Erhard Hinrichs (hinrichs@ling.ohio-state.edu)
Tue, 6 Jan 1998 17:53:51 -0500 (EST)
JOB OPENING: TREEBANK OF GERMAN AND CORPUS TRANSLATION UNIVERSITY OF TUEBINGEN DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS DIVISION OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS We are advertising a research position in the VERBMOBIL project, which is funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). VERBMOBIL is concerned with the development of a portable speech-to-speech translation system for "face-to-face"-communication. The VERBMOBIL subproject at the Department of Computational Linguistics in Tuebingen includes the following two tasks: - the construction of a tree bank for the German VERBMOBIL corpus with the focus on syntactic annotation. - English-to-German translations of VERBMOBIL spoken-language dialogues, manual and automatic alignment of German/English bilingual corpora. Candidates for the position should have native or near-native competence in German, have research experience in German syntax, and have good language skills in English. The second phase of the VERBMOBIL project started in January 1997. Funding is guaranteed until December 1998. Contingent on a successful midterm review, funding is expected to be extended until December 2000. The successful candidate would be expected to take up the position as soon as possible. The position is at the rank of "Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter" (salary on the German payscale of BAT IIa; minimum of 65 000 DM per year). Applications should include CV and an outline of research experience and interests. Names and addresses of references would be helpful. Applications should be sent by mail or email to the address below. Prof. Dr. Erhard W. Hinrichs c/o Valia Kordoni Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft Abt. Computerlinguistik Eberhard-Karls Universitaet Tuebingen Wilhelmstr. 113 D-72074 Tuebingen Germany eh@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de Applications received by January 31, 1998 will receive full consideration.
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