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<font face="Arial"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">[Apologies for
cross-postings] <br>
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<font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: "Century
Gothic";" lang="EN-GB">ELDA</span><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"> offers a position for its Language Resource
Production and Evaluation activities working in the framework of
European projects. </span></font><font face="Arial"><span
style="font-family: "Century Gothic";" lang="EN-GB"></span></font>
<p><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: "Century
Gothic";" lang="EN-GB"></span></font></p>
<font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: "Century
Gothic";" lang="EN-GB">The position is related to a number
of NLP activities within </span><span style="" lang="EN-GB">ELDA</span><span
style="font-family: "Century Gothic";" lang="EN-GB">,
with a focus on the development of web-service architectures for
the automatic production and distribution of language resources.</span></font>
<p><font face="Arial"> <span style="font-family: "Century
Gothic";" lang="EN-GB">The candidate may also be involved
in the creation of LR repositories, NLP applications
development and/or evaluation, etc.</span></font></p>
<font face="Arial"> <span style="font-family: "Century
Gothic";" lang="EN-GB"> </span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";"
lang="EN-GB">Profile:</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";"
lang="EN-GB">- Degree or MSc in computer science, computational
linguistics, natural language processing or similar fields
(preference for a PhD)</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";"
lang="EN-GB">- Good programming skills in C, C++, Perl and/or
Java</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";"
lang="EN-GB">- Experience and/or knowledge of web services</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";"
lang="EN-GB">- Good knowledge of Linux and open source software</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";"
lang="EN-GB">- Good knowledge of Django, database management
(MySQL), programming environment</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";"
lang="EN-GB">- Experience and/or knowledge of NLP is a plus</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";"
lang="EN-GB">- Experience and/or knowledge of Machine
Translation, Information Retrieval and related areas is a plus</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";"
lang="EN-GB">- Ability to work independently and as part of a
team, in particular to collaborate with members of a
multidisciplinary and multilingual team</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";"
lang="EN-GB">- Proficiency in French and English</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";"
lang="EN-GB"> </span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";"
lang="EN-GB">Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and
experience.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";"
lang="EN-GB"> </span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";"
lang="EN-GB">Applications will be considered until the position
is filled. The position is based in </span><span
style="font-family: "Century Gothic";" lang="EN-GB">Paris</span><span
style="font-family: "Century Gothic";" lang="EN-GB">,
</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";"
lang="EN-GB">France</span><span style="font-family:
"Century Gothic";" lang="EN-GB"> and candidates should
have the citizenship (or residency papers) of a European Union
country. </span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";"
lang="EN-GB"> </span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";"
lang="EN-GB">Applicants should send (preferably via email) a
cover letter addressing the points listed above together with a
curriculum vitae to:</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";"
lang="EN-GB"> </span><br>
<b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";"
lang="EN-GB">Khalid CHOUKRI <span style="">
</span><br>
ELRA / ELDA <span style="">
</span><br>
55-57, rue Brillat Savarin <span style="">
</span><br>
75013 </span></b><b><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Paris</span></b><b><span
style="font-family: "Century Gothic";" lang="EN-GB">
</span></b><b><span style="" lang="EN-GB">FRANCE</span></b><b><span
style="font-family: "Century Gothic";" lang="EN-GB">
<br>
Fax : +33 1 43 13 33 30 <br>
Email : </span></b><b><u><span style="font-family:
"Century Gothic"; color: blue;"><a
href="mailto:job@elda.org"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">job@elda.org</span></a></span></u></b><b><span
style="font-family: "Century Gothic";" lang="EN-GB">
</span></b><br>
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";"
lang="EN-GB"> </span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";"
lang="EN-GB">The <b>European Language Resources Association
(ELRA)</b> is a non-profit making organisation founded by the
European Commission in 1995, with the mission of providing a
clearing house for language resources and promoting Human
Language Technologies. </span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";"
lang="EN-GB"> </span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic";"
lang="EN-GB">The <b>Evaluations and Language resources
Distribution Agency (</b></span><b><span style="" lang="EN-GB">ELDA</span></b><b><span
style="font-family: "Century Gothic";" lang="EN-GB">)</span></b><span
style="font-family: "Century Gothic";" lang="EN-GB">
is ELRA's operational body. </span><span style="font-family:
"Century Gothic";" lang="EN-GB">ELDA</span><span
style="font-family: "Century Gothic";" lang="EN-GB">
identifies, collects, distributes and evaluates language
resources. It also organises evaluation activities and campaigns
in HLT, as well as disseminates general information in the HLT
field.</span></font>
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