23.4109, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Computational Linguist, Wireless Generation

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Subject: 23.4109, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Computational Linguist, Wireless Generation

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Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:16:53
From: Olga Thompson [othompson at wgen.net]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Computational Linguist, Wireless Generation, New York, USA

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University or Organization: Wireless Generation 
Department: New Curriculum
Job Location: New York, USA 
Web Address: http://www.wirelessgeneration.com/
Job Rank: Computational Linguist  

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 


Description:

Wireless Generation creates innovative tools, systems and services that help 
educators teach with excellence. With its solutions, educators can easily 
apply research-based, proven practices such as frequent progress monitoring 
and needs diagnosis, data-informed decision-making, differentiated 
instruction, and professional collaborations across classrooms, grades, and 
schools. The company has helped educators address and solve some of the 
most pressing challenges in teaching and learning. Wireless Generation 
currently serves more than 200,000 educators and three million students. 

Title: Computational Linguist 
 
Description:
The Computational Linguist will work as a key member of Wireless 
Generation's Automated Reasoning team. The Automated Reasoning team is 
tasked with researching, prototyping, and evaluating algorithmic approaches 
to the scoring of all forms of student work, be it written compositions, 
constructed responses, activity in micro worlds and games, as well as more 
traditional exercise tasks. The computational linguist will assist in evaluating 
and selecting among existing commercial NLP systems and in developing 
novel text evaluation and scoring algorithms. The work involves all aspect of 
typical NLP applications, such as constructing digital corpora; building 
processing pipelines from raw text to complex linguistic representations; 
analyzing and annotating those representations with respect to educational 
goals; implementing, evaluating and revising supervised or unsupervised 
scoring algorithms. In addition, the computational linguist will explore new 
forms of proficiency measurement that are enabled by machine scoring.

Responsibilities of the Computational Linguist:
-  Evaluate commercial and open-source text analysis systems, with 
particular focus on automatic essay scoring (AES) systems.
-  Develop precise characterizations of novel linguistic scoring tasks and 
develop annotation schemes. 
-  Research, prototype and evaluate tools for novel scoring tasks. 
-  Construct digital corpora for a wide variety of tasks. 
-  Work closely with internal and external software development teams to 
support the implementation of NLP scoring tools in production-grade software. 
-  Develop and maintain expertise in the current state of the art of NLP 
methods and technologies.
-  Create and write research papers and presentations, for internal and 
external consumption. 
-  Provide generalized expertise in language and linguistics to the curriculum 
teams.

Requirements of the Computational Linguist:
-  PhD (preferred) or MA/MSc in Linguistics or Computer Science. A Master's 
level candidate must hold a degree focused on computational linguistics (e.g. 
as an area of specialization within a degree in Linguistics.) 
-  3+ years of experience developing software, either commercially or within 
publicly-visible open source projects. 
-  Fluency of the English language is a must. 
-  Proficiency in at least one other natural language, preferably Spanish. 
-  Strong programming knowledge: minimally Java and Python, preferably 
also a modern JVM language (Scala, Clojure), Prolog, and C/C++. 
-  Teaching experience is a plus. 

This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery 
& Reinvestment Act funds
 
Wireless Generation is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V


Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Web Address for Applications: http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH14/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=WIRELESSGENERATION&cws=1&rid=2396 
Contact Information:
	Olga Thompson 
	Email: othompson at wgen.net 





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