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<div>Language Engineer, Dictionaries, </div>
<div>Academic Division </div>
<div>Oxford University Press</div>
<div>Oxford</div>
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<div><i><b>Exciting opportunity to help shape the future of dictionaries with the world’s leading dictionary publisher.</b></i><b> </b></div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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:</div>
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<li>Perl, Python, Java, or similar </li><li>XML, XSLT and related technologies</li><li>Statistical Language Processing</li><li>Interactive web application development</li><li>Familarity with a non-European language such as Arabic, Chinese or Japanese.</li></ul>
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<div>OUP offers excellent benefits including: </div>
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<li>Competitive salary dependent on skills and experience.</li><li>final salary pension scheme </li><li>25 days' holiday </li><li>subsidized staff restaurant </li><li>50% discount off OUP books </li></ul>
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<li>flexible start/finish times <br>
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<div><a href="http://ukjobs.oup.com/Exp/Vacancy.aspx?VacancyId=39440"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://ukjobs.oup.com/Exp/Vacancy.aspx?VacancyId=39440</u></font></a></div>
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<div>Closing Date: 31 October 2010</div>
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<div>Informal enquiries: <a href="mailto:pete.whitelock@oup.com"><font color="#0000FF"><u>pete.whitelock@oup.com</u></font></a></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2">Pete Whitelock</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2">Head of Language Engineering, Dictionaries</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2">Reference Department</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2">Academic Division</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2">Oxford University Press</font></div>
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