Corpora: Computational Linguistics Opportunities

[Kent Clizbe]

Hi,

I'm a headhunter who uses my MA/Linguistics background to specialize in
Computational Linguistics and related areas.  Several new opportunities
have developed for Computational Linguistics professionals, and now have
positions in Research and Development, as well as ecommerce applications
companies.

The geographic spread, in the US, is from Rhode Island and Boston in New
England, to the Bay Area of California.  At least one of these employers
will sponsor non-US citizens' for work visas.

Pasted below are detailed descriptions of five immediate opportunities.

Please let me know if you know anyone with the requisite skills and
abilities.

Thanks.

Kent
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Kent Clizbe
GateSource Partners
kent at gatesource.com
703-222-6627
www.gatesource.com

-----------------Opportunity 1---------------
Computational Linguist
Location:  Providence, Rhode Island
Compensation:  $75-100k, plus stock options, full benefits

We are seeking a very bright, self-motivated individual with experience
in developing applications of corpus-based natural language processing,
information retrieval, data mining, parsing, sense disambiguation, or
other related products. This individual will be in charge of developing
new
algorithms for web-search enhancement, automatically extending our
current database, and future products. Individuals with supervisory
experience
preferred as we expand our team of researchers. MA, Ph.D. or equivalent
industry experience required.

-----------------Opportunity 2---------------

My client is introducing the next major technology platform beyond
search engines.  We are looking for experienced, high energy and
talented people, who are excited about being on the cutting edge of
Internet knowledge technology.   You will play a role in developing the
new generation of breakthrough knowledge services.  This new technology
platform raises the bar of knowledge services to a higher level of
minimum acceptable performance.  Our ontology-enabled solution is
fundamentally language-independent and can easily be modified to support
every jargon-rich community (social and economic) on the planet.

Title: Natural Language Processing Developer (2 positions)
Location:  Boston, MA
Responsibilities:
*Developer and project manager for a high performance knowledge indexing
system, using ontologies, NLP, Machine Learning and other advanced
techniques.
*Full cycle software development:  use case analysis, requirements
analysis, project planning, system design, object oriented analysis and
design, implementation, testing, product delivery and maintenance.
*Work closely with Customer Support and Sales and Marketing.

You Offer:
Required:
*Entrepreneurial spirit.  Willing to work hard now to create company
value and rewards of stock ownership.
*C++, Java, CORBA, Object oriented methodologies
*Unix platform
*One or more of the following:  Natural Language Processing, Machine
Learning, XML, RDF, XLL, high performance database systems, knowledge
representation, Rational Rose

Responsibilities
Develop and integrate the NLP components with a high performance
knowledge indexing system.
Years of Experience Desired 3 +

-----------------Opportunity 3---------------

Position Title:  Senior and Junior Knowledge Representation Research
Scientists

Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation, Machine Learning
Researchers

My client is a research lab in Silicon Valley, with a variety of
world-class innovations to its credit, and a world class reputation for
excellence.

An innovative manager has opened up the usually restrictive recruiting
process in search of Knowledge Representation Gurus.  There will be up
to three (or more) positions for excellent candidates, at both Senior
and Junior levels.  This manager is committed to building a team
dedicated to fundamental research in new ways of doing document and
content management in a net-based world.  Specifically, this energetic,
multi-disciplinary team will conduct research to advance the state of
the art in knowledge representation and reasoning systems.  Their goal
is to refine semi-automatic knowledge structuring, and to find ways of
applying this in the context of a real community and knowledge base.

Relevant backgrounds include, but are not limited to: Artificial
Intelligence, Knowledge Representation, NLP, Conceptual Representation,
Symbolic Reasoning, Qualitative Reasoning.

We are open to applications from candidates who are not currently
authorized to work in the US.


Our research team is developing reasoning systems for specific domains
that take as input the context of a task and the content of the domain.
The team will also explore alternatives for effectively
interacting with and supporting existing community work practices.

Required:
* Ph.D. in artificial intelligence or a related field.
*Expertise in one or more of the following:  knowledge representation
systems, natural language interpretation, model based and probabilistic
reasoning, machine learning
*Programming ability:  Lisp, Scheme, and/or Java

-----------------Opportunity 4---------------

Job Title:   Computational Linguist
Location:  Dallas, TX
Description of Work Duties:
To assist in the development of NL-related tools and architectures for
my client’s product range. NL tasks will be as varied as document
segmentation, efficient spelling-correction algorithms, syntactic
parsing of NL questions and the construction of semantic representations

thereof, phrase extraction from free text, recognition of novel named
entities, lexicon construction (and the leveraging of public domain
components such as WordNet) and sentence generation (expressing answers
to NL questions in a readable form).

Required Skills (Mandatory):
Bsc/BA in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related
discipline. A linguistics degree with extensive course-work on
computational topics is equally relevant.
Practical programming experience with Java, C++ or C, particularly in
the domain of efficient parser construction.

Preferred Skills (Desirable):
Msc/MA or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence,
Computational Linguistics or a related discipline.
Experience with Finite State approaches to language modeling.
Object-Oriented design experience/skills.
Lex and Yacc experience.
Lexicon construction skills, in particular the utilization of
third-party components such as WordNet.


-----------------Opportunity 5---------------
Job Title:   Computational Linguist
Location:  Dallas, TX
Information Retrieval / Extraction Specialist

My client is applying the latest research in information retrieval and
Information Extraction to solve real business problems. If you are a
research scientist in these technology areas, and are ready to move your

work from the lab to the commercial space, we need to talk.

Description:
This is an architect-level position, reporting to the Vice President of
Development. As Sr. Scientist for information processing you will design

and develop a robust and efficient system for classification and
extraction of information from Internet text.  You will be involved at
all phases of the systems development lifecycle: from directing R&D
efforts, to leading the development of classification, retrieval, and
extraction sub-systems.

Required Experience:
Qualified candidates must have demonstrated mastery of parser
development, semantic indexing, and information classification.  Should
be confident with Object Oriented Analysis, Design, and Development
(Java or C++)

Education Requirements:
Established expertise (PhD & publications) in relevant fields such as
Computational
Linguistics (NLP concentration), Artificial Intelligence
(Classification, NLP, Machine Learning), or Psychology
(Psycholinguistics).  Please note relevant publications and research
when applying.

Skills:
Semantic Indexing
Word Sense Disambiguation
Baysian Classification
Phrase Parsing
Data Mining
Automatic Ontological Development
Part of Speech Tagging
Summarization
Machine Learning
Topic Detection and Tracking


Email your resume immediately, or contact:
Kent Clizbe
GateSource Partners
kent at gatesource.com
703-222-6627
www.gatesource.com