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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Research Fellowship in Milan (Italy)<br>
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The CIRCSE Research Centre, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy), invites applications for a full-time, fixed-term Research Fellow position in the area of language resources and natural language processing.<br>
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THE RESEARCH CENTRE<br>
The CIRCSE Research Centre (http://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/circse_index.html) is the official acknowledgement of the former GIRCSE, which was founded by father Roberto Busa SJ, the author of the Index Thomisticus and one of the pioneers in humanities computing.<br>
The research centre hosts the Index Thomisticus Treebank project and maintains a number of NLP tools and language resources, mostly for Classical languages.<br>
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JOB DESCRIPTION<br>
The successful candidate will manage the computer science related aspects of the CIRCSE research activities and projects.<br>
In particular, the candidate will develop/re-use software to support research activity in the area of text analysis, implementation and exploitation of language resources such as treebanks and lexica. She/he will be in charge of the processing pipeline for
storing, analyzing, retrieving and annotating digital collections, including (but not limited to) literary and philosophical texts written in Classical languages.<br>
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REQUIREMENTS:<br>
- programming skills: C++ or Java, Python or Perl<br>
- regular expressions<br>
- good knowledge of English<br>
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PREFERENTIAL CONDITIONS:<br>
- PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Computational Linguistics<br>
- setup and usage of SQL and no-SQL DB systems<br>
- processing semi-structured data (for instance, XQuery)<br>
- basic administration of an Apache web server<br>
- designing and developing web-based applications<br>
- methods and tools for natural language processing<br>
- attested research experience in computational linguistics and, particularly, in developing language resources<br>
- basics of theoretical linguistics<br>
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FORMAL MATTERS:<br>
- duration: the post is available for up to two years (1 year + 1 year)<br>
- salary for the first year: 19,370 Euros (1,470 monthly, after taxes)<br>
- starting date: February 1st, 2015<br>
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HOW TO APPLY<br>
The full announcement and the application form can be downloaded at http://progetti.unicatt.it/progetti-assegni-di-ricerca-legge-240-2010-art-22-presentazione-1122.<br>
See under "Selection procedures to assign" (http://progetti.unicatt.it/progetti-Bando_1284_inglese.pdf) to access the text of the announcement: the job description is reported at page 2.<br>
See under "Application form" (http://progetti.unicatt.it/progetti-Domanda_e_dich._sost._in_inglese.doc) to download the application form.<br>
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DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: December 1st, 2014<br>
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DO NOT HESITATE TO ASK FOR HELP.<br>
Knowledge of Italian is NOT a requirement.<br>
Informal enquiries about this position should be sent to Dr. Marco Passarotti (marco.passarotti@unicatt.it).<br>
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Best,<br>
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Marco<br>
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