LINGUIST List 11.984

Sat Apr 29 2000

Jobs: English Linguists, The MITRE Corporation

Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara <naomilinguistlist.org>

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1. Suzanne Kearns, English Ling at The MITRE Corporation, Massachusetts USA

Rank of Job: junior to mid level
Areas Required: English Linguistics
Other Desired Areas: annotation experience
University or Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Department: Intelligent Information Access
State or Province: MA
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: open
Contact: Suzanne Kearns skearnsmitre.org

Address for Applications:
202 Burlington Road, MS-S217
Bedford
MA 01730-1420
USA

Fluent English speaker to join natural language processing (NLP) team
working in corpus-based linguistics. Read text from a variety of
sources -- journalistic style, closed captioned, broadcast news
transcripts -- and annotate linguistic phenomena, e.g., syntax,
semantics, grammatical relations, coreference, etc. Write annotation
guidelines to document markup conventions. Experience with Unix,
SGML/XML is desired. Fluency in Mandarin would also be very useful,
but not necessary. Education/Experience Required: Undergraduate study
in linguistics or equivalent experience doing linguistic annotation.
Position may require employee to obtain a security clearance.