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Professional Field: Academic
Expertise required: Translation informatics, the application of computer and information science methods to problems of translation and multilingual document management.
Qualifications sought:
A Ph.D. is required by the date of hire. Command of English is required, and proficiency in any other language is highly desirable. For consideration at the Associate Professor rank, an appropriate publication record is expected.The doctorate (discipline open), or combination of doctorate and relevant research experience should focus on areas of computational linguistics, information science or computer science relevant to one or more of the following research and teaching competencies: corpus analysis; document engineering and management; computational lexicography/terminology; translation technology; and markup languages and metadata as they relate to multilingual issues. Practical knowledge of application development, programming, markup languages, and related
information technologies is assumed. Potential to attract extramural funding is essential.

Employer:
Kent State University, http://appling.kent.edu
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Job description/salary:
Full-time tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor to begin August 2007. The successful candidate will support translation degree programs at the masters and doctoral level within the internationally recognized translation program (Institute for Applied Linguistics) of the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies at Kent State University.

Contact details:
Gregory M. Shreve,
Chair, Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies, Kent State University
PO Box 5190
Kent, Ohio 44242- 0001
Kent State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

Application submission details:
Send letter of application, vita, graduate transcript, and three current confidential letters of recommendation to contact person.

Relevant links:
http://appling.kent.edu