LINGUIST List 9.576

Thu Apr 16 1998

Jobs: Machine Trans,Psycholing/Semantics,NLP

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

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Sabine Reinhard, Job openings in MT (Barcelona, Spain)

Matthew Crocker, PhD Studentships in Edinburgh

Message 1: Job openings in MT (Barcelona, Spain)

Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 15:24:35 +-200
From: Sabine Reinhard <sabine.reinhardbcn.gms.es>
Subject: Job openings in MT (Barcelona, Spain)

Openings in MACHINE TRANSLATION at GMS Barcelona

GMS, Gesellschaft fuer multilinguale Systeme mbH, with head office in Munich (Germany), is a leading developer of machine translation software.

The GMS language development division is based in Barcelona (Spain). For the development of new machine translation language pairs we have 12 immediate job openings. The new candidates will back up the current team, comprising 27 members, in designing and implementing formal analysis, transfer, and generation grammars or encoding the corresponding mono- and bilingual lexicons.

Candidate profiles:

- (Computational) Linguists for grammar development (ref. LING) with: * university degree in linguistics or computational linguistics * some programming experience; experience in writing formal grammars for natural languages would be a plus

- Linguists or Translators for lexicon development (ref. LEX) with: * university degree in foreign languages * interest to work on natural language processing

Languages:

* Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

Successful candidates should:

* be native speakers of one and have near-native proficiency in another of the languages mentioned above; additional languages would be an asset since further language pairs will soon be added * be willing to work together with the rest of the team * have good social and communicative abilities * show perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness

Working language: English

Starting date: as soon as possible

Term of contract: 2 years with possibility of renewal

Salary: According to experience and age

Office location: Center of Barcelona (in the charming 19th century district Example, within walking distance from the old part of the city and from the famous 'Las Ramblas')

You will join a young, international, and highly motivated team. GMS does not pursue research but is developing market-ready products. This will thus offer a great opportunity to those people who want to apply their acquired knowledge and apply their skills in real-world conditions. Since the GMS long-term objective is to implement machine translation products for all possible language pair combinations between Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish, this will also give future prospects to candidates beyond the initial term of contract.

More information about GMS can be found at the web page <<http://www.gmsmuc.de>;>.

If you are interested, send resume and cover letter in English to:

GMS Sucursal Roger de Lluria, 50 1-B E-08009 BARCELONA Spain

Fax: +34 - 3 - 487 76 19

indicating on the envelope the job reference.

Preliminary enquiries or applications can also be sent to jobsbcn.gms.es indicating in the subject the reference of the post. Full applications must be sent by surface mail or fax.

Message 2: Psycholing/Semantics

Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:30:49 +0100 (BST)
From: Max Wheeler <maxwcogs.susx.ac.uk>
Subject: Psycholing/Semantics

University of Sussex

School of Cognitive & Computing Sciences

Fixed term lectureship in linguistics Grade A or B (Ref: 320)

A three year lectureship. Applicants with teaching interests in Psycholinguistics and/or Semantics may be preferred, as may candidates able to contribute to the Linguistic Subject Group's research focus on language change.

Informal enquiries about the post may be addressed to Dr Max Wheeler on +44 (0)1273 678975, email maxwcogs.susx.ac.uk

Salary scales: Lecturer Grade A: 16,045 to 21,016 per annum Lecturer Grade B: 21,895 to 27,985 per annum

Application forms and further details for the above posts are available from and should be returned to Staffing Services, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9RH, UK. For information packs please call +44 (0)1273 606755 and ask for extension 3768, 8201 or 8202. Requests may be sent by email to S.Jenkssussex.ac.uk. This vacancy, together with links to Schools of Study web sites and further information about the University, may be seen at http://www.central.sussex.ac.uk. WHEN REQUESTING DETAILS, PLEASE QUOTE THE RELEVANT REFERENCE NUMBER.

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: Friday 22 May 1998.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

___________________________________________________________________________

Max W. Wheeler <maxwcogs.susx.ac.uk> School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK Tel: +44 (0)1273 678975; fax: +44 (0)1273 671320 ___________________________________________________________________________

Message 3: PhD Studentships in Edinburgh

Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:02:25 +0100
From: Matthew Crocker <mwccogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: PhD Studentships in Edinburgh

Centre for Cognitive Science University of Edinburgh

PhD Studentships for October 1998

Application deadline: 15 May 1998

The Centre for Cognitive Science (CCS) invites applications for three three-year EPSRC studentship awards to commence in October 1998. The studentships will be awarded in one or more of the following topic areas:

* Natural language generation: architectures and ontologies for text generation; generating form and content of documents; multimodal generation; evaluation of generation tools; psychological processes and representations involved in human discourse production;...

* Large-volume text handling: robust parsing; grammar induction; data-intensive semantics; finite-state methods for language processing; applications: information extraction, text categorization, flexible hypertext navigation, ...

* Diagrammatic communication: formal semantics of diagrammatic notations; learning visual programming languages; cognitive effects of multimodal representations, ...

Applicants should have a good honours degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Linguistics or Psychology.

EPSRC studentships are restricted to UK or EU residents. Residents of the UK are eligible for fees and a maintenance allowance; other EU residents are eligible for fees only (and so would need to be able to support themselves during their studies). The EPSRC baseline rate of maintenance allowance is currently approx 5,295 pounds sterling per annum. For further general information on EPSRC studentships, please consult http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/in-depth/indpfram.htm.

The studentships are available in association with on-going research projects in the Human Communication Research Centre, which has close links with CCS. Further information on CCS's research programme can be found on the CCS home page (http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/) and information about students and how to apply at http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/ccs/study/. Further information on Human Communication can be found at http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/.

If we already have your application on file for consideration this year, you do not need to apply again.

Deadline for applications: 15 May 1998

For additional advice and information, please contact:

Admissions Chair Centre for Cognitive Science The University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW

Email: ccsadmiscogsci.ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 131 650 4667 Fax: +44 131 650 6626