Re: Corpora: Corpus Linguistics User Needs
Ted E. Dunning (ted@aptex.com)
Fri, 31 Jul 1998 12:26:19 -0700
To follow up on henning reetz's comment about how likely linguists are
to get a job, I should state that I am occasionally in a position to
hire computational linguists and data modelers. My personal stance is
that a computational linguist or modeler who can't program at all is a
burden rather than an asset. As such, i generally wouldn't even
consider an applicant who doesn't have any programming skills at all.
The programming skills I am talking about are not the kind that a
professional programmer should have. The required skills have *far*
less depth and breadth. But I have found that people without these
skills have virtually no appreciation for what can be done, and thus
it is extremely difficult for them to express what needs to be done in
terms that can possibly be implemented.