LDC - Linguistic Data Consortium



			Full Time Positions For full-time position listings, visit UPenn's Employment website and search by reference number: Senior Project Manager, Reference Number 100728923 (quick link) Senior Project Manager, Reference Number 100728924 ( quick link) Software Development Manager, Reference Number 110129916 Programmer Analyst, Reference Number 100929195 Part Time Positions Available Interested in language and computing? Gain valuable experience and support cutting-edge research in human language technology! The Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania has immediate openings in a variety of part-time positions, both work study and non-work study. The LDC provides a diverse, stimulating and friendly working environment, with ample opportunity to develop professional, technical and linguistic skills. We frequently have openings in the following areas. Click on the links for details about specific jobs. For information about work study jobs in particular, see the Student Employment Website. Native speakers of languages including Dari, Pashto, Udru, Farsi/Persian and Levantine Arabic to participate in data collection and auditing tasks. Native speakers of Arabic, Mandarin Chinese and English for linguistic annotation and transcription. Transcribe news programs, talk shows and meetings, and label texts, recordings and videos for linguistic phenomena. Fluent Arabic and Mandarin Chinese speakers to audit daily broadcast recordings for quality and content. Fluent Arabic-English or Chinese-English bilinguals to review professional translations for quality and completeness. Experienced programmers to work in Python, C, Perl, Java and SQL, with HTML, XML and Unicode data in Solaris, Linux, Windows and CGI environments. Energetic, organized project assistants to help manage LDC's multi-million dollar funded research projects. Skilled administrators to provide general clerical support, handle special projects and assist with marketing and customer service; and recruiters to enlist and register partipants for speech research studies. Skilled audio/visual technicians to help run audio and video recording sessions for multi-modal data collection projects. All positions offer resume-building experience, highly competitive wages (minimum $10+/hour) and flexible weekday schedules. Some positions can be done from home while others require you to work from our offices on Penn's campus. All candidates must be eligible to work for the University of Pennsylvania. To apply, follow the instructions listed in the Position Details below. Be sure to indicate which position(s) you're interested in and your status (student, work study, international student, not a student, etc.). To learn more about LDC, visit our web page. Position Details Ongoing Positions Data Collection and Auditing Assistants Help create databases of spoken language material by collecting and auditing speech recordings. You will make multiple telephone calls to people you know, using your native language; listen to short recordings to determine what language they're in; and help LDC project staff with record keeping and documentation. Current target languages include Polish, Ukranian, Russian, Lao, Dari, Pashto, Tamil, Turkish, Czech, Spanish, Farsi, Mandarin, Slovak. Applicants must meet the following minimum requirements: • Native speaker of one of the target languages • Good command of written and spoken English • Able to make phone calls in target language to 30+ people you know • Reliable access to a computer with high-speed internet access • Able to work ~5 hours/week through Spring 2011 Most work can be done from home after an initial training session at LDC's offices on Penn's campus. Flexible schedules and great pay rates starting at $16/hour. To apply for this position, contact language-jobs@ldc.upenn.edu indicating your native language (e.g. DARI) in the subject line. Assistant Project Administrator LDC's Annotation Group is seeking an energetic, capable, super-organized team player to assist the Associate Director with various project-related tasks. Your primary duties will include creating and maintaining project publications, analyzing project expenses and progress, performing web-based research, and planning for special events. This position requires facility with Microsoft Office (Windows, Excel, PowerPoint); basic knowledge of HTML; strong writing skills; good attention to detail; reliability; and the ability to work independently and to take initiative. Computing and/or design background and interest in languages is a plus. 10-20 hours/week; $11+/hour; flexible weekday schedule. To apply please contact jobs@ldc.upenn.edu and indicate "Assistant Project Administrator" in the subject line Linguistic Annotators - Chinese, Arabic and English Join our annotation team and develop linguistic databases to support automatic speech recognition, machine translation, information retrieval and related technologies. Responsiblities may include transcription of news broadcasts, business meetings or talk shows; labeling of spoken language phenomena like disfluencies, speech errors, syntactic structure and prosody; and labeling of entities, relations and events in news texts or video feeds. This position requires speaking/listening, reading and writing fluency in English, Modern Standard Arabic or Mandarin Chinese (simplified Chinese), excellent English reading and writing skills, strong attention to detail, basic computer proficiency, and willingness to learn new skills. Transcription positions require excellent typing skills. Interest in languages or linguistics is a plus. 10-20 hours/week (more possible during the summer); $10-11+/hour; flexible weekday schedule. Contact: jobs@ldc.upenn.edu; include your native language (e.g. Arabic) in the subject line. Broadcast Auditors - Chinese and Arabic Help build and maintain LDC's database of broadcast recordings from around the world. Responsibilities include listening to news and talk show recordings and assessing quality and content. This position requires speaking/listening, reading and writing fluency in Modern Standard Arabic or Mandarin Chinese (simplified Chinese), basic computer skills and the ability to work effectively with minimal supervision. This position requires a regular working schedule; 10-20 hours/week; $10/hour; flexible weekday hours. Contact: Denise DiPersio (dipersio@ldc.upenn.edu); include "broadcast auditor" in the subject line. Translation Assistants - Chinese and Arabic Fluent bilingual Chinese/English or Arabic/English annotators are needed to help develop a database of translated text. Tasks include reviewing Chinese or Arabic news documents that have been translated into English, and identifying word and sentence pairs that match between the two documents. This position requires a high degree of reading and writing fluency in both the target language -- Arabic or Mandarin Chinese -- and English. Chinese applicants must be comfortable reading and writing simplified Chinese. Qualified applicants will possess strong attention to detail, basic computer skills and an interest in languages or linguistics. 10-20 hours/week; $10/hour; flexible weekday hours. Contact: Xuansong Li (xuansong@ldc.upenn.edu); include "translation assistant" in the subject line. Programmers Technical Assistant Responsibilities include writing scripts for text processing, manipulating corpora, and building tools and resources for linguists. Must be able to use a scripting language (shell scripts, perl/python, etc.) on a *nix environment (Unix/Linux/FreeBSD). Basic knowledge of Unicode and fluency in Unix/Linux operating systems is a plus. Positions start at $12/hour, 10-20 hours/week. Contact: Stephen Grimes sgrimes@ldc.upenn.edu or 215-898-0497. Annotation Tool Development The appointee will design and develop annotation tools in Python and/or Java for semi-structured and multimodal data using LDC's new software toolkit. Duties also include: preparation of multimodal data, software documentation, interaction with end-users, participation in project meetings. We would like a highly-motivated computer science student who has strong programming skills, strong analytical skills, good organization and communication skills, and an ability to work independently. Thestudent will gain valuable experience in multi-component software tool design and implementation in a research environment.15-20 hours/week; flexible weekday schedule; positions start at $12/hour. Contact: Stephen Grimes sgrimes@ldc.upenn.edu or 215-898-0497. Speech/Video Processing Programmers needed to help with a massive broadcast audio/video collection project (2TB per month). Candidates will schedule recordings, work with C-band and Ku-band satellite receivers, and work with digital video recorders. Some programming skills (Perl, python, Oracle) necessary. Candidates will be required to work with A/V matrix switches, audio and video digitization hardware, Windows 2000 and Linux servers, a 24TB tape library, and multiple satellite receivers. They may also be called upon to assist in the specification and purchase of new equipment. Strong problem solving skills, organization skills, and communications skills, both written and spoken, are essential. Contact: Kevin Walker (walkerk@ldc.upenn.edu), 215-573-4172. Technical Support A/V Technicians Help with a research project involving multi-modal data collected from group meetings. Candidates will assist in the installation of computer hardware and A/V equipment; preparation of the recording rooms, coordination, monitoring and documenting recording sessions; post-processing of recorded audio and video and tracking and use of audio and video equipment. The ideal candidate will be technically savvy and comfortable working with informants when needed. Because the work involves recording sessions that are made by appointment, candidates must be organized and very reliable. Candidates will be required to work with audio routers, mixers, a DAW, video cameras/camcorders, multiple microphones/microphone arrays. They may also be called upon to assist in the specification and purchase of new equipment. Contact: Kevin Walker (walkerk@ldc.upenn.edu), 215-573-4172.

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