Job: ELRA/ELDA - Engineer in HLT Evaluation

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:32:15 +0100
From: ELDA <info at elda.org>
Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.2.20051212152727.034ab508 at pop.easynet.fr>

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ELDA has been strongly expanding its activities in the evaluation of
Human Language Technologies (HLT). The evaluation department at ELDA
conducts HLT evaluation activities and acts as a clearing house for
this area with the support of a network of evaluation units based on a
large number of European institutes, both public research centres and
private companies.

ELDA is extending its activities and is seeking to fill the following
positions:

Engineer in HLT Evaluation Department

He/she will be in charge of managing the evaluation activities in
relation with the collection of Language Resources for evaluation, the
evaluation of technology components, and in general, the setting up of
an HLT evaluation infrastructure. As part of the HLT Evaluation
Department, he/she will be working on the European project CHIL
(multimodal) and will be involved in the evaluation of technology
components related to multimodal interfaces/sensors.

Profile :

- Engineer/Master degree (preference for a PhD) in computer science,
  electrical engineering, computational linguistics, information
  science, knowledge management or similar fields

- Experience and/or good knowledge of the evaluation programmes in
  Europe, the US and Japan

- Experience in project management, including the management of
  European projects

- Experience and/or good knowledge of speech and/or multimodal
  technologies and LRs

- Ability to work independently and as part of a team, in particular
  the ability to supervise members of a multidisciplinary team

- Proficiency in English

Applications will be considered until the position is filled. However,
a final decision will be made by the end of January 2006. The position
is based in Paris and candidates should have the citizenship (or
residency papers) of a European Union country.

Salary : Commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Applicants should email a cover letter addressing the points listed
above together with a curriculum vitae to:

Khalid CHOUKRI
ELRA/ELDA
55-57, rue Brillat Savarin
75013 Paris
FRANCE
Tel : +33 1 43 13 33 33
Fax : +33 1 43 13 33 30
Email : <mailto:jobs at elda.org>jobs at elda.org


The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a non-profit
making organisation founded by the European Commission in 1995, with
the missions of promoting language resources for the Human Language
Technology (HLT) sector, and to evaluate language engineering
technologies.

The Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) is
ELRA's operational body. ELDA identifies, collects, markets, evaluates
and distributes language resources, and organises the evaluation of
HLT, along with the dissemination of general information in the field
of HLT.  ELDA has been strongly expanding its activities in the
evaluation of HLT.  The evaluation department at ELDA conducts HLT
evaluation activities and acts as a clearing house for this area with
the support of a network of evaluation units based on a large number
of European institutes, both public research centres and private
companies.

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