Jobs: research positions at ISSCO, University of Geneva

[Alexis Nasr]

Dear members of the LN list,

We would like to announce that a senior and a junior research
positions are now open at ISSCO, University of Geneva. The two
announcements follow, and they are also posted at:
   http://www.issco.unige.ch/vacancy.html

Best regards,
Andrei Popescu-Belis
--
ISSCO/TIM/ETI, Université de Genève
tél: (41 22) 705 86 81       40, bd du Pont d'Arve
fax: (41 22) 705 86 89       1211 Genève 4 - Suisse
   http://www.issco.unige.ch/staff/andrei

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Job Vacancy, June 2002 -- Senior researcher in language engineering


ISSCO has an immediate opening for a senior researcher in language engineering
and computational linguistics. The position involves participation in one or
more Swiss and European language engineering projects.

The qualified candidate will carry on research and collaborate on software
design and implementation in one or more of the following areas:

- parsing and semantic tagging
- document indexing and retrieval
- evaluation of NLP software
- ontologies
- knowledge engineering
- multilingual text processing


Requirements:

- doctorate (PhD) in computer science or computational linguistics
- experience in collaborative language engineering projects
- programming skills in, e.g., Java, Perl, C/C++
- experience in developing software for NLP applications
- knowledge of XML and Internet technologies
- fluency in either French or English (with knowledge of the other language)


Additional qualities:

- expertise in knowledge engineering for the medical domain
- expertise in probabilistic and statistical methods for NLP
- good communication skills
- fluency in German and/or Italian and/or other languages


ISSCO offers excellent working conditions in a well-established research group
at the University of Geneva. The position provides opportunities to collaborate
in a variety of international projects. The salary is calculated according to
qualifications, based on the University of Geneva scales. The University of
Geneva is an equal opportunity employer.

Duration: initial contract for one year with good prospects of renewal


We invite interested candidates to send us a letter of interest along with a
detailed CV, publication list and the names of three references to:

ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva
Attn: Professor Susan Armstrong
University of Geneva
40, bvd. du Pont d'Arve
CH-1211 Geneva 4
Switzerland

Email: Susan.Armstrong at issco.unige.ch
Tel: (+41 22) 705 87 64
Fax: (+41 22) 705 86 89
http://www.issco.unige.ch

Submission by email is preferred and should be also addressed in CC: to Andrei
Popescu-Belis (Andrei.Popescu-Belis at issco.unige.ch).

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Job Vacancy, June 2002 -- Junior researcher in natural language processing


ISSCO has an immediate opening for a junior researcher in natural language
processing and computational linguistics. The position involves participation in
one or more Swiss and European language engineering projects. The position also
offers the possibility to prepare a doctoral thesis (PhD) at the University of
Geneva, on a subject related to a research project that is ongoing at ISSCO.

The main research themes related to this position are:

- parsing and semantic/discourse tagging
- general statistical NLP tools
- lexical semantics and conceptual structures
- ontologies
- knowledge engineering
- human-computer interaction


The qualified candidate will carry out research and collaborate in the
construction of language resources and evaluation techniques in one or more of
the above areas. Furthermore, the qualified candidate is encouraged to register
as a student either at the DEA level (French equivalent of a Masters Degree) or
at the PhD level, at the School of Translation and Interpretation of the
University of Geneva, on a subject related to one of the research projects. For
more information about the degrees, please follow this link:

http://www.unige.ch/eti/index.cgi?http://www.unige.ch/eti/enseignement/contenu.html


Requirements:

- university degree in computational linguistics or computer science
- interest for theoretical and applied research in natural language processing /
semantics
- fluency in either French or English (with knowledge of the other language)


Additional qualities:

- good communication skills
- programming/IT skills in, e.g., Perl, C/C++, Java, Unix/Linux, HTML, XML
- experience in developing software for NLP applications
- fluency in German and/or Italian and/or other languages


ISSCO offers excellent working conditions in a well-established research group
at the University of Geneva. The position provides opportunities to collaborate
in a variety of international projects. The salary is calculated according to
qualifications, based on the University of Geneva scales. The University of
Geneva is an equal opportunity employer.

Duration: initial contract for one year with good prospects of renewal

We invite interested candidates to send us a letter of interest along with a
detailed CV and the names of three references to:

ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva
Attn: Professor Susan Armstrong
University of Geneva
40, bvd. du Pont d'Arve
CH-1211 Geneva 4
Switzerland

Email: Susan.Armstrong at issco.unige.ch
Tel: (+41 22) 705 87 64
Fax: (+41 22) 705 86 89
http://www.issco.unige.ch

Submission by email is preferred and should be also addressed in CC: to Andrei
Popescu-Belis (Andrei.Popescu-Belis at issco.unige.ch).

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