Corpora: Vacant academic position

From: Granger Sylviane (granger@lige.ucl.ac.be)
Date: Wed Oct 18 2000 - 21:18:17 MET DST

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    The Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) is officially announcing a
    full time academic position.

    DESCRIPTION OF THE POST
    As Director of the Research Centre for Natural Language Processing at the
    Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, you will be responsible for:
    - Organising the centre and related activities
    - Directing and running a team of IT personnel
    - Developing research projects in the Faculty in collaboration with
    the centre's scientific committee
    - Developing the centre's technical expertise in compiling and
    analysing electronic linguistic resources (written and spoken text corpora,
    lexica, grammars and terminological data necessary for natural language
    processing, multilingual resources/processing). Key activities will include
    database compilation (lexica, grammars and corpora), software development
    (lemmatization, tagging and parsing, etc.) and statistical analysis.
    - Keeping abreast of developments in the field of computational
    linguistics, guiding the activities of the centre and personnel accordingly
    and ensuring that new developments are reflected in Faculty research projects.
    - Teaching computational linguistics, in particular with relation to
    the fields outlined above.

    REQUESTED QUALIFICATIONS
    - PhD (or equivalent) combined with recognised expertise and/or a
    qualification in computational linguistics
    - Thorough knowledge of programming languages, web technologies and
    operating systems
    - Experience in research and team work
    - Scientific publications in the field
    - Good command of French and English

    More information is available at:

    http://www2.crct.ucl.ac.be/crct/

    (post reference: FLTR 2001/01)

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    Professor Sylviane Granger
    Université Catholique de Louvain
    Centre for English Corpus Linguistics
    Collège Erasme
    Place Blaise Pascal 1
    B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
    Belgium
    Fax: + 3210474942
    http://www.fltr.ucl.ac.be/FLTR/GERM/ETAN/CECL/cecl.html



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