[Corpora-List] Job Opportunity for Citizens of EU candidate countries

[Ralf Steinberger]

SUBJECT:       Job Opportunity at the EC's Joint Research Centre
STATUS:        Detached National Expert 
TARGET GROUP:  Citizens of the countries that are due to join the EU soon
DEADLINE:      28 May 2004, 12:00 CET 
STARTING DATE: End of 2004 or later 
DURATION:      6-12 months 
HOST:          Joint Research Centre of the European Commission 
LOCATION:      Ispra, Lago Maggiore, Northern Italy (see map)
INFORMATION:   http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/enlargement
LANGTECH WEB:  http://www.jrc.it/langtech 

There is an open call for expression of interest for positions as ‘Detached National Expert’ in the field of Language Technology and other areas at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, at the Lago Maggiore in Northern Italy. Applicants from the fields of Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Linguistics, Statistics or related areas are particularly welcome. For detailed information, go to http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/enlargement. 

To support the EU enlargement policy, the JRC promotes the integration of the new EU Countries in the European Research Area (ERA) and assists them in their preparation for the accession to the EU, in particular through an increased participation in the relevant JRC activities. Special attention will be given to candidatures of experts from accession and candidate countries associated to the EU RTD Framework Programme, namely: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Turkey. 

The specific call for the field of Language Technology can be found at http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/enlargement/action2004/ipsc-j09.doc. Possible tasks depend on the profile of the applicants, but will most likely involve participation in current research projects, including the adaptation of existing text mining tools to further languages. 

The JRC’s Language Technology group specialises in multilingual and cross-lingual text analysis applications, making use of multilingual thesauri and nomenclatures, and using mainly statistical and Machine Learning techniques. Fields of activity are document gathering, information extraction, terminology extraction, thesaurus indexing, multilingual classification and clustering, monolingual and cross-lingual document similarity calculation, detection of major and of breaking news, visualisation of textual information, etc. For more information and for scientific contacts, see http://www.jrc.it/langtech.   

The JRC is situated in Ispra, in Northern Italy, about one hour West of the city of Milan. Its 1700 international staff work in a multi-disciplinary and multilingual environment. 

Indicative duration of the stay is 6 to 12 months. Condition for Detached National Experts is that they are temporarily detached from their home organisation (ministries, national research centres, universities, companies, etc.). They receive a 105 Euro per day supplement to their home salary (figure to be updated soon). For exact conditions, see the link to ‘Detached National Experts’ on the web site http://www.jrc.it/enlargement/action2004/ic-call.htm. 

Interested persons should send their CV together with a list of publications and the application form to ipsc at jrc.it before 28 May 2004. The submitted applications will be evaluated and a reply will be sent to the applicants by September 2004. A reserve list of successful candidates will be set up, which will be filled by the JRC according to the future availability. The constitution of such a list does not present any commitment for future employment by the European Commission.


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