Corpora: Vacancy at Longman Dictionaries

From: Crowdy, Steve (Steve.Crowdy@pearsoned-ema.com)
Date: Mon Oct 08 2001 - 13:36:50 MET DST

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    COMPUTATIONAL LINGUIST

    Pearson Education, the world's largest Educational publisher, is looking for
    a computational linguist to provide programming support for the Longman
    Dictionaries department in the UK, starting immediately.

    This role will involve the following:

    - writing programs to extract and analyze linguistic and statistical
    information from the Longman Corpus Network and other corpora including data
    in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese and other languages

    - processing corpus data (compiling, XML validation, and POS tagging, in
    various languages)

    - XML conversion/parsing of dictionary data and setting up new projects in
    an XML environment

    - computational analysis of lexicographic data

    We are looking for a graduate corpus/computational linguist with good
    programming skills and experience of corpus and dictionary processing. The
    annual salary is in the range 20,000 - 24,000 pounds sterling.
    This is a full-time, permanent (or possibly contract) post based in Harlow,
    UK.

    If you're interested, please email Steve Crowdy
    (steve.crowdy@pearsoned-ema.com) with your cv/details as soon as possible.

    Steve Crowdy
    Electronic Development Manager
    Longman Dictionaries
    Pearson Education
    Edinburgh Gate
    Harlow, Essex
    CM20 2JE, UK

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