LINGUIST List 8.2

Thu Jan 9 1997

Jobs: Lexicography, Iowa position revision

Editor for this issue: T. Daniel Seely <seelylinguistlist.org>

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  • Martin King, Lexicography
  • William Davies, revised announcement for Iowa visiting position

    Message 1: Lexicography

     Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 13:00:57 -0800
    From: Martin King <mtkwolfenet.com>
    Subject: Lexicography


    (This message has been posted to 9 language mailing lists; We apologize for any duplicates you may receive)

    We are a small company in Seattle, WA (USA), with a software technology which makes use of an internal dictionary. In order for our technology to be useful, the dictionary must be quite comprehensive. It must include all important word stems, their possible inflections, idiomatic and slang terms, etc. The dictionary must also include the relative frequency of use for each of these objects within several chosen corpora. Our experience (with English) has been that no single source of linguistic data (e.g., a published word list or dictionary) is sufficiently complete for this purpose. Rather, we anticipate a process which correlates numerous public sources of linguistic data, and then further checks the result against the lexicon found in several large corpora.

    Over the next four months our company will be developing new dictionaries for three languages: French, German, and Spanish. From our experience with English, we expect that each language data set will require between one and two person-months to develop. At a minimum, we are interested in locating individuals who are very fluent in one of these languages (native speakers would be ideal). Ideally we'd like to locate individuals who are not only fluent in one or more of these languages, but who also have a background in computational linguistics and/or computer science.

    We imagine that this work will proceed via help from several consultants who contract either to provide us with the finished dictionaries, or to assist us in developing them. We would also like to consider working with an academic researcher, since the technology we are working on is a novel application of computational linguistics which might well lead to publication.

    If you are interested in helping us with this project, please contact:

    Martin T. King MTKJUSTTYPE.COM Aiki, L.L.C. (206) 343 7001 P.O. 4680 Fax: 343 7004 Seattle, WA 98104

    Message 2: revised announcement for Iowa visiting position

     Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 12:31:50 -0600 (CST)
    From: William Davies <wdaviesblue.weeg.uiowa.edu>
    Subject: revised announcement for Iowa visiting position


    Attached is a revised announcement for the visiting position at the University of Iowa, which will now be a full-year rather than one-semester appointment.



    October 1996

    (Revised Position Description) VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

    The Department of Linguistics at The University of Iowa invites applications for an appointment for the entire academic year 1997-98. Candidates should be able to teach introductory phonology as well as at least one of the following: sociolinguistics, history of English, introductory syntax, introductory semantics. First consideration will be given to those candidates who will have completed the PhD degree by the time of appointment. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.

    Applicants should send a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, and the names of three references to:

    Catherine Ringen, Chair, Search Committee Department of Linguistics The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242-1408

    Applicants for this position should indicate that they are applying for the visiting position and not the tenure-track position for a phonologist, which was announced earlier. Applicants who wish to be considered for both positions should indicate this in the letter of application.

    For fullest consideration, candidates should make application by January 1, 1997. Screening will begin immediately. THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA IS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER william-daviesuiowa.edu