<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arabic-L: Fri 11 Jan 2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To post messages to the list, send them to <a href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu">arabic-l@byu.edu</a>]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Directory------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1) Subject:Arabic Computational Linguistics Job</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: 11 Jan 2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:reposted from LINGUIST</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:Arabic Computational Linguistics Job</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:39:44<br>From: Barbara Steiner [<a href="mailto:steiner@svox.com">steiner@svox.com</a>]<br>Subject: Arabic, Standard & Computational Linguistics: Computer Linguist Arabic, SVOX AG, Zurich, Switzerland<br><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">University or Organization: SVOX AG <br>Job Location: Zurich, Switzerland <br>Web Address: <a href="http://www.svox.com/">http://www.svox.com</a><br><br>Job Rank: Computer Linguist Arabic <br>Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics <br>Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)<br>Description:<br>Position: Computer Linguist Arabic (Egyptian)<br><br>SVOX AG is a dynamic technology company specialized in text-to-speech. We<br>are seeking to temporarily (12 months) add to our language development team<br>a computational linguist for Arabic. You will create new language<br>components for use with our state-of-the-art text-to-speech engine.<br><br>We invite applications from language specialists that natively speak<br>Egyptian Arabic. SVOX provides a varied position in an international,<br>fast-paced, results-oriented environment.<br><br>Tasks:<br>- Development of language-specific components needed to analyse texts<br>(grammars, rule sets, lexicon evaluation and script-based adaptation)<br>- Quality assessment and improvement of phonetic transcriptions<br>- Definition of accentuation and phrasing rules<br>- Definition of grapheme-to-phoneme rules<br>- Preparation of text material for recordings<br>- Supervising the recordings<br>- Annotating the recordings and creating a speech database<br>- Testing and quality assessment of the integrated system<br><br>Qualifications and Required Skills<br>- Native speaker of Egyptian Arabic<br>- Masters degree in linguistics, computer science, or related field<br>- 1+ years experience in text-to-speech technology is a strong plus<br>- Interest in speech synthesis, prosody, and morpho-syntactic analysis of text<br>- Programming and scripting skills are desirable<br><br>Personal Requirements:<br>- Working knowledge of English<br>- Excellent organization and communication skills<br>- Has a positive attitude and enjoys working in a team<br>- High quality standards<br>- Willingness to relocate to Zurich, Switzerland, for 12 months<br><br>Start Date: At earliest availability.<br><br>Contact: Please send your application to Ms. Barbara Steiner.<br><br><br>Application Deadline: (Open until filled)<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> <br>Email Address for Applications: <a href="mailto:hr@svox.com">hr@svox.com</a> <br>Contact Information:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Barbara Steiner <br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Email: <a href="mailto:steiner@svox.com">steiner@svox.com</a> <br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">End of Arabic-L: 11 Jan 2008</div></body></html>