28.4582, Jobs: English; Computational Linguistics: Computational Linguist, Amplify

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Subject: 28.4582, Jobs: English; Computational Linguistics: Computational Linguist, Amplify

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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 13:30:41
From: Danielle Walker [dawalker at amplify.com]
Subject: English; Computational Linguistics: Computational Linguist, Amplify, New York, USA

 
University or Organization: Amplify 
Department: Research & Analytics
Job Location: New York, USA (Telecommute)
Web Address: http://www.amplify.com
Job Title: Computational Linguist
Job Rank: Other; Programmer; Researcher; Scientist

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

The Computational Linguist will work as a key member of Amplify’s Research and
Analytics team to develop novel text evaluation and scoring algorithms, and to
evaluate and select among existing commercial NLP systems.  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.  

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

Basic Qualifications of the Computational Linguist:
- PhD or MA/MSc in Linguistics, or Computer Science with NLP focus
- Strong knowledge of statistical learning methods
- 2+ years of experience developing software, either commercially or 
   within publicly-visible open source projects
- Fluency in English
- Proficiency in at least one other natural language
- Demonstrated programming proficiency: minimally Java or C/C++, 
   and Python

Preferred Qualifications of the Computational Linguist:
- Proficiency in a modern JVM programming language, e.g. Clojure or 
  Scala
- Familiarity with software engineering practices, e.g. version control, 
  automated testing
- Teaching experience is a plus



Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Web Address for Applications: http://bit.ly/2hzb9rg 
Contact Information:
	Associate Human Resources Business Partn Danielle Walker 
	Email: dawalker at amplify.com 
	Phone: 2127962375 
	Fax: 7182289328 


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