17.1339, Jobs: General Ling: Programmer, North Side Inc.

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Subject: 17.1339, Jobs: General Ling: Programmer, North Side Inc.

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Date: 29-Apr-2006
From: Eugene Joseph < eugene at northsideinc.com >
Subject: General Linguistics:  Programmer, North Side Inc., Montreal, Canada 

	
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Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 16:08:00
From: Eugene Joseph < eugene at northsideinc.com >
Subject: General Linguistics:  Programmer, North Side Inc., Montreal, Canada 
 

University or Organization: North Side Inc. 
Job Rank: Programmer  
Specialty Areas: General Linguistics
Required Language(s): English (eng)


Description:
North Side Inc., based in Montreal, Canada, is developing technology to
enable free-form natural-language based interaction. As such, we focus on
deep semantic understanding of English.

Educational requirements:  we are looking for a person that has minimally
an M.Sc. degree ( Ph.D. preferred) in Computational Linguistics. Relevant
work experience will be considered in lieu of Ph.D. 
 
Work responsibilities:  software development in one of the two areas: 
 
Applications:
1. Automatic acquisition of world knowledge and lexical-semantic
information through corpus mining
2.  Natural Language Generation for interactive man-machine dialogues,
based on a cognitive model of the user (her/his goals, current problems in
dialogue, current emotional state, current domain knowledge, errors made
during dialogue, etc. ) 
 
Background requirements: Our development environment is Java, SQL, XML,
Python, Linux and Windows, so familiarity with this environment is expected. 
 
Other background requirements: Cognitive user modeling, dialogue
management, pragmatics for candidates interested to work in Natural
Language Generation.
 
Method of application: by e-mail to eugene at northsideinc.com
 
Documentation required: diplomas and/or proof of previous employment.

Address for Applications: 

Eugene Joseph 
PO Box 122 
Snowdon Station 
Montreal, Quebec H3X 3T3 
Canada  

Application Deadline: Open until filled.

Contact Information:

Eugene Joseph 
Email: eugene at northsideinc.com 
Phone: 514-935-4566 
Fax: 514-935-4047 
Website: http://www.northsideinc.com





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