Arabic-L:LING:Carnegie Mellon-Qatar Job

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1) Subject:Carnegie Mellon-Qatar Job

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Date: 11 Jun 2012
From:reposted from Corpora
Subject:Carnegie Mellon-Qatar Job

Position available: Arabic Linguist @ Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar

A position for an Arabic Linguist is available at Carnegie Mellon
University-Qatar (CMUQ) for a project funded by Qatar National
Research Fund.  The project, "Automatic Correction of Standard Arabic
Text: Resource and System Development", will create a large corpus of
corrected Arabic text produced by native and non-native speakers and
by automatic processes (e.g., machine translation from English to
Arabic).  The corpus, named Qatar Arabic Language Bank (QALB), will be
used to develop methods for automatic correction of Arabic text
errors, e.g., spelling errors, grammar errors, lexical errors, etc.

We are looking for a person who has a strong knowledge of Standard
Arabic.  The candidate should have at least an MA in a related field
(PhD preferred).  The candidate should also be very comfortable with
using a computer.
Previous work on large-scale annotation efforts in computational
linguistics a plus.

The position's main duty is leading the QALB annotation effort; this
includes among other tasks:
* Participating in (and eventually leading) the creation of guidelines
for identification and classification of Arabic text errors and their
correction.
* Working with a programmer on the development of an interface for
human annotation of corrections.
* Helping with the collection and selection of materials to include in QALB.
* Recruiting and training annotators to do the corrections.
* Managing Annotators time and tasks.
* Correcting texts and checking human annotations.
* Participating in efforts to publish and distribute QALB.

The position offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience
and background, foreign service allowance, excellent health care
coverage and allowances for housing and transportation.

The project is a collaboration between CMUQ and Columbia University.
Applicants will work with Nizar Habash at Columbia University and
Behrang Mohit and Kemal Oflazer at CMU-Qatar. Please send your CVs to
Nizar Habash (habash at ccls.columbia.edu),  Behrang Mohit
(behrang at cmu.edu) and Kemal Oflazer (ko at cs.cmu.edu). Please use email
subject line "Arabic Linguist @ CMUQ -- CV". Include in your CV a list
of references.

*** We are present at LREC 2012/NAACL 2012 and available to meet.  ***

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