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Portugal: Postdoctoral research position for computer science and Statistics
Written by Suleman Shahid
Sunday, 10 August 2008
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research position in Computational Text Mining for a 5 years contract. Selected candidates will work on the development computational techniques to analyse huge comparable and/or parallel corpora either on syntactic and semantic clustering and classification of single- and multi-word terms, or on extraction of their translations. Supervised classification of documents is a transversal problem that may be also necessary to tackle. The position is funded under the "Commitment to Science" program, launched by the Portuguese National Foundation for Science and Technology. The program aims to provide fixed duration work contracts between the researchers and the host institution. More info at http://alfa.fct.mctes.pt/apoios/contratacaodoutorados/.
Candidates must have preferably at least 3 years post-doctoral experience in one or more of the following thematic areas:
PhD in Computer Science or Statistics in the areas: Text Processing, Algorithms, Data Mining, Machine Learning
In exceptional and duly justified cases, we may consider accepting applicants with less than 3 years of post-doctoral experience.
The position avaliable is to carry out research work at the Human Languages Technology Group of the CITI (Centre for Informatics and Information Technologies -- http://citi.di.fct.unl.pt/) in close collaboration with the CMA (Mathematics Centre) both at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (http://www.fct.unl.pt).
More information about the research environment, its members, and the current position call may be found at the CITI website: citi.di.fct.unl.pt. or more specifically at Human Language Technologies website: (http://citi.di.fct.unl.pt/research_stream.php?id=7)
For morte specific inquiries about the position contact the CITI through the email address below:
E-mail:
Telephone: +351 212 948 536
Fax: +351 212 948 541
Applications should include a detailed curriculum vitae, in pdf format and should be sent to:
CITI - Centro de Informática e Tecnologias da Informação
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa 2829-516 Caparica Portugal
The contract to be signed is a 5 year contract. The monthly amount to be paid is Euro 3,100, 14 months a year, before 35% tax retention, according to the Scientific Research Career regulation. The contract includes social benefits and retirement fund. Any effective hiring/contract is subject to available vacancies supported by the National Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), and its Agreement Program regulation.
You may consult the official post for the job at: <http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=10015&lang=pt>
