[Corpora-List] New Job Opportunity at ELRA/ELDA - Engineer in HLT Evaluation Department

[ELDA]

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ELDA has been strongly expanding its activities in the evaluation of Human 
Language Technologies (HLT). The evaluation department at ELDA conducts HLT 
evaluation activities and acts as a clearing house for this area with the 
support of a network of evaluation units based on a large number of 
European institutes,
both public research centres and private companies.

ELDA is extending its activities and is seeking to fill the following 
positions:

Engineer in HLT Evaluation Department

He/she will be in charge of managing the evaluation activities in relation 
with the collection of Language Resources for evaluation, the evaluation of 
technology components, and in general, the setting up of an HLT evaluation 
infrastructure. As part of the HLT Evaluation Department, he/she will be 
working on the European project CHIL (multimodal) and will be involved in 
the evaluation of technology components related to multimodal 
interfaces/sensors.

Profile :

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  Engineer/Master degree (preference for a PhD) in computer science, 
electrical engineering, computational linguistics, information science, 
knowledge management or similar fields
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  Experience and/or good knowledge of the evaluation programmes in Europe, 
the US and Japan
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  Experience in project management, including the management of European 
projects
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  Experience and/or good knowledge of speech and/or multimodal technologies 
and LRs
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  Ability to work independently and as part of a team, in particular the 
ability to supervise members of a multidisciplinary team
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  Proficiency in English

Applications will be considered until the position is filled. However, a 
final decision will be made by the end of January 2006. The position is 
based in Paris
and candidates should have the citizenship (or residency papers) of a 
European Union country.

Salary : Commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Applicants should email a cover letter addressing the points listed above 
together with a curriculum vitae to:

Khalid CHOUKRI
ELRA/ELDA
55-57, rue Brillat Savarin
75013 Paris
FRANCE
Tel : +33 1 43 13 33 33
Fax : +33 1 43 13 33 30
Email : <mailto:jobs at elda.org>jobs at elda.org


The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a non-profit making 
organisation founded by the European Commission in 1995, with the
missions of promoting language resources for the Human Language Technology 
(HLT) sector, and to evaluate language engineering technologies.

The Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) is ELRA's 
operational body. ELDA identifies, collects, markets, evaluates and
distributes language resources, and organises the evaluation of HLT, along 
with the dissemination of general information in the field of HLT.
ELDA has been strongly expanding its activities in the evaluation of HLT. 
The evaluation department at ELDA conducts HLT evaluation activities and
acts as a clearing house for this area with the support of a network of 
evaluation units based on a large number of European institutes, both public
research centres and private companies.