25.3643, Jobs: Russian; Computational Linguistics: Senior Computational Linguist, NTENT

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Subject: 25.3643, Jobs: Russian; Computational Linguistics: Senior Computational Linguist, NTENT

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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:56:49
From: Jeff Korte [jkorte at ntent.com]
Subject: Russian; Computational Linguistics: Senior Computational Linguist, NTENT, California, USA

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University or Organization: NTENT 
Department: Semantic Team
Job Location: California, USA 
Web Address: http://www.ntent.com/
Job Title: Russian Computational Linguist
Job Rank: Senior Computational Linguist

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Russian (rus)

Description:

NTENT is looking for a Senior Russian speaking Computational Linguist who
would be responsible for providing support for a number of Russian language
applications such as a semantic search engine. This is a full-time and on-site
position located in Carlsbad, California.

Duties:
- Lead a geographically distributed team of Russian speaking linguists working
on all major aspects of natural language processing in Russian:
tokenization/stemming, part of speech tagging, parsing, semantic analysis
(semantic role labeling, disambiguation, etc.) and translation.
- Work closely with a team of developers to ensure the compatibility of the
delivered results with the core technology.
- Identify requirements, priorities and deliverables for tasks and subprojects
and report regularly on the progress of the stated deliverables.

Requirements:
- A Ph.D. degree in Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing or a
Masters degree with at least 3 years of research/industry experience with
information retrieval, text analytics, or machine translation.
- A track record of leading or coordinating projects in natural language
processing/computational linguistics in Russian or Slavic languages.
- A native speaker of Russian.
- Fluency in English.
- Knowledge of open-source or proprietary NLP packages for Russian (stemmers,
taggers, parsers, semantic analyzers, etc.)

Desired:
- Familiarity with programming in languages like Perl, C/C++, Java or Python.
- Experience with ontology engineering or formal semantic representation.
- Knowledge of machine learning techniques.
- Experience with disambiguation technology.
- Experience with named entity recognition. 

We offer a full comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental and
vision.  Employees receive three weeks of vacation, generous sick days plan
and 9 holidays per year.  We also offer 401(k) benefits, long term disability
benefits and life insurance.



Application Deadline: 31-Mar-2015 (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: jkorte at ntent.com 
Contact Information:
	Talent Acquisition Jeff Korte 
	Email: jkorte at ntent.com 





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