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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">The CIRCSE Research Centre, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy), invites applications for a full-time, fixed-term Research Fellow position in
the project <i>Building and Integrating Advanced Language Resources for Latin </i>
funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) within the programme “Futuro in Ricerca 2013” (FIR-2013).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">The project wants to enhance two available Latin treebanks (Latin Dependency Treebank: Classical Latin;
<i>Index Thomisticus</i> Treebank: Medieval Latin) with semantic-pragmatic annotation, building a new lexical resource of Latin (a valency lexicon) and integrating all the resources in one common infrastructure to ease their on-line access and use.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">The task of the successful candidate will be to annotate data at both textual and lexical level and to apply and enhance natural language processing tools.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Thorough understanding of Latin is required, as well as good knowledge of English.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Preferential conditions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">PhD in Classics or Computational Linguistics;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">attested research experience in one, or more of the following areas: use of stochastic or rule-based natural language processing tools; building and use of annotated corpora;
building and use of computational lexica;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">programming skills (Perl and/or Python);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">theoretical and practical background in linguistic annotation of textual and/or lexical data at both syntactic and semantic/pragmatic level.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">The post is available for up to two years (1 year + 1 year). The salary for the first year is 19,370 Euros (1,470 monthly, after taxes).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">The full announcement and the application form can be downloaded at
<a href="http://milano.unicatt.it/concorsi-assegni-di-ricerca-legge-240-2010-art-22">
http://milano.unicatt.it/concorsi-assegni-di-ricerca-legge-240-2010-art-22</a> (see under: Decreto rettorale n. 758 del 30 gennaio 2014).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Formal matter: although fluency in Italian is not a requirement, documents for application are in Italian. Do not hesitate to ask for help.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Informal enquiries about this position should be sent to the Principal Investigator of the project, Dr. Marco Passarotti (<a href="mailto:marco.passarotti@unicatt.it">marco.passarotti@unicatt.it</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Deadline for application: March 3rd, 2014</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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