[Corpora-List] new position at LDC

From: Stephanie M. Strassel (strassel@unagi.cis.upenn.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 29 2004 - 18:34:50 MET

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    The Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania has an
    immediate opening for a Senior Research Coordinator to support our
    Arabic language annotation projects.

    This position will provide general oversight for NLP and speech
    technology annotation projects, creating language resources to support
    common task evaluations in such areas as information extraction,
    detection, summarization, machine translation and automatic speech
    recognition. Responsibilities include defining annotation tasks in
    conjunction with LDC's constituent research community, specifying
    technical requirements for each project and supervising all aspects of
    annotation.

    Minimum qualifications:
    -MA/MS or advanced study in linguistics, computational linguistics or
    equivalent (PhD preferred)
    -Native Arabic speaker; excellent written and spoken English skills
    -3-5 years related experience

    Position contingent upon funding.

    Penn offers an excellent benefits package including medical/dental,
    retirement plans, tuition assistance and a minimum of 3 weeks paid
    vacation per year.

    The University of Pennsylvania is an affirmative action/equal
    opportunity employer. For further information or to apply online please
    visit http://www.hr.upenn.edu/jobs/; position reference number 040114168.

    For more information about Linguistic Data Consortium visit:
    http://www.ldc.upenn.edu

    -- 
    Stephanie Strassel
    Associate Director, Data Creation
    Linguistic Data Consortium
    3600 Market Street, Suite 810  Philadelphia, PA 19104-2653 USA
    phone: 215-898-9681, fax: 215-573-2175
    strassel@ldc.upenn.edu
    http://www.ldc.upenn.edu
    



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