LINGUIST List 8.1406

Thu Oct 2 1997

Jobs: TESL,Natural Lang,Computational Ling

Editor for this issue: Elaine Halleck <elainelinguistlist.org>

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  • Bob Yates, TESL/Applied Linguistics
  • Linda Fresques, Natural Language, Comp Linguistics, Language Specialists

    Message 1: TESL/Applied Linguistics

     Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 10:01:40 -0500
    From: Bob Yates <kaboyatessprintmail.com>
    Subject: TESL/Applied Linguistics


    Assistant Professor of TESL/Applied Linguistics. Tenure track position starting August 1998. Ph.D preferred; ABD required. ESL teaching experience and ability to work with public school teachers required. 12-hour teaching load includes introductory linguistics, SLA theory, TESL methodology, academic ESL, and freshman composition. Salary dependent upon qualifications and experience. Send letter of application, vita, all transcripts, and three letters of recommendation to David Smith, Chair, Department of English and Philosophy, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO 64093. Women and minorities encouraged to apply. Review begins January 5, 1998, and continues until filled. AA/EEO/AdA.

    Robert Yates, Central Missouri State University, ryatescmsuvmb.cmsu.edu

    Message 2: Natural Language, Comp Linguistics, Language Specialists

     Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 13:09:59 -0600
    From: Linda Fresques <fresquescrl.nmsu.edu>
    Subject: Natural Language, Comp Linguistics, Language Specialists


    Natural Language Engineering Positions

    The Computing Research Laboratory (CRL) at New Mexico State University, a leading research laboratory specializing in multilingual computing and applications has several immediate openings.

    Senior Programmer (multiple positions)

    The mandatory requirements for the position include:

    A bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject A minimum of 5 years of experience in applications programming Excellent programming skills Excellent software system design skills Experience of work on a large project Interest in computational approaches to processing natural language Openness to new ideas and a desire to make ideas work in practice Fluency in English and good communication skills

    Any of the following will be a plus:

    Advanced degrees in a relevant subject: this could be an ideal position for a POST-DOCTORAL appointment Expertise in natural language processing or related areas Background in computational or field linguistics Knowledge of languages other than English, and especially Persian, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, Arabic or Korean; Experience in any of the following areas: - programming and knowledge representation languages, compiler and parser technology - expert systems, knowledge based systems, artificial intelligence - database technology - software engineering, development and debugging methods - object-oriented programming languages (e.g., C++, Java)

    Successful candidates will join a highly-motivated interdisciplinary R&D team. The candidates will design and implement R&D software and provide technical support for our work in natural language processing architectures, machine translation and multilingual information processing systems.

    Duration of appointment: 2 years, with a possibility of extension. Salary will depend on qualifications.

    If you have a B.Sc. or equivalent and 1 year of working experience, please apply for a Computer Specialist II position.

    If you have a B.Sc. or equivalent and 5 years of working experience, please apply for an Analyst III position.

    If you have a B.Sc. or equivalent and 7 or more years of working experience, please apply for an Computer Specialist III position.

    Study toward higher degrees in CS counts as experience.

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    Computational Linguists / Language Specialists (multiple positions)

    CRL urgently seeks qualified individuals to help us develop the static knowledge sources (grammars, lexicons, etc.) for the analysis side of several machine translation systems. The languages we are interested in are:

    Persian Turkish Arabic Korean Serbo-Croatian

    The mandatory requirements for the position include:

    Fluency in one of the above languages Fluency in English Experience with word processing on the computer Good communication skills

    Any of the following will be a plus:

    Undergraduate and/or graduate work in linguistics Expertise in natural language processing or related areas Expertise in programming

    Duration of appointment: 18 months, with a possibility of extension. Salary will strongly depend on qualifications.

    Successful candidates will work in teams led by CRL staff members. These are JUNIOR positions. However, we will also entertain inquiries from SENIOR computational linguists who would also help with design, evaluation and management of the knowledge acquisition efforts.

    If you have a B.Sc. or equivalent, please apply for a Computational Linguist I position.

    If you have a B.Sc. or equivalent and 5 years of working experience, please apply for an Analyst III position.

    If you have a M.Sc. or equivalent and 2 years of working experience, please apply for a Computational Linguist II position.

    If you have a Ph.D. or equivalent and 4 or more years of working experience, please apply for a Computational Linguist III position.

    How To Apply

    Send a CV, three letters of reference and a cover letter describing your career goals and qualifications and naming the position for which you are applying to:

    Angelic Sena Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University Box 30001 / Dept. 3CRL Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001 USA ail: asenacrl.nmsu.edu

    Computing Research Laboratory

    The Computing Research Laboratory (CRL), located on the New Mexico State University campus in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is an internationally acclaimed center of research excellence. The laboratory mainly focuses on natural language processing applications (machine translation, multilingual information retrieval, extraction and summarization), interface design, and knowledge representation.

    Information about CRL and its projects can be found at http://crl.nmsu.edu.

    CRL Senior Researchers

    Stephen Beale Natural Language Analysis and Generation, Control Architectures, Planning, Intelligent Agents

    James Cowie (Deputy Director) Multilingual Information Retrieval and Extraction, Corpus Methods, Machine Translation, CL Tools, Intelligent Agents

    David Farwell Machine Translation, Computational Linguistics, Pragmatics and Discourse

    Stephen Helmreich Machine Translation, Computational Linguistics, Pragmatics and Discourse, Corpus Methods, NLP System Evaluation

    Wanying Jin Chinese Computational Linguistics, Machine Translation, Information Retrieval

    Sergei Nirenburg (Director) Machine Translation, Natural Language Analysis and Generation, Ontology and Ontological Semantics, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge Elicitation, Computational Linguistic Typology

    William Ogden Human-Computer Interaction, GUI, Learning Environments, Machine-Aided Translation, Multilingual Information Retrieval, CL Tools

    Svetlana Sheremetyeva Russian and Serbo-Croatian Computational Linguistics, Computational Morphology, Authoring Systems, Knowledgea Elicitation, Natural Language Generation

    Evelyne Viegas Lexical Knowledge Acquisition, Natural Language Analysis and Generation, Machine Translation, Spanish Computational Linguistics

    Remi Zajac Multilingual Processing Architectures, Machine Translation, Multi-Engine Machine Translation, CL Tools and Formalisms