Job: Post-doc in Information extraction & ontologies, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:21:06 +0100
From: Cédrick Fairon <cedrick.fairon at uclouvain.be>
Message-Id: <200511241821.06515.cedrick.fairon at uclouvain.be>
X-url: http://cental.fltr.ucl.ac.be
X-url: http://www.belga.be
X-url: http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~unitex/


           POST-DOC IN INFORMATION EXTRACTION & ONTOLOGIES

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

Université catholique de Louvain
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

"B-Ontology" is a collaborative project between CENTAL, an NLP
research centre at the University of Louvain (Belgium), and the
Belgian national press agency Belga (http://www.belga.be). It is
funded by the Brussels Fund for Research and Development (IRSIB). The
objective is to build an information extraction system specialized in
biographical information extraction and management. The information
system will be accessible to Belga journalists as a source of
information and a productivity tool. It will be fully integrated in
the Belga workflow so that all incoming and outgoing press sources (in
French, Dutch and English) will be monitored.

To reinforce the B-Ontology research team, we are recruiting a
post-doc (up to 18 months, as of January 2006).

The ideal candidate:
- has a PhD in Computational linguistics, Linguistics or Computer
science (or another close and relevant discipline).
- has experience in Ontologies and Information extraction (or sub
fields: Named Entities Recognition, Anaphora Resolution, etc.)
- is a good programmer, with relevant experience in programming (C or
C++, Java, Perl or Python, etc.)
- has a good knowledge of database engineering
- has a good understanding of the lexicon-grammar theory (M. Gross)
- has a good command of the Open-Source Linguistic platform Unitex
(http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~unitex/)
- has a very good command of Dutch (writing and speaking: either first
language or high education degree), English and French.
- is a hard worker... has a good team spirit

The Post-doc will be mainly involved in:
- the design and development of the Dutch and English version of the
IE system;
- the design and the development of the Information System for storing
and managing the extracted biographical information (which involves,
DB & ontologies development);
- the conception and the development of the query interface;
- transfer of knowledge (i.e. advising and coaching younger
researchers)

The researcher will work at the University of Louvain, in a very
stimulating and challenging environment where he/she will collaborate
with the CENTAL team (10 people) and will be in close close contact
with the Belga team.  Duration of the contract: up to 18 months (as of
January 2006)

Additional information
For additional information about the vacancy please contact:

Prof. Cédrick Fairon
fairon at tedm.ucl.ac.be
Director of CENTAL
Faculté de philosophie et lettres 
Université catholique de Louvain
Place Blaise Pascal, 1
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
Tel.: +32 10 47 37 88
Fax : +32 10 47 26 06

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