21.4965, Jobs: Chinese Ling; Corpus Ling; Comp Ling: Consultant, Brandeis U

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Subject: 21.4965, Jobs: Chinese Ling; Corpus Ling; Comp Ling: Consultant, Brandeis U

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Date: 08-Dec-2010
From: Yuping Zhou [yzhou at brandeis.edu]
Subject: Chinese Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Computational Linguistics: Consultant, Brandeis University, MA, USA
 

	
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Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:29:58
From: Yuping Zhou [yzhou at brandeis.edu]
Subject: Chinese Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Computational Linguistics: Consultant, Brandeis University, MA, USA

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University or Organization: Brandeis University 
Department: Computer Science
Job Location: Massachusetts, USA (Telecommute)
Web Address: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu
Job Rank: Consultant  

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)

Description:

Applications are invited for Research Associate or Linguistics Consultant
positions in the Language and Linguistics Lab, Department of Computer
Science at Brandeis University to work on a large-scale Chinese language
processing project funded by the U.S. Government. The Research Associate or
Linguistics Consultant is expected to perform syntactic, semantic, and
discourse analysis on Chinese language data such as newswire, broadcast
news, and weblogs. The Research Associate/Linguistics Consultant is
expected to initially work on a part-time basis, and if there is mutual
interest and upon availability of additional funding, the Research
Associate/Linguistics Consultant will continue either on a full-time or
part-time basis, depending on individual circumstances.

Qualifications:
-  Native or near-native level of proficiency in Mandarin Chinese
-  Strong interest in language and linguistics, enjoying working with
linguistic data
-  Comfortable working with computer Operating Systems such as Unix/Linux
and windows
-  Eligible to work in the U.S..
- Able to commit at least 10 hours/week to the project
- (preferable) some background in linguistics, especially in theoretical
syntax, semantics, and/or pragmatics 

Desirable traits/skills:
-  Living in Boston area or within commuting distance of Brandeis
University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
-  Programming skills with scripting languages such as Perl and Python.

Applications including a CV and the contact information of three references
should be sent via email to Yuping Zhou, Department of Computer Science,
Brandeis University.


Application Deadline: 28-Feb-2011 
	  
Email Address for Applications: yzhou at brandeis.edu 
Contact Information:
	Dr. Yuping Zhou 
	Email: yzhou at brandeis.edu 



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