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BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS

The BNC is a major DTI/SERC funded collaborative venture, the goal of
which is the creation and distribution of a 100 million word on-line
corpus of English text, for use in linguistics research.  Major
participants in the three year project are Oxford University Press
(OUP), Longman Group UK Ltd, the British Library and the Universities of
Oxford and Lancaster. Other participants may join the Consortium at a
later stage.

Oxford University Computing Service (OUCS) is now recruiting two
fulltime three-year posts in connexion with the BNC Project, to start as
soon as possible.  

1. PROJECT LEADER (Research Scale Grade II: #16,755 - #22,311 p.a.)  
To take responsibility for day to day management and
design of the project within OUCS and to run its computing
facilities.  Applicants should be graduates with significant
experience of a production UNIX system, preferably in a text processing
environment. They should have (or be prepared to acquire) an in-depth
knowledge of SGML.
 
2. UNIX PROGRAMMER. (Research Scale Grade IA #11,399 - #18,165 p.a.). To
provide technical support in the areas of text conversion, system
management or database management. The ideal candidate will have special
skills in string processing  and a detailed practical knowledge of SGML
as well as experience of programming in a Unix environment. 

Application forms, further details of both posts and background
information on the Project are available from  Judith Thompson, OUCS, 13
Banbury Rd, Oxford OX2 6NN (tel. 0865 273230, e-mail
JUDITH@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX

Completed application forms should be returned to  arrive not later than
13 February 1991. 
 
The University of Oxford is an Equal Opportunity Employer.