[Corpora-List] Job announcement: Computational linguists at Microsoft Natural Language Group

[Mari Olsen]

Correction in email address below. Apologies.
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From: Mari Olsen
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 13:45
To: 'CORPORA at UIB.NO'
Subject: Job announcement: Computational linguists at Microsoft Natural Language Group

Dear Colleagues:

The Natural Language Group (NLG), part of the Office Division, is looking for two talented computational linguists to help design, build and evaluate the next generation of high quality intelligent productivity software in a significant number of languages markets. NLG ships features in a wide range of products. We are passionate about leveraging state of the art techniques, like Machine Learning to deliver exciting natural language related technologies in the Office ecosystem to benefit millions of customers across the globe. If you share that passion, you are a great candidate for the NLG team!

These positions offer a great opportunity to join a talented engineering team at the forefront of developing natural language technology for Microsoft products. We have expertise in shipping software with high linguistic quality for multiple languages in areas such as spellchecking, grammar checking, statistical language models and other data-driven approaches, e-mail prioritization, named entity recognition, and much more.

Apply at http://www.microsoft.com/careers.

Job ID: 771979<https://careers.microsoft.com/JobDetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=1&jid=65930&jlang=EN>
Required qualifications include:
*Advanced degree in Computational Linguistics, Linguistics or related technical field.
*2 years of experience using C++ and/or C#.
*1 year of software industry experience
*Familiarity with the literature in the areas mentioned above.
*Detail-oriented, results-driven individual with strong cross-group collaboration and strong communication skills.
*Demonstrated ability to generate new ideas and innovate.

The following qualifications are preferred:
*Native proficiency in a language other than English.
*Experience developing or evaluating commercial or high-quality research software.
*Experience developing GUI tools

Job ID: 77198065602<https://careers.microsoft.com/JobDetails.aspx?gl=&jc=&ct=&rg=&ss=&pg=0&sort=&rw=2&jid=65602>
Required qualifications include:
*Advanced degree in Computational Linguistics, Linguistics or related technical field.
*2 years of experience using scripting skills in languages such as Python, Java, C# or Perl
*1 year of software industry experience
*Passion for quality
*Creative thinking
*Detail-oriented, results-driven individual with strong cross-group collaboration and strong communication skills.

The following qualifications are preferred:
*Native proficiency in a language other than English.
*Experience evaluating commercial or high-quality research software.
*Experience developing or testing GUI tools


Direct questions to nlglingjobs at microsoft.com<mailto:nlglingjobs at microsoft.com>. Thanks.

Mari Broman Olsen
Sr. Lead Int'l Project Engineer
Scalability and Design
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