Corpora: Oxford University Press: Text Development Manager

[Judy Pearsall]

TEXT DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Oxford University Press is seeking to recruit a text development manager
to develop the resources of the Dictionary and Reference departments
within its Academic Division. The responsibilities will include
preparation of texts for electronic publication, and development of
in-house text resources (including corpora and resource databases as
well as dictionary texts), for purposes ranging across NLP data
enhancement/mining, external licensing, and dictionary editing.

Candidates should have considerable experience of working with structured
dictionary and/or reference texts and be competent in basic text processing,
and will ideally have a background in computational linguistics or
lexicography. Expertise in any of the following will be an advantage:

*	Perl
*	sgml/xml parsers and editors
*	DTD writing
*	corpus linguistics

Familiarity with Unix is desirable though not essential.

An attractive salary together with a range of supporting benefits will
be offered.

Please send cv and accompanying letter to

Gareth Williams (williamg at oup.co.uk)
Personnel Officer
Academic Personnel
Oxford University Press
Great Clarendon Street
Oxford OX2 6DP

Closing date: 8 May 2001