Jobs: 3 offres

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1/LexiQuest - English grammar manager

2/INRIA - 6 Junior Researcher Positions

3/WHITE ROSE PhD STUDENTSHIP AT UNIVERSITIES OF LEEDS AND SHEFFIELD

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LexiQuest an NLP company founded in 1977 ( http://www.lexiquest.com ), is
currently seeking to fill the position of its English grammar manager.
The candidates should have a good knowledge of  computational linguistics
and preference will be given to native English speakers.

Programming skills (preferably an experience with Java) are an advantage.

The work consists in "house-keeping" and enriching the different
grammatical resources (morphology, syntax, terminology extraction, named
entities identification, etc ...) used by our products. We are are
planning short and longer term evolutions in  the theoretical approcahes
and formalisms  currently used.
This position offers the interesting possibilities of combining the
knowledge of linguitic theories in confrontation with real language in an
industrial environment.

The work location is Montreuil  (a suburb adjacent to the city of Paris,
France).

If interested please send any questions and/or  a resume to Antoine
Ogonowski
<Antoine.Ogonowski at lexiquest.fr>

LEXIQUEST
261 rue de Paris
93556 Montreuil Cedex
FRANCE

tel: 33-(0)1-49-93-39-00
fax: 33-(0)1-49-93-39-39

<http://www.lexiquest.com>
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INRIA is an internationally recognized research institute in Computer
Science and Automation, funded by the French government.  It seeks
outstanding candidates who have completed a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in
Computer Science, Signal and Image Processing, or Applied Mathematics.
6 Junior Researcher Positions are now open (deadline for submitting
application forms: March 20, 2001, 4:00 pm in research units, or by
registered mail, postmarked by midnight March 20, 2001) to French as
well as foreign applicants, at IRISA/INRIA laboratory which is located
in Rennes (Brittany, France).

Applicants should have a commitment to research and have some expertise
in the following areas:

- Computational Linguistics,
- Lexical Semantics,
- Information Extraction,
- Information Retrieval,
- Machine Learning for NLP

Schedule:
Official opening of the competitive selection: February 2, 2001 (JO
February 6, 2001, in French).
Deadline for retrieving application forms: March 19, 2001, 5:00 pm.
Deadline for submitting application forms: March 20, 2001, 4:00 pm in
research units, or by registered mail, postmarked by midnight March 20,
2001.
Publications of the results: end of June 2001.

Candidates should add strengths to existing research directions,
contribute to the innovation and development of the research projects,
disseminate research results in major conferences and journals, and lead
technology transfer to R&D industrial partners. Responsabilities also
include graduate and undergraduate teaching and supervision of graduate
students through thesis and project work.

Openings may lead to permanent position after a period of 18 months.
Applicants, no older than 31, must supply 7 copies of their application
packet (including one copy with original signatures) described at:
http://www.inria.fr/travailler/opportunites/chercheurs/concourscr2.en.html

If you are interested by the job profile, please contact Pascale
Sebillot (sebillot at irisa.fr)

See http://www.irisa.fr for a complete description of the lab,
http://www.irisa.fr/aida/aida-new/Eaida.html for a description of the
AÏDA team interested by the job profile, and
http://www.rennestelecom.com/index_map.htm where Irisa lab is located.

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Pascale SEBILLOT
IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes cedex, France
tel: 33 2 99 84 73 17, fax: 33 2 99 84 71 71
email: sebillot at irisa.fr

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WHITE ROSE PhD STUDENTSHIP AT UNIVERSITIES OF LEEDS AND SHEFFIELD

The UK White Rose Initiative offers a 3-year PhD studentship in

Natural Language Learning of generic language models
from richly annotated dialogue corpus datasets

Supervisors:

Eric Atwell, School of Computing, University of Leeds
eric at comp.leeds.ac.uk  http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric/

and Prof Yorick Wilks, Dept of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick

For more details, see http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/eric/whiterose/

DEADLINE for applications: 31st March 2001

note also: Leeds OPEN DAY for PhD applicants, Thursday 22nd March 2001:
http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/eric/whiterose/openday.html

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Eric Atwell, Distributed Multimedia Systems MSc Tutor & SOCRATES Tutor
School of Computing, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT
TEL: 0113-2335430  MOBILE: 0775-1039104 FAX: 0113-2335468
WWW: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric  EMAIL: eric at comp.leeds.ac.uk

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