The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) is looking to fill two
traineeship positions in the field of:
Terminology discovery over time in the field of disaster risk
management.
If you are interested, please follow the instructions provided at the URLS
listed below. (Code: 2014-IPR-G-000-4154 - ISPRA).
Generic URL:
http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=TR
<http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=TR&site=IPR> &site=IPR
Job description:
http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?inst=3460
<http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?inst=3460&type=TR> &type=TR
Traineeship rules:
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/downloads/jrc_trainee_rules_en.pdf
Conditions/eligibility: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/index.cfm?id=5860
Application deadline: 19 January 2015
Starting date: around March 2015
Duration: 5 months each
Remuneration: Up to approximately 1000 Euro per month.
The EMM applications: http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html
JRC-EMM Publications:
<http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html>
http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html
Two trainees have been working on this task since September. As the end
users have deemed the results of the motivated and competent team useful, we
plan to continue this work with a new set of two trainees.
DESSCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY:
The Europe Media Monitor (EMM) group at the European Commission's Joint
Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy, is looking for two trainees to work
on a project to automatically explore the development of terminology in the
field of 'Disaster Risk Management' (DRM). The purpose is to give the
international stakeholders in that field (e.g. the United Nations Office for
Disaster Risk Reduction UN-ISDR) concrete and countable evidence of new
concepts (terms) emerging in their field, of changing concepts and of shifts
in interest over time. The study will include both scientific publications
and texts produced by national and international governmental organisations
working in that field.
This first exploratory study will exclusively concern English language text
in the field of Disaster Risk Management, but other languages and subject
areas will be considered in case the outcome of this exploratory study is
deemed concrete and useful. This work may lead to a scientific publication
co-authored by the project contributors.
A scenario to reach this goal of terminology discovery might consist of the
following steps:
(1) Manual or semi-automatic selection and collection of freely available
documents covering the sub-areas of the life cycle of Disaster Risk
Management (Prevention and mitigation; Preparedness; Response; Recovery and
reconstruction);
(2) Conversion of the various file formats (e.g. HTML, PDF, MS-Word) into a
structured text format (e.g. XML);
(3) Selection of suitable off-the-shelf software for the automatic
extraction of terms (e.g. noun phrases);
(4) Usage of this software and, if needed, tuning of this software to
extract lists of potential terms;
(5) Application of statistical methods to select the domain-specific terms
and to weigh or rank them;
(6) Application of statistical methods that allow to observe trends such as
the detection of terms that are more frequently or more rarely used compared
to previous observation periods;
(7) Presentation of the results (term lists, trends) in an
easy-to-understand manner; This may also include a keyword-in-context
presentation of the terms, or similar.
The foreseen traineeship duration is five months, starting around March
2015. The working language in the EMM team is English.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
The task is foreseen to be carried out jointly by two trainees who, in
combination, possess the skills or satisfy the criteria listed below. The
combination of a more linguistically inclined person and a programmer could
be fruitful.
. Mature student or post-graduate in any of the following fields (or
similar): computational linguistics, computer science, library sciences,
machine learning;
. Knowledge of - and experience with - freely available Language
Technology tools (e.g. for terminology extraction, term weighting,
categorisation);
. Experience with document format conversion (PDF, HTML, MS-Word
etc. to text);
. Sufficient programming experience to autonomously implement all
necessary steps (Java preferred);
. Knowledge of statistical methods for term weighing (e.g.
chi-square, TF.IDF) and for automatic categorisation;
. Linguistic sensitivity and an interest for terminology extraction
(what is a term?; relationships between terms);
. Ability to present the project outcome in a format suitable for
DRM specialists who may not be so knowledgeable of Information Technology
(presentation; reporting; visualisation?).
. Ability to work autonomously;
. Team worker;
. Good working knowledge of English plus the ability to communicate
in at least one other official EU language.
In your application, please state your interests and please provide clear
information on your skill set, by elaborating on the above-mentioned list.
Should you apply as a ready-made team, please nevertheless clearly state
your personal skills and strengths.
THE JRC TEAM:
The Joint Research Centre (JRC; http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/) is the
scientific-technical arm of the European Commission. The approximately 2200
JRC employees working in Ispra are from all EU countries and there are also
some non-EU visitors. The working environment is multilingual,
multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary. The JRC's Europe Media Monitor (EMM)
team
(https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/research-topic/internet-surveillance-systems)
carries out research and development in the field of text mining (Language
Technology; Computational Linguistics) for the purposes of media monitoring.
EMM gathers an average of almost 220,000 online news articles per day in
over 70 languages and analyses them to help its large international user
community understand and use this enormous amount of media information. EMM
is publicly accessible via http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html. The JRC is
also known for having distributed large quantities of parallel linguistic
resources <https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/language-technologies> , including
JRC-Acquis, DGT-Acquis, JRC-Names, the Translation Memories DGT-TM, ECDC-TM
and EAC-TM <https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/language-technologies> , and more.
Ralf Steinberger <http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/RS.html>
European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC)
21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
URL - Applications: <http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html>
http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html
URL - Resources: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/language-technologies
URL - Publications: http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html
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