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NL-KR Digest Volume 13 No. 35
NL-KR Digest Thu Aug 11 12:56:05 PDT 1994 Volume 13 No. 35
Today's Topics:
Position: research and systems positions at New Mexico S. U.
Query: speaker independent speech recognition and database query
Announcement: ATA-94 Course in Machine Translation, Oct 94, Austin
Query: Text for natural languages graduate course
Announcement: Paramind Computer-generated Writing email list
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: sergei@crl.nmsu.edu (Sergei Nirenburg)
Subject: Position: research and systems positions at New Mexico S. U.
Date: 29 Jul 94 16:54:43
Reply-To: sergei@crl.nmsu.edu (Sergei Nirenburg)
COMPUTING RESEARCH LABORATORY
New Mexico State University
The Computing Research Laboratory (CRL) at New Mexico State University invites
applications for several staff positions.
CRL is an internationally acclaimed center of research excellence. The
laboratory mainly focuses on artificial intelligence, natural language
processing, including machine translation, connectionism, information
retrieval, interface design, and knowledge representation reasoning. It has a
stellar track record in obtaining research and development funds from Federal
and State Governments as well as industry. The annual operating budget of the
laboratory is about three million dollars.
The laboratory has developed a strong interdisciplinary orientation with active
researchers from three colleges and fourteen departments in the university.
CRL has become a hub for forstering new and interdisciplinary research.
The laboratory currently consists of a director, seven Ph.D.-level staff
researchers, six postdoctoral researchers, twelve formally affiliated faculty
from other NMSU departments, seven staff research programmers, and a large
number of graduate and undergraduate student research assistants. In addition,
CRL has developed a tradition of hosting prominent visiting researchers from
the U.S. and abroad.
Equipment available to members of CRL includes a heterogeneous network of
workstations, Macintoshes and PC's. Software development is done primarily in
Prolog, Lisp and C although many other languages are supported. The NMSU
campus is fully networked with several 500Mb/s fiber backbones. Additionally,
the campus network provides high speed data links to national and international
networks.
Individual job descriptions follow.
Please send a resume and names of three references to
Angelic Sena asena@crl.nmsu.edu
CRL
Box 30001, Dept. 3CRL
NMSU
Las Cruces, NM 88003
PLEASE INDICATE FOR WHICH POSITION YOU ARE APPLYING
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System Administrator
Effective Date: 1st August '94
Salary: $35,000 - $45,000 per year
The SA will be responsible for
* administering and maintaining hardware and software systems, both utilities
and applications
* administering the LAN
* troubleshooting hardware and software problems
* installing, testing and evaluating new software
* providing technical support to projects and researchers in the lab
The SA will report directly to the director of CRL.
The SA will also be expected to provide specialized programming support to
research projects at CRL, including responsibility for documentation of
software modules. In particular, preference will be given to candidates who
will be willing to lead an "enabling technology" group which would provide
high-quality utilities to application-oriented projects. (Examples of enabling
technologies include GUIs, database management, processing large corpora, etc.)
In this capacity the SA will work closely with research groups within the
laboratory. The SA will be also expected to participate in preparation of
proposals for new research grants, in particular with respect to hardware and
software selection.
The position requires proven organizational abilities and a commitment
and enthusiasm for providing user service.
Qualifications: A bachelor's degree in any subject plus at least five years
Unix system administration experience. This should include Sun OS/4.X or System
5, and Solaris operating systems, networking and X windows. A thorough
knowledge of C, scripting languages, such as Perl, C-shell, Korn shell, Bourne
Shell and Awk and of Unix utilities is essential.
Additional experience in any of the following areas would also be a plus:
C++
Prolog
Motif
Lisp
Macintosh
PC
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SYSTEM TECHNICIAN
Effective Date: 1st September '94
Salary: $20,000 - $25,000 per year
The ST will be responsible for
* maintaining hardware and software systems, both utilities
and applications
* maintaining the LAN
* installing, testing and evaluating new software
* providing technical support to projects and researchers in the lab
The ST will report to the CRL system administrator.
The position requires proven programming and system abilities and a commitment
and enthusiasm for providing user service. The ST will be expected to expand
the scope of his knowledge and take part in appropriate training courses.
Qualifications: A bachelor's degree in any subject plus at least one years
system administration experience (preferably Unix) and at least three years
programming experience using C.
Additional experience in any of the following areas would also be a plus:
Sun OS/4.X
Solaris (System V)
networking
X windowing system
Unix utilities
C++
Prolog
Motif
Lisp
Macintosh
PC
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Visiting Research Scientist / Mikrokosmos
The Mikrokosmos NLP project needs a specialist to join an existing research
team to design and develop a number of "microtheories" of lexical-semantic and
related phenomena in Spanish, Japanese and English for the eventual use in a
knowledge-based machine translation system. In practice, the work will involve
building semantic lexicon entries in any or all the above languages as well as
augmenting an existing world model, or "ontology."
The successful candidate will have experience and excellent skills in
generating lexical-semantic descriptions using large text corpora,
machine-readable dictionaries and other computational lexicographic resources,
and formulating these descriptions in the terms of an AI-style,
processing-oriented, ontology-based computational model for meaning extraction,
representation and use.
Requirements include a Ph.D. or equivalent in Computational Linguistics,
Computer Science, Linguistics or a closely related field.
User-level competence in Unix, X windows and GUIs is essential. Programming
skills in C and/or Lisp and good knowledge of Japanese or Spanish will be a
serious plus.
Remuneration will depend on experience within the range of $40,000 to $60,000
per annum. The projected starting date is September 15, 1994.
These positions are for one year with a possibility of extension. The
probability of such an extension will increase if the candidates are willing
and capable of contributing to the ongoing effort to generate research funds
for the laboratory.
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Visiting Research Scientist / Temple
The Temple NLP project needs a computer scientist to lead the continued
development of a translator's workstation (TWS) system which supports a variety
of translator's and editor's needs. Currently the TWS exists for Spanish and
English. It needs to be extended into Arabic and Japanese. The types of work
will include design, development and integration of software modules such as
advanced graphical user interfaces; text corpus processing tools and utilities;
MRD processing utilities; language processing modules, such as segmentation
modules, part of speech taggers, morphological analyzers, etc.; networking
software for supporting networks of TWSs and other related tasks.
The successful candidate will have an advanced degree in Computer Science or
Computational Linguistics (Ph.D. preferred). Very high proficiency in C, C++,
Lisp, X/Motif is a must. Knowledge of Spanish, Japanese or Arabic would be a
plus, though not strictly speaking a requirement. Knowledge about support of
computer-based writing system representations (e.g., Unicode) is a strong plus.
Remuneration will depend on experience and qualifications within the range of
$38,000 to $48,000 per annum. The projected starting date is September 15,
1994.
This position is for one year with a possibility of extension. The
probability of such an extension will increase if the candidate is willing
and capable of contributing to the ongoing effort to generate research funds
for the laboratory.
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Computational Lexicographer / Arabic
The Temple NLP project needs a computational linguist to develop lexical
support for an Arabic - English and English - Arabic translator's workstation.
The work will include developing and adapting bilingual phrasal glossaries,
formulating linguistic knowledge to support morphological analysis and
synthesis programs and similar text processing utilities. An additional type of
work will involve preparing language materials for an example-based machine
translation system from Arabic into English as well as testing and improving
it.
Fluency in reading and writing Modern Standard Arabic is a
requirement. User-level competence in Unix, X windows and GUIs is essential.
Programming skills in C and/or Lisp will be a serious plus.
A B.A. or B.Sc. is essential, preferably in Computational Linguistics, Computer
Science, Linguistics or Modern Languages.
Remuneration will depend on experience within the range of $25,000 to $30,000
per annum. The projected starting date is September 15, 1994.
This position is for one year with a possibility of extension.
* * * * * * * * * * * **
Computational Lexicographer / Japanese
The Temple NLP project needs a computational linguist to develop lexical
support for an Japanese - English and English - Japanese translator's
workstation. The work will include developing and adapting bilingual phrasal
glossaries, formulating linguistic knowledge to support morphological analysis
and synthesis programs and similar text processing utilities. An additional
type of work will involve preparing language materials for an example-based
machine translation system from Japanese into English as well as testing and
improving it.
Fluency in reading and writing Standard Japanese is a requirement. User-level
competence in Unix, X windows and GUIs is essential. Programming skills in C
and/or Lisp will be a serious plus.
A B.A. or B.Sc. is essential, preferably in Computational Linguistics, Computer
Science, Linguistics or Modern Languages.
Remuneration will depend on experience within the range of $25,000 to $30,000
per annum. The projected starting date is September 15, 1994.
This position is for one year with a possibility of extension.
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Sergei Nirenburg 505 646 5466 (voice)
Director 505 646 6218 (fax)
Computing Research Laboratory sergei@crl.nmsu.edu
New Mexico State University
Box 30001, Dept. 3CRL
Las Cruces, NM 88003
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Subject: Query: speaker independent speech recognition and database query
To: Al Whaley <Al.Whaley@sunnyside.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 10:00:52 +0200 (MET DST)
From: reh <reh@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
I'm new around here and although I've read the FAQ, I need additional
informmation about NLQ (Natural language query , esp. for databases).
Who is top in this topic and has large ftp or WWW-Server with MBytes of
stuff I've only dreamt for?
What I'm interested in is
latest results. Who did what successfully and which universities and companies
recently had big success? I'm esp. interested in 2 topics:
1. Latest results in speaker independent nat. language recognition in noisy
environment
2. Natural language database querry and therefore modelling of knowledge since
you need a lot of 'context' for this.
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From: josephp@microsoft.com
To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
Date: Wed Aug 10 14:03:23 1994
From: josephp@microsoft.com (Joseph Pentheroudakis)
Subject: Announcement: ATA-94 Course in Machine Translation, Oct 94, Austin
[Please note contact information at end of message]
Training Course in Machine Translation
In connection with this year's ATA conference in Austin, Texas, an all-day
seminar on MT will be offered. On Wednesday, October 12, 1994, Logos
Corporation, one of the world's leading machine translation companies, will
present its system.
This is a great chance to learn about input requirements and mechanisms,
terminology management, dictionary setup and customization, as well as the
effects of MT on productivity and turnaround time. The seminar will consist of
three parts:
a presentation on MT as part of the translator's toolkit
a demonstration of the LOGOS Workstation and PC-Interface
a hands-on session
This training course provides a one-time opportunity for translators and
translation managers alike to experience a working system up close, to
discuss observations and concerns directly with the vendor/developer, and
to exchange knowledge about previous encounters with MT and plans about
future use of MT with the seminar participants.
Registration Fee
If postmarked by:
October 1, 1994 $100.00
After October 1 $120.00
Luncheon $20.00
For more information and registration contact:
Karin Spalink
Tel.: +1 919-490-4963
Fax: +1 919-490-2069
CompuServe: 70720,1406
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From: jsmith@king.mcs.drexel.edu (Justin Smith)
To: <uunet!comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net>
Subject: Query: Text for natural languages graduate course
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 1994 12:31:58 -0400
Can anyone suggest a good text to use in a graduate course on Natural Language
Systems?
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: telical@eskimo.com (Robert Pearson)
Subject: Announcement: Paramind Computer-generated Writing email list
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 21:30:03 GMT
Here is some information on a mailing list that may be of some interest to
those who read this rather busy room: List Name: Paramind@eskimo.com This
is a mailling list for discussing concepts of computer-generated writing
especially those related to the theory of the "telical exhaustion of the
interaction of words." Telical means, "towards an useful end." The
Paramind Brainstorming program, which was created with this theory in
mind, will be discussed in detail. Appropriate Topics include: *
Speculating on the theory of "telical word-interaction exhaustion." * Use
of this theory for important research and aesthetics. * How we can come
up with useful and unique statements by computer means. * Examples of
uses of the Paramind program, such as merges and new word
categories. NO long postings from universities, companies or
individuals regarding AI conferences will be accepted. This list is not
moderated so all messages sent to the list are immediately forwarded to
the list. Depending on the traffic of the list, it may be edited in
digest form for the convenience of the participants. To join or be
removed from the Paramind mailing list, send a message to
Paramind-request@eskimo.com. This list is being done by hand There is
also a FAQ for this list. It is being kept at eskimo.com in
/usr/ftp/paramind as paramind.faq and is available via anonymous FTP.
List Coordinator telical@eskimo.com
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