[Corpora-List] Post-doc in information extraction & ontologies

[Cédrick Fairon]

         POST-DOC IN INFORMATION EXTRACTION & ONTOLOGIES

               Centre for Natural Language Processing - CENTAL
                                  http://cental.fltr.ucl.ac.be

                          Université catholique de Louvain
                              Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

"B-Ontology" is a collaborative project between CENTAL, an NLP research centre 
at the University of Louvain (Belgium), and the Belgian national press agency 
Belga (http://www.belga.be). It is funded by the Brussels Fund for Research 
and Development (IRSIB). The objective is to build an information extraction 
system specialized in biographical information extraction and management. The 
information system will be accessible to Belga journalists as a source of 
information and a productivity tool. It will be fully integrated in the Belga 
workflow so that all incoming and outgoing press sources (in French, Dutch 
and English) will be monitored. 

To reinforce the B-Ontology research team, we are recruiting a post-doc (up to 
18 months, as of January 2006). 

The ideal candidate:
- has a PhD in Computational linguistics, Linguistics or Computer science (or 
another close and relevant discipline).
- has experience in Ontologies and Information extraction (or sub fields: 
Named Entities Recognition, Anaphora Resolution, etc.)
- is a good programmer, with relevant experience in programming (C or C++,      
Java, Perl or Python, etc.)
- has a good knowledge of database engineering
- has a good understanding of the lexicon-grammar theory (M. Gross)
- has a good command of the Open-Source Linguistic platform Unitex 
(http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~unitex/)
- has a very good command of Dutch (writing and speaking: either first 
language or high education degree), English and French.
- is a hard worker... has a good team spirit

The Post-doc will be mainly involved in:
- the design and development of the Dutch and English version of the IE 
system;
- the design and the development of the Information System for storing and 
managing the extracted biographical information (which involves, DB & 
ontologies development);
- the conception and the development of the query interface;
- transfer of knowledge (i.e. advising and coaching younger researchers)

The researcher will work at the University of Louvain, in a very stimulating 
and challenging environment where he/she will collaborate with the CENTAL 
team (10 people) and will be in close close contact with the Belga team.
Duration of the contract: up to 18 months (as of January 2006)

Additional information
For additional information about the vacancy please contact:

Prof. Cédrick Fairon
fairon at tedm.ucl.ac.be
Director of CENTAL
Faculté de philosophie et lettres 
Université catholique de Louvain
Place Blaise Pascal, 1
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
Tel.: +32 10 47 37 88
Fax : +32 10 47 26 06
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Cédrick Fairon
Directeur du CENTAL
Centre de traitement automatique du langage
Université 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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Cédrick Fairon
Directeur du CENTAL
Centre de traitement automatique du langage
Université 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