<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><h1 class="q"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; ">The Centre for Natural Language Processing (CENTAL) at UCLouvain, in Belgium, has 2 job openings (post-doc & Research Engineer, contracts between 6 months and 2 years) within
the framework of the Eurostars/Eureka project "Biograph". This project
brings together academic and industrial European partners (from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and Luxembourg). </span></h1><p class="q-details">
Keywords: Information Extraction, Ontologies, English, French, Dutch
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Job Description:
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<br>CENTAL is engaged in a research project aiming at developing a
multi-purpose people search platform, based on multi-source
biographical information extraction, offering multilingual search
capabilities and allowing to search for people, not only by name but
also by any kind of characteristics: technical skills, work experience,
location...
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<br>The role of each selected candidate will be to participate in the
development of a linguistics-based information extraction system and to
contribute to the design of ontologies in the field of biography.
He/she will work at the University of Louvain, in Louvain-la-Neuve, a
nice modern city, located 30 kilometers away from Brussels. He/she will
be part of the CENTAL team, a dynamic research team of 15 people,
involved in various regional, national and international research
projects in Natural Language Processing. He/she will benefit from the
lab infrastructure and from a stimulating environment. He/she will work
and stay in close contact with other researchers and professors of the
lab as well as with the other organizations involved in the project.
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The ideal candidate:
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* has a PhD or Master in Computational linguistics, Linguistics or Computer science (or another close and relevant discipline);
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* has good programming skills or experience in linguistic description for NLP;
<br>* is interested in Natural Language Processing and has a tangible
experience or knowledge of the field of Information Extraction,
Semantic parsing or Ontologies;
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* speaks English and French or Dutch;
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* is a hard worker... has good team spirit!
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Additional information:
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Duration of the contract: between 6 months and 2 years
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Starting date: March 2010 (with some flexibility)
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- UCL:
<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Euclouvain%2Ebe&urlhash=OwlI" target="_blank" title="New window will open">http://www.uclouvain.be</a>
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- Cental:
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Application:
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Interested candidates are invited to send their C.V. and a statement of research interests to the address below.
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For additional information about the position please contact:
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Prof. Cédrick Fairon
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<a href="mailto:cedrick.fairon@uclouvain.be">cedrick.fairon@uclouvain.be</a>
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Directeur du CENTAL
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Centre de traitement automatique du langage
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Université catholique de Louvain
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Place Blaise Pascal, 1
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1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
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Belgique
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tel: +32 10 47 37 88
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fax: +32 10 47 26 06
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"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Prof. Cédrick Fairon</div><div><a href="mailto:cedrick.fairon@uclouvain.be">cedrick.fairon@uclouvain.be</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Directeur du CENTAL</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Centre de traitement automatique du langage</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Université<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "> catholique</span></span> de Louvain</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Place Blaise Pascal, 1</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1348 Louvain-la-Neuve</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Belgique</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">tel: +32 10 47 37 88</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">fax: +32 10 47 26 06</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://cental.fltr.ucl.ac.be">http://cental.fltr.ucl.ac.be</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://glossa.fltr.ucl.ac.be">http://glossa.fltr.ucl.ac.be</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>Le 03-févr.-10 à 18:02, Paul Buitelaar a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for a<br>position as researcher with the Digital Enterprise Research Institute<br>(DERI <a href="http://www.deri.ie">http://www.deri.ie</a>) at the National University of Ireland, Galway<br><br>DERI is a leading research institute in semantic technologies that<br>offers a stimulating, dynamic and multi-cultural research environment,<br>excellent ties to research-groups worldwide, close collaboration with<br>industrial partners and up-to-date infrastructure and resources. The<br>Unit for Natural Language Processing (<a href="http://nlp.deri.ie/">http://nlp.deri.ie/</a>) has a focus<br>on applied research in ontology-based information extraction,<br>semantic-level text mining and the use of linguistic and semantic<br>methods in information retrieval. The eBusiness Unit<br>(<a href="http://deb.deri.ie/about">http://deb.deri.ie/about</a>) develops methods that support the application<br>of semantics to business information systems in the areas of content<br>analytics, uncovering and extracting meaning from business information<br>and the development of provenance based trust for business information<br>integration.<br><br>Research Role<br>The successful candidate will be a team member on the forthcoming<br>EU-funded FP7 project Monnet (Multilingual Ontologies for Networked<br>Knowledge) and will be expected to make significant contributions to<br>system architecture design and integration of advanced natural language<br>processing and semantic technology components for the purpose of Monnet<br>case study development in eBusiness and eGovernment. Given the research<br>oriented nature of the project, the successful candidate will be<br>actively encouraged to contribute as well to scientific dissemination of<br>project results via conference and journal publications and showcasing<br>of project demonstrators.<br><br>The Person<br>- Ability to work in a team based environment<br>- Motivated and proactive attitude to take ownership and initiative in<br>research assignments<br>- Excellent analysis and problem solving skills<br>- Strong design, integration & testing skills<br>- Excellent communication skills, verbal and written<br>- Creative Thinking<br><br>Essential Skills<br>Experience/Background in the following:<br>- Computational linguistics<br>- Strong core Java<br>- Knowledge/experience with web service design principles, development<br>and implementation<br>- Familiar with XML processing and related technologies<br>- Knowledge of object-oriented design principles and design patterns and<br>an understanding of their application within Java<br>- Third level degree in computational linguistics or computer science<br>related discipline<br><br>Desirable Experience & Background (inc. qualifications):<br>- Experience/Knowledge of document processing and search techniques<br>- Experience/Knowledge of scientific writing and publication<br>- Experience/Knowledge of Semantic technologies and standards<br>- A relevant post graduate degree (MSc, PhD) or relevant industrial<br>experience<br><br>The duration of the post will be for 1 year in the first instance, with<br>possible extension for a further 2 years.<br><br>Salary: €25,425 - €40,086 commensurate with qualifications and<br>experience. Start date: March 2010 or as soon as possible thereafter.<br><br>Informal enquiries about the position may be made to: Dr. Paul<br>Buitelaar, Unit for Natural Language Processing paul.buitelaar at<br>deri.org or Sean O’Riain, Unit for eBusiness sean.oriain at deri.org<br><br>Application procedure: Candidates are requested to submit a cover<br>letter, CV (Word or PDF format only) and the names and addresses of<br>three referees via email to <a href="mailto:hr.ie@deri.org">hr.ie@deri.org</a><br><br>Please put Ref. no. NUIG-006-10 in subject line of email application.<br><br>Closing date for receipt of applications is Monday 15th February 2010<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Corpora mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Corpora@uib.no">Corpora@uib.no</a><br>http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>