11.916, Jobs: Comp Ling/Senior Natural Language Engineer

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Subject: 11.916, Jobs: Comp Ling/Senior Natural Language Engineer

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Date:  19 Apr 2000 21:48:51 -0000
From:  Karin Verspoor <karin at intelligenesis.net>
Subject:  Computational Linguist: Senior Natural Language Engineer at Intelligenesis Corporation, New York USA

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Date:  19 Apr 2000 21:48:51 -0000
From:  Karin Verspoor <karin at intelligenesis.net>
Subject:  Computational Linguist: Senior Natural Language Engineer at Intelligenesis Corporation, New York USA


Rank of Job: Senior Natural Language Engineer
Areas Required: Computational Linguist
Other Desired Areas: Java, OO design
University or Organization: Intelligenesis Corporation
Department: Natural Language Engineering group
State or Province: New York
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: April 28, 2000 or until position is filled
Contact: Karin Verspoor karin at intelligenesis.net

Address for Applications:
50 Broadway
New York
NY 10004
USA

Intelligenesis, a development stage company with offices in New York
City, Silicon Valley, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand, is pioneering a
new breed of business intelligence for the Internet economy that the
Wall Street Journal heralded as “a revolution in computing.”
To learn more about us, please visit our website at:
http://www.intelligenesis.net

Description:
The Natural Language group at Intelligenesis is currently seeking a
creative individual for immediate employment in our New York office.
The position will involve developing natural language processing modules
integrated with our artificial intelligence architecture, including
designing, documenting, coding, and performing intelligence evaluations
of Java language code in a team environment.


Background Requirements:
-	advanced degree in Computational Linguistics or related discipline
-	Experience with NL query processing and automatic recognition of the
        semantics of queries
-	information retrieval and/or information extraction experience
-	Java or C++ programming skills, and object oriented design experience

Additional desirable skills:
-	familarity with database querying
-	statistical NLP and robust processing experience
-	knowledge of machine learning techniques
-	text mining experience

Location Requirements: This position will be based in New York City, and
requires travel to the New York office a minimum of two days/week.

Compensation includes salary commensurate with experience and subsidized
health benefits.

Interested applicants should send a cover letter and resume (in
Microsoft Word or text format), including salary history and
availability to karin at intelligenesis.net, or fax to 1-212-324-3001
(attention: Karin Verspoor). Please be sure to put the name of the job
you are applying for in the subject area of your email, or on the cover
page of your fax. No phone calls please.

I will be available from April 29 - May 4 at the NAACL conference in
Seattle, and am interested in conducting interviews of qualified
candidates there.  Please let me know in advance if you would like to
schedule a time to meet to speak about the company and your background,
or look for me there.

Dr. Karin Verspoor
Director, Natural Language Engineering
Intelligenesis Corp.
karin at intelligenesis.net
fax (212) 324 3001

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