Description
The Researcher will develop software and methodologies to extract events, participants and entities from Dutch and English news text and apply event modeling on the output, dealing with event co reference, relations between events, factuality of events, larger event scripts, activities and phenomena, plots and story lines, etc. Since the VU University of Amsterdam is coordinating this project, we expect that the Researcher also supports the management of the project and take a lead in strategic project decisions (at management, exploitation and technical levels). We are looking for an ambitious full time Researcher.The Researcher should preferably have the following qualifications:- a PhD in computational linguistics, computer engineering, semantic web technology or any comparable discipline;
- experience and knowledge of natural language processing systems;
- knowledge about text and knowledge representation formats;
- advanced computational skills, including parallel and distributed programming;
- familiar with both the computational linguistics as the semantic web community;
- strong conceptual thinkers that love to solve complex and challenging problems;
- experience and knowledge about semantic processing of texts in different languages, preferably but not necessarily Dutch and English;
- team workers that deliver results and output within a tight time-schedule of 3 months cycles.