22.812, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Programmer, Tioga Lake Consulting

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Subject: 22.812, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Programmer, Tioga Lake Consulting

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Date: 15-Feb-2011
From: Brian Buchanan [brian.buchanan at gmail.com]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Programmer, Tioga Lake Consulting, LLC
 

	
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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 05:53:03
From: Brian Buchanan [brian.buchanan at gmail.com]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Programmer, Tioga Lake Consulting, LLC

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University or Organization: Tioga Lake Consulting, LLC 
Job Rank: Programmer  

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 


Description:

Contract Developer - Web Content Crawler Project

Contract project -- 12 weeks minimum

Seeking a programmer or computational linguist to create heuristics for
extracting certain information from small/medium business websites, such as
business name, description, contact information, hours of operation,
restaurant menus, etc.

The web crawling / HTML parsing framework for this project is already in
place.  The objective of this contract is the development and refinement of
the actual code for extracting the required data from each website and
converting it to a structured format.

To be considered for this contract, a candidate need not be an expert
programmer; however, basic programming ability and familiarity with
Javascript or Ruby is required.  The ideal candidate has worked on a 
previous web crawling project involving data aggregation and already has an
intuitive sense about how to approach this problem.

Job description:
-Review websites and create training data set.
-Program heuristics to extract specified data items from web pages and
perform aggregate analysis of websites.
-Load heuristics into website analyzer and run analyzer on the training
data set.
-Compare output of website analyzer with expected results from the training
set.
-Identify problems with the heuristics and examine the affected websites to
determine the cause.
-Develop new possible heuristics for improving the accuracy of the website
analyzer.
-Program new heuristics and repeat the review process.
-Create algorithms for estimating the accuracy of each heuristic for a
given webpage.

Required qualifications:
-Working competence with the Javascript programming language
-Excellent working knowledge of web technologies (HTML, etc.)
-Experience working with structured data & aggregation

Desired qualifications:
-Background in statistics and/or machine learning (e.g. Bayesian filtering)
-Background in computational linguistics
-Working knowledge of Ruby, C++, or at least one other programming language
-Experience with UNIX command-line tools (e.g. using the command shell on
Linux or MacOS X)


Application Deadline: 28-Feb-2011 
	  
Email Address for Applications: brian.buchanan at gmail.com 
Contact Information:
	Brian Buchanan 
	Email: brian.buchanan at gmail.com 



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