17.2433, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Rank Open, Cataphora

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Subject: 17.2433, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Rank Open, Cataphora

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Date: 29-Aug-2006
From: Richard Oehrle < rto at cataphora.com >
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Rank Open, Cataphora, CA, USA 

	
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:30:34
From: Richard Oehrle < rto at cataphora.com >
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Rank Open, Cataphora, CA, USA 
 

University or Organization: Cataphora 
Department: Linguistics
Web Address: http://www.cataphora.com
Job Rank: Rank Open  
Specialty Areas: Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Discourse
Analysis; Forensic Linguistics; General Linguistics 

Description:
Cataphora is a young, growing company, building a business centered on the
analysis of large corpora of electronic documents, a field rich in
technological and commercial opportunities. We have a core technology, a
working product, and a focused team of experienced and passionate software
professionals with broad expertise. Our customer base is expanding and we
are profitable. 

We seek individuals with outstanding skills in the analysis of
multi-lingual electronic corpora. We are open in principle to a variety of
training, experience, and inclination---linguistics computational
linguistics, natural language processing, natural language engineering,
artificial intelligence and its applications, knowledge engineering. We are
especially interested in individuals comfortable with the techniques and
relative merits of both symbolic and statistical approaches.  We actively
engage both in the development of new advances of our core technology and
product line and in the application of stable technology to customer needs.
In the long run, both are essential to the health of our company; but in
the short run, satisfying current customers is critical to our success.
Current customers are often driven by impending deadlines and stringent
criteria whose violation imposes significant penalties. This lends a
certain intensity to the Cataphora working environment, and concomitant
opportunities to earn significant rewards (along with considerable
flexibility in working hours).

If this combination of rewards and challenges attracts you and you are
interested in constructing working systems with demonstrated and growing
value, we want to hear from you. (It is not our policy to handle
relocations; TN visas or H1 visa transfers, however, are conceivable.)

Requirements:

-familiarity with basic search techniques and ontology development
-background in theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics,
  artificial intelligence and their applications to search techniques and
  ontology development
-experience, proficiency, facility in programming 
-intellectual curiosity
-appreciation for working with great people in a promising young company

Strongly preferred (the more the better!):

-knowledge of other major world languages (in addition to English)
-excellent working knowledge of Java, Python, Perl
-familiarity with large database applications
-strong data visualization design and development skills
-strong quantitative and verbal abilities

Job Location:
     Cataphora, Inc.
     1200 Bridge Parkway, Suite 201
     Redwood City, CA 94065

To apply, please send your resume (as a text file, a Word Doc, or a PDF
file) to:
     work at cataphora.com
	 
Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)





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