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@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
--Cédrick Fairon Directeur du CENTAL Centre de traitement automatique du langage Université de Louvain Place Blaise Pascal, 1 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgique tel: +32 10 47 37 88 fax: +32 10 47 26 06
http://cental.fltr.ucl.ac.be http://glossa.fltr.ucl.ac.be --
Cédrick Fairon Directeur du CENTAL Centre de traitement automatique du langage Université de Louvain Place Blaise Pascal, 1 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgique tel: +32 10 47 37 88 fax: +32 10 47 26 06
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