LINGUIST List 15.359

Fri Jan 30 2004

Jobs: Arabic: Research Coordinator, LDC, U/Penn

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    Message 1: Arabic: Senior Research Coordinator, Linguistic Data Consortium

     Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:41:53 -0500 (EST)
    From: strassel <strasselldc.upenn.edu>
    Subject: Arabic: Senior Research Coordinator, Linguistic Data Consortium




    University or Organization: Linguistic Data Consortium Department: University of Pennsylvania - LDC Rank of Job: Senior Research Coordinator Specialty Areas: Linguistic Annotation, Corpus Development Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (Code = ABV)

    Description:

    The Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania has an immediate opening for a Senior Research Coordinator to support our Arabic language annotation projects.

    This position will provide general oversight for NLP and speech technology annotation projects, creating language resources to support common task evaluations in such areas as information extraction, detection, summarization, machine translation and automatic speech recognition. Responsibilities include defining annotation tasks in conjunction with LDC's constituent research community, specifying technical requirements for each project and supervising all aspects of annotation.

    Minimum qualifications:

    - MA/MS or advanced study in linguistics, computational linguistics or equivalent (PhD preferred) - Native Arabic speaker; excellent written and spoken English skills -3-5 years related experience

    Position contingent upon funding.

    Penn offers an excellent benefits package including medical/dental, retirement plans, tuition assistance and a minimum of 3 weeks paid vacation per year.

    The University of Pennsylvania is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. For further information or to apply online please visit http://www.hr.upenn.edu/jobs/; position reference number 040114168.

    For more information about Linguistic Data Consortium visit: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu



    Address for Applications:

    Attn: Stephanie Strassel 3600 Market Street, Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104-2653 United States of America

    Position is open until filled

    Contact Information: Stephanie Strassel Email: strasselldc.upenn.edu Website: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu