CELEX, the Dutch Centre for Lexical Information, is urgently seeking to
fulfil the position of one full-time researcher/developer to enrich the
German lexical database for the fixed period of 10 months, from March 1 to
December 31, 1997.
Background
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Within the framework of a long-term lexical database research and
development project, CELEX has been compiling and updating massive
structured collections of numerous word features for Dutch, English and
German for the past ten years. CELEX has been jointly established and
managed by the University of Nijmegen, the Institute for Perception
Research (IPO) in Eindhoven, the Institute for Dutch Lexicology (INL) in
Leiden, and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) in
Nijmegen. It is located at the MPI, which is formally entrusted with its
day-to-day administration.
Tasks
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On an extension to a grant awarded by the Netherlands Organization for
Scientific Research (NWO), we are able to appoint one extra computational
linguist for a period of 10 months on a full-time basis.
The future employee's tasks will focus on enriching the German lexical
database by:
- Coordinating the disambiguation of the frequencies of all homographic
wordforms (approx. 12,000 existing and new entries) on the basis of their
context in corpora supplied by the IDS in Mannheim. This task will be
carried out in collaboration with two student assistants.
- Evaluating and, where necessary, revising the verbal argument
structures listed in the current database on the basis of scholarly
publications, corpus research and dictionary labels.
Requirements
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Applicants should ideally have a master's degree in German with advanced
computational skills, or have mixed but solid qualifications in German and
computational linguistics. Native speakers of German with a training
in general and computational linguistics are also invited to apply.
Employment Conditions
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Employment will be on a temporary basis, for a period of 10 months.
Although funding is restricted to this period, the appointment may be
extended depending on the provision of additional funding from the Dutch
government, European councils or any other relevant bodies. No further
commitment on our part or claims on the part of the applicant can be
derived from this statement, however.
The salary will be in the order of Dfl. 4,000= (US $2,200) before tax per
month for junior researchers, according to qualifications and age.
Enquiries and applications
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Further enquiries can be made and (informal) applications can be sent
by e-mail or surface mail to:
Richard Piepenbrock
CELEX Project Manager
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Wundtlaan 1
6525 XD NIJMEGEN
The Netherlands
E-mail: celex@mpi.nl
Tel: (+31) (0)24 - 3615797
Fax: (+31) (0)24 - 3521213
More information on CELEX (though not on the job) can be found on our
WWW-homepage at URL
http://www.kun.nl/celex/