispra (VA), Italy

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