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Organization: Tilde SIA

Location: Riga, Latvia

Field: Language sciences - Linguistics

Requirements:

Applicants should hold a strong university degree (Masters/diploma or equivalent) which would entitle them to embark on a PhD project in a relevant discipline, and should be in the first four years of their research careers. Students who are completing their master’s degree during the current semester are also invited to apply. As the project is intended to involve work on grammar checkers, applicant needs to have strong background in computational linguistics or computer science. Good knowledge of a language of Baltic countries is an advantage. In addition, as all CLARA training events will be in English, applicants need to have a good working knowledge of English. Women are particularly encouraged to apply.

Strong background in computational linguistics or computer science.
Good knowledge of a language of Baltic countries is an advantage

Abstract:

Tilde invites applications for a research assistant position in proofing tools at the Dept. of Research and Architecture for 21 months as soon as possible. The candidate will participate in the CLARA subproject Proofing tools and resources for under-resourced languages.

Description:

The candidate will participate in the CLARA subproject Proofing tools and resources for under-resourced languages. The aim of the subproject is to develop proofing tools (mainly grammar checkers) for languages that currently do not have these technologies available. Two research directions: 1) Multilinguality of grammar checking techniques. Existing grammar checking techniques will be evaluated to find language specific phenomena and new tools will be developed. 2) Investigation of the existing grammar checking methods and development of new methods to create suitable techniques to process deep syntactic structures of highly inflected languages.
 
The CLARA network offers an intensive research exchange programme between 16 participating institutions. While staying with the host institution for most of the time, the programme allows for a shorter stay at a second academic or industrial partner institution (secondment). As part of the PhD level activities, the successful candidate will be expected to take part actively in training activities organised by CLARA. This includes summer schools, seminars and courses organised locally and at other network institutions.

As the project is funded by an EU mobility scheme, there are also certain mobility requirements. Most importantly, the candidate must not be a national of Latvia, the country of the host institution. Applicants must not have resided or performed their main activity in the host country more than 12 months in the 3 year period immediately prior to the start date.
(For a full list of mobility criteria, see ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/fp7-mga-annex3intramulti_en.pdf.)

Tilde is the Baltic IT company, the recognized leader in research and development of human language technologies for the languages of the Baltic countries. A combination of statistical and knowledge driven approaches is used to provide state-of-the-art language technologies. TILDE’s experience has resulted in widely used software products for the Baltic languages, including automated translation tools, machine translation solutions, multilingual electronic dictionaries, spoken language technologies, proofing tools and terminology data bases.
 
The salary of a junior researcher position is roughly EUR 24,529.5 per year. There are additional mobility (up to 800 euro/month) and travel allowances (yearly allowance). The income is taxable. There is a budget to cover participation costs, such as attendance at CLARA events abroad.

For further information about the available position and project, please contact Dr. Inguna Skadiņa, inguna.skadina@tilde.lv. Enquiries regarding admission requirements, application procedures etc. may also be directed to the darbs@tilde.lv.

In case an application can only be submitted by regular post, it should be sent to:

SIA “Tilde”
Vienības gatve 75a
LV-1004, Riga
Latvia

Deadline: 01-07-2011

Contacts:

Link: https://clara.uib.no/vacancies/esr-vacancy-at-tilde/

Email: inguna.skadina@tilde.lv

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