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pdp.crl.sony.co.jp>Sony has two openings at its San Jose Research Laboratory for a research project on spoken language translation using hybrid rule-based and statistical methods. We are looking for creative, results-oriented individuals who are able to work well as part of an international team, and who are interested in seeing their research lead to collaborations with product groups. The details of the two positions are as follows: 1. Computational Linguist (Japanese) Job duties: Participate in a research project on spoken language translation between English and Japanese. Create, maintain, and extend Japanese computational dictionaries, grammars, linguistic databases, and rule bases. Participate in the linguistic evaluation, maintenance, and refinement of the system. Job requirements: Native-level fluency in Japanese. Ability to communicate and work effectively in English. Must possess excellent logical analysis skills. Must be systematic and accurate. Must have some general computer skills. Must possess at least a bachelor's degree. Must have educational or job experience in a relevant field, such as computational linguistics, linguistics, or computer science. Qualifications that would be a plus: Experience working on machine translation or natural language processing, especially involving Japanese. Ability to program in Perl, or C. Master's degree or equivalent work experience in a relevant field. 2. Research Programmer (Spoken Language Translation) Job Duties: Participate in a research project on spoken language translation between English and Japanese. Create, maintain, and extend software modules, such as morphological analysis, parsing, transfer, and generation. Provide documentation of work, and participate in transfer of research results to product groups. Job requirements: Excellent programming skills in C. Experience in working on large software systems. Minimum of 2 years experience in C programming. Must possess at least a Master's degree or equivalent work experience. Collaborate with products groups, including overseas travel. Work experience in R&D environment. Qualifications that would be a plus: Familiarity with one or more foreign language. Experience in R&D in natural language processing or machine translation. Experience in R&D of spoken language system, especially spoken language translation. Experience in C programming for PC platform. Sony offers competitive salaries and an excellent range of employee benefits. For general information about employment at Sony, please visit the corporate web pages at http://www.sel.sony.com. For questions about the San Jose research group, please contact: Mick Tanaka Manager, Spoken Language Technology Group Sony US Research Laboratories Tel: (408) 955-5848 Fax: (408) 955-5180 Email: mickMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
Two posts at the Department of English of Lingnan College. More info can be found at: http://www.ln.edu.hk/~wwwsec/adv/adv.htm And application forms can be downloaded at: http://www.ln.edu.hk/~wwwsec/adv/form.htm Please, DO NOT reply to this message. I'm only passing on the info. Good luck! Peter ______________________________________________ 1.Assistant Professor / Associate Professor (Scale B) (Ref: 006/ENG/98) Candidates should have a PhD degree in English Literature, or a related discipline and preferably with a background which includes drama/film and/or experience of Asian writing in English. A strong secondary interest in Stylistics and English Language Teaching would be an advantage. 2.Lecturer / Assistant Professor / Associate Professor (Scale B) (Ref: 007/ENG/98) Candidates should have a PhD degree in Applied Linguistics or a related field with a generalist background and broad-based teaching experience in the tertiary sector. Deadline for Application : 20 December 1997 Send application materials to: College Secretariat Lingnan College Tuen Mun Hong Kong ___________________________________________________________________ Dr. Peter Yongqi Gu, Assistant Professor Dept of English, Lingnan College, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong Tel: (852) 2616-7783 Fax: (852) 2461-5270 Email: peterguMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
pc4.ikp.uni-bonn.de>J o b o f f e r The Institute for Communications Research and Phonetics (IKP), University of Bonn, is looking for a research assistant (salary according to BAT IIa/2) from 1/1/98 to 31/12/98. It is highly probable that the contract may be renewed until 31/12/2000. The Speech Synthesis group at IKP consists of 5 research assistants including 4 PhD students and 5 student research assistants. A professional recording studio and a sound-proofed room are available. Computing facilites are good (3 SUN Sparcstations, 5 Pentium computers running both Windows and Linux). The position is financed by the VERBMOBIL project of the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research. The project involves translating spontaneous speech dialogues from German to English / Japanese and vice versa. Nearly 25 German and foreign universities and companies participate in the project. The task of IKP is developing the acoustical prosody control for the English and German speech output. We need not only a default prosody, on which there is substantial previous work, but also prosodic realisations of semantic and pragmatic phenomena such as "focus" and "dialogue act" and paralinguistic phenomena such as "speaker attributes". It is possible to work towards a Ph.D. We expect: - extensive background in phonetics (phonetics degree or related degree work); background in prosody highly desirable - experience with computers, especially with ESPS - good knowledge of American English - fluent German - ability to work well in a team - ability to work responsibly For further information please contact: Thomas Portele IKP, Poppelsdorfer Allee 47, D-53115 Bonn Tel: 0228/735613 email: tpoMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue