8.1216, Jobs: Software Developer for NLP Project
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Subject: 8.1216, Jobs: Software Developer for NLP Project
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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 16:23:30 -0700
From: Deborah Coughlin <deborahc at MICROSOFT.com>
Subject: Software Developer for NLP Project (Microsoft)
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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 16:23:30 -0700
From: Deborah Coughlin <deborahc at MICROSOFT.com>
Subject: Software Developer for NLP Project (Microsoft)
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER FOR NLP PROJECT
The NLP Group in Microsoft Research is looking for a software
developer. The position will be located on the Microsoft central
campus in Redmond, Washington, USA. This is a great opportunity to
work with a dedicated group of researchers who are creating a system
for unrestricted text understanding and generation.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
The NLP group has created an underlying architecture and tools based
on our English system. We now have linguists working to extend the
system to European and Far East languages, and this requires
significant changes to the underlying code base, and (equally
important) to the tools that the linguists use.
The developer's primary responsibility will be to provide whatever
changes or tools the linguists need in order to proceed with
linguistic development. This includes (but is not restricted to)
modifying the tools for creating grammar and morphology systems to
handle aspects of non-English languages as they come up, enhancing
the tools for lexicographic work across seven languages, and doing
data and dictionary conversions.
QUALIFICATIONS:
The developer's qualifications should include professional C++
programming experience and a strong background in NLP. Experience
with non-English languages, Unicode issues, and Microsoft tools are
desirable.
ABOUT THE MICROSOFT NLP RESEARCH GROUP:
We are in the process of designing and building a system to analyze
unrestricted natural language, taking input text, and moving from
lexical/morphological analysis through syntax, semantics, and
eventually pragmatics and discourse. A generation component is also
planned. The programming system and underlying principles that are
used for English have been found to be applicable to other languages.
We are empirically oriented, and are happy to use good linguistic
ideas wherever they can be found. A reasonable first-version summary
of our techniques and some of our experience can be found in the book
"Natural Language Processing: The PLNLP Approach," Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Boston, 1993.
For more information about the NLP group, connect to our home page on
the World Wide Web.
http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/nlp
CONTACT: Please send resumes, cover letters, and any additional
materials to:
Steven Clyne
Human Resources
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
USA
email: stevecl at microsoft.com
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