JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Research Fellowship in Milan (Italy)
The CIRCSE Research Centre, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
(Milan, Italy), invites applications for a full-time, fixed-term
Research Fellow position in the area of language resources and
natural language processing.
THE RESEARCH CENTRE
The CIRCSE Research Centre
(
http://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/circse_index.html) is the
official acknowledgement of the former GIRCSE, which was founded by
father Roberto Busa SJ, the author of the Index Thomisticus and one
of the pioneers in humanities computing.
The research centre hosts the Index Thomisticus Treebank project and
maintains a number of NLP tools and language resources, mostly for
Classical languages.
JOB DESCRIPTION
The successful candidate will manage the computer science related
aspects of the CIRCSE research activities and projects.
In particular, the candidate will develop/re-use software to support
research activity in the area of text analysis, implementation and
exploitation of language resources such as treebanks and lexica.
She/he will be in charge of the processing pipeline for storing,
analyzing, retrieving and annotating digital collections, including
(but not limited to) literary and philosophical texts written in
Classical languages.
REQUIREMENTS:
- programming skills: C++ or Java, Python or Perl
- regular expressions
- good knowledge of English
PREFERENTIAL CONDITIONS:
- PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Computational
Linguistics
- setup and usage of SQL and no-SQL DB systems
- processing semi-structured data (for instance, XQuery)
- basic administration of an Apache web server
- designing and developing web-based applications
- methods and tools for natural language processing
- attested research experience in computational linguistics and,
particularly, in developing language resources
- basics of theoretical linguistics
FORMAL MATTERS:
- duration: the post is available for up to two years (1 year + 1
year)
- salary for the first year: 19,370 Euros (1,470 monthly, after
taxes)
- starting date: February 1st, 2015
HOW TO APPLY
The full announcement and the application form can be downloaded at
http://progetti.unicatt.it/progetti-assegni-di-ricerca-legge-240-2010-art-22-presentazione-1122.
See under "Selection procedures to assign"
(
http://progetti.unicatt.it/progetti-Bando_1284_inglese.pdf) to
access the text of the announcement: the job description is reported
at page 2.
See under "Application form"
(
http://progetti.unicatt.it/progetti-Domanda_e_dich._sost._in_inglese.doc)
to download the application form.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: December 1st, 2014
DO NOT HESITATE TO ASK FOR HELP.
Knowledge of Italian is NOT a requirement.
Informal enquiries about this position should be sent to Dr. Marco
Passarotti (
marco.pa...@unicatt.it).
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Marco BÜCHLER
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH)
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37073 Göttingen (Heynehaus)
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