8 December: fyi -- natural language processing, Oxford

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Global Academic Business
Oxford University Press
Oxford

Exciting opportunity to help shape the future of dictionaries with the
world's leading dictionary publisher.

The successful candidate will join our language engineering team,
which is responsible for development and exploitation of the corpora
and lexical data used in OUP's dictionaries and licensed for uses such
as search engine technology, error detection, machine translation, and
e-readers.

You will have experience of writing programs that process natural
language data, an enthusiasm for developing and applying innovative
techniques in linguistic analysis for monolingual and bilingual
lexical data development, and an awareness of the issues involved in
processing diverse languages. A practical, problem-solving attitude is
essential. Expertise in any of the following would be an advantage:


* Perl, Python, Java, or similar
* XML, XSLT and related technologies
* Statistical Language Processing/Machine Learning
* Lexical resources for data mining, sentiment analysis, or similar
* Interactive web application development
* Creation of high-quality textual corpora
* Familiarity with a non-European language such as Arabic, Chinese or Japanese.

OUP offers excellent benefits including:


* Competitive salary dependent on skills and experience.
* final salary pension scheme
* 25 days' holiday
* subsidized staff restaurant
* 50% discount off OUP books
* flexible start/finish times.

Apply for this position at:

http://ukjobs.oup.com/Exp/Vacancy.aspx?VacancyId=49713

Closing Date: 8th January 2012

Informal enquiries: pete.whitelock@oup.com


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