Dear members of this list,
There is an open call for interest to work at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC). As the most promising candidates for at least two Language Technology positions in Ispra (Italy) will be short-listed next week, please submit your application NOW via the link: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/working-with-us/jobs/vacancies/function-group-iv -researchers . The new positions as 'contract agents' can only be filled by persons who have submitted their profile and CV via this central interface. The procedure is described in detail in the following document: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/sites/default/files/jrc-research-fgiv-contract-staf f-2015-selection_en.pdf . The maximum duration for contract agents is six years (consisting of several shorter, renewable contracts). For a list of FAQs (salary, eligibility, etc.), see: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/sites/default/files/jrc-research-fgiv-contract-staf f-2015-selection-faq-en.pdf . Subject areas: The successful candidates to work in the Europe Media Monitor <http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html> (EMM) team will work in one or more of the following fields: - Media monitoring (conventional and social media); - Multilingual text mining; - Cross-lingual applications; - Information extraction; - Trend monitoring; - Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). Useful knowledge and skills to work in the EMM team include: - Good programming skills, especially in Java; - Good working knowledge of English; - Knowledge of at least one (better more) further languages; - Experience with developing working systems for real-life users. You will work as part of the <http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html> Europe Media Monitor (EMM) team of the JRC, which developed the highly multilingual (20 to 70 languages) news analysis systems <http://emm.newsexplorer.eu/> NewsExplorer, <http://emm.newsbrief.eu/> NewsBrief and the <http://medisys.newsbrief.eu/> Medical Information System MedISys (Public Health monitoring). The EMM applications integrate JRC-developed software tools for event scenario template filling; named entity recognition and disambiguation; name variant matching; quotation recognition; summarisation; machine translation; sentiment analysis (opinion mining); topic detection and tracking; document clustering and classification; trend detection and visualisation; cross-lingual information aggregation; early warning systems; social network analysis; personalised news monitoring; apps for phones and tablets and more. The team also made available the <https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/language-technologies> freely downloadable multilingual parallel corpora and other text resources such as JRC-Acquis, DGT-Translation Memory (and other TMs), JRC-Names, JRC Eurovoc Indexer, and more. For a list of our <http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html> publications, go to <http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html> http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html. Apologies for the late notification! =========================================== <https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/person/ralf-steinberger> Ralf Steinberger European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC) URL - Applications: <http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html> http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html URL - Context: <https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/research-topic/internet-surveillance-systems> https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/research-topic/internet-surveillance-systems 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
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