[Corpora-List] Job announcement: Research Fellow in Milan (Italy)

[Passarotti Marco Carlo]

The CIRCSE Research Centre, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy), invites applications for a full-time, fixed-term Research Fellow position in the area of language resources and natural language processing.

THE RESEARCH CENTRE
The CIRCSE Research Centre (http://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/circse_index.html) is the official acknowledgement of the former GIRCSE, which was founded by father Roberto Busa SJ, the author of the Index Thomisticus and one of the pioneers in humanities computing.
The research centre hosts the Index Thomisticus Treebank project and maintains a number of NLP tools and language resources, mostly for Classical languages.

JOB DESCRIPTION
The successful candidate will manage the computer science related aspects of the CIRCSE research activities and projects.
In particular, the candidate will develop/re-use software to support research activity in the area of text analysis, implementation and exploitation of language resources such as treebanks and lexica. She/he will be in charge of the processing pipeline for storing, analyzing, retrieving and annotating digital collections, including (but not limited to) literary and philosophical texts written in Classical languages.

REQUIREMENTS:
- programming skills: C++ or Java, Python or Perl
- regular expressions
- good knowledge of English

PREFERENTIAL CONDITIONS:
- PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Computational Linguistics
- setup and usage of SQL and no-SQL DB systems
- processing semi-structured data (for instance, XQuery)
- basic administration of an Apache web server
- designing and developing web-based applications
- methods and tools for natural language processing
- attested research experience in computational linguistics and, particularly, in developing language resources
- basics of theoretical linguistics

FORMAL MATTERS:
- duration: the post is available for up to two years (1 year + 1 year)
- salary for the first year: 19,370 Euros (1,470 monthly, after taxes)
- starting date: September 1st, 2014

HOW TO APPLY
The full announcement and the application form can be downloaded at http://progetti.unicatt.it/progetti-assegni-di-ricerca-legge-240-2010-art-22-presentazione-1122. See under "Decreto rettorale n. 960 del 5 maggio 2014".
In particular, see the job description reported between the bottom of page 3 and the top of page 4 in the full announcement here: http://progetti.unicatt.it/progetti-Bando_960.pdf.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: June 4th, 2014

DO NOT HESITATE TO ASK FOR HELP!
Although fluency in Italian is not a requirement, documents for application are in Italian.
Informal enquiries about this position should be sent to Dr. Marco Passarotti (marco.passarotti at unicatt.it).


Dott. Marco Carlo Passarotti
Researcher
CIRCSE Research Centre
marco.passarotti at unicatt.it
tel +39 02 72342380
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Largo Gemelli 1, 20123 Milan, Italy
http://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/circse




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