LINGUIST List 5.904

Thu 18 Aug 1994

Jobs: MITRE Corporation, CTE Language Trainer & Language Mentor

Editor for this issue: <>


Directory

  • , job opening
  • Christine Kamprath, Job Openings

    Message 1: job opening

    Date: Wed, 17 Aug 94 14:16:47 EDjob opening
    From: <mpeetoceanus.mitre.org>
    Subject: job opening


    The MITRE Corporation is an independent, not-for-profit organization operating in the public interest that provides systems engineering and acquisition support to federal, state and local governments, and other not-for-profit organizations. MITRE's Signal Processing Center in Reston, VA is currently seeking for its Speech Processing Group a Member of the Technical Staff.

    The successful applicant will be involved in developing and integrating prototype spoken language interfaces for military and civilian programs. Applicants must have strong C programming skills, and experience with commercial or research speech recognition systems. Minimum requirements are a Bachelors and 4 year's experience in speech recognition. Masters or new Ph.D. with research or work experience in speech recognition preferred. U.S. citizenship required. Please send resumes to: Dr. Margot Peet, The MITRE Corporation, Mailstop W622, 7525 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA 22102. email: mpeetmitre.org ********************************* Margot Peet mpeetmitre.org

    voice:(703) 883-7596 fax: (703) 883-6708

    Message 2: Job Openings

    Date: Wed, 17 Aug 94 20:45:54 CDJob Openings
    From: Christine Kamprath <ckampraheartland.bradley.edu>
    Subject: Job Openings


    Job Openings

    Two Positions: CTE Language Trainer and CTE Language Mentor

    Caterpillar Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of heavy earthmoving equipment and a major publisher and translator of technical publications worldwide is seeking a LANGUAGE TRAINER and a LANGUAGE MENTOR to provide training and mentoring in the use of Caterpillar Technical English (CTE) to its staff of technical writers. CTE is a controlled English system whose use of restricted terminology and grammatical structures is monitored by a highly sophisticated and linguistically principled software system. The Language Trainer and the Language Mentor would be expected to acquire a thorough understanding of CTE and the linguistic software and to assist in preparing and maintaining training materials and in developing writing guidelines. The Language Trainer would conduct training classes in CTE and the linguistic software. The Language Mentor would attend all CTE classes and provide mentoring to writers as they learn to use CTE and the software.

    Candidates for either position should possess a combination of knowledge and experience of general linguistic principles; innovative interest in authoring, composition, and editing issues, experience and/or ability in training and mentoring in grammar and software use, and excellent writing skills. The positions both require a BA or MA in Linguistics, English, or related discipline, skills in the above-mentioned areas, and native-speaker competence of English. A knowledge of SGML tagging and the terminology and mechanics of the heavy machinery industry would be very helpful. The positions are scheduled to begin October 1, 1994 (or as soon as possible thereafter), with training and mentoring responsibilities to begin January 1995.

    Candidates with US residency will be most seriously considered, due to time constraints on hiring for these positions. Applications, including a curriculum vitae or resume and the names of three references, should be sent to the following address. Please indicate which position you are applying for.

    Dr. Christine Kamprath Senior Computational Linguist AMT/CTE Project Technical Information Division Building N1-Ad180 600 W. Washington Street East Peoria, IL 61630-0371

    Screening of applications will begin immediately and continue until qualified candidates are selected. Applications may be sent by fax or mail; queries about the positions will be accepted by phone or e-mail as well

    e-mail: ckampraheartland.bradley.edu fax: (309) 675-9773 phone: (309) 675-7339