[Corpora-List] Post-Doc position: Computational Linguist, Univ. of Lisbon

[Amália Mendes]

Post doctoral research position available 

 

Computational Linguistics / Computer Science / NLP

 

Centre for Linguistics at the University of Lisbon

 

Application deadline: 15 April 2014

 

Duration: 25 months

 

 

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The Centre for Linguistics at the University of Lisbon is seeking to integrate one post-doctoral research fellow, specialized in Computational Linguistics or Computer Science to develop and improve new and existing resources combining NLP and statistics.

The researcher should have three years of postdoctoral experience (in exceptional cases, candidates with less than three years of research experience might be considered).

 

The work involves tasks such as:

- Maintaining an integrated infrastructure for large-scale resources, assuring their availability;

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

- Application of statistical NLP tasks, such as assessing corpus similarity, extracting neologisms through corpus comparison, extracting multiword expressions and terminology;

- Integration in the LR infrastructure of semi-automatic processes for corpus compilation;

- Development of tools for corpus annotation, corpus normalization and automation/support of linguistic tasks.

 

Required skills:

- 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 or Python tool development. Java, C++)

- good working knowledge of SQL and Visual Basic or other relevant data manipulation/programming languages.

- familiarity with available Portuguese-language linguistic resources (corpora, morphological analysers, grammars/parsers etc.) (preferential)

 

Duration: 25 months

 

 

Salary:

Salary corresponds to the index 195 of the Scientific Research Career Remuneration Guidelines (in 2014: € 3 191,82 before taxes and austerity cuts).


 

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. 

 

Link to the official application post:  <http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=42556> http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=42556

 

Applications (by regular mail or by e-mail) should include (in English):

(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. 

Please send your PhD dissertation.

 

Application address: 

Centre for Linguistics at the University of Lisbon 

Av. Prof. Gama Pinto, 2 
Lisboa - 1649-003, Portugal 
E-mail applications should be sent to  <mailto:directiva at clul.ul.pt> directiva at clul.ul.pt.

 

Application deadline: 15 April 2014

 

 

 

 

 

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