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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>SUBJECT: Two
post-doc positions at the EC's Joint Research Centre (JRC)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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(1) <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Automatic extraction of information from
the news</span></b> <br>
Reference: <a href="http://ipsc.jrc.cec.eu.int/jobtraining.php?cat3021"
target="_blank">IPSC/2005/3021</a>, contact Ralf.Steinberger@jrc.it<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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(2) <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Ontology Research for <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>
Media Monitor (EMM)<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></font></p>
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Reference: <a href="http://ipsc.jrc.cec.eu.int/jobtraining.php?cat3023"
target="_blank">IPSC/2005/3023</a>, Contact Clive.Best@jrc.it<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: 14 October
2005, 12:00 noon (local time)<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: Spring 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: 6-36 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 lang=FR
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>INFORMATION: <a
href="http://ipsc.jrc.cec.eu.int/jobs.php?id=2">http://ipsc.jrc.cec.eu.int/jobs.php?id=2</a><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><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>The Joint Research Centre (JRC) has announced 43
Ph.D. and post-doc openings, of which two are in the field of Language
Technology and Web Technology. Applicants for these two positions must hold a
Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, Computer Science,
Linguistics, Statistics, Information Technology, Political Science or related
areas. The successful applicants will have programming experience, will be
hands-on and like to produce working systems. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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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 style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Interested persons should enter their online-CV into
the ELSA database before 14 October 2005, 12:00 noon (local time). We recommend
to avoid last-minute data entry. It is obligatory to indicate the reference of
the position you are interested in. For details about eligibility criteria,
salary, a draft contract, etc., go to <a
href="http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/default.asp@sidsz=what_we_offer&sidstsz=open_calls.htm">http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/default.asp@sidsz=what_we_offer&sidstsz=open_calls.htm</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>The JRC’s Web Technology group has produced the
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Europe Media Monitoring</span></i> system
EMM (<a href="http://press.jrc.it/">http://press.jrc.it</a>), which monitors about
800 news sites live in currently 32 languages, classifies the news and has
various alert tools.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>The JRC's Language Technology group, which is part
of EMM, specialises in highly multilingual text analysis applications providing
cross-lingual information access, with a focus on news analysis. The results of
some of the information extraction and analysis tools are available in the
NewsExplorer application (<a href="http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/"
title="http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/">http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/</a>).
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<p class=MsoNormal><u><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Fields of interest</span></font></u><font
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are information extraction, named entity recognition, scenario template
filling, Semantic Web applications and ontologies, 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>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>The JRC’s five sites in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>
employ altogether 2300 persons. At the JRC’s Ispra site in Northern Italy
(about one hour West of the city of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Milan</st1:place></st1:City>),
1700 international staff work in a multi-disciplinary and multilingual
environment. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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