LINGUIST List 8.1554

Wed Oct 29 1997

Jobs: Computational linguistics

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  • Catherine N. Ball, Computational Linguistics at Georgetown

    Message 1: Computational Linguistics at Georgetown

     Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 00:28:10 -0400
    From: Catherine N. Ball <cballgusun.georgetown.edu>
    Subject: Computational Linguistics at Georgetown


    The Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University offers four concentrations leading to a MS or PhD in Linguistics: Theoretical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics and COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS. Applications are invited for Fall 1998 (application deadline: February 1).

    Applicants to the PhD program in Computational Linguistics should have a Master's in linguistics or computer science (or a closely related field). Others are encouraged to apply to the MS program, which provides the foundation in linguistic theory and computer science necessary for more advanced work. A limited number of fellowships and scholarships are available, and local employment opportunities are excellent for PhD and advanced MS students. Part-time students are welcome. Vist our Web site for more information about the program, on-line courses, and links to the catalogue and application materials:

    http://www.georgetown.edu/compling/home.html

    In addition to a wide variety of offerings in linguistics (Theoretical, Socio-, Applied), the program offers courses in machine translation, neural networks, computer-assisted language learning, natural language processing, information retrieval, text mining and corpus linguistics. Current students are engaged in research in machine translation (ASL, Japanese, Spanish, etc.), natural language processing (intelligent agents, anaphora resolution, visual representation of textual data), speech processing and neural nets, among other areas.

    Computational Faculty: * Catherine Ball (natural language processing, corpus linguistics, Prolog, Perl) * Catherine Doughty (language acquisition, CALL) * Donald Loritz (Program Head; instructional parsing, neural nets, Lisp) * Susann Luperfoy (MITRE Corp.; machine translation, discourse processing) * Paul Portner (formal semantics, knowledge representation) * Solomon Sara, SJ (phonology, Prolog) * George Wilson (MRJ, Inc.; information retrieval, Perl) * Mahe Vellauthapillai (Computer Science Dept.; AI, C/C++) * Raffaella Zanuttini (generative syntax) * Lisa Zsiga (phonetics, phonology, acoustic phonetics, speech processing)