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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The Educational Testing Service has a group of about 12 researchers dedicated to natural language processing and speech analysis. Much of this work focuses on methods for automatically scoring responses (such as essays or monologues) to open-ended test items, or to providing instructional feedback to test takers based on their responses. </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">We are currently looking to hire a software developer with a strong NLP background. </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Qualified candidates should </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">be highly skilled in Java, Perl, and Python programming</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">be familiar with UNIX tools and scripting languages</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">have a demonstrated commitment to software development best practices, including documentation, reusable code design, and integrated software testing</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">have a strong grasp of computational algorithms and elementary statistics</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Ideal candidates should also have experience with natural language processing and speech processing applications. Desired qualifications include:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">An understanding of different statistical classification techniques, and the strengths and weaknesses of each</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">A grasp of the levels of linguistic analysis (syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology) and typical computational approaches applied at each level in corpus-based research</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Experience with machine learning toolkits such as Weka, Mallet, libsvm, SVMLite, and See5</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Experience with machine learning and natural language processing resources such as WordNet, parsers, taggers, and information retrieval systems</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Above all, candidates should be flexible, self-motivated, and team-oriented.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">M. Sc. In computer science, computational linguistics, or a related field is highly desirable.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The official job posting, together with application instructions, is at:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=79723&type=main&cfcend"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=79723&type=main&cfcend</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">(You can also go to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#1F497D" FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, and search for Job ID 79723.)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Derrick Higgins</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Automated Scoring and Natural Language Processing</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Educational Testing Service</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Rosedale Road</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Princeton, NJ 08541</FONT></SPAN></P>
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