[Corpora-List] new position at LDC

[Stephanie M. Strassel]

The Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania has an
immediate opening for a Senior Research Coordinator to support our
Arabic language annotation projects.

This position will provide general oversight for NLP and speech
technology annotation projects, creating language resources to support
common task evaluations in such areas as information extraction,
detection, summarization, machine translation and automatic speech
recognition.  Responsibilities include defining annotation tasks in
conjunction with LDC's constituent research community, specifying
technical requirements for each project and supervising all aspects of
annotation.

Minimum qualifications:
-MA/MS or advanced study in linguistics, computational linguistics or
equivalent (PhD preferred)
-Native Arabic speaker; excellent written and spoken English skills
-3-5 years related experience

Position contingent upon funding.

Penn offers an excellent benefits package including medical/dental,
retirement plans, tuition assistance and a minimum of 3 weeks paid
vacation per year.

The University of Pennsylvania is an affirmative action/equal
opportunity employer. For further information or to apply online please
visit http://www.hr.upenn.edu/jobs/; position reference number 040114168.

For more information about Linguistic Data Consortium visit:
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu

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Stephanie Strassel
Associate Director, Data Creation
Linguistic Data Consortium
3600 Market Street, Suite 810  Philadelphia, PA 19104-2653 USA
phone: 215-898-9681, fax: 215-573-2175
strassel at ldc.upenn.edu
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu