[Corpora-List] Job openings at ELDA (reminder)

[info at elda.org]

[Apologies for multiple postings]

Two positions are currently available at ELDA (reminder).

1) 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 European projects and will be 
involved in the evaluation of technology components related to
information retrieval, information extraction, machine translation, etc.

Profile :

  * Engineer/Master degree (preference for a PhD) in computer science, 
electrical engineering, computational linguistics, information
    science, knowledge management or similar fields.

  * Experience and/or good knowledge of the information 
retrieval/information extraction programmes in Europe, the US and
    Japan.

  * Experience in project management, including the management of 
European projects.

  * Experience and/or good knowledge of issues related to Language 
Resources.

  * Ability to work independently and as part of a team, in particular 
the ability to supervise members of a multidisciplinary team.

  * Proficiency in English.

2) Programmer

ELDA offers a position for its Language Resource Production and 
Evaluation activities working in the framework of European projects.
The position is related to a number of NLP activities within ELDA, with 
a focus on the development of web-service architectures for
the automatic production and distribution of language resources. The 
candidate may also be involved in the creation of LR repositories, NLP
applications development and/or evaluation, etc.

Profile :

  * Degree or MSc in computer science, computational linguistics, 
natural language processing or similar fields (preference for a
    PhD)

  * Good programming skills in C, C++, Perl and/or Java

  * Experience and/or knowledge of web services

  * Good knowledge of Linux and open source software

  * Experience and/or knowledge of NLP is a plus

  * Experience and/or knowledge of Machine Translation, Information 
Retrieval and related areas is a plus

  * Ability to work independently and as part of a team, in particular 
to collaborate with members of a multidisciplinary and
    multilingual team

  * Proficiency in French and English


Applicants should send (preferably via 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
Fax : 01 43 13 33 30
Courriel :job at elda.org

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