Job: Position in NLP and CALL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Fri Nov 25 13:06:28 UTC 2005

Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:09:40 +0100
From: Cédrick Fairon <cedrick.fairon at uclouvain.be>
Message-Id: <200511241809.40261.cedrick.fairon at uclouvain.be>
X-url: http://cecl.fltr.ucl.ac.be/
X-url: http://cental.fltr.ucl.ac.be
X-url: http://www.noe-kaleidoscope.org
X-url: http://www.uclouvain.be/

RESEARCH POSITION IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND CALL

             Centre for English Corpus Linguistics  CECL
                     http://cecl.fltr.ucl.ac.be/

           Centre for Natural Language Processing  CENTAL
                     http://cental.fltr.ucl.ac.be

Université catholique de Louvain
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

The "Digital Language Learning (DLL)" project is an international
research project led by the University of Louvain within the framework
of the European Network of Excellence (NoE) Kaleidoscope
(http://www.noe-kaleidoscope.org). The general aim of the project is
to develop applications that integrate Natural Language Processing,
Computer Corpus Research and Language Didactics. At Louvain the
project is led by two research centres working in close collaboration:
the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics (CECL) (project leader) and
the Centre de Traitement Automatique du Langage (CENTAL)

Applications are invited for a

12 month research position
as of January 2006

The ideal candidate:

* has a Master degree in Computational linguistics, Linguistics or
Computer science (or another relevant discipline);
* has experience in Natural Language Processing and/or Computer
Assisted Language Learning;
* is a good programmer, with relevant experience in Web programming
(Php/MySql/Java/Perl/Python) and/or in the development of NLP
applications.
* has a good knowledge of one/several Learning Management System(s)
(Moodle, Claroline, WebCT, etc.)
* has a very good command of English (writing and speaking) and French
* and a very good team spirit !

The successful candidate will participate in:
* the design and development of an NLP-based glossary to be integrated
into a Learning Management System
* the design and development of a Digital Language Learning module to
be integrated into the Kaleidoscope Virtual Doctoral School.

The researcher will work at the University of Louvain, in a very
stimulating and challenging environment and will collaborate with both
CECL and CENTAL teams (20 people).
CECL: http://cecl.fltr.ucl.ac.be/
CENTAL: http://cental.fltr.ucl.ac.be/
University of Louvain: http://www.uclouvain.be/

Applications (in English only) should contain the following:
- letter of motivation
- detailed curriculum vitae (including a list of publications, if any)
- names and email addresses of two referees

For additional information about the vacancy please contact:

Prof. Sylviane Granger                  Prof. Cédrick Fairon
Director of CECL                        Director of CENTAL
granger at lige.ucl.ac.be                  fairon at tedm.ucl.ac.be
+ 32 10 47 40 34                        Tel.: +32 10 47 37 88

Faculté de philosophie et lettres
Université catholique de Louvain
Place Blaise Pascal, 1
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium

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