The Cognitive   and  Communication  Technologies  (TCC)   division  of
ITC-Irst   has  openings for the   following  (three years, renewable)
positions, starting as soon as possible.

 n.3 positions in the "Text Processing" area.
 Requirements  -  Significant  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 includes
 some of the following: JAVA, Common Lisp, Perl, XML.

 n.4 positions in the "Intelligent and Interactive Information
 Presentation" area.
 Requirements -   Significant experience   in   one  or more   of  the
 followings: Adaptive Hypermedia, Natural Language Generation, NLP for
 Dialogue Systems, Life-like   Characters  and Collaborative  Systems,
 Internet Technologies for Multimedia (RTSP, SMIL, etc.).  Programming
 expertise includes some of the following:  JAVA, Common Lisp, XML, OO
 analysis and programming, AI technologies.

For  all  positions,    the followings  are  also  required.  Advanced
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.

To apply, please send a CV plus list of publications to:

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

Applications via e-mail are welcome.


About ITC-Irst
Located in  one of  the  most  beautiful   areas of  Italy, near   the
Dolomites,   ITC-Irst   (Istituto  per    la  Ricerca   Scientifica  e
Tecnologica) is  a major Italian  research  centre operating  in  such
fields as: Artificial Intelligence, Microsystems, and Surface Physics.
The Artificial   Intelligence area comprises  the following divisions:
TCC  (Cognitive   and  Communication Technologies),  SSI  (Interactive
Sensory Systems)  and  SRA  (Automatic Reasoning Systems).    ITC-Irst
(presently directed by Oliviero Stock)  has a long score of  important
achievements in all the areas of its activity, testifying its vocation
towards excellence in basic and applied research, and in technological
transfer.

About the TCC division
The Cognitive and Communication Technologies  division at ITC-Irst  is
one of  the leading European research groups  in areas such as Natural
Language Processing,  Human-Computer Interaction and Dialogue Systems,
Multi-modality, Natural Language    Generation,  and  Production   and
Maintenance  of  Linguistic Resources.   Committed  to both  basic and
applied    research, TCC  has consolidated  links   and pursues  joint
research efforts  with many of the  main research centres all over the
world,  and has regular   and   fruitful relationships  with   primary
companies, especially those operating in the Web world. TCC has a long
record of EU funded projects. As part of ITC-Irst,  TCC is a member of
the European   Network of Excellence  in  Natural Language  and Speech
(ELSNET).