LINGUIST List 9.85

Mon Jan 19 1998

Jobs: Computational linguistics

Editor for this issue: Brett Churchill <brettlinguistlist.org>

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1. Dominique Petitpierre, Job opportunities at ISSCO, Geneva

ISSCO (Dalle Molle Institute for Semantic and Cognitive Studies, in
the Translation and Interpretation School of the University of Geneva)
has immediate openings for:

2 COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS (junior and senior) 

to participate in a number of Swiss and European language engineering
projects. 

The qualified candidates will collaborate on software design 
and implementation in one or more of the following areas:

- parallel text alignment
- translation memories
- translation verification tools
- syntactic and semantic tagging
- intelligent document analysis
- web-based linguistic resources

Requirements:

- university degree in computational linguistics or computer science
 (4 years).
- programming skills in Unix, C and Perl
- experience in developing software for NLP applications
- fluency in either French or English with good knowledge
 of the other language.

Additional qualities include:

- good communication skills
- good knowledge of internet tools (HTML, CGI, etc.)
- expertise in probabilistic and statistical methods
- knowledge of Java
- strong linguistic background
- expertise in SGML and XML
- fluency in German and/or Italian


ISSCO offers:

- good working conditions in a well-established research institute
- opportunities to collaborate in a variety of projects
- salary calculated by qualifications according to university scales
 - indicative salary for junior post: CHF 52,000 per year.
 - indicative salary for senior post (with PhD) post: from CHF 60,000
 per year depending on experience.

We invite interested candidates to send us a letter of interest along
with a detailed CV and the names of three references to:

ISSCO/ETI
attn: Prof. Susan Armstrong
University of Geneva
54, rte des Acacias
CH-1227 Carouge
(Switzerland)

email: susan.armstrongissco.unige.ch
Tel : (+41 22) 705 71 13
Fax : (+41 22) 300 10 86
WWW : http://www.issco.unige.ch/