23.3915, Jobs: Statistical Natural Language Processing: Associate Computational Linguist, AskZiggy, Inc.

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Subject: 23.3915, Jobs: Statistical Natural Language Processing: Associate Computational Linguist, AskZiggy, Inc.

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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:55:53
From: Kyle Grove [assistant at ask-ziggy.com]
Subject: Statistical Natural Language Processing: Associate Computational Linguist, AskZiggy, Inc., California, USA

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University or Organization: AskZiggy, Inc. 
Job Location: California, USA 
Web Address: http://www.ask-ziggy.com
Job Rank: Associate Computational Linguist  

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Statistical Natural Language Processing


Description:

AskZiggy, Inc. is hiring an Associate Computational Linguist to add to our 
growing team. AskZiggy is a leader in intent-driven voice-activated 
multimodal interface utilizing natural language understanding. We are working 
closely with a growing number of large publically-traded corporate partners to 
provide customized domain-aware agents that converse naturally and 
efficiently with their users.

We are:
-  A growing, dynamic, and harmonious team of software developers.
-  All techies here, really. From the CEO down we are software developers, 
first and foremost, who lead by example and give self-starting, engaged 
employees the independence and room for creativity they need. 
-  Passionate and knowledgeable about developing useful and flexible 
applications that use natural language to help users accomplish tasks.
-  Located in Rocklin, CA near Sacramento.

We offer:
-  Competitive pay and benefits, including a comprehensive health care plan 
and stock options.
-  Equipment and infrastructure that developers need to develop products. 

You definitely have:
-  Both the independence to contribute to design decisions and the ability to 
implement software designs on a deadline.
-  Excellent multitasking, troubleshooting, and communication ability. 
-  The ability to rapidly absorb information and self-teach.
-  The ability to take guidance and compromise. 
-  A BS or graduate degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or 
Computational Linguistics.
-  Expertise programming in one or more of C, C++, C#, or Java.
-  Coursework or equivalent experience in one of the following: Computational 
Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Machine 
Learning, or Human Language Technologies. 
-  Experience with probabilistic sequence tagging and information extraction.

It would be highly desirable for you to have:
-  Experience programming in one or more of: Python, Scala, Clojure or other 
languages targeting the JVM or .NET. 
-  Experience with Information Retrieval, Named Entity Recognition, MaxEnt 
classifiers or logistic regression.


Application Deadline: 01-Nov-2012 (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: assistant at ask-ziggy.com 
Contact Information:
	Kyle Grove 
	Email: assistant at ask-ziggy.com 
	Phone: 916-435-0444 





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