Corpora: Open position for a Computational Linguistist at the Joint Research Centre of the EC

[Ralf Steinberger]

The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has an opening for a
one-year position (auxiliary agent), starting approximately in May 2001. The
applicant will contribute to Language Technology projects at the JRC-Ispra
site near the Lago Maggiore in Northern Italy.

The candidate will work in a multi-disciplinary and international team of
scientists and developers and will mainly contribute to two projects. The
first one is concerned with the automatic assignment of keywords from a
multilingual thesaurus to text, using statistical methods and a manually
indexed text collection. The second project has the aim of gathering
potentially user-relevant documents from the internet and to analyse,
classify and store them. The ideal candidate is independent, has a practical
approach and knows how to discover, use, integrate and optimise various
tools.

Requirements:
- Citizenship of a EU country
- Working knowledge of English, French or Italian
- Degree in Computational Linguistics or related areas
- Programming experience

The candidate should have good skills in several of the following areas:

- PERL programming
- Programming in Java, C++, etc.
- Statistics for automatic classification, clustering and similar
applications
- Experience of working with large corpora or data collections
- Experience with applications such as indexing, search engines, etc.
- Experience with multilingual and cross-lingual NLP applications
- Knowledge of several EU and Eastern-European languages
- Web technology, CGI, Apache, HTML, XML
- Relational databases (Oracle, MySQL), SQL
- Windows NT and UNIX
- Technology overview and report writing


Remuneration depends on age, family status, experience and current
residence. The salary for a single person currently residing outside Italy
is 3.000 Euro per month net or more (after taxes).

We offer interesting work in an expanding team and in an attractive setting.
The JRC employs altogether 2400 staff from many different countries. 1800 of
these work at the Ispra site in Northern Italy, about 60 km West of the city
of Milan.

If you have questions, please have a look at the web site
http://www.jrc.it/langtech and contact Ralf Steinberger
(ralf.steinberger at jrc.it). If you are interested, please send your
application before Sunday 3 March 2002. Electronic applications are
preferred.


Dr. Ralf Steinberger (ralf.steinberger at jrc.it)
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (http://www.jrc.it/langtech/)
Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC)
Cybersecurity and New Technologies for Combating Fraud Unit (CSCF)
T.P. 361
I - 21020 Ispra (VA)
Tel: + 39 - 0332 78 6271
Fax: + 39 - 0332 78 9098










Ralf Steinberger (ralf.steinberger at jrc.it)
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (http://www.jrc.it/langtech/)
Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC)
T.P. 361
I - 21020 Ispra (VA)
Tel: + 39 - 0332 78 6271
Fax: + 39 - 0332 78 9098


 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Ralf Steinberger [mailto:ralf.steinberger at jrc.it]
Sent:	Tuesday, February 27, 2001 3:31 PM
To:	'Corpora list'; 'Elsnet list'; 'France Langue Technologies list';
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Cc:	'Ralf STEINBERGER (JRC)'
Subject:	Computational Linguistics Position: Joint Research Centre of the EC


The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) is looking for a
one-year Auxiliary Agent, starting approximately in May 2001, to contribute
to its Language Technology projects at the JRC-Ispra site near the Lago
Maggiore in Northern Italy.

The candidate will work in a multi-disciplinary and international team of
scientists and developers and will contribute to two projects. The first one
is concerned with the automatic assignment of keywords from a multilingual
thesaurus to text, using statistical methods and a manually indexed text
collection. The second project has the aim of gathering potentially
user-relevant documents from the internet and to analyse, classify and store
them. The ideal candidate has a practical approach and knows how to use,
integrate and optimise different tools in the Windows NT environment.

Requirements: Degree in Computational Linguistics or related areas; PERL
programming experience; working knowledge of English; experience of working
with large corpora or data collections; citizenship of a EU country.

Desirable knowledge: Knowledge of statistics for automatic classification
and similar applications; knowledge of French, German, Italian or other
European languages; experience with further programming languages such as C
or Java; knowledge of HTML and XML.

Remuneration depends on age, family status, experience and current
residence. The salary for a single person currently residing outside Italy
is approximately 3.000 Euro per month net (after taxes).

We offer interesting work in an expanding team and in an attractive setting.
The JRC employs altogether 2400 staff from many different countries. 1800 of
these work at the Ispra site in Northern Italy, about 60 km West of the city
of Milan.

If you are interested or have questions, please contact Ralf Steinberger
(ralf.steinberger at jrc.it). The deadline for applications is 18.03.2001.
Electronic applications are preferred.


Dr. Ralf Steinberger (ralf.steinberger at jrc.it)
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/jrc)
Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety (ISIS)
RMDS - Project 25
T.P. 361
I - 21020 Ispra (VA)
Tel: + 39 - 0332 78 6271
Fax: + 39 - 0332 78 9098