LINGUIST List 8.219

Sun Feb 16 1997

Jobs: Postdoctoral, NLP, French Grammarian

Editor for this issue: Susan Robinson <suelinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Gregory Ward, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship: Final Announcement
2. Gary Coen, Boeing Opening for an Advanced Computing Technologist (NLP)
3. Suzanne Coleman, Computational Grammarian for French

 The application deadline for the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship position
 at Northwestern University is FEBRUARY 14TH 1997. A copy of the ad can
 be found on the world wide web at:
 http://www.ling.nwu.edu/~ward/mellon.ad

 E-mail inquiries should be directed to the search committee chair,
 Gregory Ward, at gwnwu.edu. The web page for the Linguistics
 Department is located at: http://www.ling.nwu.edu

 Northwestern University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
 Employer, and applications from minority and women candidates are
 especially welcome.

Opening for an Advanced Computing Technologist (NLP)
Boeing Helicopters Information Management Services
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


The Advanced Computing Technologies (ACT) resource center of Boeing
Helicopters provides support for advanced computing applications,
including artificial intelligence. Currently, ACT has the following
opening:

 NLP Position Opening
 -------------------- 
 Natural Language Processing (NLP): Applicants should possess a
 broad computational linguistic background, with an advanced
 degree in an NLP field plus at least three years' professional
 experience in corpus analysis, computational morphology,
 computational (lexical) semantics, robust parsing, and/or
 discourse processing. Knowledge of the basic NLP application
 frameworks, including information extraction, text retrieval,
 text processing, natural language interfaces, machine
 translation, etc., is preferred, along with programming
 expertise in at least three of the following: C, C++, LISP,
 CLOS, and Unix platforms.

Qualified persons must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. If you are
interested and you qualify, please post your resume via US mail to:

 Boeing Helicopters Information Management Systems
 Human Resources
 Rick Chevalier
 PO Box 16858
 MS P28-26 (ACT)
 Philadelphia PA 19142
 
We are an equal opportunity employer. Principals only need apply.

A Seattle area software company has an opening for a contract position
(duration: approximately one year). The position pays between $40.00 and
$50.00 per hour. Following is a description of the position:

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARIAN for French

This is a great opportunity to work with a dedicated group of researchers who
are creating a system for unrestricted text understanding and generation.

DESCRIPTION:

An NLP group has developed a robust system for parsing French grammar; the
first commercial use of this technology will be grammar checking software that
will be built into a French word processor. A grammarian is needed to develop
the computational rules for the grammar checking component of the system. The
position is for one year, with a strong possibility of renewal.

QUALIFICATIONS:

The grammarian's qualifications must include an advanced degree in
linguistics, or a closely related discipline; native proficiency in French;
and some computational experience. Practical experience with a grammar
checking application or other NLP implementation is highly desirable.


Interested persons should e-mail a resume to Resource Management Services at:
resourcemgtmsn.com. Or fax a resume to RMS-Linguist at 206/223-8227.