[ln] Job: JRC, Ispra, Lago Maggiore, Italy

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 00:21:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: wajdi zaghouani <wajdiuqam at yahoo.com>
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X-url: http://www.jrc.it/langtech
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X-url: http://www.jrc.it/langtech.


SUBJECT: Job Opportunity at the EC's Joint Research
Centre (JRC)

TARGET GROUP: Citizens of new or future EU countries

DEADLINE: 17 June 2005

STARTING DATE: Early 2006

DURATION: 12 months

HOST: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

LOCATION: Ispra, Lago Maggiore, Northern Italy (see map
<http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/who_we_are/mapispr.htm)

INFORMATION:
http://projects-2005.jrc.cec.eu.int/show.gx?Object.object_id=PROJECTS0
00000000100D614
and

http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/enlargement/action2005/index.htm

LANGTECH WEB: http://www.jrc.it/langtech

There is an open call for expression of interest for a one-year
position in the field of Language Technology (and more posts in other
areas) at the European Commission's /Joint Research Centre/ (JRC) in
Ispra, at the Lago Maggiore in Northern Italy.  Applicants from the
fields of Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, Computer
Science, Linguistics, Statistics or related areas are particularly
welcome.

*BACKGROUND / NATIONALITY REQUIREMENT*

To support the enlargement of the European Union (EU), the JRC
promotes the gradual integration of the new EU Member States, of
Acceding Countries and Candidate Countries (NMS/AC/CC) in the European
Research Area <http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/era/index_en.html
(ERA) and assists them in particular through an increased
participation in the relevant JRC activities by offering training and
mobility possibilities. Special attention will be given to
candidatures of experts from NMS/ACs/CCs associated to the EU RTD
Framework Programme namely: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cyprus,
Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovak
Republic, Slovenia and Turkey.

*WORK CONTENTS*

The specific call for the field of Language Technology can be found at
http://projects-2005.jrc.cec.eu.int/show.gx?Object.object_id=PROJECTS000000000100D614.
Possible tasks depend on the profile of the applicants, but will
involve the participation in current research projects, and possibly
the adaptation of existing text mining tools to further languages.
Applicants should have good programming skills and an interest in
producing hands-on results.

The JRC's Language Technology group specialises in multilingual text
analysis applications providing cross-lingual information access, with
a focus on news analysis (see http://press.jrc.it
<http://press.jrc.it/and http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/). _Fields
of interest_ are information extraction, named entity recognition,
scenario template filling, Semantic Web applications, terminology
extraction and dictionary generation from parallel corpora, thesaurus
indexing, multilingual text classification and clustering, document
relevance-ranking, monolingual and cross-lingual document similarity
calculation, topic detection and tracking, visualisation of textual
information, etc. For more information and for scientific contacts,
see http://www.jrc.it/langtech.

*PLACE OF WORK / DEADLINE*

The JRC is situated in Ispra, in Northern Italy, about one hour West
of the city of Milan. Its 1700 international staff work in a
multi-disciplinary and multilingual environment.

Interested persons should send the application form together with
their CV and a list of publications to ipsc at jrc.it before 17 June
2005. The submitted applications will be evaluated and a reply will be
sent to the applicants by September 2005.


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