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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Tilde invites applications for an Early Stage Researcher position in Machine Translation at the Department of Research and Software Architecture for a period of 19 month (starting on May 1, 2012).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Tilde (<a href="http://www.tilde.com">www.tilde.com</a>) is the Baltic IT company, the recognized leader in research and development of human language technologies for the languages of the Baltic countries. A combination of statistical and knowledge-driven approaches is used to provide state-of-the-art language technologies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The researcher will be involved in the EU project CLARA – Common Language Resources and their Applications, which is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network that has received funding from the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Applicants should hold a strong university degree (Master's/diploma or equivalent) which would entitle them to embark on a PhD project in a relevant discipline, and should be in the first four years of their research careers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The salary for the position is roughly EUR 24,529.5 per year. There are additional mobility (up to 800 euro/month) and travel allowances (yearly allowance). The income is taxable. There is a budget to cover participation costs, such as attendance at CLARA events abroad.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Application deadline: March 4, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>For more information visit: <a href="http://clara.uib.no/">http://clara.uib.no/</a> and <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/">http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>See details at<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'><a href="http://clara.uib.no/vacancies/esr-vacancy-at-tilde-3/">http://clara.uib.no/vacancies/esr-vacancy-at-tilde-3/</a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>!<span class=apple-converted-space> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><br><span style='background:white'>Looking forward to your applications!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"'>Tatiana Gornostay, Dr. Philol.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"'>Senior Researcher, Computational Linguist<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"'>Software Architecture and Research Department<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"'>Tilde, Latvia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"'>www.tilde.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"'>http://lv.linkedin.com/in/gornostay<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"'>Office: +371 67605001<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"'>Cell phone: +371 29936639<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva";color:#1F497D'><img border=0 width=66 height=58 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01CCE289.8A5D77C0" alt="Description: Description: Tilde.bmp"></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>