Dear members of the Corpora list,
We would like to announce that a senior and a junior research
position are now open at ISSCO, University of Geneva. The two
announcements follow, and they are also posted at:
http://www.issco.unige.ch/vacancy.html
Best regards,
-- ISSCO/TIM/ETI, Université de Genève 40, bd du Pont d'Arve 1211 Genève 4 - Suisse http://www.issco.unige.ch/------------------------------------------
Job Vacancy, June 2002 -- Senior researcher in language engineering
ISSCO has an immediate opening for a senior researcher in language engineering and computational linguistics. The position involves participation in one or more Swiss and European language engineering projects.
The qualified candidate will carry on research and collaborate on software design and implementation in one or more of the following areas:
- parsing and semantic tagging - document indexing and retrieval - evaluation of NLP software - ontologies - knowledge engineering - multilingual text processing
Requirements:
- doctorate (PhD) in computer science or computational linguistics - experience in collaborative language engineering projects - programming skills in, e.g., Java, Perl, C/C++ - experience in developing software for NLP applications - knowledge of XML and Internet technologies - fluency in either French or English (with knowledge of the other language)
Additional qualities:
- expertise in knowledge engineering for the medical domain - expertise in probabilistic and statistical methods for NLP - good communication skills - fluency in German and/or Italian and/or other languages
ISSCO offers excellent working conditions in a well-established research group at the University of Geneva. The position provides opportunities to collaborate in a variety of international projects. The salary is calculated according to qualifications, based on the University of Geneva scales. The University of Geneva is an equal opportunity employer.
Duration: initial contract for one year with good prospects of renewal
We invite interested candidates to send us a letter of interest along with a detailed CV, publication list and the names of three references to:
ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva Attn: Professor Susan Armstrong University of Geneva 40, bvd. du Pont d'Arve CH-1211 Geneva 4 Switzerland
Email: Susan.Armstrong@issco.unige.ch Tel: (+41 22) 705 87 64 Fax: (+41 22) 705 86 89 http://www.issco.unige.ch
Submission by email is preferred and should be also addressed in CC: to Andrei Popescu-Belis (Andrei.Popescu-Belis@issco.unige.ch).
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Job Vacancy, June 2002 -- Junior researcher in natural language processing
ISSCO has an immediate opening for a junior researcher in natural language processing and computational linguistics. The position involves participation in one or more Swiss and European language engineering projects. The position also offers the possibility to prepare a doctoral thesis (PhD) at the University of Geneva, on a subject related to a research project that is ongoing at ISSCO.
The main research themes related to this position are:
- parsing and semantic/discourse tagging - general statistical NLP tools - lexical semantics and conceptual structures - ontologies - knowledge engineering - human-computer interaction
The qualified candidate will carry out research and collaborate in the construction of language resources and evaluation techniques in one or more of the above areas. Furthermore, the qualified candidate is encouraged to register as a student either at the DEA level (French equivalent of a Masters Degree) or at the PhD level, at the School of Translation and Interpretation of the University of Geneva, on a subject related to one of the research projects. For more information about the degrees, please follow this link:
http://www.unige.ch/eti/index.cgi?http://www.unige.ch/eti/enseignement/contenu.html
Requirements:
- university degree in computational linguistics or computer science - interest for theoretical and applied research in natural language processing / semantics - fluency in either French or English (with knowledge of the other language)
Additional qualities:
- good communication skills - programming/IT skills in, e.g., Perl, C/C++, Java, Unix/Linux, HTML, XML - experience in developing software for NLP applications - fluency in German and/or Italian and/or other languages
ISSCO offers excellent working conditions in a well-established research group at the University of Geneva. The position provides opportunities to collaborate in a variety of international projects. The salary is calculated according to qualifications, based on the University of Geneva scales. The University of Geneva is an equal opportunity employer.
Duration: initial contract for one year with good prospects of renewal
We invite interested candidates to send us a letter of interest along with a detailed CV and the names of three references to:
ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva Attn: Professor Susan Armstrong University of Geneva 40, bvd. du Pont d'Arve CH-1211 Geneva 4 Switzerland
Email: Susan.Armstrong@issco.unige.ch Tel: (+41 22) 705 87 64 Fax: (+41 22) 705 86 89 http://www.issco.unige.ch
Submission by email is preferred and should be also addressed in CC: to Andrei Popescu-Belis (Andrei.Popescu-Belis@issco.unige.ch).
-- Alexander Clark asc@aclark.demon.co.uk http://www.issco.unige.ch/staff/clark/index.html ISSCO/ETI, University of Geneva
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