[Corpora-List] Job opportunity at LDC

[Stephanie M. Strassel]

The Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania has an
immediate opening for an experienced project manager 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, text and
video databases, lexicons, and other resources to support
language-related research, education and technology development.

The Annotation Project Manager will oversee multiple, concurrent
externally funded annotation projects supporting a variety of research
areas including information retrieval, summarization, question
answering, machine translation, OCR, document classification and related
technologies.

Responsibilities include the following:
  ·Work with project sponsors and affiliated researchers to define
corpora, annotation tasks and other deliverables that support research
program goals
  ·Ensure that deliverables for each project are fully and accurately
completed, on time and within budget
  ·Manage and develop staff of multilingual annotators
  ·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 or related field preferred)
  ·2-3 years related experience
  ·Proven record of success in project management
  ·Strong technical skills (Windows and Linux/Unix competence) strongly
preferred)
  ·Ability to juggle multiple tasks, prioritize responsibilities 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/
  ·Annotation Project Manager, position reference #070923040

Positions contingent upon funding.

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

-- 
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

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