Where to stat when looking for an academic or industry job in language technology

1. Semantic Analysis in Language Technology
Lecture 2: Job Opportunities
Course Website: http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~santinim/sais/sais_fall2013.htm
MARINA SANTINI
PROGRAM: COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
DEPT OF LINGUISTICS AND PHILOLOGY
UPPSALA UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN
14 NOV 2013

2. Job Announcements Websites & Groups
 LinkedIn Group: Natural Language Careers
 NLP People Artificial intelligent Careers
 The Linguist List
 etc. etc. etc….
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3. Professional Profiling: Job Titles
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4. Job Titles  Job Description: Examples (i)
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5. Job Titles  Job Description: Examples (ii)
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=6968
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6. Stay tuned!
 Stay posted on job opportunities, both academic and in the
industry
 Be informed on the latest advances in Language Technology
 Shape your professional profile
 Permanent networking
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Internship
Studentship
Volonteer jobs
Reviews
 Machine Learning is essential and pervasive, do not try to avoid
but to master it smoothly
 Ability to learn new programming languages quickly
 Try to figure out new trends and how you can apply LT to future
applications
Be Visionary and Have Heart 
Go through Lecture 7 (ML4LT) and be inspired…
Lecture 2: Job Opportunities

7. The Most Prestigious Academic Journal in LT
(http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/coli)
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8. Ask around…
 Feel free to talk to me and to any another member of
the staff…
 Talk to your friends and class mates… you could end
up creating a LT-oriented startup 
Lecture 2: Job Opportunities

9. This is the end… Thanks for your attention !
Lecture 2: Job Opportunities