Jobs: 3 Offers

[Philippe Blache]

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1/ From: Yannick Lallement <yannick at NOVATOR.COM>
   Subject: Novator Systems

2/ From: Adam Kilgarriff <Adam.Kilgarriff at itri.brighton.ac.uk>
   Subject: Job at ITRI: Closing date next week

3/ From: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr>
   Subject: JOB: poste disponible a ELDA / position available at ELDA
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1/ From: Yannick Lallement <yannick at NOVATOR.COM>
   Subject: Novator Systems



Novator Systems (http://www.novator.com) is looking to hire an MSc or
PhD in Natural Language Understanding.

Novator is a web company based in Toronto, that specializes in
electronic retail.  One of the areas in which we have developed
software is in automatically responding to customer inquiries over the
web, using artificial intelligence techniques.  We are currently
beta-testing version 1 of our software on one of our customer's sites
(http://www.ftd.com) - we can automatically respond to about 55% of
the comments we receive with about 2.3% false positives.  Our next
phase of R&D requires strong Natural Language Understanding skills.

We are looking to hire an MSc or PhD in Natural Language Understanding
for this next phase. Please send applications to
intelliserve at novator.com.

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2/ From: Adam Kilgarriff <Adam.Kilgarriff at itri.brighton.ac.uk>
   Subject: Job at ITRI


NB Closing date **next Fri** 30 April
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Apologies for duplicates

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                            JOB ADVERTISEMENT
               Research Fellow (Computational Linguistics)
                                  ITRI
                         University of Brighton
                                   UK
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This post offers an opportunity to undertake leading-edge research in
word sense disambiguation and computational lexicography at ITRI, an
internationally recognised centre of excellence in computational
linguistics.  Working primarily on WASPS, a project to develop a
lexicographer's workstation, you will need an open-minded, analytical
and collaborative approach to research, extensive knowledge of natural
language processing, good programming skills and a proven research and
publication record. In return we offer excellent research facilities
and place great emphasis on research career management and
development. The post is fixed-term for 3 years.

WASPS is an EPSRC funded project, under the direction of Dr. Roger
Evans, Dr. Adam Kilgarriff and Sue Atkins.  It will explore the
synergy between the lexicographer's task of identifying and describing
word senses, and the computational task of word sense disambiguation
(WSD). On the one side, lexicographers are asking for natural language
processing (NLP) software to pre-process and organise corpus data. On
the other, NLP needs formal, explicit descriptions of word behaviour,
particularly for WSD. The challenge now is to design an environment in
which the human lexicographer's perception and the power of the WSD
algorithms are successfully brought together.

The research fellow will have primary responsibility for producing a
semi-automatic lexicographer's workstation, as specified in the WASPS
grant proposal. This will include developing and implementing a
language which can be used both by humans for specifying and editing
word sense descriptions, and by a WSD algorithm for disambiguation. It
will also include implementing one or more state-of-the-art WSD
algorithms.


Salary:           up to GBP 24,002
Term:             3 years fixed term
Further details, including application form in Word
                  http://www.bton.ac.uk/vacancies/
Postscript version of application form
                  http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/posts/appform.ps
ITRI web pages:   http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk
Queries:          Adam.Kilgarriff at itri.bton.ac.uk
Ref number:       IR4012
Closing date:     30th April 1999

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3/ From: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr>
   Subject: JOB: poste disponible a ELDA / position available at ELDA

ELDA vient d'annoncer la disponibilite d'un poste d'Ingenieur
d'etudes. L'annonce se trouve sur notre site Web :
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/job.html
Responsable: Khalid Choukri (choukri at elda.fr).

ELDA has just announced an open position for a
Research/Technical Engineer.  Details can be found at :
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/fr/job.html
Contact person: Khalid Choukri  (choukri at elda.fr).











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