LINGUIST List 17.2432
Wed Aug 30 2006
Jobs: English & Computational Ling: Post Doc, Université de Montréal
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1. Patrick
Drouin,
English & Computational Linguistics / Terminology: Post Doc, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada
Message 1: English & Computational Linguistics / Terminology: Post Doc, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada
Date: 29-Aug-2006
From: Patrick Drouin <patrick.drouinumontreal.ca>
Subject: English & Computational Linguistics / Terminology: Post Doc, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada
University or Organization: Université de Montréal Department: OLST/Linguistique et traduction Web Address: http://www.olst.umontreal.ca Job Rank: Post Doc Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics Required Language(s): English (eng)
Description:
This paid postdoctoral position is part of the SACOT project (Semi-Automatic Construction of Ontologies from Texts), which involves two research teams : the Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte (OLST, http://www.olst.umontreal.ca/) of the University of Montreal and the Knowledge Management group of Defense R&D Canada (Valcartier, Québec, Canada). Launched in July 2006, this project will be underway until 2009. The planned duration of the internship is 12 months (with possible extensions).
The SACOT research project's main objectives consist of investigating, developing and validating innovative natural language processing (NLP) approaches as scientific means to, first, capture knowledge conveyed in texts using domain-specific terminology and, secondly, to represent this knowledge in ontologies. Corpora used for the SACOT project are written in English and deal with domains of interest for military operations and intelligence analysis. The project will investigate and develop automated terminology extraction techniques, conceptual relations identification methods as well as ontology construction techniques.
Requirements - Ph.D. in linguistics, computational linguistics or computer science. - Working knowledge of terminology and term extraction techniques, good knowledge of ontologies as well as an expertise in conceptual relations extraction from corpora. - Available for a period of 12 months starting January 2007. - Research experience in a relevant area. - Excellent understanding of written English as well as fluency in French.
E-mail a full résumé with three names to be used as references.
Address for Applications and Contact Information:
Patrick Drouin Département de linguistique et de traduction Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7 Canada Email: patrick.drouinumontreal.ca
Application Deadline: 15-Oct-2006
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