[Corpora-List] Project manager jobs at Linguistic Data Consortium

[Stephanie M. Strassel]

The Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania has
immediate openings for two experienced project managers to support our
rapidly growing Linguistic Annotation Group.  The LDC is an open
consortium of universities, companies and government research
laboratories. It creates, collects and distributes speech and text
databases, lexicons, and other resources to support language-related
research, education and technology development.

   ·The Project Manager for Text Annotation will oversee multiple,
concurrent annotation projects to support information retrieval,
summarization, question answering, machine translation and related
technologies.

   ·The Project Manager for Speech Annotation will oversee multiple,
concurrent annotation projects to support projects in speech
recognition, speech-to-text and related technologies.

Responsibilities
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   ·Work with project sponsors and affiliated researchers to define
corpora, annotation tasks and other deliverables that support program goals.
   ·Ensure that deliverables for each project are fully and accurately
completed, on time and under budget.
   ·Manage fulltime staff of multilingual lead annotators, and delegate
management of large part-time annotation staff.
   ·Oversee creation of annotation guidelines and project documentation.
   ·Participate in development of new project proposals.
   ·Coordinate technical support for annotation projects including
annotation tools and data formats.
   ·Develop quality assurance procedures for annotation projects and
oversee their implementation.
   ·Represent annotation efforts to external researchers and project
sponsors at workshops and industry conferences.

Minimum qualifications
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   ·BA/BS in language-related discipline (advanced degree in
linguistics/computational linguistics preferred)
   ·2-3 years related experience
   ·Proven record of success in project management
   ·Strong technical skills (Windows competence at minimum; Linux/Unix
strongly preferred)
   ·Ability to juggle multiple tasks, prioritize responsibilites and
manage time effectively
   ·Excellent verbal and written communication skills
   ·Familiarity with linguistic annotation procedures is a plus

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/
   ·Project Manager, Text: position reference #050116472
   ·Project Manager, Speech: position reference #050116473

Positions contingent upon funding.

For more information about LDC and the programs we support visit
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu.

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Stephanie Strassel
Associate Director, Annotation Research & Program Coordination
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