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POSTDOC POSITION IN WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION
AT LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay (Paris area), FRANCE
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A postdoctoral position in Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is
available at the LIMSI-CNRS lab.

The position is funded by the national (ANR) project TransRead
(http://transread.limsi.fr) aimed at developing new multilingual text
processing applications and facilitating the reading of multilingual
documents for foreign language readers and learners.

The postdoctoral researcher will work on both data-driven and
knowledge-based Word Sense Disambiguation methods exploiting
information in parallel corpora and large-scale multilingual resources
(such as BabelNet and Wiktionary). The disambiguation output will
serve to facilitate foreign language reading by providing semantic
annotations in different languages. Research results will also be
exploited in other applications developed in the group, such as
Machine Translation.

Requirements:

- Ph.D. (or completed by Fall 2013) in Computer Science, Natural
  Language Processing, Computational Linguistics
- Solid programming skills
- Experience with statistical approaches to semantics, cross-lingual
  methods for NLP or Statistical Machine Translation
- Strong publication record 
- Fluent English

The successful candidate will join a dynamic research team working on
various aspects of Statistical Machine Translation, Word Sense
Disambiguation and paraphrasing. For information regarding our
activities, see http://www.limsi.fr/Scientifique/tlp/mt/

Salary: 2000 ¤ net per month
Duration: 12 months, starting Fall or Winter 2013
Application deadline: Open until filled

Interested candidates should send their CV and the names and contact
information of 2 referees to Marianna Apidianaki (marianna@limsi.fr).
Informal inquiries can be sent to the same address.


About the LIMSI-CNRS

The LIMSI-CNRS lab is situated at Orsay, a green area 25 km south of
Paris. A suburban train connects Orsay to Paris city center. Detailed
information about the LIMSI lab can be found at http://www.limsi.fr