From: Linguist jobs Subject: Jobs for French-language linguists We would appreciate your assistance in circulating this job posting among the candidates who you think are most appropriate and interested. Logos Corporation, a leading developer of machine translation software, has openings for energetic (Computational) Linguists and Lexicographers specialized in French or German at its Technology Development Center, which is situated less than an hour from New York City in a pleasant residential area. This positions' responsibilities include: * Development and maintenance of computational grammars for our translation engine; * Developing effective strategies for dictionary development by mining parallel and monolingual corpora or machine readable glossaries and dictionaries; * Design and development of other linguistic components for our translation system; * Providing linguistic expertise for the development of other linguistic products and tools. The ideal candidate will have: * Native or near-native proficiency in English and in French or German. * An advanced university degree, with a strong background in linguistics and natural language processing. * Experience in language engineering in an industrial or commercial setting. * Experience in one or more of the following knowledge areas: machine translation, corpus linguistics, statistical language processing, contrastive linguistics, translation, computational lexicography, project management, tools development. * Ability to work independently and in a team. * Programming skills in Java, C++ and/or Perl. Send résumé and cover letter to: Director of Linguistic Development Logos Corporation 100 Enterprise Drive, Suite 501 Rockaway, NJ 07866 Or by e-mail to: linguist_jobs@logos-usa.com