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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>REMINDER: Deadline for application is 17 October 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Readers on this list may be interested in the following three-year post-doc positions to work at the European Commission’s <i>Joint Research Centre</i> (JRC) in Ispra, at the Lago Maggiore in Italy. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Code: 2012-IPR-G-30-000-00741 - <i>CAT 30</i> - ISPRA</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span class=projectdescr1><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Multi-lingual and multi-functional information extraction methods and tools</span></b></span><span class=projectdescr1><b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=projectdescr1><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Code: 2012-IPR-G-30-000-00743 - <i>CAT 30</i> - ISPRA</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span class=projectdescr1><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Engineering Media Monitoring Software Solutions</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Applicants need to hold a Ph.D. or have at least five years of relevant post-graduate experience. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>URL with job details</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>: <a href="http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/">http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/</a> (select IPSC institute)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>URL with conditions: </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/index.cfm?id=4790">http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/index.cfm?id=4790</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Application deadline:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> 17.10.2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Duration:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> 36 months<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Type of contract:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> category 30 grant holder<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Action:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> Open Source Text Information Mining and Analysis (OPTIMA)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Scientific website:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> <a href="http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu">http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>EMM online applications:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html"><span lang=EN-GB>http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html</span></a> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='color:#1F497D'>Information on the team and its work:<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The JRC’s <i>Global Security and Crisis Management Unit</i> (GlobeSec) supports the Union's policies to strengthen the EU's resilience to crises and disasters as well as the EU's aim to promote stability and peace through its research in crisis management technologies and in information mining and analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The Unit's OPTIMA (Open Source Text Information Mining and Analysis) Action develops innovative solutions for retrieving and extracting information from the Internet, and especially from online news and social media. It serves many Commission Services, EU agencies and some EU Member State authorities. The core of this action is the <i>Europe Media Monitor</i> (EMM). EMM gathers and analyses about 150,000 online news articles per day in 50 languages.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The <u>technologies</u> that have been developed so far in the OPTIMA Action include multilingual tools for the following tasks: <b>event extraction; automatic entity recognition, classification and disambiguation; name variant mapping; co-reference resolution; quotation recognition; opinion mining; multi-document summarisation; document clustering and classification; machine translation; information aggregation, including across languages; and more. Rule-based, as well as Machine Learning and hybrid methods are being used to achieve these goals</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><br>These techniques are already to some extent being deployed in several operational applications (see </span><span lang=FR style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html"><span lang=EN-GB>http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html</span></a></span><span style='color:#1F497D'>) and part of the work would be in support of these applications. The on-going research has a strong focus on applicability in a highly multi-lingual environment. The work is very practical and goal-oriented. Hands-on experience with developing tools is thus essential. Research results are expected to be used operationally. The candidate is expected to contribute to scientific publications of the research results.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#632423;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Ralf Steinberger </span></b><b><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#632423;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'><br></span></b><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#632423;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC)<br>IPSC - GlobeSec - OPTIMA (OPensource Text Information Mining and Analysis)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#632423;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>21027 Ispra (VA), Italy<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>