Jobs: 4 (other) Offers
Philippe Blache
pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr
Thu Apr 1 14:37:30 UTC 1999
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1/ From: Claudia Morettini <claudia at ling.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: OSU tenure-track faculty position in computational linguistics
2/ From y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk Tue Mar 23 09:55:40 1999
Subject: EPSRC studentship in NLP/CL available now at Sheffield
3/ From: kwhitman at lhs.com
Subject: Multi-Lingual Computational Ling in Burlington, Mass.
4/ From: hgregg at sssolutions.com (Heather Gregg)
Subject: German or Spanish Computational Ling in Seattle, Washington
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1/ From: Claudia Morettini <claudia at ling.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: OSU tenure-track faculty position in computational linguistics
The Department of Linguistics at The Ohio State University seeks
candidates for a tenure-track faculty position in computational
linguistics, rank open, to start no later than Autumn 2000. The
person filling the position will be expected to be active in research
and publication, to meet standard departmental teaching requirements,
and to perform service duties as required by the department, college,
and university. Candidates are sought whose research includes
computational implementation and has relevance to empirical and
theoretical linguistic issues. Only applications received before May
10, 1999 can be assured of full consideration.
Dossiers consisting of a letter of interest, current curriculum vitae and
the names of three references should be sent to:
Computational Linguistics Search Committee
Department of Linguistics
The Ohio State University
222 Oxley Hall
1712 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1298
For additional information, contact Professor Carl Pollard at:
pollard at ling.ohio-state.edu; (614)292-7590.
The Ohio State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
employer. Qualified women, minorities, Vietnam-era veterans, disabled
veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
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2/ From y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk Tue Mar 23 09:55:40 1999
Subject: EPSRC studentship in NLP/CL available now at Sheffield
EPSRC Studentship: Natural Language Processing
Usual apologies if you get this more than once from different sources.
Applications are invited for a UK EPSRC quota award research
studentship leading to a Ph. D. available immediately.
The award can be held full-time over 3 years or part-time
over a five year period. The research studentship can be held
in any area of language processing or computational
linguistics that falls within the general remit of
EPSRC funding and is related or complementary to
our current research activities.
The Department holds EPSRC research grants in the areas
of text reuse and architectures for natural language processing, and has recently completed a project in grammar induction. We have related interests, supported by EU and industrial grants in: Multi-media and Multilingual Information Extraction, Lexicons and lexical tuning, Belief and knowledge structures, Categorial grammars and parsing, Hypertext generation, Argument structure and Machine learning of dialogue structures to model conversation.
Applicants should have a class I or II:1 Honours degree, or a II:II class Honours degree plus a Masters degree or relevant research experience. Full studentships including a basic maintenance award currently of £8,060 pa are available to applicants with 3 years qualifying residence in the UK (excluding full-time education).
Candidates may also wish to consult our NLP Web site
(http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/),
and the EPSRC studentship handbook online
(http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/EPSRCWEB/MAIN/TRAINING/INFOSTU/INTRO/INTRO.asp/Main.htm)
which gives full details of eligibility conditions and maintenance allowances.
Applications should include a CV, an outline of your relevant training and experience, and a brief statement of the research areas that interest you, plus the names and addresses of two academic referees.
Applications and requests for further information should be sent to Professor Yorick Wilks (yorick at dcs.shef.ac.uk)
and requests for forms to apply officially should go
to him and to k.barker at dcs.shef.ac.uk.
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3/ From: kwhitman at lhs.com
Subject: Multi-Lingual Computational Ling in Burlington, Mass.
Acoustic Modeling Engineer - French
The engineer will work in the domain of acoustic-phonetic modeling for
the international versions of the L&H Voice Xpress dictation product
line. He/she will be part of a language development team for French
Language in Burlington, MA. As part of this team, he/she will be
responsible for building acoustic-phonetic models, combining and
tuning of the building blocks that make up a dictation system, based
on tools and procedures created in other groups. He or she will work
closely together with acoustic data collection people and with
language model engineers and will report to the modeling team leader
for French.
In-depth knowledge of current ASR techniques and literature, with direct
experience with acoustic modeling.
Experience with speech recognition algorithm development in the context of a
state-of-the-art ASR system.
Ability to design and run ASR experiments
Knowledge of C, C++, shell, Perl and UNIX
Experience with working on large software projects.
MS or Phd in electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics or related
field.
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Senior Engineer Language Modeling
Develop the statistical language models for various international
versions of the L&H Voice Xpress dictation product line. He/she will
be part of a language development team for US Spanish, US English,
Canadian French, and other languages in Burlington. As part of this
team, he/she will be responsible for the development statistical
language models. he/she will work closely together with text corpus
collection people and with acoustic phonetic model engineers and will
report to the modeling team leader for these languages.
Contact Info
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
kwhitman at lhs.com
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4/ From: hgregg at sssolutions.com (Heather Gregg)
Subject: German or Spanish Computational Ling in Seattle, Washington
Seattle Is the Place For You!
Seeking Two Computational Linguists for an exciting client! Language
proficiency sought in German or Spanish. You will be enhancing &
extending a computational grammar & text critiquing system, in
accordance with overall architecture of the Company's Natural Language
Understanding system. Initial emphasis is on understanding the
component for the text critiquing system, followed by the component
for syntactic analysis. You will also be testing the syntactic
analysis & text critiques. Required qualifications should include
experience in linguistic research and software development- product
focus. Familiarity with Natural Language Processing; a flexible
approach to linguistic theory. An advanced degree in linguistics,
computer science or a closely related discipline. Native proficiency
in German or Spanish required; practical experience with NLP
implementation issues is highly desired. An advanced degree in
linguistics or a closely related discipline is preferred. Please
email resume and contact information to sssolutions at sssolutions.com.
Please visit Software Staffing Solution's website at
http://www.sssolutions.com
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