Job Posting: Discourse Analyst

[Jim Jones]

Discourse Analyst / Linguist

H5 Technologies, Inc <http://www.h5technologies.com/>. is a privately held, Draper Fisher Jurvetson <http://www.dfj.com/> funded company located in San Francisco's SOMA district.  H5 provides technology based document review services to government agencies, law firms and corporate counsels through both direct sales and outsourced service contracts.  H5's patented technology, which replicates and automates human relevance assessments, along with our advanced linguistic analysis enables the review of massive document collections with unparalleled results.  H5 has have consistently outperformed alternative approaches to document review on price, speed and above all, quality.  

Overview
Our Professional Services Group consults with litigants and their legal teams to devise a classification scheme and then trains our patented software engine to automatically classify documents in the collection. H5 is seeking linguists to join us for several upcoming large projects.

Primary Responsibilities
	*	Rapidly developing an understanding of new fields
	*	Reading a wide variety of documents, from email to academic articles; synthesizing large amounts of information into a coherent picture of the community that produced and used it
	*	Researching factual issues in complex litigation 
	*	Interviewing subject matter experts 
	*	Analyzing linguistic data 
	*	Researching large corpora for linguistic patterns 
	*	Identifying and modeling processes and relationships in a community 
	*	Designing, building, and testing H5's unique and proprietary knowledge bases
	
Key Competencies
	*	Demonstrated understanding of role of syntax in language.
	*	Mastery of the English language.
	*	An interest in researching and modeling another community's structure and the interests, goals, and constraints that shape the actions of members of that community - experience in ethnography or anthropology a plus.
	*	Leadership skills, personal incentive and a demonstrated ability to initiate, develop, and successfully conclude projects.
	*	A sharp eye for detail, precise thinking, ability to make close, analytical judgments, and a practiced sense of order and organization.
	*	Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines, both autonomously and collaboratively.
	*	Experience in a software development environment a plus.
	*	Basic computer and software competency in a PC/Windows environment, including Microsoft Office application. Basic familiarity with Unix and PERL - programming skills a plus.

Minimal Qualifications
	*	Solid academic credentials: graduate-level coursework in linguistics preferred.
	*	Experience applying linguistic expertise to real language data - experience in Corpus Analysis, Text Analysis, Conversational Analysis, or Computational Linguistics a plus.

H5 Technologies fosters a culture that rewards personal excellence in the pursuit of our common goals and is extraordinarily respectful of the individual and of the creative, intellectual, and cultural diversity of our team. Our culture has allowed us to attract and retain talented individuals who are driven by a vision of the way we will transform the practice of litigation.

H5 Technologies is an equal opportunity employer.

TO APPLY:
Send resume and cover letter to ling-jobs at h5technologies.com
 
 
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