[Corpora-List] Jobs: Language Engineer, Dictionaries, Oxford University Press

[WHITELOCK, Pete]

Language Data and Resources Development Engineer

Dictionaries, Academic Division, Oxford University Press, Oxford


An exciting opportunity to help shape the future of dictionaries with
the world's leading dictionary publisher. The successful candidate will
join a growing team dedicated to the development of corpora, corpus
processing software and other resources for the preparation of
dictionaries for print, online publishing, and external licensing.

Candidates should have experience of working with language data in a
computational context, an enthusiasm for developing and applying
innovative techniques in linguistic analysis for dictionary development,
and an awareness of the issues involved in processing data in diverse
languages. A practical, problem-solving attitude is essential. Expertise
in any of the following would be an advantage:

*	Perl, Python, Java, Javascript or similar 
*	Advanced website development
*	XML and related technologies
*	Statistical Language Processing
*	Morphological analysis, tagging and parsing of languages other
than English

Competitive salary dependent on skills and experience 

OUP offers excellent benefits including: 

*	final salary pension scheme 
*	25 days' holiday 
*	subsidized staff restaurant 
*	50% discount off OUP books 
*	flexible start/finish times 

Applications (via cv & covering letter) by email to achr.uk at oup.com 
quoting reference 08/040C or by post to Phil Taylor, HR Manager, 
Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon St, Oxford, OX2 6DP. Closing 
date 15 Feb 2008

Pete Whitelock
Data and Resources Development Manager
Reference Department
Academic Division
Oxford University Press



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