LINGUIST List 9.85

Mon Jan 19 1998

Jobs: Computational linguistics

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  • Dominique Petitpierre, Job opportunities at ISSCO, Geneva

    Message 1: Job opportunities at ISSCO, Geneva

     Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 21:22:16 +0100 (MET)
    From: Dominique Petitpierre <Dominique.Petitpierreissco.unige.ch>
    Subject: Job opportunities at ISSCO, Geneva


    ISSCO (Dalle Molle Institute for Semantic and Cognitive Studies, in the Translation and Interpretation School of the University of Geneva) has immediate openings for:

    2 COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS (junior and senior)

    to participate in a number of Swiss and European language engineering projects.

    The qualified candidates will collaborate on software design and implementation in one or more of the following areas:

    - parallel text alignment - translation memories - translation verification tools - syntactic and semantic tagging - intelligent document analysis - web-based linguistic resources

    Requirements:

    - university degree in computational linguistics or computer science (4 years). - programming skills in Unix, C and Perl - experience in developing software for NLP applications - fluency in either French or English with good knowledge of the other language.

    Additional qualities include:

    - good communication skills - good knowledge of internet tools (HTML, CGI, etc.) - expertise in probabilistic and statistical methods - knowledge of Java - strong linguistic background - expertise in SGML and XML - fluency in German and/or Italian

    ISSCO offers:

    - good working conditions in a well-established research institute - opportunities to collaborate in a variety of projects - salary calculated by qualifications according to university scales - indicative salary for junior post: CHF 52,000 per year. - indicative salary for senior post (with PhD) post: from CHF 60,000 per year depending on experience.

    We invite interested candidates to send us a letter of interest along with a detailed CV and the names of three references to:

    ISSCO/ETI attn: Prof. Susan Armstrong University of Geneva 54, rte des Acacias CH-1227 Carouge (Switzerland)

    email: susan.armstrongissco.unige.ch Tel : (+41 22) 705 71 13 Fax : (+41 22) 300 10 86 WWW : http://www.issco.unige.ch/