Two positions are currently available at ELDA.

Engineer in HLT Evaluation Department

• 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 :