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1) Subject:European Commission JRC Jobs in Italy

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Date: 03 Jan 2008
From:ralf.steinberger at jrc.it
Subject:FEuropean Commission JRC Job in Italy

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra,  
Northern Italy, is looking for two native Arabic speakers with basic  
IT skills to adapt its public news aggregation and analysis web  
portals to Arabic. Applicants should be available for a minimum of  
three months, better more.

One position is an internship position, the other person would work  
for an external IT service provider. Both persons would work out of  
the offices of the JRC.

Location:         Ispra, at the Lago Maggiore in Italy, 60 km West of  
Milan;
Host:             European Commission – Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Starting date:    April 2008 or later;
Duration:         3 to 12 months;
Position 1:       traineeship / internship / stage / Praktikum /  
tirocino;
Remuneration 1:   963 Euro per month + travel allowance;
Position 2:       contractor;
Remuneration 2:   ca. 100 Euro per working day, after taxes;
Working language: English;
Activity:         Web Technology, Language Technology; many other  
subject areas
URL:              http://langtech.jrc.it/, http://emm.jrc.it/overview.html 
, http://www.jrc.it/;
Deadline:         To be filled as soon as possible.
Contact:          Erik.Van-der-Goot at jrc.it

The JRC has developed and is running several public news aggregation  
and analysis web portals (see http://emm.jrc.it/overview.html) and  
provides a number of services to a wide range of international  
customers. Arabic is one of the 35 languages currently covered, but no  
user interfaces are currently provided for this language and tools  
should be further tuned to this language. Tasks include:

-         Translate interface menus;

-         Translate, optimise and test Boolean search expressions for  
text classification;

-         Identify more Arabic language news sources;

-         Help write the XSLT conversion programs that extract the  
news texts from the raw web pages;

-         Provide linguistic resources for information extraction  
programs (persons, organisations, locations, quotations, relations,  
events)


Applicants must have the following qualifications:

-         Required: Arabic native speaker competence;

-         Required: good knowledge of read, written and spoken English;

-         Required: Sensitivity for language, knowledge of regional  
differences;

-         Required: Basic IT skills, XML;

-         Beneficial: further IT skills, web technology, HTML, XSLT,  
Java, Perl, Oracle, etc.;

-         Beneficial: knowledge of further natural languages;


The JRC’s news aggregation and analysis applications contribute added  
value to the world of the written media:

-         Unbiased reporting by aggregating news from multiple sources  
in many countries;

-         Transparency: users see the viewpoints of the others, even  
across languages;

-         Live information: updated every ten minutes;

-         Multilingual: between 19 and 35 languages are covered;

-         Cross-lingual information access;

-         Aggregation of information from multiple documents and from  
many languages.


For more information on traineeships, cost of living, location, etc.,  
see http://langtech.jrc.it/WorkatJRC.html.

Ralf Steinberger (Ralf.Steinberger at jrc.it)
European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC)
IPSC - SeS - Language Technology
URL: Applications: http://emm.jrc.it/overview.html
URL: The science behind them: http://langtech.jrc.it.

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