Corpora: Vacancy at Longman Dictionaries

[Crowdy, Steve]

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUIST

Pearson Education, the world's largest Educational publisher, is looking for
a computational linguist to provide programming support for the Longman
Dictionaries department in the UK, starting immediately.

This role will involve the following:

- writing programs to extract and analyze linguistic and statistical
information from the Longman Corpus Network and other corpora including data
in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese and other languages

- processing corpus data (compiling, XML validation, and POS tagging, in
various languages)

- XML conversion/parsing of dictionary data and setting up new projects in
an XML environment

- computational analysis of lexicographic data

We are looking for a graduate corpus/computational linguist with good
programming skills and experience of corpus and dictionary processing. The
annual salary is in the range 20,000 - 24,000 pounds sterling.
This is a full-time, permanent (or possibly contract) post based in Harlow,
UK.

If you're interested, please email Steve Crowdy
(steve.crowdy at pearsoned-ema.com) with your cv/details as soon as possible.

Steve Crowdy
Electronic Development Manager
Longman Dictionaries
Pearson Education
Edinburgh Gate
Harlow, Essex
CM20 2JE, UK



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