[Corpora-List] NLP Research Scientist position opening at Educational Testing Service

[Joel Tetreault]

ETS Research & Development has an immediate opening for an Associate Research 
Scientist in the Center for Automated Scoring and Natural Language Processing. 
This position will be responsible for a mixture of operational and research 
efforts related to ETS's automated scoring technologies housed in the 
Automated Scoring and Natural Language Processing group. These technologies
include automated essay scoring (e-rater), scoring short answers for
correctness of content (c-rater), mathematical equations and plots 
(m-rater), and scoring the spontaneous speech of English Language Learners
(SpeechRater).

RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsibilities of the position include but are not limited to:

     * Provide scientific and technical skills in conceptualizing, designing, 
obtaining support for, conducting, managing and disseminating results of 
research projects in the field of natural language processing (NLP) or portions 
of large-scale research studies or programs in the same field.

     * Develop and/or modify NLP theories to conceptualize and implement new 
capabilities in automated scoring and NLP analysis and evaluation systems which 
are used to improve assessments, learning tools and test development practices.

     * Apply scientific, technical and software engineering skills in designing 
and conducting research studies and capability development in support of 
educational products and services.

     * Develop and oversee the conduct of selected portions of research 
proposals and project budgets.

     * Participate in dissemination activities through the publications of 
research papers, progress and technical reports, the presentation of seminars 
or other appropriate communication vehicles.

     * Develop professional relationships as a representative, consultant or 
advisor to external advisory and policy boards and councils, research 
organizations, educational institutions and educators.


REQUIREMENTS

     *  Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics or 
Computer Science with an emphasis on issues in syntactic and/or semantic 
analysis of text is desired.

     * Familiarity with the application of NLP tools to educational problems, 
and a very strong statistical background and a solid experience with machine 
learning algorithms and tools would be an asset.

     * Demonstrable contributions to new and/or modified theories of Natural 
Language Processing and their implementation in automated systems required.

     * Practical expertise with NLP tools and fluency in at least one major 
programming language (e.g. Java, Perl, C/C++, Python) is also required.


ABOUT ETS

ETS's products and services measure knowledge and skills, promote learning 
and educational performance , and support education and professional 
development for all people worldwide. Headquartered on a beautiful, 
350-acre campus near Princeton University , ETS offers competitive 
salaries, excellent benefits including two retirement plans, education 
reimbursement, and many opportunities for personal enrichment.



HOW TO APPLY

Please visit our Careers page at www.ETS.org and apply directly for 
position #91476:
http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=91476&type=&cfcend


For more information on the position, please feel free to contact me (Joel 
Tetreault) at: JTetreault at ets.org

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