JOB: Linguistic Statistician/Software Engineer

Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale, Paris I
European Research Council project "Signs and States"
To be based at the CNRS campus, Villejuif

Salary: 1900 euros net per month

The Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale of the University of  
Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) (LaMOP - UMR 8589) is looking for an  
experienced software engineer to develop a series of applications for  
the treatment of lexical data and textual corpora for the use of  
historians and linguists.

The candidate will work as part of the European project 'Signs and  
States' (SAS) financed by the European Research Council from April  
2010 to March 2014. The aim of the project is to study the cultural  
transformations which permitted and influenced the development of the  
modern State in Europe (from the 13th to the 17th century). In this  
context, the candidate would be responsible for developing software  
which will aid the homogenisation (e.g. correction of spelling  
variation, lemmatisation and semi-automatic text flagging) of medieval  
and modern texts (from the 10th to the 17th century). The resulting  
software will have to be collaborative, so as to permit collective  
work. It must operate in interface with applications which already  
provide lexical analysis functions, such as Lexico 3 and Hyperbase,  
and, at the level of output from these applications, with the R  
interface.

The post will require a knowledge of XML, but also of appropriate  
programming languages, such as Perl, Python, Java, etc. The candidate  
will need to be familiar with the technology and techniques associated  
with linguistic and statistical analysis.

Beyond the technical skills necessary for the development of this  
software package, it will be expected that the candidate will take an  
active and inventive role in defining the computing needs of the  
project. Finally, the candidate must be able to assist with the  
implementation of the necessary technical architecture, with the  
coordination of the computing aspects of the project and with their  
continuing development.

The candidate will be working in collaboration with a team of  
historians and linguists with a knowledge of computer-based methods  
who will be in constant dialogue with him or her. Good 'soft' skills  
and the ability to work in a French-speaking environment will thus be  
essential.

A renewable fixed term contract will be offered starting on 1 October  
2010. The programme ends on 30 March 2014. The work will take place in  
at the CNRS campus at Villejuif. Monthly salary: 1900 euros net.  
Applications (CV and covering letter) should be sent to the contacts  
specified below by 1 September 2010.

Jean-Philippe Genet (Professor of medieval history) : [log in to unmask]
Stéphane Lammassé :  [log in to unmask]




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