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Overall positions within the HLT evaluation department at ELDA:
ELDA evaluation department director & evaluation team
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ELDA has been strongly expanding its activities related to the
evaluation
of Human Language Technologies (HLT). The evaluation department at
ELDA is intended to promote the HLT evaluation in Europe, and to act
as
a clearing house for this area with the support of a network of
evaluation
units based on a large number of European institutes (both public and
private
ones).
In order to staff this recently set up evaluation department, ELDA is
seeking
to fill the following positions.
1/ Department director:
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He/she will be in charge of managing ELDA’s activities related to
evaluation
and co-ordinating the work of the evaluation team and ELRA evaluation
network.
Profile:
- Advanced degree in computer science, computational linguistics, library
and
information science, knowledge management or similar fields;
- Experience and/or good knowledge of the evaluation programs in Europe
and
the US;
- Experience in project management, including the management of
European
projects;
- Ability to work independently and in a team, in particular the ability
to supervise
the work of a multi-disciplinary team;
- Proficiency in English.
2/ Two junior engineers:
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They will carry out specific activities in evaluation of HLT.
Responsibilities:
Under the supervision of the evaluation department director, the junior
engineers
will be involved in the evaluation of Human Language Technologies at
ELDA,
in the framework of collaborative European and international
projects.
Profile:
- Advanced degree in computer science, computational linguistics, library
and
information science, knowledge management or similar fields;
- Experience and/or good knowledge of the evaluation programs in Europe
and
the US;
- Experience in project management, including the management of
European
projects;
- Ability to work independently and in a team;
- Proficiency in English.
The positions are based in Paris and are open now. The candidates
should
have the citizenship (or residency papers) of a European Union
country.
Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Applicants should E-mail, Fax, or post a cover letter addressing the
points listed
above, together with a Curriculum Vitae, to:
Khalid CHOUKRI
ELRA / ELDA
55-57, rue Brillat Savarin
75013 Paris FRANCE
Tel : +33 1 43 13 33 33 ; Fax : +33 1 43 13 33 30
E-mail : choukri@elda.fr
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a non-profit
making
organisation founded by the European Commission in 1995, with the mission
of
providing a clearing house for language resources and promoting Human
Language
Technologies.
The Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) is
ELRA's
operational body. ELDA identifies, collects, markets, evaluates and
distributes language
resources, and organises the evaluation of HLT, along with the
dissemination of general
information in the field of HLT.
To find out more about ELRA and ELDA, please visit our web site:
www.elda.fr
Magali Jeanmaire
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Marketing & Communication
55-57, rue Brillat-Savarin
75013 Paris FRANCE
Tel: (+33) 1 43 13 33 33
Fax: (+33) 1 43 13 33 30
Web site :
http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/
or http://www.elda.fr
LREC: http://www.lrec-conf.org
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