29.2131, Jobs: English; General Linguistics: Consultant, Facebook

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-2131. Wed May 16 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.2131, Jobs: English; General Linguistics: Consultant, Facebook

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Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 14:30:54
From: Katharine Davis [katedavis at fb.com]
Subject: English; General Linguistics: Consultant, Facebook, Seattle, Washington

 
University or Organization: PRO Unlimited @ Facebook 
Job Location: Washington, USA 
Job Title: Linguist
Job Rank: Consultant

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics 

Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

We are looking for linguists to help develop the data infrastructure for
Natural Language systems. Our team is responsible for collecting language
data, creating targeted labeling systems for a variety of downstream uses,
writing clear guidelines for annotation, ensuring the quality of labeled data,
and writing the software tools to process, evaluate, display, and distribute
the data. 

We need linguists who understand language as data, who think analytically and
systematically, and who can develop and evaluate ways of capturing linguistic
generalizations that are precise, concise, and implementable. Candidates
should understand the basics of computer programming, have at a minimum
written code for processing text files, and be willing and able to learn new
programming languages and techniques. 

We value expertise in any sub-field of linguistics, expect a passion for the
scientific study of language, and require research experience that includes an
understanding of the scientific method and experimental design. We are seeking
new colleagues who work well on teams, can passionately argue a position
without rancor, and quickly agree on the most optimal solutions to language
data problems. 

If you know that language data is the underpinning of all current language
technologies, if you love practical language analysis as well as theoretical,
and if you are ready to adapt your unique skill set to a diverse range of
products and problems, then this may be the job for you! 

The successful candidate will be engaged in general responsibilities and at
least one specialized role.

General Responsibilities:
- Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses
- Pilot new label sets to test their feasibility
- Determine quality standards for annotation
- Annotate language data with linguistic information and author clear
guidelines so that others can do the same
- Curate large amounts of annotated data by analyzing annotations, comparing
annotations to guidelines, and building gold analyses

Specialized Roles:
- An Ontology Manager to create and revise hierarchical label sets for natural
language based on the needs of the product team
- A Tools Developer to create tools for data annotation, data storage, and
quality evaluation with an eye towards the long-term
- A Data Quality Engineer to monitor data collection, compile statistics, and
ensure data quality
- A Technical Writer to distill complex concepts and group consensus into
accessible guidelines
- A Grammar Developer to write regular expressions and Context-Free Grammars
for data validation, named entity recognition, information - extraction, etc.

Qualifications:
- Academic degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Language
Technologies, or related field (advanced degree or industry experience
preferred)
- Interest and experience in any area of linguistics, especially discourse
analysis and semantics
- Experience with basic programming techniques and familiarity with languages
such as Python, PHP, Perl, and C#
- Ability to speak and write in English fluently and idiomatically

Please see the link below to apply.



Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Web Address for Applications: http://profacebook.theresumator.com/apply/jobs/details/8HoKkqM8N7 
Contact Information:
	Ms. Kate Davis 
	Email: katedavis at fb.com 


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