Jobs: 3 Offers

[Philippe Blache]

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1/ From:  "Keiko Horiguchi" <keiko at lsi.sel.sony.com>
   Subject:  Machine Translation; Research Asst at Sony U.S. Labs in San Jose

2/ From:  Amy Livingstone <amy at eloq.com>
   Subject:  Multi-Language Speech Synthesis; Researcher at Eloquent Tech

3/ From:  Jian Su <sujian at krdl.org.sg>
   Subject:  NLP(Chinese/English) Researcher Engineer at KRDL, Singapore
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1/ From:  "Keiko Horiguchi" <keiko at lsi.sel.sony.com>
   Subject:  Machine Translation; Research Asst at Sony U.S. Labs in San Jose


Job: Research Assistant in Machine Translation
Sony U.S. Research Labs, San Jose

Sony has openings for temporary, part-time research assistants or
student summer interns for a research project on spoken language
translation.  We are looking for systematic, thorough, creative,
results-oriented individuals who are able to work well as part of an
international team.

Job duties: Participate in a research project on spoken language
translation between English and Japanese. Create, maintain, refine,
and extend Japanese and English linguistic databases. Perform
linguistic analysis, investigations, and evaluation, and document
results in written form. Assist project members on related tasks.

Job requirements: Native-level fluency in Japanese. Ability to
communicate and work effectively in English.  Excellent logical
analysis skills.  Ability to work in a thorough, systematic, and
accurate manner. Some computer skills. Educational or job experience
in a relevant field, such as computational linguistics, linguistics,
or computer science.

Qualifications that would be a plus:

Experience in machine translation or natural language processing,
especially involving Japanese. Ability to program in Perl, or
C. Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in a relevant
field.

Contact:
For further information, please contact:
 	Keiko Horiguchi
	Sony U.S. Research Labs
	San Jose, California
  	Tel: (408) 955-5214
  	Fax: (408) 955-6848
  	Email: keiko at lsi.sel.sony.com

To apply for these openings, please submit your application materials,
including resume, contacts for references, and a cover letter.


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2/ From:  Amy Livingstone <amy at eloq.com>
   Subject:  Multi-Language Speech Synthesis; Researcher at Eloquent Tech



POSITIONS AVAILABLE IN MULTI-LANGUAGE SPEECH SYNTHESIS BY RULE

Eloquent Technology, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) anticipates having several
positions available in multi-language text-to-speech synthesis.  We are
looking for candidates at all levels of experience, with background in one
or more of the following areas:

- formant synthesis
- acoustic phonetics
- text processing/natural language processing
- prosody

Background in computer programming and/or expertise in one of the following
languages will be especially useful: American English, Japanese, Arabic,
Spanish, Cantonese, UK English, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean.

Eloquent Technology, Inc. (ETI) is a text-to-speech company which currently
employs 20 people, primarily linguists and computer scientists.  ETI is
located in Ithaca, NY, the home of Cornell University, in the heart of the
beautiful Fingerlakes region of New York State.  ETI's main product is
ETI-Eloquence, a text-to-speech system currently available for US and UK
English, Mexican and Castilian Spanish, German, French, and Italian, with
versions for other languages and dialects under development.

For a description of ETI's text-to-speech technology, see the company white
paper at www.eloq.com.

Applicants should send cover letter and resume by e-mail to Amy Livingstone
at amy at eloq.com (e-mail is preferred) or to 2389 North Triphammer Road,
Ithaca, NY 14850. paper at www.eloq.com.

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3/ From:  Jian Su <sujian at krdl.org.sg>
   Subject:  NLP(Chinese/English) Researcher Engineer at KRDL, Singapore

       Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL)(http://www.krdl.org.sg/)
       is the premier national R&D organisation spearheading the
       research and development of information and networking
       technology.

       With an international team of 400 research scientists and
       engineers, KRDL offers industry partners the technology and
       technical leadership to become global players in the IT market:
       life sciences, information, education, transportation &
       logistics, and electronic commerce.

       At KRDL, we are committed to creating new breakthrough
       technologies that make a significant difference in the quality of

       life in the information age.  At KRDL, you will find a community
       of unique individuals who know how to work hard, and play hard.
       We have the world -- in our hands.

       KRDL - the cradle for new technologies for the digital age.


       SENIOR / RESEARCH ENGINEERS

       Ref.: KLAB/02/99 (1)

       Position 1

       Your responsibility will include research into
       English & Chinese parsing and text understanding system using
       corpus-based approach, finite state transducer, and etc.

       Position 2

       You will be part of the team that will design and implementation
       of English & Chinese parsing and text understanding system.

       Requirements:

       Master/PhD Degree in Computer Science, preferably in NLP
       related area;
       Experience in Chinese & English NLP, especially parsing and
       text understanding;
       Good C/C++ programming skill;
       Good communication skill and initiative.

       CONTACT:
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       Email: sujian at krdl.org.sg

       Ref.: KLAB/02/99 (2)

       You will assist the project leader to research and implement
       NLP-related projects, eg: thesaurus building and text
       summarization.

       Requirements:

            Degree in Computer Science
            Minimum 2 years experience of software development is
            essential while NLP-related experience is preferred
            In-depth knowledge about C/C++ and database technology
            Familiar with natural language processing technology

       CONTACT:
       ***********
       Email: dhji at krdl.org.sg

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