LINGUIST List 9.558

Sat Apr 11 1998

Jobs: Computational Ling, Studentship

Editor for this issue: Martin Jacobsen <martylinguistlist.org>

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  • Alex Kott, Comp. Linguistics, Text Technologies, Pittsburgh, PA
  • UiL-OTS, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics

    Message 1: Comp. Linguistics, Text Technologies, Pittsburgh, PA

     Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 18:16:31 -0400
    From: Alex Kott <akottcgi.com>
    Subject: Comp. Linguistics, Text Technologies, Pittsburgh, PA


    Carnegie Group, Inc., Research and Technology Development department, invite a researcher in text interpretation, information filtering, retrieval and integration, fact extraction. If you are interested in independent, innovative work and leadership of small R&D teams you will find this an excellent opportunity.

    We will consider both full-time and part-time candidates.

    Carnegie Group, located in Pittsburgh, PA, has a strong record of technology development and of practical, deployed applications in text processing.

    Examples include

    * TIPSTER/UNDERLINE - we are developing text summarization technology and tools, in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University; * the CONSTRUE/TIS system we developed for Reuters Ltd. to categorize a database of news stories; CONSTRUE achieved 92% recall, 90% precision on a 88 category set covering general economic news; * TCS (Text Categorization Shell) is a generic shell that categorizes a stream of texts into a predetermined set of categories based on content; * Situational Filter - a project to develop an approach to categorizing and filtering battlefield message traffic "tuned" to the commander's current view of the situation; * JASPER (Journalist's Assistant for Preparing Earnings Reports) takes as input a live feed of company press releases from PR Newswire, extracts a predetermined set of information, reformats that information into a candidate Reuters news story and ships it off to a financial journalist for validation; * CAT is a large machine translation project for Caterpillar Corporation, being developed by Carnegie Group in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Machine Translation; * commercial software products such as NameFinder - extractor of names entities, and ClearCheck - controlled authoring environment.

    POSITION DESCRIPTION ====================

    This researcher will join an R&D team dedicated to creation and early investigation of advanced technologies. She/he will focus on projects in the areas of information filtering, retrieval and integration, natural text processing, fact extraction.

    Her/his responsibilities would include:

    - lead development of innovative ideas and preparation of powerful, winning research proposals for Government R&D funding, in cooperation with Business Development group;

    - act as a Principal Investigator or a key researcher on a variety of research and technology development projects;

    - interface with customers;

    - lead rapid prototyping of proof of concept demonstrations;

    - write and publish conference papers, journal articles.

    - support transition of promising technologies into engineering organization

    CONTACT:

    Dr. Alexander Kott Director, R&TD Carnegie Group, Inc. 5 PPG Place Pittsburgh, PA 15222

    (412) 642-6900 (412) 642-6906

    akottcgi.com

    Message 2: Utrecht Institute of Linguistics

     Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 16:16:55 -0400 (EDT)
    From: UiL-OTS <UiL-OTSlet.ruu.nl>
    Subject: Utrecht Institute of Linguistics


    Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS is a research institute of the Faculty of Arts of Utrecht University. It is strongly committed to academic excellence and involved in many national and international researc activities. It participates in the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics LOT and in the Graduate school of Logic (OzsL). The UiL OTS searches candidates for 5 Graduate Positions starting September 1, 1998.

    The research groups of UiL OTS cover a large area of linguistic research: Phonetics, Syntax & Semantics, Morphology & Phonology, Computational Linguistics and Logic, Language Acquisition & Language Teaching, Language Use and Translation Studies. An important goal of the institute is to bring together different strands of linguistic research thus creating new and challenging perspectives. Research within UiL OTS centers around several themes of which we mention the following: syntax-semantics interface, aspect and quantification, optimality theory in phonology, coherence-relations in texts, text design processes, logic of grammatical resources, language processing and language acquisition, phonetic characteristics of idioms. On these and other areas project proposals have been formulated.

    Projects: Candidates are invited to apply for a graduate position in one of these research fields. As part of their training candidates will carry out a research project. In each of these fields projects have been formulated by the institute staff, but candidates may also apply on the basis of a proposal of their own. Such proposals will be evaluated against the research program of the institute. Summaries of the available projects will be sent to you on request. These summaries are also available on our Web-page: http://www-uilots.let.ruu.nl/. Part of the selection procedure will be to elaborate a project proposal on the basis of a summary.

    We ask enthusiasm for scientific research and evident interest in one of the areas of research of UiL OTS. The candidate should have a relevant doctoraal, or equivalent (MA) exam. Those who will finish their doctoraal/MA before September 1 1998 are also eligible.

    We offer a stimulating and innovative research environment with many international contacts, a program which offers possibilities for education in a broad area of linguistics, and a stipend of Dfl. 3.000, (before taxes) per month. Contingent on progress the stipend will be available for four years.

    Information will be provided by professor Eric Reuland (academic director), tel. +31-30-256006, or dr. Jan Don (program coordinator), tel. +31-30-2536065.

    Applications may be sent before May 4 to the Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS, Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands.

    Applications should be accompanied by a curriculum vitae, two references, a list of academic results, and a written specimen of academic research (MA-thesis, paper, etc.)

    Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS UiL OTS e-mail: uil-otslet.ruu.nl voice: #31 (0)30-2536006 fax: #31 (0)30-2536000 postal adress: Trans 10, 3512 JK, Utrecht, The Netherlands