Postdoctoral position in Computational Linguistics, Nancy (France)

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Topic: Error mining in a Tree Adjoining Grammar

Deadline: March 31, 2007.

Employer: INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science) / LORIA, Nancy (France)

Job Description: The Lorraine Laboratory of IT Research and its Applications (Nancy, France) has a position for a Postdoctoral fellow to work on error mining in a tree adjoining grammar using both parsing and generation.

Applicants must have a ** recent doctoral degree ** (Doctoral thesis less than one year old (May 2006) or being defended before end of 2007) an area relevant to the project (linguistics, computational linguistics, computer science), good statistical knowledge and a solid computational background. Good knowledge of a script language (perl, python) is required. A knowledge of parsing and/or realisation algorithm is useful but not imperative.

The candidate will collaborate with the project members and participate in the national project Passage http://atoll.inria.fr/passage

Further information and the details of the application procedure are available from the site http://www.loria.fr/. The official closing date is March 31, 2007, but applications will be processed until the position is filled.

Contact: Claire Gardent <claire.gardent at loria.fr>