Corpora: Open position for a Computational Linguistist at the Joint Research Centre of the EC

From: Ralf Steinberger (ralf.steinberger@jrc.it)
Date: Fri Feb 15 2002 - 19:12:23 MET

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    The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has an opening for a
    one-year position (auxiliary agent), starting approximately in May 2001. The
    applicant will contribute to Language Technology projects at the JRC-Ispra
    site near the Lago Maggiore in Northern Italy.

    The candidate will work in a multi-disciplinary and international team of
    scientists and developers and will mainly contribute to two projects. The
    first one is concerned with the automatic assignment of keywords from a
    multilingual thesaurus to text, using statistical methods and a manually
    indexed text collection. The second project has the aim of gathering
    potentially user-relevant documents from the internet and to analyse,
    classify and store them. The ideal candidate is independent, has a practical
    approach and knows how to discover, use, integrate and optimise various
    tools.

    Requirements:
    - Citizenship of a EU country
    - Working knowledge of English, French or Italian
    - Degree in Computational Linguistics or related areas
    - Programming experience

    The candidate should have good skills in several of the following areas:

    - PERL programming
    - Programming in Java, C++, etc.
    - Statistics for automatic classification, clustering and similar
    applications
    - Experience of working with large corpora or data collections
    - Experience with applications such as indexing, search engines, etc.
    - Experience with multilingual and cross-lingual NLP applications
    - Knowledge of several EU and Eastern-European languages
    - Web technology, CGI, Apache, HTML, XML
    - Relational databases (Oracle, MySQL), SQL
    - Windows NT and UNIX
    - Technology overview and report writing

    Remuneration depends on age, family status, experience and current
    residence. The salary for a single person currently residing outside Italy
    is 3.000 Euro per month net or more (after taxes).

    We offer interesting work in an expanding team and in an attractive setting.
    The JRC employs altogether 2400 staff from many different countries. 1800 of
    these work at the Ispra site in Northern Italy, about 60 km West of the city
    of Milan.

    If you have questions, please have a look at the web site
    http://www.jrc.it/langtech and contact Ralf Steinberger
    (ralf.steinberger@jrc.it). If you are interested, please send your
    application before Sunday 3 March 2002. Electronic applications are
    preferred.

    Dr. Ralf Steinberger (ralf.steinberger@jrc.it)
    European Commission, Joint Research Centre (http://www.jrc.it/langtech/)
    Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC)
    Cybersecurity and New Technologies for Combating Fraud Unit (CSCF)
    T.P. 361
    I - 21020 Ispra (VA)
    Tel: + 39 - 0332 78 6271
    Fax: + 39 - 0332 78 9098

    Ralf Steinberger (ralf.steinberger@jrc.it)
    European Commission, Joint Research Centre (http://www.jrc.it/langtech/)
    Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC)
    T.P. 361
    I - 21020 Ispra (VA)
    Tel: + 39 - 0332 78 6271
    Fax: + 39 - 0332 78 9098

     -----Original Message-----
    From: Ralf Steinberger [mailto:ralf.steinberger@jrc.it]
    Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 3:31 PM
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    Cc: 'Ralf STEINBERGER (JRC)'
    Subject: Computational Linguistics Position: Joint Research Centre of the EC

    The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) is looking for a
    one-year Auxiliary Agent, starting approximately in May 2001, to contribute
    to its Language Technology projects at the JRC-Ispra site near the Lago
    Maggiore in Northern Italy.

    The candidate will work in a multi-disciplinary and international team of
    scientists and developers and will contribute to two projects. The first one
    is concerned with the automatic assignment of keywords from a multilingual
    thesaurus to text, using statistical methods and a manually indexed text
    collection. The second project has the aim of gathering potentially
    user-relevant documents from the internet and to analyse, classify and store
    them. The ideal candidate has a practical approach and knows how to use,
    integrate and optimise different tools in the Windows NT environment.

    Requirements: Degree in Computational Linguistics or related areas; PERL
    programming experience; working knowledge of English; experience of working
    with large corpora or data collections; citizenship of a EU country.

    Desirable knowledge: Knowledge of statistics for automatic classification
    and similar applications; knowledge of French, German, Italian or other
    European languages; experience with further programming languages such as C
    or Java; knowledge of HTML and XML.

    Remuneration depends on age, family status, experience and current
    residence. The salary for a single person currently residing outside Italy
    is approximately 3.000 Euro per month net (after taxes).

    We offer interesting work in an expanding team and in an attractive setting.
    The JRC employs altogether 2400 staff from many different countries. 1800 of
    these work at the Ispra site in Northern Italy, about 60 km West of the city
    of Milan.

    If you are interested or have questions, please contact Ralf Steinberger
    (ralf.steinberger@jrc.it). The deadline for applications is 18.03.2001.
    Electronic applications are preferred.

    Dr. Ralf Steinberger (ralf.steinberger@jrc.it)
    European Commission, Joint Research Centre (http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/jrc)
    Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety (ISIS)
    RMDS - Project 25
    T.P. 361
    I - 21020 Ispra (VA)
    Tel: + 39 - 0332 78 6271
    Fax: + 39 - 0332 78 9098



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