LINGUIST List 22.4400 Sat Nov 05 2011 Jobs: Language Resource Development, Post Doc, Laboratory EFL Editor for this issue: Christy Bird <christylinguistlist.org> The LINGUIST List strongly encourages employers to engage in non-discriminatory hiring practices. We urge employers not to discriminate on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. However, we have no means of enforcing these standards. Job seekers should pay special attention to language in ads regarding employment requirements and are encouraged to consult our international employment page at http://linguistlist.org/jobs/jobnet.html. This page has been set up so that people can report on the employment standards of various countries. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/posttolinguist.cfm Directory         1.     Benoît Sagot , Language Resource Development for a Resource-Scarce Language Using Resources for a Closely Related Language: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Laboratory Empirical Foundations of Linguistics, Paris, France Message 1: Language Resource Development for a Resource-Scarce Language Using Resources for a Closely Related Language: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Laboratory Empirical Foundations of Linguistics, Paris, France Date: 02-Nov-2011 From: Benoît Sagot <benoit.sagotinria.fr> Subject: Language Resource Development for a Resource-Scarce Language Using Resources for a Closely Related Language: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Laboratory Empirical Foundations of Linguistics, Paris, France E-mail this message to a friend University or Organization: Laboratory Empirical Foundations of Linguistics Job Location: Paris, France Web Address: http://www.labex-efl.org/ Job Rank: Post Doc Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Language Resource Development for a Resource-Scarce Language Description: Contact: Benoît Sagot, ALPAGE Contact email: benoit.sagotinria.fr University: University Paris 7 Job rank: Postdoctoral researcher Duration: 12 months, starting june or sept 2012 Salary: 24,000 EUR/year Keywords: language resources, machine learning, computational morphology, POS tagging Application deadline: 2012/04/10 Application email: benoit.sagotinria.fr Application reference: EFL-LR2.2 This position is offered within the 10-year project "Empirical foundations of linguistics" that started in 2011 as part of the strand "Language resources". The successful candidate will investigate how the development of language resources can be speeded up when dealing with a language that is closely related to another language for which the corresponding resources are available. The language resources involved include in the first place morphological resources and POS-annotated corpora, but also syntactic or semantic lexical resources and others. Dedicated automatic or semi- automatic techniques will be designed, implemented, then applied and evaluated on various language pairs. Candidates should hold a doctoral degree in Computational Linguistics or a related area. Requirements include: (i) a solid theoretical background and practical experience in quantitative methods in computational linguistics; skills in machine learning, automatic translation and language resource development will be particularly appreciated (ii) good programming skills; and (iii) a strong motivation and proven ability to work and publish collaboratively Please send an updated CV (with list of publications), the names and email addresses of 2 referees, and the website where publications can be found. Application Deadline: 10-Apr-2012 Email Address for Applications: benoit.sagotinria.fr Contact Information: Benoît Sagot Email: benoit.sagotinria.fr Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 05-Nov-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.