[Corpora-List] Job openings: Corpus Analysis Platform

[Marc Kupietz]

Job Openings

The Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) in Mannheim, Germany, invites
applications for three full-time scientific staff positions in the
project "Next-Generation Corpus Analysis Platform". The project intends
to provide a methodologically sound basis for empirical linguistic
research on very large corpora. The platform shall be able to deal with
primary data and multiple layers of annotation in the peta-byte range. 

*** Computer scientist or computational linguist (maximum salary:
according to E14 TV-L; application code: 4 / 11)

Responsibilities:

    * Head of software development and software engineering
    * Participation in the implementation of the system

Requirements:

    * University degree
    * In-depth programming experience, particularly in C++ or Java
    * Knowledge of linguistic corpora (e.g. BNC, DeReKo, Penn Treebank)
and corpus retrieval systems (e.g. COSMAS, TigerSearch) 
    * Professional experience
    * Good command of English or German


*** Computer scientist or computational linguist (maximum salary:
according to E13 TV-L; application code: 5 / 11)

Responsibilities:

    * Design of server-side data storage components
    * Design of interfaces, especially web services
    * Participation in the implementation of the system

Requirements:

    * University degree or equivalent qualification
    * Solid experience in database design, especially for unstructured
text data
    * Knowledge of text retrieval systems for large amounts of data,
e.g. Lucene
    * In-depth programming experience, particularly in C++ or Java
    * Good command of English or German


*** Corpus linguist (maximum salary: according to E13 TV-L; application
code: 6 / 11)

Responsibilities:

    * Analysis and development of linguistic annotations
    * Modelling of methods in quantitative corpus analysis 

Requirements:

    * University degree in linguistics, German philology or equivalent
qualification
    * Solid knowledge of markup languages
    * Programming skills, especially in scripting languages, e.g. Perl,
also XSLT
    * Very good command of German


All applicants are expected to be willing to participate in scientific
publications and presentations. 

The openings shall be filled by the 1st of March 2011 (or later) for an
initial period of two years. 
 
The salary is figured according to the union contract named TV-L. The
filling of the positions will proceed in accordance with German law,
especially the directives laid out in the "Allgemeines
Gleichbehandlungsgesetz" in its current version. Applications from
disabled persons are very welcome.

The Institut für Deutsche Sprache is the central non-university
institution for the study and documentation of the contemporary usage
and recent history of the German language. Together with 79
non-university research and service institutions, it belongs to the
Leibniz Association, one of the four major research organizations in
Germany.

For further information please contact Dr. Marc Kupietz or Dr. Andreas
Witt (kupietz|witt at ids-mannheim.de). Applications received by the 31st
of January 2011 will receive fullest consideration. Recruitment may
continue until the positions are filled. Please include the usual
documents and indicate the respective application code. 

Application address:

Institut für Deutsche Sprache
Der Direktor
Postfach 10 16 21
68016 Mannheim
GERMANY

You can also apply via e-mail.



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