Corpora: (L&H): Computational Linguist Modern Standard Arabic

From: Pierre Eggermont (Pierre.Eggermont@lhs.be)
Date: Wed May 17 2000 - 18:24:00 MET DST

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    Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is the world

    ?s leading provider of
    speech and language technology products, solutions, and services to businesses
    and individuals worldwide. It is our mission to break down language barriers
    through advanced translation technology and to enable people to interact by
    voice in any language with the machines that empower them. Founded in 1987 L&H
    has revolutionized the development and application of advanced speech and
    language technologies. The company delivers the broadest array of consumer,
    business, and industry offerings in automatic dictation, translation, sound
    compression, voice synthesis, and industrial documentation.
    As a NASDAQ and EASDAQ quoted company and headquartered in Ieper (Belgium), L&H
    maintains offices in more than forty countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East,
    North America, and South America. With over 5.000 employees - mainly linguists,
    scientists and engineers - we generated an annual revenue of $344 million in
    1999.
    For the development of language and speech technology, L&H currently has an
    opening in its International Headquarters in Ieper (Belgium) for a (m/f):

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              Computational Linguist Modern Standard Arabic
                           Speech and Language Technology
              **********************************************************

    Function:
    * You will work within a multi-disciplinary team of linguists, engineers and
    programmers on the development of software systems in the field of Speech,
    Artificial Intelligence and Language.
    * In the startup phase, your tasks will typically include: basic phonetic and
    language study in view of technology development and assessment of third party
    providers of data and/or technology.
    * You will be involved in all aspects of the development life cycle and focus on
     system specification and design, implementation of linguistic rule sets,
    creation of acoustic and lexical databases, grapheme to phoneme conversion,
    prosodic analysis, software testing and quality control, preparation of
    documentation.
    * Training is given both on-the-job and through lectures and technical
    documentation.
    * Dedicated development environments are provided which allow language
    specialists to focus on their content: formalizing linguistic knowledge.
    * You will report to the group or project manager.

    Profile:
    * university degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent;
    * (near) native Modern Standard Arabic speaker with a conversational level of
    English;
    * solid grounding in linguistic theory;
    * good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following areas:
    speech processing, natural language processing (NLP), computational linguistics,
     programming, other languages;
    * ability to work in a team and independently;
    * IT literate;
    * perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness;
    * good social and communicative abilities;
    * willingness to travel abroad for limited periods of time.

                   **********************************************************

    If you are interested in this job opportunity and you believe to fulfill the
    required profile, we have to meet each other.
     Please send your application letter and detailed resume to:

         Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
         Personnel Department

         Mailto:job-announce@lhs.be

         attn. Mr. Pierre Eggermont
         Flanders Language Valley 50
         B-8900 Ieper
         BELGIUM
         Fax: int+ 32 (0)57.20.84.89

    To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our homepage:
    http://www.lhsl.com



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