LINGUIST List 11.1356

Mon Jun 19 2000

Jobs: Portuguese NLP, SINTEF Telecom & Informatics

Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara <naomilinguistlist.org>

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1. Paulo Alexandre Rocha, Portuguese NLP: Researcher at SINTEF Telecom & Informatics, Norway

The Computational Processing of Portuguese project at SINTEF Telecom and
Informatics, Oslo, Norway, wants to hire further temporary staff members,
vith a view to launching a Resource Center for Portuguese Language
Processing. 

We are looking for different kinds of people 

1. Research assistants, with computer science background (one-year
 contracts, with the possibility of extension). One for Oslo/Norway; another
 in Braga/Portugal, a third one in Lisbon/Portugal. The last position will
 have speech resources as its domain. So, some knowledge of digital signal
 processing is required. 

2. Post-doc or researcher interested in doing his/her PhD in our project,
 to work in NLP of Portuguese, more specifically information retrieval or
 development of Web-based NLP services. The position is a three year
 scholarship in Oslo/Norway. 

3. Interns, with linguistics or language background (alternatively computer
 scientists with strong interest in language) and native speakers of
 European Portuguese, for work during six-months in Odense/Denmark. 

Successful candidates are expected to start working on 1st September 2000.
More information about our project and activities can be found at
	http://www.portugues.mct.pt 

Everyone interested in collaborating with the project, even if not
under the conditions above, is welcome to send mail to:
	Diana.Santosinformatics.sintef.no 
no later than 23rd June 2000.