LINGUIST List 5.77

Sat 22 Jan 1994

Jobs: English-Mandarin, Hebrew, Greek, Theoretical

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1. Hiyan Alshawi, postdoc in English-Mandarin translation
2. , seeking freelance linguists, local to the Boston area
3. , Opening at Harvard University

I am seeking candidates for a postdoctoral position
at Bell Laboratories to work on English-Mandarin
translation. The work would be carried out as part of
a project to develop an experimental spoken language
translation system. The main responsibility would be the
construction of a Mandarin lexicon and an English-Mandarin
transfer lexicon in a probabilistic lexical grammar
formalism being developed in the project. Suitable
candidates should be fluent in Mandarin and will have
recently completed, or are about to complete, a PhD in
computational linguistics, linguistics, or speech processing.
If you are interested in this position, please send an
email reply to hiyanresearch.att.com.

Hiyan Alshawi

The Software Division of Houghton Mifflin Co. is seeking temporary assistance
in the development of electronic reference products. We require an individual
with near-native fluency in Hebrew, and another with near-native fluency in
Greek. We also require familiarity with MS-DOS. We expect the assignments to be
temporary, part-time over the next several months.

Please send your resume to:

Houghton Mifflin Company
Software Division
222 Berkeley Street, 11th Floor
Boston, MA 02116

FAX (617) 351-1115, or call for further information (617) 351-3072

Houghton Mifflin Company is an equal opportunity employer.

The Department of Linguistics at Harvard University is reopening a
search for a one-year lecturer (with the possibility of renewal),
beginning July 1, 1994. The position is for a theoretical linguist
with strong historical interests, or for a historical linguist with a
strong theoretical background. Applications are due February 15, 1994,
and should include 3 letters of recommendation. Send to
Dean Christoph Wolff, Search Committee in Linguistics,
University Hall 18, Cambridge, MA 02138. Harvard is an Equal
Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.