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Research Associate in Statistical Natural Language Processing

    • Employer : University of Geneva
    • Rank or Title : Post-doctoral Research Associate
    • Specialty : Statistical Natural Language Understanding
    • Location : Geneva, Switzerland
    • Deadline : 1 September 2011
    • Date Posted : 9 August 2011
    • Contact email : James.Henderson@unige.ch

The University of Geneva, Department of Computer Science, invites applications for a post-doctoral research associate position in natural language processing. The successful candidate will be part of the EU-funded project PARLANCE. He/she will investigate statistical methods for natural language understanding, including spoken language understanding.

The PARLANCE project will design and build mobile applications that approach human performance in conversational spoken interaction, targeting interactive search and information provision applications. The PARLANCE systems will be based on probabilistic inference procedures and incremental dialog processing. Systems will be developed for English, Spanish and Mandarin. The other project partners are Cambridge University, Heriot-Watt University, CRSA, iSoco, and Yahoo! Iberia.

At the University of Geneva, the project will be lead by James Henderson (Department of Computer Science) and Paola Merlo (Department of Linguistics) within the research group Computational Learning and Computational Linguistics (http://clcl.unige.ch/). Work will focus on incremental models of spoken language understanding which integrate domain-general statistical models of syntactic-semantic parsing, as well as open-domain information extraction. The successful candidate will be expected to participate in this project, plus engage in research of their own choosing.

Applicants should have received a PhD in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics by the start of the project. The ideal candidate will have a background in natural language processing, statistical methods, machine learning, and spoken language understanding. Good programming skills are required. Fluency in either English or French is required.

The appointment is initially for a fixed term of 3 years, with a start date of 1 November 2011 or soon thereafter. Competetive salary, according to qualifications.

Review of applications will begin immediately, but will continue until the position is filled. Applications received by 1 September 2011 will be guaranteed full consideration.

Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, a statement of research interest, and names and addresses of at least 3 references to James Henderson at James.Henderson@unige.ch, with PARLANCE Postdoc as the subject line.

Informal inquiries can be addressed to James Henderson (James.Henderson@unige.ch) or to Paola Merlo (Paola.Merlo@unige.ch). The University of Geneva wishes to increase the proportion of female academic staff and, for this reason, especially welcomes applications from women.


Electronic Health Record Data and Text Mining Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

    • Employer: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
    • Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
    • Specialty: Data and Text Mining
    • Deadline: Until filled
    • Date Posted: 7/27/2011
    • Contact Email: imre.solti@cchmc.org
    • Website: https://research.cchmc.org/solti

Position: - Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associate position in Clinical Informatics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Project: - Predictive modeling of patients' clinical outcomes based on the content including narrative notes of the electronic health record. - Building stochastic and knowledge based models to predict changes in the patients clinical status and predict prognosis. Further information and instructions to apply at: https://research.cchmc.org/solti/open-positions


Practical Natural Language Processing and Text Mining Professional

    • Employer: ComplaintLink
    • Specialty: Specialty: entity named extraction, text mining, sentiment analysis, machine learning algorithms
    • Location: H.O. in Toronto but you can work off-site anywhere in the world
    • Deadline: Applications accepted until the position is filled
    • Date Posted: July 14, 2011
    • Start Date: ASAP
    • Duration: contract postion - 3 to 6 momths

Position: Complaint Link Inc. is interested in hiring an off-site skilled NLP professional to work on a software project in the area of natural language processing, machine learning algorithms and sentiment analysis.

About the employer: ComplaintLink is a web start-up with a relatively simple user-interface and very complicated analytical software that will incorporate machine learning algorithms, natural language processing, sentiment analysis, entity named extraction, search algorithms and other data mining and business intelligence functionality. The website is structured much like a sophisticated forum with a social-networking component. The data being analyzed will be from user-generated textual discussions around a multitude of topics that will continuously be updated.

Description of project: The successful candidate will be working with other LAMP developers to bring an online business to fruition. The candidate will, using open source resources, intelligence and imagination, develop original and proprietary software that will function as the brains behind this online business.

The software being developed will access our site’s database and have the ability, without any manual keyword input for direction, to mine all textual data and present clearly which are the most 'important' or ‘passionate’ conversations and issues and be able to extract what those issues are and what related significant information is involved in those discussions. It will be able to identify and draw associations between significant pieces of information and present the information extracted in a way that provides a clear picture of the activity on the site in a practical and meaningful manner.

Degree and expertise: This project requires someone with a passion for machine learning algorithms and natural language processing. Ideally the candidate will be a postdoctoral fellow or at least someone as smart and experienced as one in the area of Natural Language Processing, machine learning algorithms, sentiment analysis, and data extraction and analysis. You must be able to work in a LAMP environment, be skilled with MySQL, be smart, reliable, and a self-starter with excellent problem solving and analytical abilities. You must have a solid grasp of English – written and verbal.

If you are interested in this opportunity please contact us at the following address: developers {at} ComplaintLink {dot} {com} Please include your CV and a short description of your past work and studies and interests.


Japanese Computational Linguist

Job Description: A text analysis team focusing on Information Extraction technologies seeks a Computational Linguist for a nine month contract position to enhance a Japanese language module to process unstructured text. This person will enhance the Japanese language module component in a linguistic foundation application and an entity and fact extraction solution. The focus will be on the creation, maintenance and augmentation of machine-readable dictionaries, grammar rules and parsing algorithms. Effective linguists will know how to use finite-state technology to code grammatical patterns and be able to use a data manipulation language such as Perl or Python.

Primary Duties:
-Builds, Tests and Enhances the Japanese language module
-An in-depth understand of the algorithms
-Meets product roadmap requirements
-Participates in formal inspections
-Contributes to the team with positive ideas in design discussions
-Provides support, consultation and training to other areas of the company


Required Skills:
-B.A. in Computational Linguistics or equivalent
-Native or near-native knowledge of written Japanese
-Fluent in English
-Strong background in syntax and morphology
-Proficiency in at least one data manipulation language (Perl preferred)
-Familiarity with modern quantitative techniques in NLP

Additional Information:
Projects require excellent English reading, writing and communication skills. Strong computer skills in a Windows environment and greater than average comfort with software and technology are expected. US residents must have US work authorization (US citizen or permanent resident). Unfortunately, Butler Hill Group cannot sponsor employment visas at this time. You will be required to sign a legally binding non-disclosure agreement at the time of contract negotiation.

This is a full-time contract position.
Compensation:
We offer a competitive, hourly pay rate DOE (to be paid as 1099 self-employment income).


Associate Research Engineer, Natural Language Processing

    • Employer : ETS (Educational Testing Service)
    • Rank or Title : Associate Research Engineer
    • Specialty : Natural Langauge Processing
    • Location : Princeton, New Jersey
    • Deadline : Applications accepted until the position is filled
    • Date Posted : May 6, 2011
    • Contact email or link to website : http://www.Click2Apply.net/q536shx

ETS (Educational Testing Service), with headquarters in Princeton, NJ, is a global $1.3B not for profit organization. Our mission is to advance quality and equity in education by providing fair and valid assessments, performing educational research and influencing policies that promote learning, performance, education and professional development. As a nonprofit corporation and an innovator in developing tests for clients in education, government and business, we are dedicated to advancing educational excellence for the communities we serve.

In this team-oriented role, the selected candidate will assist with the implementation of natural language processing (NLP) components of medium- to large-scale, complex research projects for ETS researchers, testing program areas and external clients. You will be offered the opportunity to consult with research scientists in the application, modification, and documentation of such systems and contribute to the implementation and support of new NLP methodologies to support research system development.

Be prepared to further assist in the preparation of NLP development components of proposals and cost/resource estimates, implement components of technical documentation of NLP software systems, solutions and results and regularly attend area-wide staff training and development sessions.


In addition to exceptional verbal/written communication skills, our qualifications include: 

   * Master's degree in Computer Science, NLP, Language Technology, Computational Linguistics, Linguistics or a closely related field
   * A strong programming background, in languages such as Perl, Java, Python, and C, and facility with computational algorithms are essential
   * Coursework in statistics and experience in using machine learning toolkits are highly desirable
   * Ability to maintain continuing awareness of recent advances in natural language processing (including speech processing), machine learning, and software development methodologies
   * Knowledge of UNIX and Windows computing environments
   * Familiarity with UNIX tools and scripting languages and  algorithms, methods and data structures in common use in the processing of speech and language data

We offer a competitive salary and excellent compensation package including medical, dental, vision, 403(b) retirement plan, life and disability insurance, paid time off and an employee assistance program. Please apply online at:

http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=104651&type=&cfcend

EOE


Research Scientist (Natural Language Processing)

    • Employer : Language Computer Corporation (LCC)
    • Rank or Title : Research Scientist
    • Specialty : Natural Langauge Processing (or related discipline)
    • Location : Richardson, Texas
    • Deadline : Applications accepted until the position is filled
    • Date Posted : May 2, 2011
    • Contact email or link to website : jobs2011@languagecomputer.com

Language Computer Corporation (LCC) is a privately-owned company committed to the development of next-generation natural language processing technologies. Since our founding in 1995, we've provided both government and commercial customers with intelligent, semantically-informed search and discovery software. These tools unlock value by actually understanding the information stored in large collections of text. LCC has spun off two semantic technology startups, including Swingly, a Web-scale answer engine, and Extractiv, a high-performance content harvesting service.

We are currently seeking research scientists for R&D in natural language processing and retrieval. Candidates must possess a Ph.D, significant experience in NLP, effective software development skills, and a track-record of publication. Successful candidates will work with a team of researchers and engineers to improve existing products as well as develop brand new technologies.

Requirements:

    • Ph.D in NLP or a related discipline, such as computational linguistics, data mining, or artificial intelligence
    • Strong programming skills on the Java platform
    • Education: BS or MS in Computer Science
    • Knowledge of development under Unix/Linux
    • U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident
    • Good communication skills
    • Patience necessary to work in a team environment

Desirable Qualities:

    • Industry R&D experience
    • Product development experience
    • Database programming/development
    • Other programming languages: Python, Ruby, Scala, Clojure
    • Source code management (e.g. SVN, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar)
    • Web Application experience
    • Multi-threaded / distributed applications
    • Understanding of design concepts such as abstraction, modularization, coupling, and maintainability
    • Unit testing and integration testing
    • Talent for writing time- and memory-sensitive code
    • Agile software development methodologies


Research Engineer - Natural Language Processing

    • Employer: Ask.com
    • Rank or Title: Research Engineer - Natural Language Processing
    • Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing
    • Location: Oakland, CA
    • Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
    • Date Posted: April 22, 2011
    • Contact email or link to website: www.ask.com/careers

About Us

Join the #1 brand and top Web property focused on answering people’s questions. At Ask.com, we’re building a next-generation Q&A service – spanning both the Web and mobile devices -- that combines the power of search with insight from real users. Our proprietary algorithms crawl the web for question and answer pairs (400 million and growing), fueling one of the biggest Q&A databases on the Web. This unique technology, combined with answers from real users in our community, makes Ask.com the most comprehensive Q&A service around. At Ask, we empower each individual to succeed, communicate their ideas, and take action. When you work here, you know your contributions will have a direct and immediate impact on the company. We are serious about creating and maintaining a company culture that is both innovative and fun, and we’re looking for great people to come join our team.

Summary

Ask.com is looking for a software engineer to join a research-oriented team in the Oakland, CA office. The research engineer will join a horizontal team supporting the Ask.com core language technologies, which power the search- and database-driven question answering solutions as well as the algorithmic language processing infrastructure for the Q&A community and mobile applications.

Required:

    • Natural language processing / computational linguistics background. Ideal: information retrieval and machine learning applications
    • Python and/or Perl, shell scripting, XML. Ideal: some Java and/or C/C++, familiarity with SQL and relational databases
    • Ph.D. in computational linguistics / natural language processing or related areas.

Skills and Experience:

    • 3+ plus years experience in natural language processing / computational linguistics in industry or large scale academic research project.
    • Expertise in at least some of the following specific NLP areas and topics: question answering, lexical semantics, collocations, terminology extraction, multi-word expressions, (shallow) parsing, named entity recognition, lexical acquisition, paraphrasis acquisition, information extraction, text classification, evaluation methodologies.
    • In general, experience is desired in web analytics, both in terms of using the web as corpus (including the family of related approaches, techniques, issues) and in terms of search engine query logs analysis / user behavior modeling.
    • Familiarity with existing data resources and tools: Wordnet, POS taggers, parsers, LingPipe, SVMLight, NLTK, Weka, and similar tools.
    • Ideal: practical experience with Lucene/Solr, Mahout and the Hadoop ecosystem.
    • Ideal: experience with ontologies, RDF, other semantic web resources or tools.
    • Ability to develop prototypes based on proprietary or open source tools.
    • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to shifting conditions, priorities, deadlines.
    • The ideal candidate should be able to refer to products and/or research prototypes that they have developed or to which they have contributed, or to their contributions to sites like StackOverflow.

Location: Downtown Oakland (near 12th St. BART Station)

Apply at: www.ask.com/careers


Natural Language Generation Expert

    • Employer: Stripes39 (a domain specific content management startup)
    • Rank or Title: Lead developer / architect
    • Specialty: Natural Language Generation
    • Location: Seattle, WA (downtown)
    • Deadline: Applications accepted until the position is filled
    • Date Posted: April 21, 2011
    • Start Date: as soon as possible
    • Duration: indefinite

Stripes39 is a well-funded Seattle startup with an NLG engine as a part of its core technology. The position will entail leading a team of computational linguists, architecting the NLG system, designing and managing the ontology, and testing of the NLG system output.

    • education: Ph.D. (preferred) or M.S./M.A. with strong leadership record
    • experience with NLG system design and testing (required)
    • knowledge of recent NLP tools and techniques (required)
    • large system development skills essential, including experience with Python and Java

Send email with resume to 

    Scott Farrar (farrar@uw.edu)

and 

    Parmeshta Jain (parmeshtajain@stripes39.com)

Please indicate in your cover letter your specific qualifications with NLG.


Postdoctoral Researcher, Natural Language Processing (information extraction)

    • Employer: New York University
    • Rank or Title: Post-doctoral researcher
    • Specialty: Natural Language Processing (information extraction)
    • Location: New York, NY
    • Deadline: Applications accepted until the position is filled
    • Date Posted: March 24, 2011
    • Start Date: September 1, 2011
    • Duration: 1 year, renewable

The Proteus Project (New York University Dept. of Computer Science) anticipates an opening for a computational linguist to conduct and support its research in information extraction, including in particular the analysis of trends in large collections of scientific articles and patents.

    • education: Ph.D. (preferred) or M.S. with strong research record
    • strong publication record
    • experience with NLP tools for English required
    • experience with NLP tools for German and/or Chinese a plus
    • experience with citation analysis, sentiment analysis, terminology extraction a plus
    • large system development skills essential, including experience with Unix and Java
    • target start date 1 September 2011, with some flexibility for an earlier or later start

Send email with c.v. and links to publications to 

    Prof. Ralph Grishman (grishman@cs.nyu.edu)

and 

    Prof. Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)

Indicate in your response your specific qualifications which match the requirements listed above.


Postdoctoral Researcher, Semantic Parsing

    • Employer: CCLS, Columbia University
    • Specialty: Semantic parsing, parsing, German NLP
    • Location: New York, NY
    • Deadline: Applications accepted until the position is filled.
    • Date Posted: March 16, 2011

Position available: Postdoc in Natural Language Processing (Semantic Parsing)

Start Date: September 1, 2011 (possibly earlier)

Duration: 1 year, renewable for a second year

Description: the postdoc will work in the context of a large, multi-site project which aims at predicting the emergence of technical trends from scientific literature in English, German, and Chinese. The specific issues the postdoc will work on revolve around natural language processing (NLP) tasks, in particular semantic parsing, and detecting degree of commitment. The postdoc will also be involved in issues of system integration, working with a full-time programmer.

Required background:

  • Ph.D. in hand in computer science, linguistics, or related discipline. (Note: in exceptional circumstances, a candidate with only a masters degree could be considered as a "pre-doc".)
  • Programming skills.
  • Ability to work in a group.


Desired background:

  • Knowledge of German, German linguistics, and/or German NLP.
  • Acquaintance with FrameNet.
  • Knowledge of parsing.
  • Knowledge of machine learning techniques.


Location: Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University, New York City

If interested, please mail to Owen Rambow, rambow@ccls.columbia.edu, a CV along with a short note explaining how you meet each of the required and desired background elements above. (A bulleted list would be fine, with a sentence per background element.)



Senior Research Scientist, Natural Language Processing

    • Employer: ETS (Educational Testing Service)
    • Specialty: Research
    • Location: Princeton, New Jersey, 08540

ETS (Educational Testing Service), with headquarters in Princeton, NJ, is a global $1.3B not for profit organization. Our mission is to advance quality and equity in education by providing fair and valid assessments, performing educational research and influencing policies that promote learning, performance, education and professional development. As a nonprofit corporation and an innovator in developing tests for clients in education, government and business, we are dedicated to advancing educational excellence for the communities we serve.

In the context of this position, we will turn to your skills and scientific/technical expertise to conceptualize, design, obtain support for, conduct and manage major research and/or development projects, particularly those in which natural language processing (NLP) techniques are applied to problems in education or assessment. Your responsibilities would include planning a long-term substantive research agenda, designing/conducting complex scientific studies, disseminating results and implications of projects and functioning as an expert in the major facets of the program. This position further offers the opportunity to generate or contribute to new or modified NLP theories and methodology and provide leadership for the development of new products or services for education and for the conduct of major projects in automated scoring and NLP.

Our qualifications include:

  • A Ph.D in Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics or Computer Science
  • Eight years of independent research experience providing evidence of continuing and substantial contributions to a field of study
  • A strong statistical and machine learning background
  • Demonstrable contributions to new and/or modified theories of Natural Language Processing and their implementation in automated systems
  • Practical expertise with NLP tools and fluency in at least one major programming language (e.g. Java, Perl, C/C++, Python)
  • The ability to lead the development of proposals for major research, development, or large-scale NLP projects,
  • Ability to develop, promote and maintain professional relationships as representative, consultant or advisor to external advisory or policy boards and councils, research organizations, educational institutions and educators
  • Familiarity with the application of NLP tools to educational problems
  • Demonstrated ability to lead project teams and to work collaboratively with a diverse set of contributors

We offer a competitive salary and excellent compensation package including medical, dental, vision, 403(b) retirement plan, life and disability insurance, paid time off and an employee assistance program. Please apply online at: http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=104122&type=&cfcend

EOE

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Text Mining and Natural Language Processing Specialists for eBay

    • Employer: eBay
    • Rank: Applied Researcher
    • Speciality: Information Retrieval & Text Mining / NLP
    • Location: San Jose, CA, USA
    • Deadline: Until filled
    • Date Posted: 2/25/2011
    • Contact email: smohan@ebay.com

eBay is looking for experts in web-scale Information Retrieval and Text Mining / Natural Language Processing to join the Search Science team.

Bring your ideas, energy, and dedication to improve search experience on eBay. The world class search engine at the heart of eBay serves more than 350 million queries every day. The Search Science team is passionate about building the query services and relevance factors that will match our users’ needs to the products in the world's largest online marketplace, and we are looking for top-notch applied researchers.


QUALIFICATIONS

· Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field plus 4 years of relevant software industry R&D experience required.

· Expertise in Information Retrieval and Nature Language Processing.

· Strong statistical and machine learning background.

· Experience and proficiency in Java and/or C++, Perl or similar scripting languages, and distributed processing of documents and web logs using Hadoop.

· Track record of deploying cutting edge technology in an industrial setting.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

· Use your knowledge, skills, and passion for improving search to find opportunities in eBay's log data and search results.

· Use deep domain expertise to individually drive innovative ideas.

· Participate in brainstorming and discovery exercises to determine new ideas.

· Build experimental frameworks and gather data from across the company to support your work.

· Conduct experiments, write prototypes, write specifications, and optionally write production code to deploy new features and methods that improve search quality.

· Lead projects and collaborate with other researchers, engineers, and product teams to develop strategic and tactical enhancements to search.

· Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other team members.

· Lead and contribute to multiple small team projects.

· Communicate your methodology and results to a community of researchers, developers, analysts, and product managers working in search. Communicate to technical and nontechnical audiences inside and outside the search team.

· Participate in meetings with other eBay groups to document best practices and facilitate a knowledge base.



Freelance British English, Japanese, and Mexican Spanish computational linguists

    • Employer: The Lingua Team
    • Rank: Freelance contractor
    • Speciality: Speech & Natural Language Processing
    • Location: Seattle, WA (work can be done remotely)
    • Deadline: 5/1/2011
    • Date Posted: 2/12/2011
    • Contact email: http://www.thelinguateam.com

The Lingua Team, a company based in the Seattle area, dedicated to linguistic services is always looking for a computational linguists with native or near native knowledge of the most common languages to do freelance work remotely. Please, visit our site and email your resume for consideration.


French computational linguist

    • Employer: The Lingua Team
    • Rank: Language support contractor
    • Speciality: Speech recognition
    • Location: Seattle, WA (work can be done remotely)
    • Deadline: 03/04/2011
    • Date Posted: 12/28/2010
    • Contact email: http://www.thelinguateam.com

The Lingua Team, a Seattle area based company, dedicated to linguistic services is looking for a French computational linguist to create computational grammars in xml format. Knowledge of French is a must. Please, email your resume for consideration.


Senior Research Assistant, Natural Language Processing


ETS (Educational Testing Service), with headquarters in Princeton, NJ, is a global $1.3B not for profit organization. Our mission is to advance quality and equity in education by providing fair and valid assessments, performing educational research and influencing policies that promote learning, performance, education and professional development. As a nonprofit corporation and an innovator in developing tests for clients in education, government and business, we are dedicated to advancing educational excellence for the communities we serve.


Job Description:

Educational Testing Service has an opening for a Senior Research Assistant position in the Applied Research and Development Group. The successful candidate will primarily provide support to Research Scientists working on a branch of computer science and computational linguistics known as Natural Language Processing (NLP) by assisting in all phases of research projects, including research design, project management, data collection and analysis. He or she will also collaborate with researchers in preparing study results for publication or presentation, including literature searches, producing charts and graphs, writing and editing.


Basic Functions and Responsibilities:

Coordinate research project workflow including planning and designing pilot and field testing; data collection, analysis, and presentation; preparation, production, and distribution of proposals and reports; maintaining data files; and producing workshop materials. Schedule services with other ETS departments and project staff. Act as liaison between project directors and field staff, support staff, and research community, as assigned. Plan, manage, and perform annotations for a variety of projects.

  • Collect, organize, and verify data; analyze, synthesize, and interpret data; perform statistical calculations.
  • Monitor activities of temporary and support staff and data collection centers to control budgets, workflow, quality of coding operations, and project activities.
  • Develop coding systems, procedures, and manuals; research instruments; statistical analyses; and files of current resource materials for workshops and projects.
  • Write, revise, edit, and proofread research instruments, project documents and publications, memoranda, and correspondence.
  • Contribute to formal reports and proposals (or sections thereof).
  • Update publications and prepare graphics, tables, charts, graphs, figures, and visual aids. Administer tests, research instruments, interviews, and surveys.
  • Conduct literature searches and prepare reference lists, evaluating and selecting materials to be included.
  • Operate computer terminal to enter, edit, and update data; program and utilize sophisticated statistical packages for data analysis; act as data custodian for cost center.
  • Select and train field staff; instruct support staff.
  • Arrange and attend meetings with clients, committees, and consultants.
  • Meet with clients to plan or interpret guidelines, as assigned.


Required Experience:

EDUCATION A Bachelor's degree in a behavioral or social science with coursework in Statistics is necessary. Coursework or experience working in linguistics, computer science and/or natural language processing (NLP) technologies preferred.

EXPERIENCE A successful candidate will have exemplary written, grammatical, and technical skills. Three years of research-related experience in an academic or professional setting is necessary.



Associate Research Engineer, Natural Language Processing

    • Employer: ETS (Educational Testing Service)
    • Speciality: Research
    • Location: Princeton, New Jersey 08540
    • Date Posted: 01/07/2011
    • Link to website: http://www.Click2Apply.net/xymwg8p

ETS (Educational Testing Service), with headquarters in Princeton, NJ, is a global $1.3B not for profit organization. Our mission is to advance quality and equity in education by providing fair and valid assessments, performing educational research and influencing policies that promote learning, performance, education and professional development. As a nonprofit corporation and an innovator in developing tests for clients in education, government and business, we are dedicated to advancing educational excellence for the communities we serve.

In this team-oriented role, the selected candidate will assist with the implementation of natural language processing (NLP) components of medium- to large-scale, complex research projects for ETS researchers, testing program areas and external clients. You will be offered the opportunity to consult with research scientists in the application, modification, and documentation of such systems and contribute to the implementation and support of new NLP methodologies to support research system development.

Be prepared to further assist in the preparation of NLP development components of proposals and cost/resource estimates, implement components of technical documentation of NLP software systems, solutions and results and regularly attend area-wide staff training and development sessions.

In addition to exceptional verbal/written communication skills, our qualifications include:

  • Master's degree in Computer Science, NLP, Language Technology, Computational Linguistics, Linguistics or a closely related field
  • A strong programming background, in languages such as Perl, Java, Python, and C, and facility with computational algorithms are essential
  • Coursework in statistics and experience in using machine learning toolkits are highly desirable
  • Ability to maintain continuing awareness of recent advances in natural language processing (including speech processing), machine learning, and software development methodologies
  • Knowledge of UNIX and Windows computing environments
  • Familiarity with UNIX tools and scripting languages and algorithms, methods and data structures in common use in the processing of speech and language data

We offer a competitive salary and excellent compensation package including medical, dental, vision, 403(b) retirement plan, life and disability insurance, paid time off and an employee assistance program. Please apply online at:

http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=99822&type=&cfcend

EOE

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Associate Research Scientist, Speech

ETS (Educational Testing Service), with headquarters in Princeton, NJ, is a global $1.3B not for profit organization. Our mission is to advance quality and equity in education by providing fair and valid assessments, performing educational research and influencing policies that promote learning, performance, education and professional development. As a nonprofit corporation and an innovator in developing tests for clients in education, government and business, we are dedicated to advancing educational excellence for the communities we serve.

In this integral position, the selected candidate will apply their scientific and technical skills to conceptualize, design, obtain support for, conduct, manage and disseminate the results of research projects in the field of automated speech assessment, or portions of large-scale research studies or programs in the same field.

You will be offered the opportunity to develop and/or modify theories to conceptualize and implement new capabilities in automated scoring and speech-based analysis and evaluation systems used to improve assessments, learning tools and test development practices. Be prepared to design/conduct research studies and capability development, oversee select portions of research proposals and project budgets and function as an expert in major facets of the projects.

Our requirements include:

  • Ability to participate in dissemination activities through the publications of research papers, progress and technical reports, the presentation of seminars or other appropriate communication vehicles
  • Must be able to develop professional relationships as a representative, consultant or advisor to external advisory and policy boards and councils, research organizations, educational institutions and educators
  • Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related areas, with strong emphasis on speech technology, natural language processing, and machine learning, and preferably some education in linguistics
  • Evidence of substantive research experience and/or experience in developing and deploying speech capabilities
  • Demonstrable contributions to new and/or modified theories of speech processing and their implementation in automated system
  • Expertise in the application of speech recognition systems and fluency in at least one major programming language (e.g. Java, Python, Perl), as well as strong experience in Unix scripting

We offer a competitive salary and excellent compensation package including medical, dental, vision, 403(b) retirement plan, life and disability insurance, paid time off and an employee assistance program. Please apply online at:

http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=97431&type=&cfcend

EOE

Apply Here

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