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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>SUBJECT:
Job <st1:place w:st="on">Opportunity</st1:place> at the EC's Joint Research
Centre (JRC)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>TARGET GROUP: Citizens
of new or future EU countries<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>DEADLINE:
17 June 2005<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>STARTING DATE: Early 2006 <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>DURATION:
12 months <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>HOST:
Joint Research Centre of the European Commission <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>LOCATION:
Ispra, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Lago Maggiore</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Northern</st1:State> <st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region></st1:place>
(see <a href="http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/who_we_are/mapispr.htm">map</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>INFORMATION: <a
href="http://projects-2005.jrc.cec.eu.int/show.gx?Object.object_id=PROJECTS000000000100D614">http://projects-2005.jrc.cec.eu.int/show.gx?Object.object_id=PROJECTS000000000100D614</a>
and <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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</span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=FR style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/enlargement/action2005/index.htm"><span
lang=EN-GB>http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/enlargement/action2005/index.htm</span></a></span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>LANGTECH WEB: </span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href="http://www.jrc.it/langtech"><span lang=DE>http://www.jrc.it/langtech</span></a></span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
<span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></p>
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lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>There is an open call for expression
of interest for a one-year position in the field of Language Technology (and
more posts in other areas) at the European Commission's <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Joint Research Centre</span></i> (JRC) in Ispra, at
the Lago Maggiore in <st1:place w:st="on">Northern Italy</st1:place>. Applicants
from the fields of Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, Computer
Science, Linguistics, Statistics or related areas are particularly welcome. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>BACKGROUND /
NATIONALITY REQUIREMENT<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>To support the enlargement of the
European Union (EU), the JRC promotes the gradual integration of the new EU
Member States, of Acceding Countries and Candidate Countries (NMS/AC/CC) in the
<a href="http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/era/index_en.html">European
Research Area</a> (ERA) and assists them in particular through an increased
participation in the relevant JRC activities by offering training and mobility
possibilities. Special attention will be given to candidatures of experts from
NMS/ACs/CCs associated to the EU RTD Framework Programme namely: <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Bulgaria</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Croatia</st1:country-region>,
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Czech</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Republic</st1:PlaceType>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Estonia</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Hungary</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Latvia</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Lithuania</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Malta</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Poland</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Romania</st1:country-region>, <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Slovak</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Republic</st1:PlaceType>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Slovenia</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>WORK CONTENTS<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The specific call for the field of
Language Technology can be found at <a
href="http://projects-2005.jrc.cec.eu.int/show.gx?Object.object_id=PROJECTS000000000100D614">http://projects-2005.jrc.cec.eu.int/show.gx?Object.object_id=PROJECTS000000000100D614</a>.
Possible tasks depend on the profile of the applicants, but will involve the
participation in current research projects, and possibly the adaptation of
existing text mining tools to further languages. Applicants should have good
programming skills and an interest in producing hands-on results.</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The JRC's Language Technology group
specialises in multilingual text analysis applications providing cross-lingual
information access, with a focus on news analysis (see <a
href="http://press.jrc.it/">http://press.jrc.it</a> and <a
href="http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/">http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/</a>).
<u>Fields of interest</u> are information extraction, named entity recognition,
scenario template filling, Semantic Web applications, terminology extraction
and dictionary generation from parallel corpora, thesaurus indexing, multilingual
text classification and clustering, document relevance-ranking, monolingual and
cross-lingual document similarity calculation, topic detection and tracking,
visualisation of textual information, etc. For more information and for
scientific contacts, see <a href="http://www.jrc.it/langtech">http://www.jrc.it/langtech</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>PLACE OF WORK /
DEADLINE<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The JRC is situated in Ispra, in
Northern Italy, about one hour West of the city of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Milan</st1:City></st1:place>. Its 1700 international staff work in a
multi-disciplinary and multilingual environment. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Interested persons should send the
application form together with their CV and a list of publications to
ipsc@jrc.it before 17 June 2005. The submitted applications will be evaluated
and a reply will be sent to the applicants by September 2005. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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