The Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania has
immediate openings for two programmer analysts to support our rapidly
growing linguistic resource creation projects. The primary function
of one position is to support the Less Commonly Taught Languages
(LCTL) project at LDC (http://projects.ldc.upenn.edu/LCTL), and the
primary function of the other position is to support the LDC
annotation group in general.
- Programmer Analyst - LCTL project support (#060720279)
Duties: This position will design and develop multi-modal
multilingual software for collecting, normalizing, processing and
annotating language data; work with annotation project managers to
develop and execute tool specifications; coordinate a small team of
part-time programmers to provide timely support of project goals;
support both in-house and international user communities; modify
and improve existing software libraries; prepare and disseminate
multi-modal and multi-lingual data sets using standards such as
Unicode and XML; document tools and data formats; use techniques in
natural language processing to analyze multi-modal dataset;
interact with domain professionals at international meetings and
via e-mail discussions; publish results.
- Programmer Analyst - Annotation group support (#060720369)
Duties: This position will support large-scale linguistic data
creation projects by developing software, such as text and speech
data processing tools, analysis tools, and data harvesting tools
which follow project managers' specifications; serve as a technical
lead or a technical support member in linguistic annotation
projects; prepare and publish linguistic corpora; respond to
projects' technical needs and provide timely support and solutions
as necessary; support both in-house and international user
communities; and maintain relational databases.
For further information, including the qualifications required for
these positions, or to apply online please visit:
http://www.hr.upenn.edu/jobs/
- Programmer Analyst (LCTL support): reference # 060720279
- Programmer Analyst (Annotation group support): reference # 060720369
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.
Positions contingent upon funding.
For more information about LDC and the programs we support visit
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu.
Kazuaki Maeda
Linguistic Data Consortium
University of Pennsylvania
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