[Corpora-List] Jobs: Post-doc/Research Engineer in Information Extraction

Tue Feb 16 14:17:26 UTC 2010

The Centre for Natural Language Processing (CENTAL) at UCLouvain, in  
Belgium, has 2 job openings (post-doc & Research Engineer, contracts  
between 6 months and 2 years) within the framework of the Eurostars/ 
Eureka project "Biograph". This project brings together academic and  
industrial European partners (from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany  
and Luxembourg).

Keywords: Information Extraction, Ontologies, English, French, Dutch

Job Description:

CENTAL is engaged in a research project aiming at developing a multi- 
purpose people search platform, based on multi-source biographical  
information extraction, offering multilingual search capabilities and  
allowing to search for people, not only by name but also by any kind  
of characteristics: technical skills, work experience, location...

The role of each selected candidate will be to participate in the  
development of a linguistics-based information extraction system and  
to contribute to the design of ontologies in the field of biography.  
He/she will work at the University of Louvain, in Louvain-la-Neuve, a  
nice modern city, located 30 kilometers away from Brussels. He/she  
will be part of the CENTAL team, a dynamic research team of 15 people,  
involved in various regional, national and international research  
projects in Natural Language Processing. He/she will benefit from the  
lab infrastructure and from a stimulating environment. He/she will  
work and stay in close contact with other researchers and professors  
of the lab as well as with the other organizations involved in the  
project.

The ideal candidate:
* has a PhD or Master in Computational linguistics, Linguistics or  
Computer science (or another close and relevant discipline);
* has good programming skills or experience in linguistic description  
for NLP;
* is interested in Natural Language Processing and has a tangible  
experience or knowledge of the field of Information Extraction,  
Semantic parsing or Ontologies;
* speaks English and French or Dutch;
* is a hard worker... has good team spirit!

Additional information:
Duration of the contract: between 6 months and 2 years
Starting date: March 2010 (with some flexibility)
- UCL: http://www.uclouvain.be
- Cental: http://www.uclouvain.be/cental

Application:
Interested candidates are invited to send their C.V. and a statement  
of research interests to the address below.
For additional information about the position please contact:

Prof. Cédrick Fairon
cedrick.fairon at uclouvain.be

Directeur du CENTAL
Centre de traitement automatique du langage
Université catholique 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

Prof. Cédrick Fairon
cedrick.fairon at uclouvain.be

Directeur du CENTAL
Centre de traitement automatique du langage
Université catholique 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

Le 03-févr.-10 à 18:02, Paul Buitelaar a écrit :

> Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for a
> position as researcher with the Digital Enterprise Research Institute
> (DERI http://www.deri.ie) at the National University of Ireland,  
> Galway
>
> DERI is a leading research institute in semantic technologies that
> offers a stimulating, dynamic and multi-cultural research environment,
> excellent ties to research-groups worldwide, close collaboration with
> industrial partners and up-to-date infrastructure and resources. The
> Unit for Natural Language Processing (http://nlp.deri.ie/) has a focus
> on applied research in ontology-based information extraction,
> semantic-level text mining and the use of linguistic and semantic
> methods in information retrieval. The eBusiness Unit
> (http://deb.deri.ie/about) develops methods that support the  
> application
> of semantics to business information systems in the areas of content
> analytics, uncovering and extracting meaning from business information
> and the development of provenance based trust for business information
> integration.
>
> Research Role
> The successful candidate will be a team member on the forthcoming
> EU-funded FP7 project Monnet (Multilingual Ontologies for Networked
> Knowledge) and will be expected to make significant contributions to
> system architecture design and integration of advanced natural  
> language
> processing and semantic technology components for the purpose of  
> Monnet
> case study development in eBusiness and eGovernment. Given the  
> research
> oriented nature of the project, the successful candidate will be
> actively encouraged to contribute as well to scientific  
> dissemination of
> project results via conference and journal publications and showcasing
> of project demonstrators.
>
> The Person
> - Ability to work in a team based environment
> - Motivated and proactive attitude to take ownership and initiative in
> research assignments
> - Excellent analysis and problem solving skills
> - Strong design, integration & testing skills
> - Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
> - Creative Thinking
>
> Essential Skills
> Experience/Background in the following:
> - Computational linguistics
> - Strong core Java
> - Knowledge/experience with web service design principles, development
> and implementation
> - Familiar with XML processing and related technologies
> - Knowledge of object-oriented design principles and design patterns  
> and
> an understanding of their application within Java
> - Third level degree in computational linguistics or computer science
> related discipline
>
> Desirable Experience & Background (inc. qualifications):
> - Experience/Knowledge of document processing and search techniques
> - Experience/Knowledge of scientific writing and publication
> - Experience/Knowledge of Semantic technologies and standards
> - A relevant post graduate degree (MSc, PhD) or relevant industrial
> experience
>
> The duration of the post will be for 1 year in the first instance,  
> with
> possible extension for a further 2 years.
>
> Salary: €25,425 - €40,086 commensurate with qualifications and
> experience. Start date: March 2010 or as soon as possible thereafter.
>
> Informal enquiries about the position may be made to: Dr. Paul
> Buitelaar, Unit for Natural Language Processing paul.buitelaar at
> deri.org or Sean O’Riain, Unit for eBusiness sean.oriain at deri.org
>
> Application procedure: Candidates are requested to submit a cover
> letter, CV (Word or PDF format only) and the names and addresses of
> three referees via email to hr.ie at deri.org
>
> Please put Ref. no. NUIG-006-10 in subject line of email application.
>
> Closing date for receipt of applications is Monday 15th February 2010
>
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