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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Post doctoral
research positions available <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Computational
Linguistics / Computer Science / NLP<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Linguistics</span></font></st1:PlaceName><span
lang=EN-GB> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType> of the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Lisbon</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Application
deadline: 08 September 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:
bold'>-----------------<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>The <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Linguistics</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType>
of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Lisbon</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> is seeking to
integrate in its SKAi (Sources, Knowledge and Modelling) group two
post-doctoral research fellows, specialized in Computational Linguistics or
Computer Science to develop and improve new and existing resources combining
NLP and statistics. Both positions have a maximal duration of five years.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>The work to be
accomplished by the 2 post-doctoral fellows aims at implementing infrastructures
for the existing Linguistic Resources, which should converge toward new applications
and paths for corpus-based approaches and primary sources exploitation.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>The ultimate
goal is to attain international high-quality standards in this field.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>The work
involves tasks such as:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>- Developing
human language technology applications, including market research and <font
color=black><span style='color:black'>evaluation, planning, overseeing
activities related to development and programming;<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>-
Developing an integrated infrastructure for large-scale resources and other
corpora and lexicons, assuring their availability;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>-
Participation in customizing, further developing and creating linguistic
relational databases;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>-
Establishing automatic processes of information extraction;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>-
Application of statistical NLP tasks;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>-
Development of corpus annotation systems.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Requirements:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>- Ph.D.
degree in Computational Linguistics or in Computer Science;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>- Strong
background in computational linguistics and linguistics (preferential);<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>- Knowledge
about Natural Language Processing and corpus-based methods;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>- Experience
with statistical NLP techniques;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>- Demonstrated
proficiency in Portuguese (preferential) and in English;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>- Programming
experience (Perl, Python, Java, C/C++);<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>- Good
working knowledge of SQL;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>- </span></font><span
lang=EN-GB>Three years of postdoctoral experience (preferential).<font
color=black><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>For
a description of the overall research and the different research groups of the center,
see </span></font><font color=blue><span lang=EN-GB style='color:blue'><a
href="http://www.clul.ul.pt/">http://www.clul.ul.pt</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>For more
details on the application, see<font color=blue><span style='color:blue'> <a
href="http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=9744">http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=9744</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Salary:
43k€ (annual)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Application:
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Applications
(by regular mail or by e-mail) should include (i) a letter of motivation, (ii)
a curriculum vitae, (iii) copies of degree certificates, (iv) copy of an
identification<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>document,
and (v) a minimum of two letters of recommendation or two contacts of qualified
specialists who may recommend the candidate. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Application
address: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Centro de
Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>a/c Prof. <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Ivo Castro</st1:PersonName><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Av. Prof.
Gama Pinto, 2<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Lisboa
- 1649-003<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on"><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Portugal</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region><font
color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Application
email: </span></font><font color=blue><span lang=EN-GB style='color:blue'>directiva@clul.ul.pt
</span></font><font color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Application
deadline: 08 September 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>For further
information, please contact Amália Mendes<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>amalia.mendes
[AT] clul.ul.pt<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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