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<div align="center">- <b>Programmer Analyst Position at LDC -</b><br>
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LDC2008T22 <br>
- <b><a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2008T22">Czech
Academic Corpus 2.0</a> </b> - <br>
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LDC2008T19 <br>
- <b><a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2008T19">The
New York Times Annotated Corpus</a> </b> -<br>
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The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) would like to announce a
programmer analyst opening and the availability of two new publications.<br>
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<div align="center"><b>Programmer Analyst Position at LDC<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left">The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC)
at the <st1:place><st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename>Pennsylvania</st1:placename></st1:place>,
<st1:place><st1:city>Philadelphia</st1:city>, <st1:state>PA</st1:state></st1:place>
has an immediate opening for a full-time
programmer analyst.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left">Programmer Analyst – Publications
Programmer (#081025790)</p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: normal;" align="left"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Duties: Position will
have primary responsibility for
developing, implementing and managing data processing systems required
to
coordinate and prepare publications of language resources used for
human
language technology research and technology development.<span style="">
</span>Such resources include video, computer-readable
speech, software and text data that are distributed via media and
internet.<span style=""> </span>Position will<span style=""> </span>communicate
with external data providers and
internal project managers to acquire raw source material and to
schedule
releases; perform quality assessment of large data collections and
render
analyses/descriptions of their formats; create or adapt software tools
to
condition data to a uniform format and level of quality (e.g.,
eliminating
corrupted data, normalizing data, etc.); validate quality control
standards to
published data and verify results; document initial and final data
formats;
review author documentation and supporting materials; create additional
documentation as needed; and master and replicate publications.
Position will
also maintain the publications catalog system, the publications
inventory, the
archive of publishable and published data and the publication
equipment,
software and licenses.<span style=""> </span>Position requires
attention to detail and is responsible for managing multiple short-term
projects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
further information on the duties and qualifications for this position,
or to apply online please visit <a href="http://jobs.hr.upenn.edu/">http://jobs.hr.upenn.edu/</a>;
search postings for the reference number indicated above.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Penn
offers an excellent benefits package including medical/dental,
retirement plans, tuition assistance and a minimum of 3 weeks paid
vacation per year. The </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">University</span></st1:placetype><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> of </span><st1:placename><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pennsylvania</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is an
affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<pre><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Position contingent upon funding. </span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">For more information about LDC and the programs we support, visit <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/">http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/</a>.<o:p></o:p></span>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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align="center"><b>New
Publications</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>(1) The <st1:city><st1:place>Prague</st1:place></st1:city> family
of
annotated corpora has a new member, the <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2008T22">Czech
Academic Corpus 2.0</a> (CAC 2.0). CAC 2.0 consists of 650,000 words
from
various 1970s and 1980s newspapers, magazines and radio and television
broadcast transcripts manually annotated for morphology and syntax. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The CAC 2.0 offers:<o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="">For linguists: language material
reflecting the real usage of the language. <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="">For computational linguists: tools and
a considerable amount of data for natural language applications that
are not feasible without morphological and syntactical text processing.
<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="">For TrEd annotation tool users: the
possibility to use voice control for the tool. <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="">For teachers and their students: an
interesting didactic tool for practicing Czech language morphology and
syntax. <o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p>CAC 2.0 was created by a team from the Institute of the Czech
Language, the <st1:place><st1:placetype>Academy</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename>Sciences</st1:placename></st1:place>
of the <st1:place><st1:placename>Czech</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Republic</st1:placetype></st1:place>.
The original
purpose of the corpus was to build a frequency dictionary of the Czech
language. Researchers were aware, however, that in order to make the
CAC useful
for future users, whether linguists or natural language processing
systems
developers, it was necessary to design annotation schemes and to
develop tools
that would add as much linguistic information as possible to the data.
In 1996,
<a href="http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pdt/Corpora/PDT_1.0/Doc/whatis.html">the
Prague Dependency Treebank (PDT)</a>, which provided morphological and
syntactic analytic layers of annotation to certain Czech media data,
was
launched independently of the CAC. During the work on the <a
href="http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pdt2.0/">PDT's second version</a>, its
researchers decided to transfer PDT's internal format and annotation
scheme to
the CAC with the goals of making the CAC and the PDT fully compatible
and of
integrating the CAC into the PDT. To that end, the CAC was manually
annotated
for morphology and syntax. CAC 2.0 adds the surface syntax annotation;
in the
terminology of the PDT, this annotation is called an analytical layer.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>A morphological layer of annotation provides the word tokens with
further
data (annotation), which characterizes the morphological properties of
the word
tokens (as apparent in the lemma which is the canonical form of a
lexeme), the
part of speech, and morphological categories (case, number, tense,
person,
etc.). Formally, part of speech classes combine together with values of
morphological categories to represent morphological tags (or, simply,
tags). In
the CAC 2.0, tags are designed according to the PDT as strings of
definite
length (15 positions) where each position corresponds to a single
category. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>In addition to CAC 2.0, the following PDT resources are available
from LDC: <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2001T10">Prague
Dependency Treebank 1.0, LDC2001T10</a>, <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2006T01">Prague
Dependency Treebank 2.0, LDC2006T01</a>, <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2004T23">Prague
Arabic Dependency Treebank 1.0, LDC2004T23</a> and <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2004T25">Prague
Czech-English Dependency Treebank 1.0, LDC2004T25</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="">(2)
<a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2008T19">The
New York Times Annotated Corpus</a> contains over 1.8 million articles
written
and published by the New York Times with article metadata provided by
the New
York Times Newsroom, the New York Times Indexing Service and the online
production
staff at nytimes.com The corpus also provides associated Java software
tools
for parsing corpus documents from .xml into a memory resident object.
This rich
archive will be useful for a number of linguistic-related research
applications, including the development of automatic document
summarization
systems and automatic content extraction technology.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="">Highlights
of the corpus include:<o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="">Over 1.8 million articles written and
published between <st1:date year="1987" day="1" month="1">January 1,
1987</st1:date> and <st1:date year="2007" day="19" month="6">June 19,
2007</st1:date>.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="">Over 650,000 article summaries written
by library scientists.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="">Over 1.5 million articles manually
tagged by library scientists drawn from a normalized indexing
vocabulary of people, organizations, locations and topic descriptors.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="">Over 275,000 algorithmically-tagged
articles that have been hand verified by the online production staff at
nytimes.com.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="">Java tools for parsing corpus
documents from .xml into a memory resident object.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="">The
corpus text is formatted in News Industry Text Format (NITF), an XML
specification that provides a standardized representation for the
content and
structure of discrete news articles. NITF includes structural markup
such as
bylines, headlines and paragraphs. The format also provides management
attributes for categorizing articles into topics, summarization usage
restrictions and revision histories. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="">The
New York Times has established a community website for researchers
working on
the data set at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/nytnlp">http://groups.google.com/group/nytnlp</a>
and encourages feedback and discussion about the corpus. <br>
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Ahtaridis<br>
Membership Coordinator</big><br>
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University of Pennsylvania Fax: (215) 573-2175
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