EarlyTracks, a spin-off of the UCL/CENTAL (Centre for Natural Language Processing) specialized in text mining and information retrieval, is looking for an IT developer and a computational linguist. Contact: jobs@earlytracks.com http://earlytracks.com/jobs --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Computational Linguist will join a small team of linguistics and IT technicians and will mainly focus on linguistics resources development. FUNCTION As Computational Linguist you are directly responsible for: - Developing and maintaining linguistic resources (formal grammars and specialized dictionaries) necessary for business requirements. - Corpus creation and annotation (including organisation of annotation campaigns). - Analysis and development of linguistic projects. PROFILE - You have a Master degree or equivalent in a Linguistics or Natural Language Processing field. - Candidate must master the following languages, tools and skills: - A strong affinity with IT technologies - XML, JSON, HTML - Corpus linguistics - Unitex/GramLab - Knowledge in linguistics fields (semantics, lexicology, syntax, etc.) - Knowledge of some of the following ones is a plus: - Good writing skills - Knowledge in programming (Python, Java, Perl) - Knowledge in statistics - Basic knowledge of JavaScript/CSS and design - You are enthusiastic, quick (self) learner, not afraid to go into technical details and give an helping hand. - You are fluent in French and have good level of English. Any other language is a real asset (especially Dutch and/or German).