LINGUIST List 5.671

Fri 10 Jun 1994

Jobs: Phonologist, Roehampton Institute, Computational Ling

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2. ucleaar, JOB (Roehampton Institute, London)
3. Victor Raskin, Computational Linguistics jobs

ANNOUNCEMENT OF ONE-YEAR REPLACEMENT POSITION FOR 1994-95 ACADEMIC YEAR

Pending final approval of funds, the Linguistics Program at the University
of California, Davis, has been authorized to advertise for a one-year
replacement position in phonetics and phonology. Candidates must have
completed or be near the completion of their Ph.D. and must demonstrate
effective teaching in the above areas. Courses to be taught will include:
Phonetics, Advanced Phonetics, Phonological Analysis, and Phonological
Theory. The service periods for this position are as follows -- Fall
Quarter 1994: September 26 - December 17; Winter Quarter 1995: January 3
- March 24; Spring Quarter 1995: March 30 - June 16. The anticipated
salary range runs from $17,102 - $25,000, depending on candidate's
training, experience, and number of courses taught.

Interested parties should send a letter of application, a current C.V.,
evidence of teaching experience, and the names, addresses, and phone
numbers of three references to: Linguistics Search Committee, Linguistics
Program, University of California, Davis, CA 95616.

Application deadline: June 15, 1994, or until the position is filled.

The Linguistics Department at UC Davis is committed to building a more
diverse faculty, staff and student body as it responds to the changing
population and educational needs of California and the nation. As a
consequence, we are especially interested in attracting persons from groups
currently underrepresented on the campus. As an affirmative action/equal
opportunity employer, we will pay special attention to applications from
women, persons of color, persons with disabilities, Vietnam era veterans,
and special disabled veterans.

A one-year fixed-term lectureship in English Language
& Linguistics at Roehampton Institute (in SW London)
has just been advertised. The teaching involves taking
responsibility for a course in the history of the
English language, plus a moderate amount of teaching on
sundry other courses. Salary is (in pounds) 13140-19362
+ 1830 London allowance. The deadline for applications
is June 23 1994.

Applications & formal enquiries to:
Roehampton Institute
Human Resources Officer
Senate House
Roehampton Lane
London SW15 5PU

telephone is: (0)81 392 3644

The official job description is:
Lectureship in English Language & Linguistics. Ref. HR11

I'd be happy to answer any informal enquiries.
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And Rosta (ucleaarucl.ac.uk)

I am mailing this at the request of Dr. Sergei Nirenburg, Director,
Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las
Cruces, N.M. 88003 (505-646-5466, sergeinmsu.edu).

COMPUTING RESEARCH LABORATORY

New Mexico State University

Visiting Research Scientist / Mikrokosmos

The Mikrokosmos NLP project needs 2 specialists to join an existing research
team to design and develop a number of "microtheories" of lexical-semantic and
related phenomena in Spanish, Japanese and English for the eventual use in a
knowledge-based machine translation system. In practice, the work will involve
building semantic lexicon entries in any or all the above languages as well as
augmenting an existing world model, or "ontology."

The successful candidates will have excellent skills in generating
lexical-semantic descriptions using large text corpora, machine-readable
dictionaries and other computational lexicographic resources, and formulating
these descriptions in the terms of an AI-style, processing-oriented,
ontology-based computational model for meaning extraction, representation and
use.

Requirements include a Ph.D. or equivalent in Computational Linguistics,
Computer Science, Linguistics or a closely related field.

User-level competence in Unix, X windows and GUIs is essential. Programming
skills in C and/or Lisp and good knowledge of Japanese or Spanish will be a
serious plus.

Remuneration will depend on experience within the range of $40,000 to $60,000
per annum. The projected starting date is September 15, 1994.

These positions are for one year with a possibility of extension. The
probability of such an extension will increase if the candidates are willing
and capable of contributing to the ongoing effort to generate research funds
for the laboratory.

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Visiting Research Scientist / Temple


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Computational Lexicographer / Arabic

The Temple NLP project needs a computational linguist to develop lexical
support for an Arabic - English and English - Arabic translator's workstation.
The work will include developing and adapting bilingual phrasal glossaries,
formulating linguistic knowledge to support morphological analysis and
synthesis programs and similar text processing utilities. An additional type of
work will involve preparing language materials for an example-based machine
translation system from Arabic into English as well as testing and improving
it.

Fluency in reading and writing Modern Standard Arabic is a
requirement. User-level competence in Unix, X windows and GUIs is essential.
Programming skills in C and/or Lisp will be a serious plus.

A B.A. or B.Sc. is essential, preferably in Computational Linguistics, Computer
Science, Linguistics or Modern Languages.

Remuneration will depend on experience within the range of $25,000 to $30,000
per annum. The projected starting date is September 15, 1994.

This position is for one year with a possibility of extension.

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Computational Lexicographer / Japanese

The Temple NLP project needs a computational linguist to develop lexical
support for an Japanese - English and English - Japanese translator's
workstation. The work will include developing and adapting bilingual phrasal
glossaries, formulating linguistic knowledge to support morphological analysis
and synthesis programs and similar text processing utilities. An additional
type of work will involve preparing language materials for an example-based
machine translation system from Japanese into English as well as testing and
improving it.

Fluency in reading and writing Standard Japanese is a requirement. User-level
competence in Unix, X windows and GUIs is essential. Programming skills in C
and/or Lisp will be a serious plus.

A B.A. or B.Sc. is essential, preferably in Computational Linguistics, Computer
Science, Linguistics or Modern Languages.

Remuneration will depend on experience within the range of $25,000 to $30,000
per annum. The projected starting date is September 15, 1994.

This position is for one year with a possibility of extension.

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Victor Raskin raskinmace.cc.purdue.edu
Professor of English and Linguistics (317) 494-3782
Chair, Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics 494-3780 fax
Coordinator, Natural Language Processing Laboratory
Purdue University
W. Lafayette, IN 47907-1356 U.S.A.