[Corpora-List] Job positions: 2 Post-doc, Computational Linguistics / Computer Science, Univ. of Lisbon

[Amália Mendes]

Post doctoral research positions available 

 

Computational Linguistics / Computer Science / NLP

 

Linguistics Center of the University of Lisbon

 

Application deadline: 08 September 2008

 

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The Linguistics Center of the University of Lisbon is seeking to integrate in its SKAi (Sources, Knowledge and Modelling) group two post-doctoral research fellows, specialized in Computational Linguistics or Computer Science to develop and improve new and existing resources combining NLP and statistics. Both positions have a maximal duration of five years.

The work to be accomplished by the 2 post-doctoral fellows aims at implementing infrastructures for the existing Linguistic Resources, which should converge toward new applications and paths for corpus-based approaches and primary sources exploitation.

The ultimate goal is to attain international high-quality standards in this field.

 

The work involves tasks such as:

- Developing human language technology applications, including market research and evaluation, planning, overseeing activities related to development and programming;

- Developing an integrated infrastructure for large-scale resources and other corpora and lexicons, assuring their availability;

- Participation in customizing, further developing and creating linguistic relational databases;

- Establishing automatic processes of information extraction;

- Application of statistical NLP tasks;

- Development of corpus annotation systems.

 

Requirements:

- Ph.D. degree in Computational Linguistics or in Computer Science;

- Strong background in computational linguistics and linguistics (preferential);

- Knowledge about Natural Language Processing and corpus-based methods;

- Experience with statistical NLP techniques;

- Demonstrated proficiency in Portuguese (preferential) and in English;

- Programming experience (Perl, Python, Java, C/C++);

- Good working knowledge of SQL;

- Three years of postdoctoral experience (preferential).

 

For a description of the overall research and the different research groups of the center, see http://www.clul.ul.pt <http://www.clul.ul.pt/> . 

For more details on the application, see http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global <http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=9744> &jobId=9744

 

Salary: 43k€ (annual)

 

Application: 

Applications (by regular mail or by e-mail) should include (i) a letter of motivation, (ii) a curriculum vitae, (iii) copies of degree certificates, (iv) copy of an identification

document, and (v) a minimum of two letters of recommendation or two contacts of qualified specialists who may recommend the candidate. 

 

Application address: 

Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa

a/c Prof. Ivo Castro

Av. Prof. Gama Pinto, 2

Lisboa - 1649-003

Portugal

 

Application email: directiva at clul.ul.pt 

 

Application deadline: 08 September 2008

 

For further information, please contact Amália Mendes

amalia.mendes [AT] clul.ul.pt

 

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