Job: Traineeships - Multilingual Language Technology, Ispra, Italy

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 11:24:08 +0200
From: "Ralf Steinberger" <ralf.steinberger at jrc.it>
Message-ID: <004001c47872$7688acd0$1d3ebf8b at apso.jrc.it>
X-url: http://www.jrc.it/langtech
X-url: http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/langtech/WorkatJRC.html
X-url: http://www.jrc.it/

We would like to inform you about an open call for paid traineeships
in the field of computational linguistics and multilingual text
analysis at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in Ispra,
Northern Italy.



The Language Technology group (http://www.jrc.it/langtech), which
focuses on highly multilingual applications providing cross-lingual
information access, is especially looking for trainees that could
contribute in one or more of the following fields:



- Machine learning
- Document classification and relevance-ranking
- Multilingual lexicography
- Information extraction (IE)
- Adaptation of existing IE tools to new languages.


Requirements:



- Minimum programming skills
- Working knowledge of English, French or Italian.


Multilingual applicants speaking one or more of the languages Polish,
Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Russian,
Arabic, Turkish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian or Danish would be
particularly welcome, as would be a good knowledge of web technology,
databases, statistics and programming languages. For more information,
see also http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/langtech/WorkatJRC.html .



The remuneration (for people not living in Italy) is 735 Euro per
month plus travel. Student apartments may be available for about 150
Euro per month.



For further information, including the exact eligibility criteria
(less than 30 years old; no completed Ph.D.; minimum duration of two
months; allowed nationalities, etc.), see the main JRC web site
http://www.jrc.it/ and click on "JRC is looking for young
trainees". Completed application forms, together with CV and letter of
motivation should arrive before 30.11.2004 at:

Joint Research Centre

Via Fermi 1
IPSC, T.P. 268
Anne-Marie Morrissey
I - 21020 Ispra (VA)
Italy.

Reference: "Internship in Language Technology, project 4312".

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