Corpora: Information Extraction / Information Retrieval Position Jobs, Saarbrücken

From: Hans Uszkoreit (hansu@dfki.de)
Date: Wed Dec 19 2001 - 16:39:35 MET

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    Saarland University, Computational Linguistics Department

    COMPUTATIONAL LINGUIST or COMPUTER SCIENTIST

    We have two immediate openings for computational linguists
    or computer scientists in the project COLLATE (http://collate.dfki.de).
    In this project, we perform basic research in the areas of

    - information extraction,
    - information retrieval,
    - dialogues for information access and acquisition.

    There is one opening for a project leader and one opening
    for a research scientist.

    Required qualifications:

    - Degree (master or PhD) in computational linguistics, computer
      science, or related discipline

    Additional qualifications:

    - Experience in corpus-based methods in language technology
    - Programming skills
    - Experience in information retrieval, preferably including
      connectivity-based methods (Kleinberg algorithm)
    - Experience in information extraction
    - Experience with large-vocabulary speech recognition software
    - Knowledge of semantic web approaches
    - Good knowledge of German (project leader)
    - Project management experience (project leader)

    The project is carried out in the Computational Linguistics
    Department (http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/) and the Computer
    Science Department of Saarland University. There is a close
    cooperation with the German Research Center for Artificial
    Intelligence, where a competence center in language technology
    is being established.

    Depending on age, family status and qualification, the annual
    gross salary ranges between 36400 and 65000 Euro.

    Please send applications and enquiries to:

    Hans Uszkoreit (uszkoreit@coli.uni-sb.de) and
    Gregor Erbach (erbach@coli.uni-sb.de)



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