[Corpora-List] Job: Computational linguist

[Hans Paulussen]

Computational linguist (100%)

Department: Faculty of Arts Department of Linguistics
             (ALT Research center on CALL)
Position:   Computational Linguist
Location:   K.U.Leuven Campus Kortrijk, Belgium

Description:
Within the framework of the STEVIN project DPC (Dutch Parallel Corpus)
we are looking for a computational linguist for the development and
maintenance of a parallel corpus Dutch - French - English and the
development of a web search engine for parallel corpus exploration.

Application deadline:  31 July 2006
Commencement:          15 September 2006
Contract period:       1 year, renewable

Required skills/experience:
- Knowledge of Linux and Windows environment
- Good knowledge of text utilities and script languages: sed, awk,
   Perl and similar tools
- Experience with text corpora
- Skilled in Perl or Python tool development. Java, C++ or other
   programming experience is a plus.
- Experience with the development of web applications (LAMP: Linux,
   Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl)
- Knowledge of XML, XPATH and XSLT
- Knowledge of character standardization (ISO, UNICODE) and text
   standards (TEI, XCES)
- Knowledge of information retrieval
- Knowledge of English, basic knowledge of Dutch or French
- Good communication skills

Advantages:
- Knowledge of corpus alignment
- Knowledge of PoS tagging
- An interest in languages and linguistics (esp. corpus linguistics)

You will be working at K.U.Leuven Campus Kortrijk

Application and deadline:
To apply, e-mail a copy of your CV and motivational letter to
Piet.Desmet at kuleuven-kortrijk.be and
Hans.Paulussen at kuleuven-kortrijk.be before 31 July 2006.

Application address:
Prof. Dr. Piet Desmet
Piet.Desmet at kuleuven-kortrijk.be
K.U.Leuven Campus Kortrijk
Subfaculteit Letteren
E. Sabbelaan 53
B-8500 Kortrijk

Further information:
Hans.Paulussen at kuleuven-kortrijk.be
Tel: +32-(0)56-24.62.67
Antoine.Besnehard at kuleuven-kortrijk.be
Tel: +32-(0)56-24.61.49

Sites:
http://www.kuleuven-kortrijk.be/
http://www.kuleuven-kortrijk.be/ALT

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