11.276, Jobs: Comp Ling/German, Bilingual Canadian Dictionary

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Subject: 11.276, Jobs: Comp Ling/German, Bilingual Canadian Dictionary

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1)
Date:  Tue, 8 Feb 2000 14:12:07 +0100
From:  "Pierre Eggermont" <Pierre.Eggermont at lhs.be>
Subject:  Compu Linguist (German) at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, Belgium

2)
Date:  Tue, 08 Feb 2000 15:22:33 +0000
From:  Lucie Langlois <luciel at uottawa.ca>
Subject:  Bilingual Canadian Dictionary: Post-Doc at University of Ottawa

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 8 Feb 2000 14:12:07 +0100
From:  "Pierre Eggermont" <Pierre.Eggermont at lhs.be>
Subject:  Compu Linguist (German) at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, Belgium

Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is the world's leading provider of
speech and language technology products, solutions, and services to businesses
and individuals worldwide. It is our mission to break down language barriers
through advanced translation technology and to enable people to interact by
voice in any language with the machines that empower them. Founded in 1987 L&H
has revolutionized the development and application of advanced speech and
language technologies. The company delivers the broadest array of consumer,
business, and industry offerings in automatic dictation, translation, sound
compression, voice synthesis, and industrial documentation.
As a NASDAQ and EASDAQ quoted company and headquartered in Ieper (Belgium), L&H
maintains offices in more than forty nations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East,
North America, and South America. With over 1,750 employees - mainly linguists,
scientists and engineers - we generated an annual revenue of $211.6 million in
1998.
For the development of language and speech technology, L&H currently has an
opening in its International Headquarters in Ieper (Belgium) for a (m/f):

          ******************************************
          Language Specialist German
          Speech and Language Technology
          ******************************************

Function:
* You will work within a multi-disciplinary team of linguists, engineers and
  programmers on the development of software systems in the field of Speech,
  Artificial Intelligence and Language.
* In the startup phase, your tasks will typically include: basic phonetic and
  language study in view of technology development and assessment of third
  party providers of data and/or technology.
* You will be involved in all aspects of the development life cycle and focus
  on system specification and design, implementation of linguistic rule sets,
  creation of acoustic and lexical databases, grapheme to phoneme conversion,
  prosodic analysis, software testing and quality control, preparation of
  documentation.
* Training is given both on-the-job and through lectures and technical
  documentation.
* Dedicated development environments are provided which allow language
  specialists to focus on their content: formalizing linguistic knowledge.
* You will report to the group or project manager.

Profile:
* university degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent;
* (near) native German speaker with a conversational level of English;
* solid grounding in linguistic theory;
* good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following areas is
  mandatory: speech processing, natural language processing (NLP),
  computational linguistics, programming,
* ability to work in a team and independently;
* IT literate;
* perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness;
* good social and communicative abilities;

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If you are interested in this job opportunity and you believe to fulfill the
required profile, we have to meet each other.
 Please send your application letter and detailed resume to:

     Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
     Personnel Department

     Mailto:job-announce at lhs.be

     attn. Mr. Pierre Eggermont
     Flanders Language Valley 50
     B-8900 Ieper
     BELGIUM
     Fax: int+ 32 (0)57.20.84.89

To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our homepage:
http://www.lhsl.com

-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 08 Feb 2000 15:22:33 +0000
From:  Lucie Langlois <luciel at uottawa.ca>
Subject:  Bilingual Canadian Dictionary: Post-Doc at University of Ottawa

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	BILINGUAL CANADIAN DICTIONARY PROJECT
	University of Ottawa

	POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW

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The Bilingual Canadian Dictionary Project, whose primary objective is to
create a new Canadian English/French dictionary, is looking for a
post-doctoral fellow for one year.

PRINCIPAL TASKS:	
	-Revising (editing) bilingual (English/ French) entries which have been
         prepared
	 by student assistants
	-Preparing articles on bilingual lexicography

REQUIREMENTS:
	- Ph.D. (in linguistics, translation, French or English)
          completed between July 1998 and July 2000
	- Excellent knowledge of English and French
	- Computer literacy
	- Analytical ability
	- Wide general knowledge
	- Excellence in research
	- Good communication skills
	- Ability to work in a team

PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT:	
	July 2000-June 2001

VALUE OF AWARD:
	$24,000 Canadian for the year

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS:	
	February 21, 2000

Interested candidates are asked to submit an up-to-date curriculum vitae
and photocopies of transcripts with a covering letter to
	Dr. Roda P. Roberts, Director, BCD Project,
	University of Ottawa
	40 Stewart Street
	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
	K1N 6N5

Telephone: (613) 562-5208

Fax:		(613) 562-5131

e-mail:  roberts at uottawa.ca

Web site: http://www.dico.uottawa.ca

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