The Cognitive and Communication Technologies (TCC) division of
ITC-Irst has openings for the following (three years, renewable)
positions, starting as soon as possible.
n.3 positions in the "Text Processing" area.
Requirements - Significant experience in one or more of the
followings: Information Extraction, Question-Answering, Word-Sense
Disambiguation, Statistical Methods for NLP, Learning Techniques
Applied to NLP, Text Summarisation. Programming expertise includes
some of the following: JAVA, Common Lisp, Perl, XML.
n.4 positions in the "Intelligent and Interactive Information
Presentation" area.
Requirements - Significant experience in one or more of the
followings: Adaptive Hypermedia, Natural Language Generation, NLP for
Dialogue Systems, Life-like Characters and Collaborative Systems,
Internet Technologies for Multimedia (RTSP, SMIL, etc.). Programming
expertise includes some of the following: JAVA, Common Lisp, XML, OO
analysis and programming, AI technologies.
For all positions, the followings are also required. Advanced
university degree in: computer science, computational linguistics,
linguistics, or related area. Good working knowledge of English.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability and
willingness to work as part of a highly skilled, collaborative
research team.
Salary will be competitive and commensurate to experience.
To apply, please send a CV plus list of publications to:
Fabio Pianesi
Vice-head of the TCC Division
ITC-Irst
38050 Povo (TN) Italy
email: pianesi@itc.it
Applications via e-mail are welcome.
About ITC-Irst
Located in one of the most beautiful areas of Italy, near the
Dolomites, ITC-Irst (Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e
Tecnologica) is a major Italian research centre operating in such
fields as: Artificial Intelligence, Microsystems, and Surface Physics.
The Artificial Intelligence area comprises the following divisions:
TCC (Cognitive and Communication Technologies), SSI (Interactive
Sensory Systems) and SRA (Automatic Reasoning Systems). ITC-Irst
(presently directed by Oliviero Stock) has a long score of important
achievements in all the areas of its activity, testifying its vocation
towards excellence in basic and applied research, and in technological
transfer.
About the TCC division
The Cognitive and Communication Technologies division at ITC-Irst is
one of the leading European research groups in areas such as Natural
Language Processing, Human-Computer Interaction and Dialogue Systems,
Multi-modality, Natural Language Generation, and Production and
Maintenance of Linguistic Resources. Committed to both basic and
applied research, TCC has consolidated links and pursues joint
research efforts with many of the main research centres all over the
world, and has regular and fruitful relationships with primary
companies, especially those operating in the Web world. TCC has a long
record of EU funded projects. As part of ITC-Irst, TCC is a member of
the European Network of Excellence in Natural Language and Speech
(ELSNET).
For more information about TCC, see http://ecate.itc.it:1024
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