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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color="#003300" face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#003300;font-weight:
bold'>Please note that the deadline for this position has been extended to 27
June.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><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><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><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>DEADLINE: 27 June 2005
(<b><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold'>NEW</span></font></b>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><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><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><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><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"
title="http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/who_we_are/mapispr.htm">map</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><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"
title="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"
title="http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/enlargement/action2005/index.htm"><span
lang=EN-GB><span
title="http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/enlargement/action2005/index.htm">http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/enlargement/action2005/index.htm</span></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>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span 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" title="http://www.jrc.it/langtech"><span
lang=DE><span title="http://www.jrc.it/langtech">http://www.jrc.it/langtech</span></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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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><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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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><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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<p class=MsoNormal><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"
title="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:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><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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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><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"
title="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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><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/"
title="http://press.jrc.it/">http://press.jrc.it</a> and <a
href="http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/"
title="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"
title="http://www.jrc.it/langtech">http://www.jrc.it/langtech</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><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>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><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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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><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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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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