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POSITION AVAILABLE FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUIST

One position is available for a computational linguist to help develop a 
machine translation system at TCC Communications Corporation near Victoria, 
British Columbia. The position will involve close interaction between 
TCC and the Natural Language Laboratory at Simon Fraser University 
in Vancouver. Tenure is for 1 year and is renewable subject to funding.
Salary will be commensurate with experience. 

Closing date for receipt of applications is Jan 24, 1996. 

Applicants must possess some of the following qualifications:

	*  experience with machine translation technology
	*  experience with unification-based grammar formalisms
	*  knowledge of (computational) lexicography
	*  experience with C and Prolog programming under UNIX or Windows
	*  a Masters degree in linguistics, computing science
	   or some field related to computational linguistics

The successful applicant would be joining an established international 
machine translation team working on English to Spanish machine 
translation which will be expanding to include other Romance languages. 
Good knowledge of at least one language other than English is required.
Knowledge of Spanish would also be an asset but is not required. 
The working language of the project is English.  The successful applicant 
would ideally be prepared to cooperate to various aspects of the project; 
duties would include:

	* supervision of bilingual lexical development
	* testing of grammars and lexicons used in 
	  a machine translation system
	* system maintenance


Victoria is located at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, an hour and
a half ferry ride from Vancouver on the mainland.  It boasts the mildest
climate in all of Canada, with it and Vancouver being frequent tourist 
destinations due to the proximity of the mountains together with the 
long coastline.  Hi-tech industry is growing rapidly in British Columbia,  
it is now one of the top industries in the province together with tourism 
and natural resource based industries.

Applications with names and contact addresses of at least three people for
letters of reference should be sent to:

	Mr. John Grayson
	TCC Communications Corporation
	Box 2400, Sidney,
	British Columbia,
	Canada V8L 3Y3
	
	Phone: +1 604-655-2060
	Fax: +1 604-656-9942
	E-mail: tcc@pinc.com

Inquiries can be made to John Grayson at the above addresses and numbers.

Information about Simon Fraser University can be obtained via the web on
http://www.sfu.ca with information about the SFU natural language lab
being found in http://fas.sfu.ca/0/cs/research/groups/NLL/toc.html
 

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Fred Popowich                    e-mail: popowich@sfu.ca
Associate Professor              phone:  +1 604 291 4193
School of Computing Science      FAX:    +1 604 291 3045
Simon Fraser University