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Sunday, September 12, 2010 by Chris Wellekens

6-18 (2010-07-07) Two positions at ELDA
  

Two positions are currently available at ELDA.

 

Engineer in HLT Evaluation Department

 

He/she will be in charge of managing the evaluation activities in relation with the collection of Language Resources for evaluation, the evaluation of technology components, and in general, the setting up of an HLT evaluation infrastructure. As part of the HLT Evaluation Department, he/she will be working on European projects and will be involved in the evaluation of technology components related to information retrieval, information extraction, machine translation, etc.

Profile :

 

  • Engineer/Master degree (preference for a PhD) in computer science, electrical engineering, computational linguistics, information science, knowledge management or similar fields.
  • Experience and/or good knowledge of the information retrieval/information extraction programmes in Europe, the US and Japan.
  • Experience in project management, including the management of European projects.
  • Experience and/or good knowledge of issues related to Language Resources.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team, in particular the ability to supervise members of a multidisciplinary team.
  • Proficiency in English.

 

Programmer

ELDA offers a position for its Language Resource Production and Evaluation activities working in the framework of European projects. The position is related to a number of NLP activities within ELDA, with a focus on the development of web-service architectures for the automatic production and distribution of language resources. The candidate may also be involved in the creation of LR repositories, NLP applications development and/or evaluation, etc.

Profile :

  • Degree or MSc in computer science, computational linguistics, natural language processing or similar fields (preference for a PhD)
  • Good programming skills in C, C++, Perl and/or Java
  • Experience and/or knowledge of web services
  • Good knowledge of Linux and open source software
  • Experience and/or knowledge of NLP is a plus
  • Experience and/or knowledge of Machine Translation, Information Retrieval and related areas is a plus
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team, in particular to collaborate with members of a multidisciplinary and multilingual team
  • Proficiency in French and English

Applicants should send (preferably via email) a cover letter addressing the points listed above together with a curriculum vitae to :

 

Khalid Choukri
ELRA / ELDA
55-57, rue Brillat-Savarin
75013 Paris
FRANCE
Fax : 01 43 13 33 30
Courriel : job@elda.org

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