ucla dept linguistics 9697 job fellowship bulletin 27 fwd editor note jobs already posted list august 1 1997 ucla dept linguistics 199697 job fellowship bulletin 27 267 bengurion university postdoc ben gurion university beer sheva israel work nomi erteschik shir tova rapoport verbal projection focus project funded israel science foundation preference candidate interest syntax lexicalsemantics interface beginning november 1st 1997 one two years applicants send email cv names three references samples work nomi erteschik shir department foreign literatures linguistics ben gurion university negev p box 653 beer sheva israel home 972 76469482 work 972 76461117 972 76461128 fax 972 76472907 268 lancaster university lancaster university consortium universities central lancashire lancaster sheffield university college st martin lancaster homerton college cambridge awarded 247k h e f c e f l 3 year project developing intercultural sociolinguistic competence university students undertaking periods study work abroad identification dissemination good practice suitably qualified graduates wishing pursue 3 year ph research programme monitoring analysing project invited apply research studentship 5000 fees p year beginning 1 october 1997 lancaster university appli cations 25 august r h crawshaw french studies lancaster univ la1 4yn england details rosemary anderson address 01524 592669 email r anderson lancs ac uk 269 lancaster university lancaster university consortium universities central lancashire lancaster sheffield university college st martin lancaster homerton college cambridge awarded 247 000 h e f c e f l 3 year project developing intercultural sociolinguistic competence periods study work abroad identification dissemination good practice student support guidance applications invited two posts project officer one fulltime one 0 5 time starting 1 september 1997 soon project officers based lancaster responsible director administering helping devise project together experience residence europe fluency least one french german spanish italian ideal candidates also computer communication skills organisational experience initial salary 15 159 pounds applications 18 august personnel services lancaster univ la1 4yw also particulars available 270 lernout hespie speech products belgium language specialist korean language development location ieper belgium function person assist development textto speech systems derived applications projects field natural language processing speech technology work different language groups report group leader language development manager profile university degree philology linguistics equivalent excellent knowledge korean native near native command language interest linguistic aspects korean languages least basic experience interest computers good knowledge experience one following areas considered asset speech processing esp textto speech synthesis phonetics computer linguistics natural language processing nlp spoken dialog systems computer technology use standard software packages programming languages target language ability work team independently perseverance accuracy thoroughness good social communicative abilities fluent english working language willingness travel abroad limited periods time lernout hauspie speech products premier provider speech technology worldwide lernout hauspie speech products international leader development advanced speech technology various commercial applications products lernout hauspie company offering full range speech technologies textto speech speechto text speechto speech textto text multiple platforms multiple languages lh four core technologies automatic speech recognition txtto speech conversion digital speech compression language translation licensed world bestknown companies telecommunications computers multimedia consumer electronics automotive industries offer challenging job fast growing belgian company remuneration matching qualifications contact us mail lernout hauspie speech products personnel department attn patrick thomas sint krispijnstraat 7 8900 ieper belgium fax 32 0 57208489 email jobannounce lhs automatic reply info lh found http www lhs com 271 microsoft nlp group microsoft research looking computational grammarian french position located microsoft central campus redmond washington usa great oppor tunity work dedicated group researchers creating system unrestricted text understanding generation integrating technology microsoft products sold around world responsibilities primary responsibility designing writing critique rules grammar checker rules based output french language parser critique rule writer become intimately familiar microsoft natural language system enhance system creating rules flag grammatical errors suggest alternatives qualifications qualifications include experience linguistic research software development familiarity natural language processing flexible approach linguistic theory advanced degree linguistics computer science closely related discipline native proficiency french assumed practical experience nlp implementation issues grammar checkers highly desirable microsoft nlp research group process designing building system analyze unrestricted natural language taking input text moving lexical morphological analysis syntax semantics eventually pragmatics discourse generation component also planned part microsoft research work toward longterm goal broad coverage language analysis however also work closely product groups integrate technology microsoft products microsoft office 97 english grammar checker based technology ready develop system french empirically oriented happy use good linguistic ideas wherever found reasonable firstversion summary techniques experience found book natural language processing plnlp approach kluwer academic publishers boston 1993 information nlp group connect home page www http www research microsoft com nlp contact please send resumes cover letters additional materials steven clyne human resources microsoft corporation one microsoft way redmond wa 98052 usa email stevecl microsoft com 272 ucla ucla dept linguistics expects several shortterm jobs available teaching various courses coming academic year 199798 positions area syntax though hire areas replacement positions faculty leave realistic prospect developing permanent positions courses need taught undergraduate classes others graduate classes least three possibly many five courses involve syntax courses various levels ranging introductory undergraduate syntactic analysis advanced graduate seminars pressing need areas fall winter quarters see outline quarter dates addition may need instructor two lowerdivision introductory courses general linguistics winter spring quarters one generic intro linguistics course surveying languages spoken usa including immigrant languages american indian languages dialects english spanish covering phonetics history sociolinguistic issues among others finally openings advanced graduate courses subfields represented department phonology phonetics psycholinguistics computational ling syntax semantics specific language areas african american indian etc advanced graduate courses primarily interested hiring relatively senior people established reputations e g people leave interested visiting ucla though junior applicants also considered large number courses available visitors teach next year quite flexible terms type level appointments particular may interested hiring people singlecourse lectureships paying neighborhood 7 000 10 000 per 10 week course depending seniority may also consider fulltime appointments periods one two terms courseload 2 courses per term pay levels per course roughly comparable mentioned finally may make appointments less fulltime teaching loads e g teaching one course coteaching another visiting positions restricted rank especially interested hiring faculty universities plan leave part coming academic year may interested visiting department part year teaching course two course runs ten weeks two 2 hour lectures per week followed exam week appli cants send letter application including cv statement previous teaching experience well names addresses phone numbers three recommenders tim stowell chair dept linguistics ucla los angeles ca 900951543 actual letters recommendation sent time likewise candidates send voluminous dossiers publications etc applications fall quarter courses received aug 15 1997 applications winter spring quarter courses received sept 10 1997 though late applications also considered long positions remain unfilled potential applicants strongly encouraged inform us email soon possible intention apply positions initial inquiries email may directed tim stowell stowell ucla edu anna meyer meyer humnet ucla edu eoe fyi information cheers ach alan c harris ph telnos main 818677 2853 professor communication linguistics direct 818677 2874 speech communication department 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