22.4127, Jobs: Various Langs; Computational Ling: Programmer, The Lingua Team

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Subject: 22.4127, Jobs: Various Langs; Computational Ling: Programmer, The Lingua Team

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Date: 21-Oct-2011
From: Operations Manager [hr at thelinguateam.com]
Subject: Various Languages; Computational Linguistics: Programmer, The Lingua Team, Washington, USA


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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:51:38
From: Operations Manager [hr at thelinguateam.com]
Subject: Various Languages; Computational Linguistics: Programmer, The Lingua Team, Washington, USA

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University or Organization: The Lingua Team 
Job Location: Washington, USA 
Web Address: http://www.thelinguateam.com
Job Rank: Programmer  

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)
                      Bulgarian (bul) 
                      Czech (ces) 
                      Danish (dan) 
                      Dutch (nld) 
                      Finnish (fin) 
                      Hebrew (heb) 
                      Hungarian (hun) 
                      Italian (ita) 
                      Norwegian Bokmål (nob) 
                      Polish (pol) 
                      Portuguese (por) 
                      Russian (rus) 
                      Swedish (swe) 
                      Turkish (tur) 

Description:

The Lingua Team is looking for a computational linguist to: 
-  Describe properties and write rules relevant to grammar checking for one or 
more of languages*, and 
-  Document a new linguistic rule writing development environment
-  Properties to be addressed include agreement, phrase wellformedness, 
case government, subcategorization, word order, etc.

Qualifications:
-  Degreed linguist with graduate-level studies and proven experience 
managing or performing computational linguistic work (syntax, morphology, 
lexicography) in several languages 
-  Experience writing rules in a formal system, ideally for style or grammar 
checking applications 
-  Experience in full or chunk parsing, a plus
-  Self-starter, ability to work independently, excellent written communication 
skills

Contract full-time for three months, to be extended for up to a year depending 
on ability to meet the job demands. After the first month, possibility for 
working part of the time at home, depending on demonstrated ability to get 
the work done away from the office. Must be available in Redmond, WA at 
least one day a week. And must have a valid work permit for the USA 
(resident/green card or US citizenship)

*Languages: Ability to work in multiple languages is required. Knowledge or 
experience working in one of these groups of languages is a plus: 
-  Germanic: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish, Dutch
-  Romance: Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese
-  Agglutinative: Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish
-  Slavic: Czech, Polish, Russian, Bulgarian
-  Semitic: Arabic, Hebrew


Application Deadline: 31-Oct-2011 
	  
Email Address for Applications: hr at thelinguateam.com 
Contact Information:
	Operations Manager 
	Email: hr at thelinguateam.com 




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