LINGUIST List 5.1501

Wed 21 Dec 1994

Jobs: Computational Ling, Generalist

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1. "Dr. Karin Haenelt", Job Offering: GMD Darmstadt, Germany
2. Larry Mitchell, Generalist

POSITION AVAILABLE

 GMD-KONTEXT,
 the Natural Language Research and Development Unit of
 The Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung mbH
 Darmstadt, Germany

invites applications for a two-year position in the TELEX project.

The TELEX-project is a cooperation project with the Humboldt-University,
Berlin (Prof. Kunze).
It is the goal of the project to make the theory of
Semantic Emphasis [Kunze 91] available for various purposes of lexicography
and natural language processing. For this purpose a reusable lexical database
is being developed where selected meaning fields of the German vocabulary
are described and structured in accordance with the theory.
For modelling an object-oriented database is used.

The applicability of the lexical database is shown prototypically in the
KONTEXT text analysis system. The text analysis system is based on a graph
unification formalism (the Context Feature Structure System).

Applicants should have
- a degree in computer science and/or computational
 linguistics
- expertise in at least one of the following areas:
 - knowledge representation
 - object oriented database systems
 - graph unification formalisms
 - text analysis
- programming experience in Prolog and C++.

Fluent command of written and spoken German is required.


Applications should be sent to

Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung mbH
ADD.P
Dolivostrasse 15
64293 Darmstadt
Germany

(please refer to position 44/94)

before the 15th of January 1995

For information please contact
Dr. Karin Haenelt
phone: ++49/6151/869-828
fax: -899
e-mail: haeneltdarmstadt.gmd.de

Because of a retirement and possible leave(s), we anticipate need for a
one-year visiting assistant professor: generalist with broad training in
linguistics; 3-3 load. Willingness to teach some combination of Structure
of English, History of English, Sound Structure of English, Language and
Culture, Introduction to Linguistics, Sociolinguistics. Please send letter
and vita by January 4, 1995 to J. Lawrence Mitchell, Head, Department of
English, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843-4227.
Preliminary interviews at LSA. Texas A&M is an affirmative action, equal
opportunity employer and welcomes applications from women and minorities.