19 August: fyi -- support positions, PA

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*Programmer Analyst Positions at LDC
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The LDC at the University of Pennsylvania has several immediate openings
for full-time programmer analysts.

* Programmer Analyst - Text and Speech Annotation Support (#080725253)


Duties: This position will support LDC's language resource creation
projects by providing programming, technical and research support in a lead
capacity. Primary responsibilities will be to design, develop and
implement programming solutions and oversee all technical aspects of the
projects, work with LDC's project managers, annotators, programmers, and
clients to develop achievable plans for corpus or software development and
successfully execute them; write annotation tools, data processing tools,
web applications and other software necessary for the projects; support
annotation workflow; support end-users; investigate technical issues that
may arise during the life cycles of projects, and provide timely solutions
to them as necessary.

* Programmer Analyst - Arabic Treebank (#080324301)


Duties: Same as above; this position will primarily work on Arabic
Treebank and other Arabic-related projects. (Grammatical knowledge and
reading ability of the Arabic language highly preferred for this position.)

* Programmer Analyst - External Relations (#080725253)


Duties: This position will support LDC's External Relations Group by
designing. developing, coding and providing support for LDC's business
systems. The business systems support the organization's membership and
sales activities and time tracking; features include invoicing, member
tracking and reporting functions. This position will also coordinate and
prepare publications of language resources -- such as video
computer-readable speech, and software and text data -- used for
human language technology research and technology development.

For further information on the duties and qualifications for these
positions, or to apply online please visit http://jobs.hr.upenn.edu/;
search postings for the reference numbers indicated above.

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/.

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