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Fuente: Veronica Hicks (Comforce/RhoTech) [email protected] en Linguist List (http://linguistlist.org/issues/10/10-41.html#1), retomada en Infoling, Lista moderada de lingüística española (http://listserv.rediris.es/archives/infoling.html).

La empresa Microsoft busca lingüistas, especialistas en informática e hispanohablantes para trabajar en desarrollos de pruebas en sus productos lingüísticos. Detalle de la oferta de trabajo en el texto en inglés que sigue.

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SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEERS - NATURAL LANGUAGE TESTING
Two Positions - Currently looking for Linguistic Testers for Spanish and English

The Natural Language Group (NLG) at Microsoft develops products that analyze and understand human language, enhancing features throughout Microsoft products, including grammar checking and information retrieval. NLG Linguistic Testers at Microsoft work with research linguists and developers in NLG to improve the quality of our state-of-the-art NLP technology. Testers communicate quality and testedness of linguistic components and products throughout their product cycle. Primary responsibilities include developing tests, test plans and test automation. Additional responsibilities include owning testing of key components that enable morphology analysis, parsing, and semantics processing of natural language text. Familiarity with linguistics, computational linguistics or natural language processing required. Qualifications include the aptitude to employ effective test methodology, automation and/or tools to achieve maximum coverage in the most efficient way, although experience!
in this area is not required. A BA/BS in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, or a related field is preferred. (For Spanish position, ability to fluently read and write Spanish required.)

If you are interested in applying for this position, please send your resume online to Molly McCarthy at:
<[email protected]>