Computational linguist (100%)
Department: Faculty of Arts Department of Linguistics
(ALT Research center on CALL)
Position: Computational Linguist
Location: K.U.Leuven Campus Kortrijk, Belgium
Description:
Within the framework of the STEVIN project DPC (Dutch Parallel Corpus)
we are looking for a computational linguist for the development and
maintenance of a parallel corpus Dutch - French - English and the
development of a web search engine for parallel corpus exploration.
Application deadline: 31 July 2006
Commencement: 15 September 2006
Contract period: 1 year, renewable
Required skills/experience:
- Knowledge of Linux and Windows environment
- Good knowledge of text utilities and script languages: sed, awk,
Perl and similar tools
- Experience with text corpora
- Skilled in Perl or Python tool development. Java, C++ or other
programming experience is a plus.
- Experience with the development of web applications (LAMP: Linux,
Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl)
- Knowledge of XML, XPATH and XSLT
- Knowledge of character standardization (ISO, UNICODE) and text
standards (TEI, XCES)
- Knowledge of information retrieval
- Knowledge of English, basic knowledge of Dutch or French
- Good communication skills
Advantages:
- Knowledge of corpus alignment
- Knowledge of PoS tagging
- An interest in languages and linguistics (esp. corpus linguistics)
You will be working at K.U.Leuven Campus Kortrijk
Application and deadline:
To apply, e-mail a copy of your CV and motivational letter to
Piet.Desmet@kuleuven-kortrijk.be and
Hans.Paulussen@kuleuven-kortrijk.be before 31 July 2006.
Application address:
Prof. Dr. Piet Desmet
Piet.Desmet@kuleuven-kortrijk.be
K.U.Leuven Campus Kortrijk
Subfaculteit Letteren
E. Sabbelaan 53
B-8500 Kortrijk
Further information:
Hans.Paulussen@kuleuven-kortrijk.be
Tel: +32-(0)56-24.62.67
Antoine.Besnehard@kuleuven-kortrijk.be
Tel: +32-(0)56-24.61.49
Sites:
http://www.kuleuven-kortrijk.be/
http://www.kuleuven-kortrijk.be/ALT
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