[Corpora-List] Jobs: Programmer Analyst Positions at LDC

[Kazuaki Maeda]

The Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania has
immediate openings for two programmer analysts to support our rapidly
growing linguistic resource creation projects.  The primary function
of one position is to support the Less Commonly Taught Languages
(LCTL) project at LDC (http://projects.ldc.upenn.edu/LCTL), and the
primary function of the other position is to support the LDC
annotation group in general.

 - Programmer Analyst - LCTL project support (#060720279)  

   Duties: This position will design and develop multi-modal
   multilingual software for collecting, normalizing, processing and
   annotating language data; work with annotation project managers to
   develop and execute tool specifications; coordinate a small team of
   part-time programmers to provide timely support of project goals;
   support both in-house and international user communities; modify
   and improve existing software libraries; prepare and disseminate
   multi-modal and multi-lingual data sets using standards such as
   Unicode and XML; document tools and data formats; use techniques in
   natural language processing to analyze multi-modal dataset;
   interact with domain professionals at international meetings and
   via e-mail discussions; publish results.

 - Programmer Analyst - Annotation group support (#060720369)

   Duties: This position will support large-scale linguistic data
   creation projects by developing software, such as text and speech
   data processing tools, analysis tools, and data harvesting tools
   which follow project managers' specifications; serve as a technical
   lead or a technical support member in linguistic annotation
   projects; prepare and publish linguistic corpora; respond to
   projects' technical needs and provide timely support and solutions
   as necessary; support both in-house and international user
   communities; and maintain relational databases.

For further information, including the qualifications required for
these positions, or to apply online please visit:
http://www.hr.upenn.edu/jobs/

  - Programmer Analyst (LCTL support): reference # 060720279  
  - Programmer Analyst (Annotation group support): reference # 060720369

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.

Positions contingent upon funding.

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

Kazuaki Maeda
Linguistic Data Consortium
University of Pennsylvania