13 February: fyi -- permanent position, Dublin

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There is a Computational Linguist's position opening in the Language Technologies Team in Microsoft, Dublin. This is a permanent full-time graduate program position.

The job is open to those finishing an under-graduate degree or a Masters/PhD. The successful candidate will help develop and test linguistic quality metrics and evaluation tools for spellers, grammars and thesauri. They will also help test the linguistic quality of new spellers for the Local Language Program which promotes minority languages through technology.

The job spec attached gives more details of the role and the benefits package that the job entails.
If you think this is a suitable employment opportunity for graduates from your institution we would be very grateful if you could circulate the attached job description. To apply candidates should send a CV to gradjobs@microsoft.com, for the attention of Bryna McCool. The closing date is March 1st
For any questions contact Colin Laird, hiring manager in the Language Technologies Team, and Bryna McCool, Grad & Intern Program Manager in Microsoft.

Sincerely
Dag Schmidtke
Program Manager for Language Technology, Microsoft

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