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This page lists the available positions in the Cognitive and Communication Technologies Division. The listed positions are mainly for Researcher or Research Assistant.

To apply or to receive further information, please send a CV plus list of publications to:

Fabio Pianesi
Head of the TCC Division ITC-irst
38050 Povo (TN) Italy
email: pianesi@itc.it

and to

Barbara Mezzabotta
ITC-irst
38050 Povo (TN) Italy
email: mezzabo@itc.it

Applications via e-mail are welcome.

[1 Aug 2002] The Cognitive and Communication Technologies (TCC) division of ITC-Irst has an opening for a position (three years, renewable) starting as soon as possible.

We require:

  • experience in one or more of the followings: Information Extraction, Statistical Methods for NLP, Learning
    Techniques Applied to NLP;
  • programming expertise including some of the following: Java, Common Lisp, Perl, XML;
  • a university degree in computer science, computational linguistics, linguistics, or related area;
  • good working knowledge of English;
  • excellent written and verbal communication skills;
  • ability and willingness to work as part of a highly skilled, collaborative research team.

Salary will be competitive and commensurate to experience.

The successful candidate will work as a part of the team devoted to the EU-funded project DOT.KOM.

DOT.KOM will study, design and implement innovative methodologies for Knowledge Management, based on the use of adaptive Information Extraction (IE) techniques. The role of ITC-Irst within DOT.KOM will be mainly in high-level research and application development for adaptive IE. DOT.KOM is funded by the European Commission and will
last 30 months, starting from October 2002. Partners of the project are: the University of Sheffield (UK), ITC-Irst (I), the Open University (UK), the University of Karlsruhe (D), Quinary (I), and Ontoprise (D).
ITC-Irst lead investigator: Alberto Lavelli.

[13 Apr 2002] The Cognitive and Communication Technologies (TCC) division of ITC-irst has an opening for a
position (three years, renewable) starting as soon as possible are available:

We require:

  • experience in one or more of the followings: Information Extraction,
    Question-Answering, Word-Sense Disambiguation, Statistical Methods for
    NLP, Learning Techniques Applied to NLP, Text Summarisation;
  • programming expertise including some of the following: JAVA, Common
    Lisp, Perl, XML;
  • a university degree in computer science, computational linguistics,
    linguistics, or related area;
  • good working knowledge of English;
  • excellent written and verbal communication skills;
  • ability and willingness to work as part of a highly skilled,
    collaborative research team.
Salary will be competitive and commensurate to experience.

The successful candidate will work as a part of the team devoted to the EU-funded project MEANING.

MEANING will be concerned with automatically collecting and analysing language data from the WWW on a large
scale, and building more comprehensive multilingual lexical knowledge bases to support improved word sense disambiguation (WSD). Current web access applications are based on words; MEANING will open the way for access
to the Multilingual Web based on concepts, providing applications with capabilities that significantly exceed those currently available. MEANING will facilitate development of concept-based open domain Internet applications (such
as Question/Answering, Cross Lingual Information Retrieval, Summarisation, Text Categorisation, Event Tracking, Information Extraction, Machine Translation, etc.). Furthermore, MEANING will supply a common conceptual
structure to Internet documents, thus facilitating knowledge management of web content.

For students:

Sono disponibili tesi di laurea: cerchiamo studenti in Scienze dell'Informazione, Linguistica, Psicologia e simili. Per maggiori informazioni contattare Fabio Pianesi.

We welcome students enrolled in Italian and foreign Universities wishing to carry on their theses on themes relevant for our activities. We are looking for students in Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology, and related disciplines. For more information, contact Fabio Pianesi