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JOB ADVERTISEMENT FOR A LANGUAGE RESOURCES CONSULTANT
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) was established in February 1995, with the encouragement of the European Commission, to promote the development and exploitation of Language Resources (LR). Language Resources include all data necessary for language engineering, such as monolingual and multilingual lexica, text corpora, speech databases and terminology.
The role of the non-profit Association is to promote the production of LR and to collect, validate, and make them available to users. It will gather information on market needs and encourage the Commission and other funding bodies to support the development of the LR most urgently needed.
The Association has members drawn from every country in the European Union and expects to attract subscribers from throughout the world. At present, ELRA is financed from membership fees and grants; in the future the Association will derive income from the sale of licences to users world wide. After an initial start-up period of four years, it is planned that the Association will be financially independent and self-supporting.
more information about ELRA available from the web:
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
ELRA is seeking someone to undertake a short-term (3-4 months)
full-time temporary contract related to Language Resources
identification. The appropriate candidate should be well-established
in the field, having a thorough knowledge of the Language Resources
(LRs) area. He or she should also be aware of related ongoing
projects within the EU, and be willing to devote his or her time to
this work. This will carried out in coordination with ELRA experts
and under the ELRA's CEO supervision.
(Citizenship of, or residency papers for an EU country required)
The tasks to be carried out are briefly summarized below.
0. Proposition for a workplan (tasks, budget).
1. Listing the major written corpora and lexicon resources (state of the Art)
2. Contacting potential suppliers to complete / review the list
3. Identifying the technical work that is still to be done (estimating the effort of packaging the data into a marketable product)
4. Ascertaining the legal situation regarding ownership and copyright
5. Negotiating the marketing of such resources through ELRA/ELDA and estimating the revenues/costs-effectiveness.
6. Signing "letter of intent" for such marketing arrangements on behalf of ELRA/ELDA.
7. Reporting to the CEO and handling over all information for contract conclusion with priorities/hierarchies set up regarding the each resources.
The work is planned for a period of three months starting by the 20th of May.
A list of deliverables should be produced:
D1 - A list of LRs suppliers (with identified LRs) to be approached, "letter of intent" sample due 30 May
D2 - First progress Report, due 30 June
D3 - Second progress Report, due 30 July
D4 - Estimates for product collection
D5 - Signed letters of intent
D4 and D5 are due by September 10th.
The sub-contract will be split onto two phases:
Phase 1: Tasks 1 and 2, Deliverable D1
Phase 2: Tasks 3 to 7, Deliverables D2 to D7,
Compensation:
A Basic sub-contract for phase 1 will be concluded and then a second one for
phase 2. Compensation will be based on the number of agreements that will be concluded ("bonus performance"). A separate budget will be allowed for Travel expenses.
For more information please contact:
Khalid CHOUKRI
ELRA Executive Director
Tel. +33 1 45 86 53 00
Fax. +33 1 45 86 44 88
87, Avenue D'ITALIE, 75013 PARIS
Email: elra@calvanet.calvacom.fr
Web: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
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