[Corpora-List] Position available: Arabic Linguist @ Columbia University

[Nizar Habash]

Position available: Arabic Linguist @ Columbia University

We are looking for a person who has a good knowledge of Standard
Arabic and at least one of its dialects, and who is familiar with
contemporary linguistic theory.  The candidate should have at least an
MA in a related field (PhD preferred).  Focus or previous research in
spoken Arabic and or Arabic dialectology is a major plus.  The
candidate should also be comfortable with using a computer, and should
be able to write simple scripts in a language such as Perl or Python,
or should be open to learning this skill.

The linguist will work within the Columbia Arabic Dialect Modeling
(CADIM, http://www1.ccls.columbia.edu/~cadim/) research group at
Columbia University in New York City, which has generated some of the
most used computational tools for Arabic and its dialects.

The specific duties will include:

* Working with computational linguists on the specification of Arabic
  dialect linguistic knowledge for computational tools such as
  morphological analyzers, morphological disambiguators, lemmatizers,
  and dialect identifiers.

* Helping with annotation efforts; specifically, participating in
  creating annotation guidelines intended for human annotators,
  training annotators, and checking human annotations.

* Participating in efforts to publish and distribute resources and
  tools developed at CADIM.

Remuneration will be commensurate with training, experience and
capabilities.

For inquiries and application, please send email to Dr. Nizar Habash
habash at ccls.columbia.edu with subject line “Arabic Linguist @ Columbia
University”. Please include a CV and a list of references. Include
examples of published or unpublished work.
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