Jobs: 7 offers
Philippe Blache
pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr
Wed Jun 23 09:08:37 UTC 1999
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1/ From: Lars Borin <Lars.Borin at ling.uu.se>
Subject: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics
2/ From: Tony Rose <tgr at cre.canon.co.uk>
Subject: [E-Job] Information Retrieval Researcher
3/ From: pierre.thillen at systran.lu
Subject: Computational Ling: System Admin at Systran Luxembourg SA
4/ From: "Brona Collins" <Brona.Collins at lhs.be>
Subject: German Computational Ling at Lernout & Hauspie (Belgium)
5/ From: teruko+ at cs.cmu.edu
Subject: German Machine TranslationT Developer at Carnegie Mellon
6/ From: "Jeffrey P. Kaplan" <jkaplan at mail.sdsu.edu>
Subject: Computational Ling; Tenure-track at San Diego State
7/ From: Ernst Buchberger <ernst at ai.univie.ac.at>
Subject: Human Language Technology
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1/ From: Lars Borin <Lars.Borin at ling.uu.se>
Subject: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics
Job announcement
Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, Dept. of Linguistics, Uppsala
University, Sweden
Ref.no. 2930/99
Duration: 1st September 1999 - 31st July 2001
Description: Teaching and course development in Computational
Linguistics on the four-year Master's program in Language Engineering
(http://stp.ling.uu.se), particularly in the areas of Formal and
Computational Grammar (morphology, syntax, and parsing), and
Computational Lexicography.
The applicant should have experience of research and teaching in the areas
mentioned, as well as course administration and course development.
Applications (in two identical sets) should contain
- CV, incl. certified photocopies of relevant documents
- a brief account of scientific and pedagogical achievments
- publication list
- publications
For further information, contact Professor Anna Sagvall Hein:
anna at ling.uu.se or Director of Studies Lars Borin:
Lars.Borin at ling.uu.se
The application should be addressed to Uppsala University and sent to the
address:
Uppsala University, The Registrar, Box 256, SE - 751 05, Uppsala, SWEDEN,
fax no +46 18 471 2000. If the application is sent by fax, the originals
must be submitted by regular mail as soon as possible.
The deadline for applications is 28th June 1999.
About the Department of Linguistics and the Language Engineering program
There are several completed and ongoing research projects in Computational
Linguistics/ Language Engineering at the department, e.g.:
- A controlled-language/computer-aided translation project in cooperation
with Swedish truck manufacturer Scania.;
- SCARRIE, an EU project aiming at the development of Scandinavian
proof-reading tools for newspapers and publishing houses, in our case a
grammar checker for Swedish newspaper text;
- PLUG and ETAP, two projects where the extraction of linguistic
information from parallel translation corpora is investigated
There is also research going on in the areas of machine learning of natural
language, computational grammatical and semantic formalisms, and computer
aids for the learning of computational and general linguistics.
Since 1994, we offer a four-year Master's program in Language Engineering,
where we accept 20 students per year. There are two and a half years of
common courses, in formal linguistics, mathematics, computer programming
(Prolog, web programming and Unix shellscripts), and CL/LE. After this, the
students specialise into areas such as machine translation, language
revision tools, CALL, speech technology, or computational tools for
language engineering.
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_______________________________________________________________________________2/ From: Tony Rose <tgr at cre.canon.co.uk>
Subject: [E-Job] Information Retrieval Researcher
2/ From: Tony Rose <tgr at cre.canon.co.uk>
Subject: [E-Job] Information Retrieval Researcher
Canon Research Centre Europe (CRE) has two positions for top quality
researchers in its Core Technology Division. Applications from
experienced researchers or recent PhDs/exceptional graduates are
invited for the following roles:
1. Senior Information Retrieval Researcher
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Job Specification:
- to perform research & development on advanced information
retrieval, multimedia, natural language processing &
user interface technology.
- to initiate and develop first class research projects in
multimedia information retrieval.
Requirements:
- first class academic background: PhD (or equivalent research
experience) in information retrieval, natural language processing
or closely related discipline
- track record of proven initiative in starting and developing
new research projects
- the ability to work with product development groups for
technology transfer
- excellent software engineering skills in a variety of
languages including C/C++
Desirable:
- experience of working in industry
- strong publication record
- expertise in the areas of:
* speech recognition
* multimedia
* HCI
2. Information Retrieval Researcher
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Job Specification:
- to perform research & development on advanced information
retrieval, multimedia, natural language processing &
user interface technology.
- to develop and maintain prototypes, demonstrators, tools
and product-level software in advanced information retrieval,
natural language processing and user interface technologies.
Requirements:
- first class academic background: honours degree in computer
science or related discipline with strong computational component
- excellent software engineering skills in a variety of
languages including C/C++ and ideally Java
- willingness and enthusiasm to implement and evaluate new
research ideas
- ability to pick up new skills and ideas rapidly
Desirable:
- higher degree in a relevant discipline
- experience of working on commercial software projects
- expertise in the areas of:
* information retrieval
* natural language processing
* user interfaces
* databases
* C++ standard template library
Canon has over 75,000 employees worldwide. Since its foundation, Canon
has moved forward towards its objective of being the manufacturer of
the best products in the world. While pursuing the pinnacle of quality,
we have taken the lead in developing electronic and automation
technologies to enhance the ease of use of our products. One key to
Canon's success has been the spirit of meeting new technological
challenges and at CRE you will have the opportunity to play a
significant part in this. We offer an excellent working environment
and a competitive salary and benefits package.
For further details on CRE and these job opportunities, please consult
our web pages at:
http://www.cre.canon.co.uk/
Informal enquiries may be addressed to Dr TG Rose (tgr at cre.canon.co.uk).
To apply, please send your CV with a covering letter to arrive by
Monday 12 July to:
Paula Mason (recruitment)
Canon Research Centre Europe Limited
1 Occam Court
Surrey Research Park
Guildford
GU2 5YJ
United Kingdom
fax: +44 (0) 1483 448845
email: sljobs at cre.canon.co.uk
Because of British law, preference will be given to applicants who
already have the right to work in the United Kingdom.
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3/ From: pierre.thillen at systran.lu
Subject: Computational Ling: System Admin at Systran Luxembourg SA
SYSTRAN LUXEMBOURG SA , an MT company based in Luxembourg at
12, rue de Vianden
L - 2680 Luxembourg
involved in the development of the SYSTRAN machine translation system has
an immediate opening for
1) one full-time system administrator
Function:
Responsible for system administration and development (UNIX, C)
and network supervision (Internet, Intranet)
Profile:
University-level qualification in computer science
Knowledge of C programming language and the UNIX development environment
(make, CVS)
Knowledge of Perl would be a plus
Good knowledge of English
1) one full-time linguist
Function:
This person will be responsible for the maintenance and development of the
German-French language pair
Profile:
University degree in linguistics or languages
Native French speaker
Excellent knowledge of German
The following would be considered advantageous:
Knowledge of English
Experience in human translation
Experience in programming, preferably C
Experience in natural language processing
Knowledge of German linguistics
If you are interested in either of these job opportunities and you
feel you meet the requirements, please send your CV to the above
address or e-mail it to info at systran.org
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4/ From: "Brona Collins" <Brona.Collins at lhs.be>
Subject: German Computational Ling at Lernout & Hauspie (Belgium)
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is a global leader in advanced
speech and language solutions for computers, cars, telecommunications,
embedded products, consumer goods and the internet. The company makes
the speech user interface (SUI), the keystone of simple, convenient
interaction between humans and technology, and uses advanced
translation technology to break down cultural barriers. The L&H team
is 1700 people in 25 countries. The headquarters are located in Ieper,
Belgium.
For the development of German language and speech technology, Lernout
& Hauspie is currently looking for a
Language Specialist German
for the Corporate R&D Division
located in Ieper (Belgium)
Function:
This person will work on the development of systems in the field of
natural language processing, speech recognition and speech synthesis.
He/she will work in a language development group and report to the group or
project manager.
Profile:
* university degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent
* (near-)native German
* interest in other languages and their linguistic aspects
* good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following areas:
- speech processing, esp. text-to-speech synthesis
- phonetics
- computer linguistics
- natural language processing (NLP)
- spoken dialog systems
- computer technology
- programming
- other languages than the target language
* ability to work in a team and independently
* perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness
* good social and communicative abilities
* willingness to travel abroad for limited periods of time
If you are interested in this job opportunity and you believe to
fulfil the required profile, we have to meet each other. Please send
your hardcopy application and detailed resume to:
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
Personnel Department
Attn. Mrs. Ann De Somere
Flanders Language Valley 50
B-8900 Ieper
BELGIUM
To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our
homepage http://www.lhs.com . You may also want to send an e-mail
to <job-announce at lhs.be>
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5/ From: teruko+ at cs.cmu.edu
Subject: German Machine TranslationT Developer at Carnegie Mellon
US-PA-Pittsburgh Software Developer, Machine Translation (German), CMU
The KANT project at the Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie
Mellon University, is seeking a talented and energetic individual for
the position of Research Programmer.
KANT is a large-scale software system for technical document
translation. The chosen applicant will be responsible for the
following tasks:
* Work with project leaders to define workplan and schedule for
German module development, deployment and maintenance
* Supervise and participate in the development and maintenance of each
knowledge source for German (lexicon, grammar, interpretation
rules, etc.)
* Integrate German knowledge sources into run-time delivery modules
* Participate actively in testing and quality assurance
* Maintain a responsive and professional relationship with customer
personnel
The successful applicant will have the following qualifications:
* Native fluency in German
* Good communication skills in English
* A degree in Computer/Information Science (or related field), or
equivalent experience
* Software development experience in the Unix environment
* Some coursework in linguistics or computational linguistics
* Experience communicating and working productively within a
development group
Occasional Travel Required
Starting Salary Negotiable
For more information on KANT project: http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/Research/Kant/
Contact: Teruko Mitamura Phone: (412) 268-6596
Language Technologies Institute Fax: (412) 268-6298
Carnegie Mellon University EMail: teruko+ at cs.cmu.edu
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
USA
Candidates should send a letter of application, a current resume,
letters of reference, and representative samples of their
work. Resumes, cover letters, etc. may be submitted via EMail in
ASCII, Microsoft Word, or Postscript form. Resumes may also be
submitted by fax or regular mail, but EMail is preferred. Letters of
recommendation must be faxed or mailed directly from the
recommender. Code samples may be submitted via EMail attachments or
via web pointers.
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6/ From: "Jeffrey P. Kaplan" <jkaplan at mail.sdsu.edu>
Subject: Computational Ling; Tenure-track at San Diego State
LINGUISTICS & ORIENTAL LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT
COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
Subject to funding, the Linguistics and Oriental Languages Department
of San Diego State University invites applications for a tenure-track
faculty position in computational linguistics. Rank open. Required:
Ph.D. in linguistics or related field; record of research or practice
in computational linguistics; interest and ability in building a new
computational linguistics program within a linguistics department,
beginning with development of and teaching a new course in Introduction
to Computational Linguistics and other new courses such as Natural
Language Processing, Corpus Linguistics, Machine Translation,
Information Retrieval, and Speech Recognition; interest and ability in
teaching non-computational linguistics courses including introduction
to linguistics and advanced courses in at least one of the following
areas: syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, morphology,
phonology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics.
Send applications to include cover letter, CV, at least three letters
of recommendation, and sample publications to:
Dr. Jeff Kaplan,
Search Committee Chair,
Dept of Linguistics and Oriental Languages
San Diego State University,
San Diego, CA 92182-7727
Phone: 619-594-5879
The department will begin reviewing applications on September 15, 1999
and continue until the position is filled.
SDSU is an Affirmative-Action/Equal Opportunity/Title IX employer and
does not discriminate against persons on the basis of race, religion,
national origin, sexual orientation, gender, marital status, age, or
disability. Women, ethnic minorities, and persons with disabilities
are encouraged to apply.
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7/ From: Ernst Buchberger <ernst at ai.univie.ac.at>
Subject: Human Language Technology
JOB OPPORTUNITY
3 Research positions in Human Language Technology
at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OeFAI),
Vienna, Austria
We offer 3 positions in OeFAI's Natural Language Processing Group. The
successful applicants will participate in the basic research projects
described below which are funded by the Austrian Science Foundation
(FWF).
The projects are headed by Ao.Prof.Harald Trost.
Positions are open for candidates having a degree in computational
linguistics, or digital signal processing, or computer science plus a
background in linguistics. All positions are to be filled as soon as
possible.
The yearly gross salary for these positions will be ATS 260.000 for
candidates without PhD and ATS 360.000 for PostDocs before taxes
according to FWF regulations. PhD students are encouraged to realize
their
PhD within the project.
A good command of English and/or German is expected. For non EU citizens
a residence permit is required.
OeFAI is the leading Austrian research institute in the field of
Natural Language Processing. It is situated in the center of Vienna.
Apart from excellent research facilities, Vienna offers many
possibilities
for all kinds of sports and cultural activities.
More information about the OeFAI and its Natural Language Processing
group can be found at http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/oefai/nlu/
Inquiries and applications (including a short CV and list of
publications) should be sent by mail or email to:
Harald Trost
OeFAI
Schottengasse 3
A-1010 Wien, Austria
Tel.: +43 1 4277-63121
Fax: +43 1 5336112-77
Email: harald at ai.univie.ac.at
A copy of applications by email should be sent to ernst at ai.univie.ac.at
as well.
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Position 1 (Junior Researcher/PhD Student or Postdoc):
The candidate should have strong interest in corpus-based linguistics
and parsing. The candidate will be affilitated to a project that aims
at investigation and exploitation of lexicalization phenomena in
parsing. Lexical information shall be used in stochastic parsing to
increase accuracy and to gain processing efficiency.
She/he has a degree in
- computational linguistics or
- computer science or a comparable study,
with a background in linguistics.
She/he has experience in
- corpus-based linguistics and/or
- (shallow) parsing and
- basic statistics or information theory.
She/he has good programming experience, preferably in C and/or C++.
The candidate will join an ongoing project which runs till the end of
2001. Continued employment after the end of the project is
possible.
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Position 2 (Junior Researcher/PhD Student or Postdoc)
The candidate will participate in a project in the area of
multimodal interfaces that investigates the role of speech
in multimodal interaction with texts, in particular web-based news
texts.
During the course of the project, a corpus will be
collected and evaluated. Work on the actual system will include
development of the language processing and web tools
as well as usability testing.
The candidate has a degree in
- computer science,
preferably with a background in multimedia presentation, or
- computational linguistics,
preferably with knowledge in dialogue processing, or
- linguistics, with a strong background in
empirical analysis of spoken utterances,
and programming experience.
The candidate will join a project that starts in July 1999 and runs
until
2002. Continued employment after the end of the project is possible.
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Position 3 (Junior Researcher/PhD Student or Postdoc)
The candidate will participate in a project in the area of speech
synthesis
that aims at the investigation of segmental durations in German.
A speech corpus of "Austrian German" is constructed and subsequently
analyzed using machine learning techniques in order to derive models
of durational variation. From a theoretical point of view the project
aims for a better understanding of the quantitative effects of the
multiple factors influencing duration in speech. From a practical
point of view the results will be used in order to improve the
naturalness of prosody in a speech synthesis program.
Candidates are to deal with one or more of the following tasks:
- development of procedures and tools for supporting the
(semi automatic) labeling and representation of the corpus
- adaption and application of machine learning techniques
- integration of resulting models to an existing speech synthesizer
She/he has a degree in
- computational linguistics, or
- phonetics, or
- digital signal processing, or
- computer science plus a background in linguistics.
She/he has programming experience, preferably in C and/or C++.
The candidate will join an ongoing project which runs till the end of
2001. Continued employment after the end of the project is possible.
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Ernst Buchberger, Dept. of Med.Cybernetics & Artificial Intelligence,
University of Vienna, Freyung 6, A-1010 Vienna, Austria
and Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna
+43-1-4277-63117 (tel), +43-1-4277-9631 (fax), ernst at ai.univie.ac.at
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