LINGUIST List 5.582

Sat 28 May 1994

Jobs: Chinese computational; General

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1. Chu-Ren Huang, post-doctoral position in Chinese Compuational Linguistics
2. J Local, Temp linguistics job at York, UK

Post-doctoral Position (Chinese Computational Linguistics)
Chinese Knowledge Information Processing (CKIP)
Academia Sinica

Primary Field: Chinese Linguistics (Syntax/Semantics)
 OR: Computer Science (Chinese NLP)
Secondary Fields: Computational Linguistics, Classical Chinese
Openings: 1 Or 2
Time: July/August 1994 to June 1995
 (renewable yearly pending budget approval)
Salary: U.S. $25,000/year (est.)
Requirements: (1) Ph. D. in Linguistics/C.S.
 (2) (near) Native Fluency in Mandarin Chinese
Location: Chinese Knowledge Information Processing (CKIP) Group
 Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Application:
I. BY June 6 (Monday): Email (1) cover letter (2) C.V. (3) list
 of publications
 TO: chureniis.sinica.edu.tw
II. BY June 13 (Monday) [If Short-listed]
 Send (1), (2), (3), (4) Thesis (draft),
 (5) proof that you will get your doctorate by
 September 1994, (6) relevant publications, and
 (7) additional material showing your research
 ability
 TO: Chinese Knowledge Information Processing
 Institute of Information Science
 Academia Sinica
 Nankang, Taipei
 Taiwan 115
III. Enquiries:
 1. Send to the above email and/or snail mail addresses
 OR 2. Call 886-2-7883799 ext. 2111 Dr. Chu-Ren Huang
 ext. 2211 Dr. Keh-jiann Chen

The CKIP group is a on-going long-term research project on Chinese
computational linguistics. The project started in 1986 and has
already built an electronic lexicon, a parser, a classical Chinese
corpus, and a Modern Mandarin corpus. The project is funded by
both Academia Sinica (Institute of Information Science and
Institute of History and Philology) as well as outside agencies
(such as the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation and the National Science
Council of R.O.C.). Research in the academic year of 1994-5 will be
focused on (1) Balanced Mandarin Corpus, (2) Corpus-based Synchronic
Ancient Chinese Lexicon, and (3) Chinese Parser. Both previous
post-doctoral fellows with CKIP now hold tenure-track positions
with national universities in Taiwan.

Please post this job information. Job opportunity. TeMPORARY Lectureship
in Linguistics. Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University
of York, England. We are looking for someone who will make a contribution
to first year lecture courses in general linguistics (including tutorials)
and in English linguistics, and who will be able to make some more
specialized contribution to degree level courses. Preference may be given
to candidates who can contribute to courses in semantics and
psycholinguistics, but candidates with other interests are encouraged to
apply. The post is available from 1 Oct 1994 - 30 Sept 1995. Salary will
be within the lecturer A scale: #13,601 -#18,855. Applications (five
copies, one from overseas candidates), including letter of application,
full curriculum vitae and the names of three referees, should be sent by
14 June to the Personnel Office, University of York, Heslington, York YO1
5DD. Complete details follow. A copy may also be obtained by writing to
the above address. General details of post The department teaches a wide
range of courses in general linguistics alongside courses in particular
languages and the linguistics of those languages: Chinese, English,
French, German, Hindi, Swahili and Swedish. Undergraduate students study
one or more languages and linguistics, and have a wide range of choice in
the structure of their degree. The successful candidate will be expected
tocontribute to first year courses in general linguistics, to first year
courses in English Linguistics, and to first year general tutorial
teaching of linguistic theory. Candidates should also be able to make some
contribution to the teaching of courses in linguistics at more advanced
undergraduate and graduate level. Here we would particularly welcome
expertise in semantics and psycholinguistics, but candidates with other
interests are encouraged to apply. Our degree level courses in
linguistics are listed in the further information, and we have flourishing
graduate MA courses in linguistics, and Linguistics and English Language
Teaching. The precise duties of the post (which will include some
departmental administration) will be by arrangement with the Head of
Department. The department provides a lively and supportive research
environment; our research is mainly focussed on phonetics, phonology,
sociolinguistics and syntax, but the research interests of members of the
department include semantics, computational linguistics, conversational
analysis, historical linguistics, dialectology and second language
acquisition. The department also houses a major research project into high
quality speech synthesis which is funded by British Telecom Plc.
Candidates should have an established area of linguistic expertise and
should preferably show a commitment to research in a branch of linguistics
relevant to the Department's work. The annual undergraduate intake of the
department is between 60 and 65 students. Further information on
undergraduate courses offered in the Department is attached, as is a list
of members of staff and their interests. The salary will be on the
Lecturer A scale: #13,601 -#18,855 per annum, according to age,
qualifications and experience. The University will meet the full cost,
within reason, of removal of furniture and household effects within the
United Kingdom. The extent of payment of removal expenses of members of
staff coming from overseas is at the discretion of the Vice-Chancellor.
Three estimates of removal costs (one of which should be from a York firm)
must be obtained and the University will meet the cost of the lowest
estimate.

Method of application Five copies of applications (one from overseas
candidates), including letter of application, full curriculum vitae and
the names of three referees should be sent to the Personnel Office,
University of York, Heslington, York YO1 5DD, UK (fax (0904) 433433) to
arrive by 14 June. Please supply e-mail addresses and fax numbers both for
yourself and for referees if possible. There are no printed application
forms. In your letter of application you should supply a statement of your
current research interests, and a detailed summary of any teaching
experience. You should indicate the contribution to teaching you would
feel competent to make both at first year undergraduate level and in more
specialized courses. Please also state whether you will be able to take up
the post from 1 October. Please quote reference number /3390. Interviews
will be held in York on Thursday 30 June.

Members of staff and their interests The department's research interests
cover a broad range, with equal emphasis on formal linguistics (syntax,
semantics, phonology), on applications of linguistic theory (bilingualism,
conversational analysis, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition,
sociolinguistics, speech synthesis), and on studies of particular
languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Swahili,
Welsh). The department houses a major research project on speech
synthesis, funded by British Telecom Plc.

David Adger (MA, MSc, PhD.Edinburgh) Syntactic theory; semantic theory;
Scottish Gaelic

CONSTANCE J CULLEN (BA Prince Edward Island, MA London) Syntactic theory
(especially phrase structure grammars); English in education; stylistics;
language and gender.

BRlTA GREEN (Fil mag Lund, PhD Hull) Swedish language and literature;
stylistics; translation; language teaching.

PATRICK D GRIFFITHS (BA Rand, PhD Edinburgh) Experimental studies of
psycholinguistic processing; child
language acquisition of vocabulary and syntax; general psycholinguistics;
descriptive semantics.

STEPHEN J HARLOW (BA London) Syntactic theory
(especially mono-stratal frameworks); syntax of Welsh; Chinese;
computational linguistics.

MARIE-ANNE HINTZE (L.esL.Lille, DES Lille)
History of the French language; phonetics; translation studies; French.

JOHN KELLY (BA Manchester) Phonetic and phonological theory and
methodology, particularly non-linear and with respect to English,
Balto-Slavic, Hungarian and Bantu languages; phonetics of conversation;
history of phonetics, especially in Britain.

JOHN K LOCAL (BA, PhD Newcastle upon Tyne) Practical, theoretical and
computational phonetics
and phonology; non-linear phonologies; speech synthesis; conversation
analysis; children's language acquisition; English dialectology; Scots
Gaelic.

RICHARD OGDEN (BA, MPhil Cambridge) Acoustic and articulatory
phonetics; Scandinavian languages (including Finnish); computational
linguistics.

Bernadette Plunkett (BA SOAS, MA UCL, PhD UMass) Syntactic
theory; comparative syntax of Arabic, French and English; French
linguistics; language acquisition

CHARLES V J RUSS (BA, MLitt Newcastle upon Tyne, MA Reading, PhD
Southampton) History of German and German
dialects (especially phonology and word formation); sociolinguistics of
modern German; structure of German.

JOAN C RUSSELL (BA, DPhil York) Sociolinguistics; multilingualism in
sub-Saharan Africa; Swahili language;
discourse structure; standardization processes; language planning.

MAHENDRA K VERMA (BA, MA Patna) Sociology of language; second language
acquisition and learning (especially attitudes and motivation);
bi/multilingualism (especially minority languages and ESL); South
Asianlanguages and linguistics (especially Hindi-Urdu).

CAROL A WALLACE (BA Ulster, MA Essex) Second language learning and
teaching; language in education; language and sex; English as a second
or foreign language; socio- and psycholinguistics.

ANTHONY R WARNER (BA Oxford, PhD Edinburgh) History of English
(especially syntax and language variation); syntax of
modern English; theoretical syntax; Old English; Middle English

Recent and forthcoming books by members of the department

John Kelly and John Local. Doing Phonology. Manchester University Press
1989.
Charles Russ. The dialects of Modern German. Routledge and Stanford U
Press 1989.
Adrian Battye and Marie-Anne Hintze. The French Language Today. Routledge
1992.
Joan Russell (and n. pollock). News from Masasi: Late 19th Century
Linguistic and Social Change in S. W. Tanzania. African Institute,
University of Vienna 1993.
Anthony Warner. English Auxiliaries: structure and History. Cambridge U
Press 1993.
Stephen Harlow. Phrase Structure Grammar. Routledge.
Charles Russ. The German Language Today. Routledge

The Structure of the Undergraduate Language and Linguistics Course The
following information mainly refers to the new (modular) degree structure
which started in 1992. Papers for the final year of the old degree
structure will continue to run in 1994-5.

Our undergraduate degree programmes last for three or four years; four
year courses include a 'year away'. Single-subject students offer ten
papers. Two must be in a language, two must be in linguistics and the
other six may be relatively freely chosen.

The following four degree programmes are the most heavily
subscribed: French and Linguistics; German and Linguistics; French and
German (Language and Linguistics); English Language and Linguistics; but
there are combinations of linguistics with the other languages taught in
the department. There are also joint degrees with Philosophy, Education,
English literature, Mathematics and History. The degree programme is
structured with courses on four levels: 100, 200, 300 (the 'year away'),
400. Each level has a course or courses at the next lower level as a
prerequisite. Thus French 100 (Use of French) has no prerequisite for
those admitted to a degree in French; French 400 (Advanced French
Language) is only open to students who have been on the 'year away' in
France (or in France and Germany for those taking French and German).

The First Year course The first year course consists of three components:
Core Linguistics courses; Level 100 language units and Additional
Linguistics courses.

The Core Linguistics courses
These provide a broad introduction to linguistics, and do not form part
of the finals assessment programme. They fall into three parts:

Linguistics 100: Introduction to the Principles of Linguistics -
introduces Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Psycholinguistics.

Linguistics 101:
Language in Society - introduces Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism and
Historical linguistics.

Linguistics102:
Basic Phonetics Level 100 language units These vary in nature according
to the language studied, but all form one component of the final
degree assessment:

First year units in French and German are post A-level and concentrate on
the development of a high level of linguistic ability in varied situations
and registers. The first year unit in English is concerned with the
present day structure of English and with an overview of the history of
English. The first year units in the languages that can be taken from
scratch - Chinese, Hindi and Swedish - progress from elementary work to
more advanced structures and the development of basic competence in
reading, writing, speaking and listening.

Additional Linguistics courses

These do not form part of the final degree assessment, but provide a more
advanced training in Linguistics which provides a good foundation for work
in Level 200 Linguistics courses and for the dissertation component. They
are: Linguistics 110: Methodology This course is organised around
practical projects which include the design of experiments, the writing of
questionnaires, informant handling and data elicitation, the evaluation of
results (including some elementary statistics), the relationship between
theory and data, the reporting of results). Linguistics 111 Practical
Phonetics and Phonology: This gives additional practice in phonetic
transcription and studying physiological and acoustic aspects of
speech-production. It also provides an
introduction to phonology.

Tutorials Students taking the First Year Core Linguistics courses attend a
weekly tutorial throughout the first year. These are one-hour meetings
between the tutor and a small number of students who make up the tutorial
group.

Study Skills This is a course which is designed to introduce the
techniques needed in studying at university, including an introduction to
the university's computing and word-processing facilities.

Units available after Year 1 In the second or fourth year of a four-year
degree (or in the second or third year of a three-year degree) students
accumulate further units whose contributes towards the degree and they
also follow agreed courses of study inassessment preparation for the
2-unit dissertation in linguistics. There is a large number and variety of
courses from which the choice of units can be made.

Language Units (beyond Year 1) For foreign languages, the units available
beyond year one are concerned with either advanced use of the language or
topics in the history and structure of the language. For students of
French, German or Hindi there will be at least four language units
available beyond Year 1. For students of Chinese and Swedish there will be
two units available (as there will for students of Swahili in
1994-5).

To exemplify from French and English courses: French courses in the new
degree structure after the first year 100 level are: Intermediate French
Language French Linguistics Advanced French Language Advanced French
Linguistics

The structure of German and Hindi courses is parallel.

For English, the units available beyond year one are concerned with mainly
historical or educational topics. English courses after the first year
100 level are:
English as a Foreign or Second Language
Stylistics
History of the English Language
English Writers and their Grammar (1993-4 only)
English Relatives and their development
English Educational Linguistics

Linguistics Units (beyond Year 1) For linguistics, the units available
beyond year one are theoretical (such as Syntax or Semantics & Pragmatics)
or applied (such as Linguistic Diversity and Language Teaching in
Britain). They may be general (such as Psycholinguistics or
Sociolinguistics) or quite focussed (such as Second Language Acquisition
or Language and Sex).

Linguistics courses currently available in the new degree structure after
the first year 100 level are

Computational Linguistics and Unification Grammar History of Phonetics
Phonological Theory
Syntax
Semantics & Pragmatics
Psycholinguistics
Sociolinguistics
Second Language Learning & Acquisition
Child Language
Linguistic Diversity and Language Teaching in Britain
Language & Sex
Socio-Historical Linguistics & Dialectology

The Year Away All of our four-year courses include a year away, in the
third year. Forstudents of a foreign language, the aim of the year away
is to improve the fluency and accuracy of the use of the languages (or
languages in the case of students taking the joint degree in French and
German). We have five universities in France and three in Germany to which
students on their year away are regularly sent. Students taking four year
degrees in Hindi are sent to language courses of an appropriate level in
Indian universities. It is not possible to study Chinese, Swedish or
Swahili at York to a level which includes a year away. The year away for
English specialists is rather different and involves a placement in some
institution of linguistic interest (a school or research project, for
example). Placements for English specialists are normally in the UK.

The Dissertation Students taking the Single Subject course or a combined
degree with Language and Linguistic Science as a Main component, are
required to satisfy two of the final degree components by submitting a
dissertation on a linguistic topic. The dissertation is of about 10,000
words and represents a major piece of independent work.

May 1994
End of details.

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* John Local *
* Professor of Phonetics and Linguistics *
* Department of Language and Linguistic Science *
* University of York *
* Heslington *
* YORK YO1 5DD *
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* Tel: UK+ 0904 432658 *
* E-mail lang4unix.york.ac.uk *
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