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Opening of 1 Research Position

Development of the Portal da Língua Portuguesa

 

 

The ILTEC institute is looking for a post-doc fellow for a period of five years, to start before the end of 2007. The position is part of the Ciência 2007 program of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).

 

 

Task description

The purpose of the fellowship is to lead the Portal da Lingua Portuguesa project, which is a project to develop and maintain an online resource about the Portuguese language, with a primary focus on lexical information. 

 

The candidate is expected to lead both the computational part of the development of the website and its back-office, and the lexicographic part of the further development of the lexicographic model behind the MorDebe database.

 

 

The ILTEC Institute

ILTEC is a small research center in Lisbon, Portugal, founded in 1988. It has an autonomous status, but strong ties to the two major universities in Lisbon (Universidade de Lisboa and Universidade Nova de Lisboa). 

 

The research of ILTEC is divided in three research groups: Language and Linguistic Diversity, Lexicon and Computational Modeling, and Discourse and Literacy. More information about the ILTEC institute can be found on the web-site (http://www.iltec.pt <http://www.iltec.pt/> )

 

 

Application

Candidates should sent their application to the ILTEC institute, either by e-mail or by surface mail to the following address. The candidature should contain an introductory letter detailing the candidate's expectation with regard to working on this project, and a complete CV. 

 

Instituto de Linguística Teórica e Computacional

Rua Conde de Redondo 74-5

1150-109 Lisboa, Portugal

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Candidates should have a PhD in the area of linguistics or lexicography, and have at least three years of research experience since the completion of their PhD.

 

Deadline for the application is September 30, 2007

 

 

Contract terms

The position consists of a contract for a fixed period of 5 years, and consists of a full research position with no teaching obligations.

 

The yearly salary for the position is just over EUR42.000, equal to that of an assistant professor.

 

 

Project description:

 

The candidate is expected to assume the responsibility for the Portal da Língua Portuguesa (Portuguese Language Portal) project, which is part of the Lexicography and Computational Application group of the institute. The project consists of a lexical database called MorDebe, and a web-site called Portal da Língua Portuguesa. 

 

MORDEBE

 

The MorDebe database is a lexical information system developed at the ILTEC institute. At its core it is a large-scale full-form lexicon, construed with strict lexicographic criteria. It has a modular design, in which additional modules can provide additional types of information for the basic lemma list. The database already contains modules providing information about derivational relations between lemmas, gentile information, proper names, and grammatical characterizations, and more modules are under development. The most significant module under development is a database of phonetic transcription of the standard pronunciation in European Portuguese for all the lemmas in the database. The candidate is expected to supervise the maintenance of the existing modules, and contribute to the further development of the system. 

 

PORTAL

 

The Portal da Língua Portuguesa (http://www.portaldalinguaportuguesa.org) is a web-site created to make the data in the MorDebe database available for the general public in a user-friendly manner. As such, it provides an online vocabulary, inflection dictionary, dictionary of gentiles, of deverbal nouns, etc. However, the Portal does not only provide lexical data from the MorDebe database, but also features various additional types of information, some of which are still under development. The main additional resources are for now an online version of the Dictionary of Linguistic Terms developed at ILTEC in 1997, a collection of texts about common doubts or questions about the Portuguese language, and a database of legislation concerning the Portuguese language, including the two official orthographic conventions from Brazil and Portugal respectively. Most of the web-site is written in a combination of MySQL and PHP. The candidate is expected to supervise the development of the web-site, as well as the in-house created back office for the web-based maintenance of the MorDebe database. 

 

STAFF


The staff of the Portal project currently consists of two BA scholars working full-time on the project for a period of three years. The candidate is expected to supervise these scholars and supervise their work for the project. The primary task of the first scholar is the maintenance of the MorDebe lemma list, and the primary task of the second scholar is the development of the phonetic transcription database. Apart from these two scholars, there are some incidental scholars of the Observatorio de Neologismos de Português project that collaborate in the project, and there are several projects currently under evaluation which would iploy additional scholars related to the Portal when approved. The involvement in the Portal of these scholars would also have to be supervised by the candidate.

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