[Corpora-List] Position in NLP and CALL

[Sylviane Granger]

RESEARCH POSITION IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND CALL

Centre for English Corpus Linguistics – CECL
http://cecl.fltr.ucl.ac.be/
Centre for Natural Language Processing – CENTAL
http://cental.fltr.ucl.ac.be

Université catholique de Louvain
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

The “Digital Language Learning (DLL)” project is an international research 
project led by the University of Louvain within the framework of the 
European Network of Excellence (NoE) Kaleidoscope 
(http://www.noe-kaleidoscope.org). The general aim of the project is to 
develop applications that integrate Natural Language Processing, Computer 
Corpus Research and Language Didactics. At Louvain the project is led by 
two research centres working in close collaboration: the Centre for English 
Corpus Linguistics (CECL) (project leader) and the Centre de Traitement 
Automatique du Langage (CENTAL)

Applications are invited for a

12 month research position
as of January 2006

The ideal candidate:
* has a Master degree in Computational linguistics, Linguistics or Computer 
science (or another relevant discipline);
* has experience in Natural Language Processing and/or Computer Assisted 
Language Learning;
* is a good programmer, with relevant experience in Web programming 
(Php/MySql/Java/Perl/Python) and/or in the development of NLP applications.
* has a good knowledge of one/several Learning Management System(s) 
(Moodle, Claroline, WebCT, etc.)
* has a very good command of English (writing and speaking) and French
* and a very good team spirit !

  The successful candidate will participate in:
* the design and development of an NLP-based glossary to be integrated into 
a Learning Management System
* the design and development of a Digital Language Learning module to be 
integrated into the  Kaleidoscope Virtual Doctoral School.

The researcher will work at the University of Louvain, in a very 
stimulating and challenging environment and will collaborate with both CECL 
and CENTAL teams (20 people).
CECL: http://cecl.fltr.ucl.ac.be/
CENTAL: http://cental.fltr.ucl.ac.be/
University of Louvain: http://www.uclouvain.be/

Applications (in English only) should contain the following:
  - letter of motivation
- detailed curriculum vitae (including a list of publications, if any)
- names and email addresses of two referees

For additional information about the vacancy please contact:

Prof. Sylviane Granger			Prof. Cédrick Fairon
Director of CECL 			Director of CENTAL
granger at lige.ucl.ac.be			fairon at tedm.ucl.ac.be
+ 32 10 47 40 34			Tel.: +32 10 47 37 88				

Faculté de philosophie et lettres
Université catholique de Louvain
Place Blaise Pascal, 1
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium