23.3699, Jobs: Computational Ling; Natural Language Processing: Researcher, U of Southern California

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Subject: 23.3699, Jobs: Computational Ling; Natural Language Processing: Researcher, U of Southern California

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Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:23:43
From: Jerry Hobbs [hobbs at isi.edu]
Subject: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Processing: Researcher, University of Southern California, California, USA

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University or Organization: University of Southern California 
Department: Information Sciences Institute
Job Location: California, USA 
Web Address: http://www3.isi.edu/home
Job Rank: Researcher  

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Processing


Description:

The Naturral Language Group at the Information Sciences Institute, University 
of Southern California, is seeking to hire three research programmers.  
Applicants should be interested in working on one of the following three sets 
of tasks and should have the corresponding set of skills.

1. Supporting and further developing an existing abductive reasoning system.

Skills required for this set of tasks:

- Programming languages: C++, python
- Background in machine learning
- Knowledge about automatic reasoning is an advantage
- Background in NLP is an advantage

2. Mining structured knowledge for reasoning from the Web

Skills required for this set of tasks:

- Background in statistics and machine learning
- Experience in working with web data and large corpora
- Background in NLP is an advantage
- Knowledge of logic is an advantage

3. Sentiment Analysis 

Skills required for this set of tasks:

- Programming languages: python, C++
- Background in machine learning
- Parallel programming is an advantage
- Background in NLP is an advantage

Send CV to Jerry Hobbs at the application email address below.


Application Deadline: 05-Oct-2012 
	  
Email Address for Applications: hobbs at isi.edu 
Contact Information:
	Jerry Hobbs 
	Email: hobbs at isi.edu 





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