17.2432, Jobs: English & Computational Ling: Post Doc, Universit é de Montréal

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Subject: 17.2432, Jobs: English & Computational Ling: Post Doc, Université de Montréal

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Date: 29-Aug-2006
From: Patrick Drouin < patrick.drouin at umontreal.ca >
Subject: English & Computational Linguistics / Terminology: Post Doc, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada 

	
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:58:21
From: Patrick Drouin < patrick.drouin at umontreal.ca >
Subject: English & Computational Linguistics / Terminology: Post Doc, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada 
 

University or Organization: Université de Montréal 
Department: OLST/Linguistique et traduction
Web Address: http://www.olst.umontreal.ca
Job Rank: Post Doc  
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 
Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

This paid postdoctoral position is part of the SACOT project
(Semi-Automatic Construction of Ontologies from Texts), which involves two
research teams : the Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte (OLST,
http://www.olst.umontreal.ca/) of the University of Montreal and the
Knowledge Management group of Defense R&D Canada (Valcartier, Québec,
Canada). Launched in July 2006, this project will be underway until
2009. The planned duration of the internship is 12 months (with possible
extensions).

The SACOT research project's main objectives consist of investigating,
developing and validating innovative natural language processing (NLP)
approaches as scientific means to, first, capture knowledge conveyed in
texts using domain-specific terminology and, secondly, to represent this
knowledge in ontologies. Corpora used for the SACOT project are written in
English and deal with domains of interest for military operations and
intelligence analysis. The project will investigate and develop automated
terminology extraction techniques, conceptual relations identification
methods as well as ontology construction techniques.

Requirements 
- Ph.D. in linguistics, computational linguistics or computer science. 
- Working knowledge of terminology and term extraction
techniques, good knowledge of ontologies as well as an expertise in
conceptual relations extraction from corpora. 
- Available for a period of 12 months starting January 2007. 
- Research experience in a relevant area. 
- Excellent understanding of written English as well as fluency in French.

E-mail a full résumé with three names to be used as references.

Address for Applications and Contact Information:
 
	Patrick Drouin 
	Département de linguistique et de traduction 
	Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville 
	Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7 
	Canada 
	Email: patrick.drouin at umontreal.ca

Application Deadline: 15-Oct-2006





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