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<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>We would like to
inform you about an open call for paid traineeships in the field of
computational linguistics and multilingual text analysis at the European
Commission’s <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Joint Research Centre</span></i>
in Ispra, </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Northern Italy</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The Language Technology group (<a
href="http://www.jrc.it/langtech">http://www.jrc.it/langtech</a>), which
focuses on highly multilingual applications providing cross-lingual information
access, is especially looking for trainees that could contribute in one or more
of the following <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>fields</span></b>:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>- Machine learning</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>- Document classification and relevance-ranking</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>- Multilingual lexicography</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>- Information extraction (IE)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>- Adaptation of existing IE tools to new languages.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Requirements: </span></font></b></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>- Minimum programming skills</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>- Working knowledge of English, French or Italian.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Multilingual applicants speaking one or more of the
languages Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Russian,
Arabic, Turkish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian or Danish would be particularly
welcome, as would be a good knowledge of web technology, databases, statistics
and programming languages. For more information, see also </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/langtech/WorkatJRC.html">http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/langtech/WorkatJRC.html</a>
.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The remuneration (for people not living in </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Italy</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>) is 735
Euro per month plus travel. Student apartments may be available for about 150
Euro per month. </span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>For further
information, including the exact eligibility criteria (less than 30 years old;
no completed Ph.D.; minimum duration of two months; allowed nationalities,
etc.), see the main JRC web site <a href="http://www.jrc.it/">http://www.jrc.it/</a>
and click on “JRC is looking for young trainees”. Completed
application forms, together with CV and letter of motivation should arrive before
30.11.2004 at:</span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:36.0pt'><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Joint
Research Centre</span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:36.0pt'><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Via
Fermi 1</span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:36.0pt'><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>IPSC,
T.P. 268</span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:36.0pt'><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Anne-Marie
Morrissey</span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:36.0pt'><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I
– 21020 Ispra (VA)</span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:36.0pt'><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Italy.</span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>Reference:
“Internship in Language Technology, project 4312”.</span></font></p>
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