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Global Academic Business
Oxford University Press
Oxford
Exciting opportunity to help shape the future of dictionaries with the world’s
leading dictionary publisher.
The successful candidate will join our language engineering team, which is
responsible for development and exploitation of the corpora and lexical data
used in OUP’s dictionaries and licensed for uses such as search engine
technology, error detection, machine translation, and e-readers.
You will have experience of writing programs that process natural language data,
an enthusiasm for developing and applying innovative techniques in linguistic
analysis for monolingual and bilingual lexical data development, and an
awareness of the issues involved in processing diverse languages. A practical,
problem-solving attitude is essential. Expertise in any of the following would
be an advantage:
Perl, Python, Java, or similar
XML, XSLT and related technologies
Statistical Language Processing/Machine Learning
Lexical resources for data mining, sentiment analysis, or similar
Interactive web application development
Creation of high-quality textual corpora
Familiarity with a non-European language such as Arabic, Chinese or Japanese.
OUP offers excellent benefits including:
Competitive salary dependent on skills and experience.
final salary pension scheme
25 days' holiday
subsidized staff restaurant
50% discount off OUP books
· flexible start/finish times.
Apply for this position at:
http://ukjobs.oup.com/Exp/Vacancy.aspx?VacancyId=49713
Closing Date: 8th January 2012
Informal enquiries: pete.whitelock@oup.com
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and education by publishing worldwide.
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the research, professional and higher education markets.
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