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: September 1st, 2014

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 “Decreto rettorale n. 960 del 5 maggio 2014″.

In particular, see the job description reported between the bottom of page 3 and the top of page 4 in the full announcement here: http://progetti.unicatt.it/progetti-Bando_960.pdf.

Deadline for application : June 4th, 2014

Do not hesitate to ask for help !

Although fluency in Italian is not a requirement, documents for application are in Italian.

Informal enquiries about this position should be sent to Dr. Marco Passarotti (marco.passarotti@unicatt.it).

Source de l’information : Vlaamse Werkgroep Mediëvistiek