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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Readers of this list may be interested in the following position, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>funded by Tübitak. The successful applicant will be working at the <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>European Commission’s <i>Joint Research Centre</i> (JRC) in Ispra, Italy. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This is one of altogether 44 positions, but the only one in the field of <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>computational linguistics / media monitoring. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>URL with full details: <a href="http://www.fp7.org.tr/home.do?ot=5&rt=1&sid=3450&pid=0&cid=23685">http://www.fp7.org.tr/home.do?ot=5&rt=1&sid=3450&pid=0&cid=23685</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:black'>Title of profile: Media monitoring and information mining<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:black'>Location: </span></b><span style='color:black'>Ispra, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:black'>Reference no.: </span></b><span style='color:black'>JRC.IPSC.G.2-06.TUBITAK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:black'>Position for: </span></b><span style='color:black'>Ph.D. student or Post-doctoral fellow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:black'>Indicative duration: </span></b><span style='color:black'>6 to 12 months<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:black'>JRC Contact Administrative contact point to send your CV and <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:black'> motivation letter: </span></b><span style='color:blue'>JRC-IPSC-ENLA@ec.europa.eu</span><b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:black'>Scientific-technical contact point:</span></b><span style='color:black'> </span><span style='color:blue'>Erik.van-der-Goot@jrc.ec.europa.eu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=FR style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><u><span style='color:black'>Short description of activity:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>The candidate will carry out scientific and technical tasks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>contributing to the <i>Europe Media Monitor </i>(EMM) family of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>applications of the OPTIMA action inside the JRC’s <i>Global<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><i><span style='color:black'>Security and Crisis Management Unit </span></i><span style='color:black'>(GlobeSec). EMM tools<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>gather and analyse about 100,000 media reports per day in 50<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>languages from several thousand online news sites and display the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>analysis results on publicly accessible web pages<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>(</span><span style='color:blue'>http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html</span><span style='color:black'>). Recent efforts focus on<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>additionally gathering and analysing social media such as Blogs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>and Twitter. The objective is to support European Institutions,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>national authorities in the EU Member States, international<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>organisations and authorities in extra-European partner countries<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>in their daily monitoring tasks. OPTIMA’s research and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>development work is thus task and application-oriented.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><u><span style='color:black'>Required profile:</span></u></b><b><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>We are looking for motivated PhD students or Post-doctoral<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>fellows in Information Technology, Computer Science,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>Computational Linguistics, Data Mining, Machine Learning or<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>related areas to contribute to OPTIMA’s media and web<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>monitoring efforts and to publish its research results.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>We are offering the possibility to work in an international, multicultural<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>and highly motivated team contributing to leading edge<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>developments.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>The candidate’s field of research should be related to one or more<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>of the following fields: Language Technology; multilingual<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>natural language processing; machine translation; web mining;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>web technology; media monitoring and analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>Good programming skills in Java are required. Additional<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>knowledge of a scripting language would be a bonus. Experience<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>with developing or using text mining tools would also be an<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>advantage.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>An ability to work in a multi-national team and a very good level<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>of spoken and written English is indispensable as English is the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>group’s main working language. The required level of the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>language is C2 according to the Common European Framework<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>of Reference for Languages (documented proof of the language<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>knowledge will be requested for the pre-selected applications).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>Active or passive knowledge of other European and non-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>European natural languages would be a clear advantage.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>