6.564 Jobs: Summer jobs for undergrads, European Lang Resourses Ass.

Sat Apr 15 22:05:20 UTC 1995

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Subject: 6.564 Jobs: Summer jobs for undergrads, European Lang Resourses Ass.

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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 17:42:11 -0400
From: Madeleine Bates (bates at bbn.com)
Subject: summer job posting

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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 95 11:50:17 EDT
From: colinb at ibm.net (Colin Brace)
Subject: Job Opening

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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 17:42:11 -0400
From: Madeleine Bates (bates at bbn.com)
Subject: summer job posting

        SUMMER OPPORTUNITIES IN LANUGUAGE RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT

Summer hires, undergraduates.  CS background or linguistics background
preferred.  Familiarity with emacs preferred.  Native speakers
(readers) of German, Spanish, Chinese, and possibly Italian.
Responsibilities will include a large variety of tasks in annotating
text for information of interest for training natural language
understanding programs.

Please contact:

        Terri Simon-Barron
        Human Resources
        BBN Systems and Technologies
        10 Moulton St.
        Cambridge, MA  02138
        email:tsimon at bbn.com
        (617)873-2502

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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 95 11:50:17 EDT
From: colinb at ibm.net (Colin Brace)
Subject: Job Opening

[Apologies if you get this posting more than once. Queries by email
for additional information should go to: 100126 at 1262@compuserve.com]

              European Language Resources Association

                         Chief Executive

The newly formed European Language Resources Association  (ELRA)
invites applications for the position of Chief Executive.

ELRA was established in February 1995, with the encouragement of the
European Commission, to promote the development and exploitation of
Language Resources (LR) for the European languages.  The role of the
non-profit Association is to promote the production of LR and to
collect, validate, and make them available to users  It will gather
information on market needs and encourage the Commission and other
funding bodies to support the development of the LR most urgently
needed.  Language Resources include all data necessary for language
engineering, such as monolingual and multilingual lexica, text
corpora, speech databases and terminologies.

The Association has members drawn from every country in the European
Union and expects to attract subscribers from throughout the world. At
present, ELRA is financed from membership fees and grants; in the
future the Association will derive income from the sale of licences to
users world wide. After an initial start-up period of four years, it
is planned that the Association will be financially independent and
self-supporting.

The Association is seeking a Chief Executive to manage the activities
of the Association.  This person is likely to be an independent
individual who, after appointment, will recruit a small team. Or he or
she might be  part of an existing organisation such as his or her own
small company whose activities do not conflict with those of the
Association. As well as the small full-time team the Chief Executive
will be able to obtain advice from specialists.  He or she will report
to the ELRA Board.  The first task will be to recruit the team and
establish an office at a suitable location within the European Union,
and to start, without delay, on the priority activities for collecting
and distributing Language Resources.

Responsibilities

The Association is seeking  a Chief Executive to:

  * Oversee the day-to-day operations of the Association, and
    implement the business plan of the Board

  * Manage a small support team and create an infrastructure for the
    collection, validation, and licensing of LR.

  * Implement licensing agreements for Language Resources

  * Promote the Association world-wide

  * Interact with the relevant players (i.e.: producers, owners and
    users of LR who may be in the industrial, commercial or academic
    world;  and governmental and non-governmental agencies)

Qualifications

The successful candidate will have:

  * A proven record of running a small organisation

  * Extensive experience in marketing language resources, software or
    other forms of intellectual property

  * Knowledge of and experience with intellectual property issues

  * Citizenship of, or residency papers for an EU country

  * Ability to work in at least two European languages is essential

  * Experience in the domain of language engineering is desirable.

Terms and conditions of employment will be subject to negotiation but
will be commensurate with the responsibilities of the post, and will
include performance-based incentives.

Application

Further information is available about the Chief Executive post and
the Association from the Membership Secretary, contact: Sarah Houston
(Tel: + 352 46 91 61, Fax: + 352 46 91 61,
Email:100126 at 1262@compuserve.com).
Applicants should send a cover letter addressing the points listed
above, together with a current Curriculum Vitae, to:

   Brian Oakley
   Chairman of the Steering Committee
   120 Reigate Road, Ewell, Epsom, Surrey, KT17 3BX, UK
   Tel: + 44 181 393 4096
   Fax: + 44 181 393 0547

Closing date for applications: 7 June 1995.

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