LINGUIST List 13.1944

Thu Jul 18 2002

Jobs: Spanish, Comp Ling: Researcher for IBM, NY USA

Editor for this issue: Heather Taylor <heatherlinguistlist.org>

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1. Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:12:10 +0000, Jobs: Spanish, Computational Ling: Researcher for IBM, NY, USA

University or Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Rank of Job: Researcher
Specialty Areas Required: Applied Linguistics, Computational
Linguistics, Lexicography, Syntax, Translation, Machine Translation
Required Language(s): Spanish (Code = SPN)

Description:

Opportunity to contribute significantly to improvement of
English->Spanish machine translation quality:

IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, LMT Group, Yorktown, New York, has
immediate openings for two highly skilled computational linguists who
are native speakers of a Latin American variety of Spanish. They will
join a multiyear project aimed at significantly raising the quality of
machine translation of English to Spanish, working closely with the
R&D team on IBM's premier translation product:

http://www-3.ibm.com/pvc/products/voice/translation_server.shtml

Successful candidates should have completed graduate work in
computational linguistics or linguistics -- Master's or Ph.D. degree
required, and Ph.D. preferred -- and should be able to express
linguistic ideas and generalizations formally in a computational
linguistic system. Experience with machine translation is desirable,
but not required.

Interested candidates are urged to apply immediately by going to the
URL

http://careers3.peopleclick.com/JobPosts/Client40_GLDTR/BU1/External/139-1398.htm?ShowReturn=Yes

and filling out the form. Another route to this form is to go to:

http://www.research.ibm.com/about/career.shtml

then click on ''Employment with IBM Research -- United States'', and
then ''Postdoc - Knowledge Systems''. NOTE: Applicants should not
send email, but should use only the Web application form on the URLs
above.

Address for Applications:

	Attn: Submit by Web
	Language Analysis and Translation
	IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
	http://www.research.ibm.com/about/career.shtml
	Click on ''Employment with IBM Research -- United States''
	Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
	United States 
Position is open until filled.

Contact Information:
	Email: ibmjobsus.ibm.com
	Website: http://www.research.ibm.com