Job: Open Position, Computational linguist for multilingual text, ELDA

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:09:57 +0100
From: info at elda.org
Message-ID: <4CE2ACD5.8070605 at elda.org>
X-url: http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC-Acquis.html
X-url: http://www.elda.org
X-url: http://www.elra.info/

[Apologies for cross-postings]

  In conjunction with the EuropeanCommissionJointResearchCenter,
ELDAoffers a 6-month position to produce an updated version of the
sentence-aligned multilingual parallel corpus JRC-Acquis
(http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC-Acquis.html)

*Purpose of the work / Tasks:*

- Download multilingual EU documentation from a server via a dedicated
  Java application
- Convert all documents to a standardised XML format
- Clean and pre-process the data by identifying specific text parts
  such as document footers, lists of addresses and annexes
- Possibly: run off-the-shelf tools to sentence align the documents
- Carry out consistency checking of the data
- Produce statistics on the data
- Prepare the data for distribution
- Various Perl scripts to produce the first version of the corpus
  exist and should be reused.

*Profile and required skills:*

- Degree or MSc in computer science, computational linguistics,
  natural language processing or similar fields
- Good knowledge of Perl to read and change existing data processing
  scripts.
- Java and SQL, to use the application accessing the EU's document
  database.
- XML and XSLT
- Proficiency in English
- At least passive knowledge of several of the 23 official EU
  languages (see the JRC-Acquis page for details)

Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Applications will be considered until the position is filled. The
position is based in Paris, France, with about one week at the
European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) at Ispra in Northern
Italy.  Candidates should have the citizenship (or residency papers)
of a European Union country.

Applicants should send (preferably via email) a cover letter
addressing the points listed above together with a curriculum vitae
to:

Victoria Arranz
ELRA / ELDA
55-57, rue Brillat Savarin
75013 Paris
France
Fax : +33 1 43 13 33 30
Email : _job at elda.org <mailto:job at elda.org>_

For further information about ELRA/ELDA, see:
http://www.elda.org
http://www.elra.info

For further information about JRC, see:
http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu 

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