[Corpora-List] Job Opportunity: Language Engineer, Dictionaries at Oxford University Press

[WHITELOCK, Pete]

Language Engineer, Dictionaries,
Academic Division
Oxford University Press
Oxford

Exciting opportunity to help shape the future of dictionaries with the world's leading dictionary publisher.

The successful candidate will join our language engineering team, which is responsible for development and exploitation of the corpora and lexical data used in OUP's print and online dictionaries and licensed for uses such as search engine technology, machine translation, e-readers and mobile applications.

You will have experience of writing programs that process natural language data, an enthusiasm for developing and applying innovative techniques in linguistic analysis for monolingual and bilingual lexical data development, and an awareness of the issues involved in processing diverse languages. A practical, problem-solving attitude is essential. Expertise in any of the following would be an advantage:

*       Perl, Python, Java, or similar
*       XML, XSLT and related technologies
*       Statistical Language Processing
*       Interactive web application development
*       Familarity with a non-European language such as Arabic, Chinese or Japanese.

OUP offers excellent benefits including:

*       Competitive salary dependent on skills and experience.
*       final salary pension scheme
*       25 days' holiday
*       subsidized staff restaurant
*       50% discount off OUP books
*       flexible start/finish times

Apply for this position at:

http://ukjobs.oup.com/Exp/Vacancy.aspx?VacancyId=39440

Closing Date: 31 October 2010

Informal enquiries: pete.whitelock at oup.com<mailto:pete.whitelock at oup.com>


Pete Whitelock
Head of Language Engineering, Dictionaries
Reference Department
Academic Division
Oxford University Press




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