JOB OPPORTUNITIES AT OFAI's LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY GROUP

JOB OPPORTUNITY - COMPUTATIONAL LINGUIST

The Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) in Vienna, Austria offers two research positions in its Language Technology group.

Candidates are expected to have a degree in computational linguistics or computer science with a background in language technology. She/he will be an open minded team worker, who is able to work creatively in an interdisciplinary context. She/he will have good programming skills and be able to flexibly use different programming languages. She/he likes to to work in a research environment constantly learning and developing fresh concepts and ideas. Publishing research results is part of the job and actively encouraged. The successful candidates will have a strong background in one or more of the following areas: ontology engineering, semantic systems, text mining and machine learning.

Fluency in English is expected.

Both positions are in the framework of a project aiming at advancing speech recognition by the integration of (context-dependent) semantic knowledge. The project is ongoing and will continue until April 2010.

Contracts will be for the duration of the project. Continued employment after the end of the project is possible.

Depending on academic credentials and experience of the candidate, the yearly gross salary will be in the range of EUR 34000 - 44000.

Both positions are to be filled asap.

Please mail applications including a CV to Harald Trost (harald.trost@ofai.at)

More information on OFAI's LT Group can be found at http://www.ofai.at/research/nlu/.