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1/ From: "Alexander Franz" <amf at slt.sel.sony.com>
   Subject: NLP Position at Sony US Research Labs, San Jose, CA

2/ From: Torsten Schaub <torsten at cs.uni-potsdam.de>
   Subject: Two open research positions

3/ From: "Shinya Nakagawa" <shinya at jp.hpl.hp.com>
   Subject: Job Opportunities in Natural Language Processing

4/ From:  Dan Faulkner <Dan.Faulkner at aculab.com>
   Subject:  TTS and Linguistics: Aculab plc, Buckinghamshire UK

5/ From:  Dorothy.SENEZ at cec.eu.int
   Subject:  Translation services

6/ From:  Wei Li <wei at cymfony.com>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Research Scientist at Cymfony Inc.

7/ From:  Peter Chane <jobs at thrownet.com>
   Subject:  Computational Linguist at Thrownet, San Francisco

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1/ From: "Alexander Franz" <amf at slt.sel.sony.com>
   Subject: NLP Position at Sony US Research Labs, San Jose, CA

The Spoken Language Technology group at Sony's US Research
Laboratories, located in San Jose, CA, has an immediate opening for a
natural language processing specialist. The successful applicant will
perform research and development in robust language analysis and
spoken language translation.

Applicants should be creative problem solvers, strong team players,
and good communicators, and they should be self-motivated and
flexible.

Desired qualifications include experience in NLP, MT, search,
statistical language modelling, and speech recognition-NLP
integration. Applicants should hold an advanced degree (ideally PhD)
in NLP, CS, Computational Linguistics, or a related field.

Desired skills include strong programming skills in C/C++, and
familiarity with Unix, UNIX/Windows cross-platform development, and
software engineering.

Please send inquiries or resumes to:

Alexander Franz
Sony US Research Labs
Email: amf at slt.sel.sony.com
Fax: +1 (408) 955-6848
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2/ From: Torsten Schaub <torsten at cs.uni-potsdam.de>
   Subject: Two open research positions



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                      Two Research Positions Available

          Department of Informatics, University of Potsdam, Germany

   The Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Group at the University of
   Potsdam offers two research positions within the project ``Nonmonotonic
   inference systems for reasoning with conflictual rules''. Apart from
   the development and implementation of corresponding reasoning
   techniques, a particular emphasis lies on the integration of flexible
   conflict resolution mechanisms that are in turn applied to modeling
   conflictual knowledge bases found in linguistics.

   The project is part of the Research Group ``Conflictual rules'' (in
   German: Forschergruppe ``Konfligierende Regeln''), funded by the German
   Science Foundation (DFG). This research group offers an
   interdisciplinary context comprising adjacent research projects from
   Linguistics, Psychology, Physics, and Informatics.

   Applicants must hold a master's degree (Diplom, DEA, or equivalent) and
   should preferably have a PhD in Informatics/Computer Science or
   Mathematics, although a PhD project is also conceivable. A suitable
   candidate is expected to have good communication skills (though fluency
   in German is not required) and research experience in at least one
   area, relevant to logic-based knowledge representation and reasoning,
   eg. nonmonotonic reasoning, logic programming, automated deduction,
   argumentation systems, deductive databases, etc. However, highly
   motivated and academically strong applicants interested in getting into
   nonmonotonic reasoning/logic programming are also encouraged to apply.

   The positions are available immediately; they will be filled for a
   period of up to 24+12 months in the first instance, with a likely
   extension by three additional years. Salary is according to the German
   BAT scale (Bat-O IIa), depending on age and family status.

   Candidates should send a curriculum vitae, a list of publications,
   references, and a statement of research interests to:

       Prof. Torsten Schaub       phone (+49) 331 977 1163/1057
       Universität Potsdam        fax (+49) 331 977 1720
       Institut für Informatik    mail torsten at cs.uni-potsdam.de
       Am Neuen Palais 10         url http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~torsten
       D-14469 Potsdam

   An hyperlinked version of this offer is available at
   http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~torsten/jobs. If you need more
   information just give me a call or send me an email.

    Torsten Schaub
    2000-02-15
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3/ From: "Shinya Nakagawa" <shinya at jp.hpl.hp.com>
   Subject: Job Opportunities in Natural Language Processing

Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Japan is looking for candidates
who are interested in research positions in Tokyo, Japan in the area
of natural language processing.  This is an exciting opportunity to
work with Hewlett-Packard in areas of text processing applied to
corpus data and mobile appliances.

Profile:
- Degree in computational linguistics
- Experience in language engineering such as morphological
  analysis, knowledge extraction and information retrieval.
- High-level programming skill in C and C++ on both Windows
  and UNIX(HP-UX and Linux) environments.
- Experience with development of software packages.
- Native English

For consideration,
send your resume via email to marc at jp.hpl.hp.com

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| Marc McEachern                          Phone:  +81-44-812-5920    |
| Hewlett-Packard Labs Japan              Fax:    +81-44-812-5247    |
| 3-29-21 Takaido-Higashi, Suginami-Ku    e-mail: marc at jp.hpl.hp.com |
| Tokyo 168-8585 JAPAN                                               |
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4/ From:  Dan Faulkner <Dan.Faulkner at aculab.com>
   Subject:  TTS and Linguistics: Aculab plc, Buckinghamshire UK


Rank of Job: n/a
Areas Required: TTS and Linguistics
Other Desired Areas: prosody, phonetics, languages
University or Organization: Aculab plc
Department: DSP Research & Development
State or Province: Buckinghamshire
Country: UK
Final Date of Application: asap
Contact: Dan Faulkner Dan.Faulkner at aculab.com

Address for Applications:
Lakeside, Bramley Road, Mount Farm
Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire MK1 1PT
UK

____________Italian Linguist Engineer_____________

Aculab is a leading provider of components and systems for the Computer
Telephony industry. With branches throughout the World, Aculab's R&D is
based in Milton Keynes, UK. Both Aculab and Milton Keynes are rapidly
expanding, providing an exciting and challenging environment. Our
products include the Prosody (TM) speech processing platform, running
World-class multi-channel speech recognition and synthesis algorithms.

We currently have a vacancy for a Linguist Engineer to join our
text-to-speech R&D team. The successful applicant will be responsible
for the development and specification of the text and linguistic
processing algorithms for Italian text-to-speech conversion. He or she
should be aware of the key issues in text-to-speech synthesis. A wide
range of linguistic knowledge is necessary, but some specialisation in
phonetics and/or phonology would be advantageous, as would knowledge of
prosody (e.g. intonation, rhythm and duration modelling). The position
would be suitable for somebody with a masters degree or higher in a
relevant field, although other graduates will be considered if they
possess relevant commercial experience. Programming skills are not
essential, but some knowledge – particularly of C and/or C++ -
would be an advantage.

We enjoy a relaxed working environment and an extremely flat management
structure, so candidates must also possess good organisational skills,
as there will be a high degree of responsibility for the project from
the start. For further details about Aculab, see http://www.aculab.com

Please apply to Dan Faulkner with a current CV and a cover letter.
Applications may be sent electronically to Dan.Faulkner at aculab.com, or
write to:

Aculab plc
Lakeside
Bramley Road
Mount Farm
Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
MK1 1PT
UK

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5/ From:  Dorothy.SENEZ at cec.eu.int
   Subject:  Translation services

The TRANSLATION SERVICE of the EUROPEAN COMMISSION wishes to recruit 3
temporary officials (grade LA7/LA6 ) for its Development of
multilingual tools and Informatics units.

Applicants must be nationals of one of the Member States of the
European Union.  Applicants should hold a university degree and have a
thorough and proven knowledge of computational linguistics.

A minimum of three years' experience managing projects in fields
relating to the posts is required.  Applications should be sent no
later than 10 March 2000 (the postmark serving as proof).  Applicants
may apply for several posts, provided they complete a separate
application form for each post and attach the necessary supporting
documents to each form.

Post 76T/SdT/99
Translation Service, AGL Directorate (General and
Language Matters), Unit 04 (Development of multilingual tools):
machine translation team.  Task : developing the language pairs of the
Commission's machine translation system.  Requirements: detailed
knowledge of the Internet, programming languages (C/C++, Perl, Java,
etc.) and markup languages (HTML, SGML, XML, etc.). Knowledge of the
technologies used for representing multilingual data on different
computer platforms.  The European Commission has acquired development
licences for the Systran machine translation (MT) system. Every
Commission official has access to the system via e-mail or through a
Web interface. 18 language pairs are offered (of which 2 on a test
basis), and the level of quality varies. Language pairs with English,
French or Spanish provide the best results. The service enjoys great
success - it translated some 600 000 pages in 1999.  Since the old MT
server is to be phased out within the next few years, the SdT
undertook in 1999 to migrate the existing EC Systran system by
building on the techniques, experience and results gained during
Systran S.A.'s migration of the commercial system developed at La
Jolla, California, several years ago. A Luxembourg-based contractor is
in charge of this migration, which has just entered its final phase.
We want one specialist to join the team which monitors this project
and works on the development of new language pairs. He/she must have a
good knowledge of machine translation systems as well as a solid
technical and managerial profile and a good team spirit.  Place of
employment : Luxembourg Contact: Dimitrios.Theologitis at cec.eu.int
Poste 77T/SdT/99 Translation Service, AGL Directorate (General and
Language Matters), Unit 04 (Development of multilingual tools):
terminological tools team.  Task: development of terminological tools
(acquisition, management and provision of terminological data).
Requirements: as in post 76T above, plus knowledge of database
management systems (Oracle, Oracle-Context, Fulcrum, etc.) and search
engines.  The specialist we are looking for is to join a parallel team
developing terminological tools for the Translation Service.  He/she
shall have good knowledge in the field of language engineering
(automated terminology management, linguistic databases and
translation memories). Tasks will cover: follow-up of the migration of
the EC's Eurodicautom terminology database to a Unix platform;
collaboration on an interinstitutional terminology database; follow-up
of the development/implementation of new access interfaces to
terminological resources (e-mail, Web browsers, terminology editor,
and integration with word-processing systems); evaluations, tests and
technology watch; analysis of user feedback.  Place of employment :
Luxembourg Contact: Dimitrios.Theologitis at cec.eu.int Poste 78T/SdT/99
Translation Service, Unit 02 (Informatics) Tasks: development of
multilingual documentation and translation aids, management of
multilingual documentation.  Requirements: as in post 77T above.
Place of employment: Luxembourg or Brussels Contact:
Francisco.Garcia-Moran at cec.eu.int General information: A perfect
command of one of the official languages of the European Union as well
as a thorough knowledge of at least two other official languages is
required. One of the three languages must be French or English.  The
maximum term of a contract is 3 years, with one possible extension of
up to one year.  A request for further information regarding this
notice does not exempt you from submitting a duly completed
application form, together with the necessary supporting documents, by
10 March 2000 (the postmark serving as proof).  An application form is
attached below.  EUROPEAN COMMISSION APPLICATION FORM SELECTION OF
TEMPORARY OFFICIALS Selection 1.  Surname:
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        Forenames:
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2.      Address for correspondence and for the invitation:
        Street and number:
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        Town/region:
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        Postcode: ............................ Country:
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        Telephone No:
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        Fax No:
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All correspondence will be sent to you at the above address. Please inform
us immediately of any change of address.

        Name and telephone number of a person we can contact in your
absence: ..

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3.      Date of birth:
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        Nationality: ............................................. Sex:
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4.      Language knowledge:
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Please attach a curriculum vitae in English or French, copies of
diplomas required for admission to the selection, and any documents
proving the quality and duration of your professional experience and
send, before 10 March 2000, to:

European Commission
Translation Service - SdT 01 - JECL 4/29
Ref. Selection 76T/SdT/99 or 77T/SdT/99 or 78T/SdT/99
Rue de la Loi 200
B - 1049 Brussels

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6/ From:  Wei Li <wei at cymfony.com>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Research Scientist at Cymfony Inc.


Rank of Job: Rsearch Scientist
Areas Required: Computational Linguist
Other Desired Areas: Natural Language Processing
University or Organization: Cymfony Inc.
Department:
State or Province: New York State
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: July 2000
Contact: Wei Li wei at cymfony.com

Address for Applications:
5500 Main Street
Williamsville
NY 14221
USA

Computational Linguists Needed

Cymfony, located in suburban Buffalo, New York State, USA, is a leader
in technology pertaining to intelligent search and retrieval, including
question answering systems.  This fast-growing company has IMMEDIATE
OPENINGS for research scientists in natural language processing.  SEVERAL
POSITIONS ARE AVAILABLE.

The ideal candidate will have a Master's degree in Computer Science or
related field with experience in natural language processing,
computational linguistics, or information retrieval.  Proficiency in C++
programming is required.

Salary will be commensurate with education and experience.  Cymfony also
offers an attractive benefits package.  All positions are full-time.
Please forward CV with references to:

Cymfony, Inc.
Attn: Wei Li
5500 Main Street, Suite 206
Williamsville, NY 14221, USA
Email:  wei at cymfony.com
Fax:    (716)-565-0308

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7/ From:  Peter Chane <jobs at thrownet.com>
   Subject:  Computational Linguist at Thrownet, San Francisco


Rank of Job:
Areas Required: Computational Linguist
Other Desired Areas: Computational Lexicographer
University or Organization: Thrownet
Department: Product Development
State or Province: San Francisco, CA
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: ASAP
Contact: Peter Chane jobs at thrownet.com

Address for Applications:
85 Columbia Square
San Francisco
CA 94103
USA

Thrownet, a startup company located in San Francisco's South of Market
district has many openings for a Computational Linguist, Computational
Lexicographer, and Information Science specialists.

Thrownet is developing technology to enable users to find an answer to a
question by utilizing proprietary search and information retrieval
technology. Specific details of our plans can be discussed under NDA.

See http://www.thrownet.com for details.  Send resumes to
jobs at thrownet.com.

Please note that the positions are full-time positions in San Francisco.
 No telecommuting positions are available at this time.



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