23.1610, Jobs: English; General Linguistics: Knowledge Engineer, Attensity

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Subject: 23.1610, Jobs: English; General Linguistics: Knowledge Engineer, Attensity

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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:52:24
From: Melissa Lok-Lee [mlok-lee at attensity.com]
Subject: English; General Linguistics: Knowledge Engineer, Attensity, Utah, USA

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University or Organization: Attensity 
Job Location: Utah, USA 
Web Address: http://www.attensity.com
Job Rank: Knowledge Engineer  

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics 

Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

Attensity helps the world's leading brands leverage customer conversations 
as a business asset. Using Attensity's integrated suite of customer analytics 
and response applications, organizations can tap the wealth of data stored in 
both internal and online sources, and use that information to improve the 
customer experience with their brands. Attensity's award-winning Customer 
Experience Management (CEM) solutions are built on a massively scalable 
text analytics platform that enables organizations to listen, analyze, relate 
and act on customer conversations, no matter where they take place.

Requirements of the Position:
-  Work closely with Attensity Business Analysts and customers to identify 
and map business processes to Knowledge Engineering and Text 
Aggregation rules
-  Use internal tools to build and maintain a linguistic knowledge base, which 
can be used to perform linguistic extractions
-  Create and maintain lists of objects, including; dictionaries, entity rules, 
typos and phrases
-  Develop text analysis expertise and contribute to Attensity's Center of 
Excellent (COE)
-  Leverage expertise to provide consultation and best practice advise
-  Assist in the development of best practices and tool kits

Qualifications:
-  Successful candidates will possess significant knowledge of the workings 
of the English language, including grammar, parts of speech, morphology, 
syntax and semantics
-  Linguistics training (minimum 1 year in syntax and semantics) preferred

Skills:
-  Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
-  Advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge
-  Highly organized and motivated

Pluses:
-  Computational Linguistics experience
-  Experience developing ontologies or information hierarchies

Education:
-  BA degree in Linguistics, English, or Computational Linguistics, or a BS 
degree in Computer Science with experience in NLP, computational 
linguistics, ESL, or foreign languages

Application Deadline: 30-Jun-2012 (Open until filled)

Email Address for Applications: careers at attensity.com 
Contact Information:
	Melissa Lok-Lee 
	Email: mlok-lee at attensity.com 

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