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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Post doctoral research position available <?xml:namespace
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/><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Computational Linguistics / Computer Science /
NLP<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><o:p><FONT size=3
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT
size=3>Cent<SPAN class=540192511-21022014>re</SPAN> for Linguistics at the
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/><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of
<st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Lisbon</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"
lang=EN-GB>Application deadline: </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=PT>15
April 2014</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black"
lang=PT></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"
lang=PT></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"
lang=EN-GB><o:p><SPAN class=540192511-21022014><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">Duration: 25 months</FONT></SPAN></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><o:p><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><o:p><SPAN
class=540192511-21022014></SPAN></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">-----------------<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><o:p><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>The Cent<SPAN
class=540192511-21022014>re</SPAN> <SPAN class=540192511-21022014>for
Linguistics at </SPAN><SPAN class=540192511-21022014>the
</SPAN>University <SPAN class=540192511-21022014>of Lisbon </SPAN>is
seeking to integrate one post-doctoral research fellow, specialized in
Computational Linguistics or Computer Science to develop and improve new and
existing resources combining NLP and
statistics.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">The researcher should have three years of postdoctoral
experience (in exceptional cases, candidates with less than three years of
research experience might be considered).<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">The work involves tasks such
as:<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><SPAN
class=540192511-21022014>-</SPAN> Maintaining an integrated infrastructure
for large-scale resources, assuring their availability;</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
class=540192511-21022014>-</SPAN> Participation in customizing, further
developing and creating linguistic relational<SPAN class=540192511-21022014>
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">databases;</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><SPAN
class=540192511-21022014>-</SPAN> Application of statistical NLP tasks,
such as assessing corpus similarity, extracting<SPAN class=540192511-21022014>
</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">neologisms
through corpus comparison, extracting multiword expressions and<SPAN
class=540192511-21022014> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">terminology;</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN class=540192511-21022014>-</SPAN> Integration
in the LR infrastructure of semi-automatic processes for corpus<SPAN
class=540192511-21022014> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">compilation;</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><SPAN
class=540192511-21022014>-</SPAN> Development of tools for corpus
annotation, corpus normalization and automation/support of linguistic
tasks.</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Required skills:</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><SPAN class=540192511-21022014>-
</SPAN>Ph.D. degree in Computational Linguistics or in Computer
Science</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><SPAN class=540192511-21022014>-
</SPAN>strong background in computational linguistics and linguistics
(preferential)</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><SPAN class=540192511-21022014>-
</SPAN>knowledge about Natural Language Processing and corpus-based
methods</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><SPAN class=540192511-21022014>-
</SPAN>experience with statistical NLP techniques</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><SPAN class=540192511-21022014>-
</SPAN>demonstrated proficiency in Portuguese (preferential) and in
English</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><SPAN class=540192511-21022014>-
</SPAN>programming experience (Perl or Python tool development. Java,
C++)</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><SPAN class=540192511-21022014>-
</SPAN>good working knowledge of SQL and Visual Basic or other relevant data
manipulation/programming languages.</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN class=540192511-21022014>- </SPAN>familiarity with
available Portuguese-language linguistic resources (corpora,<SPAN
class=540192511-21022014> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">morphological analysers,
grammars/parsers etc.) </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"
lang=PT>(preferential)</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><o:p><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Duration: 25 months<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><o:p><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><o:p><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"
lang=EN-US><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>Salary<SPAN
class=540192511-21022014>:</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"
lang=EN-US><SPAN class=540192511-21022014></SPAN><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN class=540192511-21022014>Salary
</SPAN>corresponds to the index 195 of the Scientific Research Career
Remuneration Guidelines<SPAN class=540192511-21022014> (</SPAN>in 2014<SPAN
class=540192511-21022014>:</SPAN> € 3 191,82 before taxes and austerity
cuts<SPAN class=540192511-21022014>)</SPAN>.<O:P></O:P></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN><BR></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"
lang=EN-GB>For a description of the overall research and the different research
groups of the center, see </SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><A
href="http://www.clul.ul.pt/"><FONT
color=#800080>http://www.clul.ul.pt</FONT></A>. </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Link to the official application post:<SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"> <A
href="http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=42556"><FONT
color=#800080>http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=42556</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><o:p><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Applications (by regular mail or
by e-mail) should include <SPAN class=540192511-21022014>(in
English):</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">(i) a letter of motivation,
</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">(ii) a curriculum vitae,
</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">(iii) copies of degree
certificates, </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">(iv) copy of an
identification</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"> <SPAN
style="COLOR: black">document, and </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">(v) a minimum of two letters of
recommendation or two contacts of qualified specialists who may recommend the
candidate. </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Please send your PhD
dissertation.</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Application address: <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><SPAN
class=540192511-21022014>Cent<SPAN class=540192511-21022014>re</SPAN> <SPAN
class=540192511-21022014>for Linguistics at </SPAN><SPAN
class=540192511-21022014>the </SPAN>University <SPAN
class=540192511-21022014>of Lisbon </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><SPAN
class=540192511-21022014><SPAN class=540192511-21022014></SPAN></SPAN><FONT
size=3 face="Times New Roman">Av. Prof. Gama Pinto, 2 <BR>Lisboa - 1649-003<SPAN
class=540192511-21022014>,</SPAN> Portugal <BR>E-mail applications should be
sent to </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><A
href="mailto:directiva@clul.ul.pt"><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">directiva@clul.ul.pt</FONT></A><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"
lang=EN-GB></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"
lang=EN-GB>Application deadline: </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=PT>15
April 2014<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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