24.874, Internships: Lexical Data Processing

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Subject: 24.874, Internships: Lexical Data Processing

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Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:20:26
From: Jonathan Pool [pool at panlex.org]
Subject: Lexical Data Processing

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University or Organization: The Long Now Foundation
Department: PanLex Project
Web Address: http://panlex.org

Type of Work: Archiving

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Lexicography
                     Translation

Duration: 24-Jun-2013 to 08-Aug-2013
Voluntary
Internship Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Minimum Education Level: BA
Special Qualifications: Some experience with a programming or scripting language.
Some experience with regular expressions.
Knowledge of linguistic concepts.
Fluency in English.
Knowledge of one language other than English.
A laptop computer.

Optional additional qualifications:

Knowledge of two or more languages other than English.
Familiarity with writing systems, character encodings, and Unicode.
Familiarity with one or more non-Latin scripts.
Experience with lexicography. 


Description:
Training: lexical database organization, language identification, character encoding, character normalization, Unicode compliance, lemmatic standardization, lexical classification, standards for lexical data and documentation, and lexical resource parsing with regular expressions.



Work: validating legacy lexical data in a variety of formats, languages, and scripts; converting lexical data into a unified structure; adding content to an 18-million-word, 7000-language lexical database.



Mentored individual and teamwork environment.

Application Deadline: 17-Jun-2013

Web Address for Applications:http://panlex.org/help/intern.shtml
Contact Information:
	Dr. Jonathan Pool 
	Email: pool at panlex.org
	Phone: 510-225-1717
	Fax: 510-225-1170





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