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<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">Oxford University Press, the world’s leading dictionary maker, is seeking to develop its linguistic resources in Arabic. We are looking for a language engineering consultant to help with various tasks, including:</FONT></P>
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<LI><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">Developing a balanced corpus of contemporary Arabic</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">Installing and evaluating Arabic text analysis tools</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">Writing lightweight Arabic dependency grammars</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">Preparing word and phrase lists</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">DTD design, stylesheeting, sorting and other XML issues</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">Requirements:</FONT>
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<LI><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">fluency in Modern Standard Arabic</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">excellent knowledge of Arabic grammar and lexis</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">experience with computer processing of Arabic texts</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">familiarity with XML</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">For more information, please send your cv to<B> </B></FONT><A HREF="mailto:pete.whitelock@oup.com"><B><U><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">pete.whitelock@oup.com</FONT></U></B><B></B></A><B></B><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman"> as soon as possible and in any case before October 15th</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Pete Whitelock</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Data and Resources Development Manager</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Reference Department</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Academic Division</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Oxford University Press</FONT>
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