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bcn.gms.es>Openings in MACHINE TRANSLATION at GMS Barcelona GMS, Gesellschaft fuer multilinguale Systeme mbH, with head office in Munich (Germany), is a leading developer of machine translation software. The GMS language development division is based in Barcelona (Spain). For the development of new machine translation language pairs we have 12 immediate job openings. The new candidates will back up the current team, comprising 27 members, in designing and implementing formal analysis, transfer, and generation grammars or encoding the corresponding mono- and bilingual lexicons. Candidate profiles: - (Computational) Linguists for grammar development (ref. LING) with: * university degree in linguistics or computational linguistics * some programming experience; experience in writing formal grammars for natural languages would be a plus - Linguists or Translators for lexicon development (ref. LEX) with: * university degree in foreign languages * interest to work on natural language processing Languages: * Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish Successful candidates should: * be native speakers of one and have near-native proficiency in another of the languages mentioned above; additional languages would be an asset since further language pairs will soon be added * be willing to work together with the rest of the team * have good social and communicative abilities * show perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness Working language: English Starting date: as soon as possible Term of contract: 2 years with possibility of renewal Salary: According to experience and age Office location: Center of Barcelona (in the charming 19th century district Example, within walking distance from the old part of the city and from the famous 'Las Ramblas') You will join a young, international, and highly motivated team. GMS does not pursue research but is developing market-ready products. This will thus offer a great opportunity to those people who want to apply their acquired knowledge and apply their skills in real-world conditions. Since the GMS long-term objective is to implement machine translation products for all possible language pair combinations between Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish, this will also give future prospects to candidates beyond the initial term of contract. More information about GMS can be found at the web page <<http://www.gmsmuc.de>;>. If you are interested, send resume and cover letter in English to: GMS Sucursal Roger de Lluria, 50 1-B E-08009 BARCELONA Spain Fax: +34 - 3 - 487 76 19 indicating on the envelope the job reference. Preliminary enquiries or applications can also be sent to jobsMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cogs.susx.ac.uk>University of Sussex School of Cognitive & Computing Sciences Fixed term lectureship in linguistics Grade A or B (Ref: 320) A three year lectureship. Applicants with teaching interests in Psycholinguistics and/or Semantics may be preferred, as may candidates able to contribute to the Linguistic Subject Group's research focus on language change. Informal enquiries about the post may be addressed to Dr Max Wheeler on +44 (0)1273 678975, email maxwMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cogsci.ed.ac.uk>Centre for Cognitive Science University of Edinburgh PhD Studentships for October 1998 Application deadline: 15 May 1998 The Centre for Cognitive Science (CCS) invites applications for three three-year EPSRC studentship awards to commence in October 1998. The studentships will be awarded in one or more of the following topic areas: * Natural language generation: architectures and ontologies for text generation; generating form and content of documents; multimodal generation; evaluation of generation tools; psychological processes and representations involved in human discourse production;... * Large-volume text handling: robust parsing; grammar induction; data-intensive semantics; finite-state methods for language processing; applications: information extraction, text categorization, flexible hypertext navigation, ... * Diagrammatic communication: formal semantics of diagrammatic notations; learning visual programming languages; cognitive effects of multimodal representations, ... Applicants should have a good honours degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Linguistics or Psychology. EPSRC studentships are restricted to UK or EU residents. Residents of the UK are eligible for fees and a maintenance allowance; other EU residents are eligible for fees only (and so would need to be able to support themselves during their studies). The EPSRC baseline rate of maintenance allowance is currently approx 5,295 pounds sterling per annum. For further general information on EPSRC studentships, please consult http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/in-depth/indpfram.htm. The studentships are available in association with on-going research projects in the Human Communication Research Centre, which has close links with CCS. Further information on CCS's research programme can be found on the CCS home page (http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/) and information about students and how to apply at http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/ccs/study/. Further information on Human Communication can be found at http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/. If we already have your application on file for consideration this year, you do not need to apply again. Deadline for applications: 15 May 1998 For additional advice and information, please contact: Admissions Chair Centre for Cognitive Science The University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW Email: ccsadmisMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue