Jobs: 2 Offers

Philippe Blache pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr
Wed Jan 31 17:58:44 UTC 2001 

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1/ From: "Albert Llorens" <Albert_Llorens at sail-labs.es>
   Subject: Sail Labs: COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS (EUROPEAN LANGUAGES);
    based in Barcelona (Spain)

2/ From: Alberto Lavelli <lavelli at itc.it>
   Subject: TCC

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1/ From: "Albert Llorens" <Albert_Llorens at sail-labs.es>
   Subject: Sail Labs: COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS (EUROPEAN LANGUAGES);
    based in Barcelona (Spain)


Summary:

Barcelona (Spain)
Sail Labs
COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS (FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH, PORTUGUESE, ITALIAN,
GREEK)

Full message:

Openings in TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY at SAIL LABS Barcelona

Sail Labs is one of the world's leading R&D companies in the field of
"Natural
Language Understanding". With the slogan "Innovation in Understanding", the
company is focusing on three core development areas:

* Language technology
* Translation technology
* Content technology

In the Munich head office and in its branches in Berlin, Barcelona, Antwerp
and
Vienna, 190 developers are working on solutions, products and components
related
to the understanding of natural languages.

For the further expansion of our highly motivated team in Barcelona we are
looking for qualified professionals for the area of translation
technologies.

Candidate tasks and profiles:


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COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS (ref. CL)
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Your tasks:
* Design, development and maintenance of formal grammars for our several new
or
existing translation engines.
* Design and development of the linguistic components of our new generation
of
translation systems.

Your profile:
* University degree in philosophy, linguistics, computational linguistics or
equivalent, with a strong background in natural language processing.
* Native or near-native proficiency in at least two of the following
languages:
English, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Greek.
* Programming experience.
* Effective communication skills in written and spoken English.
* Experience in machine translation and/or developing formal grammars for
natural language processing applications will be a plus.


Working language:   English

Starting date:      As soon as possible

Office location:         Center of Barcelona (in the charming 19th century
district Eixample, within walking distance from the old part of the city and
from the famous 'Las Ramblas')

You will join a young, international, and highly motivated team. SAIL LABS
combines research and development of market-ready products. This will thus
offer
a great opportunity to those people who want to apply their acquired
knowledge
and skills in real-world conditions.

More information about SAIL LABS can be found at the web page
<< http://www.sail-labs.com >>.

If you are interested, send CV and cover letter in English by email to:

     albert.llorens at sail-labs.es

indicating on the envelope or in the subject of the email the job reference.


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2/ From: Alberto Lavelli <lavelli at itc.it>
   Subject: TCC


The Cognitive   and  Communication  Technologies  (TCC)   division  of
ITC-Irst   has  openings for the   following  (three years, renewable)
positions, starting as soon as possible.

 n.3 positions in the "Text Processing" area.
 Requirements  -  Significant  experience   in one   or   more  of the
 followings: Information Extraction, Question-Answering,    Word-Sense
 Disambiguation, Statistical  Methods  for   NLP,  Learning Techniques
 Applied to  NLP, Text Summarisation.  Programming  expertise includes
 some of the following: JAVA, Common Lisp, Perl, XML.

 n.4 positions in the "Intelligent and Interactive Information
 Presentation" area.
 Requirements -   Significant experience   in   one  or more   of  the
 followings: Adaptive Hypermedia, Natural Language Generation, NLP for
 Dialogue Systems, Life-like   Characters  and Collaborative  Systems,
 Internet Technologies for Multimedia (RTSP, SMIL, etc.).  Programming
 expertise includes some of the following:  JAVA, Common Lisp, XML, OO
 analysis and programming, AI technologies.

For  all  positions,    the followings  are  also  required.  Advanced
university degree  in:  computer  science,  computational linguistics,
linguistics,  or related   area.  Good working  knowledge of  English.
Excellent  written   and  verbal communication  skills.    Ability and
willingness   to  work  as part  of  a   highly skilled, collaborative
research team.

Salary will be competitive and commensurate to experience.

To apply, please send a CV plus list of publications to:

Fabio Pianesi
Vice-head of the TCC Division
ITC-Irst
38050 Povo (TN) Italy
email: pianesi at itc.it

Applications via e-mail are welcome.


About ITC-Irst
Located in  one of  the  most  beautiful   areas of  Italy, near   the
Dolomites,   ITC-Irst   (Istituto  per    la  Ricerca   Scientifica  e
Tecnologica) is  a major Italian  research  centre operating  in  such
fields as: Artificial Intelligence, Microsystems, and Surface Physics.
The Artificial   Intelligence area comprises  the following divisions:
TCC  (Cognitive   and  Communication Technologies),  SSI  (Interactive
Sensory Systems)  and  SRA  (Automatic Reasoning Systems).    ITC-Irst
(presently directed by Oliviero Stock)  has a long score of  important
achievements in all the areas of its activity, testifying its vocation
towards excellence in basic and applied research, and in technological
transfer.

About the TCC division
The Cognitive and Communication Technologies  division at ITC-Irst  is
one of  the leading European research groups  in areas such as Natural
Language Processing,  Human-Computer Interaction and Dialogue Systems,
Multi-modality, Natural Language    Generation,  and  Production   and
Maintenance  of  Linguistic Resources.   Committed  to both  basic and
applied    research, TCC  has consolidated  links   and pursues  joint
research efforts  with many of the  main research centres all over the
world,  and has regular   and   fruitful relationships  with   primary
companies, especially those operating in the Web world. TCC has a long
record of EU funded projects. As part of ITC-Irst,  TCC is a member of
the European   Network of Excellence  in  Natural Language  and Speech
(ELSNET).

For more information about TCC, see http://ecate.itc.it:1024

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