LINGUIST List: Vol-15-3440. Wed Dec 08 2004. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.
Subject: 15.3440, Jobs: Text/Corpus Ling/Comp Ling: Scientist, New York
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Date: 08-Dec-2004
From: Marybeth Finnigan < marybeth at textwise.com >
Subject: Arabic/English & Text/Corpus Ling/Comp Ling: Scientist, TextWise, NY, USA
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Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:55:59
From: Marybeth Finnigan < marybeth at textwise.com >
Subject: Arabic/English & Text/Corpus Ling/Comp Ling: Scientist, TextWise, NY, USA
University or Organization: TextWise LLC (Rochester/Syracuse NY)
Job Rank: Research Scientist / Linguist
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics;
Cross-Language Retrieval
Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (ABV)
English (ENG)
Description:
Join the CINDOR team to extend our state-of-the-art cross-language information
retrieval system to Arabic. This position reports to the Director of Science.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Optimize linguistic algorithms and custom toolkit for cross-language text mining.
- Use toolkit to semi-automatically build an Arabic lexical database associated
with an expanded version of Princeton WordNet.
- Develop query disambiguation, translation, and optimization to target multiple
search engines.
- Measure precision/recall of the system and design new ways to improve
accuracy.
- Work within a geographically distributed team of highly skilled scientists and
linguists.
Job Requirements:
- Ph.D. (or M.S. with 2+ years commercial experience) in computational
linguistics, computer science, or related area.
- Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in:
Natural Language Processing (NLP);
Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR);
Text Mining;
TREC evaluations;
WordNet architecture and optimization;
Java / Linux programming.
- Linguistic experience with Arabic strongly desired.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Ability to work both independently and within an existing team.
Address for Applications:
Marybeth Finnigan
401 South Salina Street
Syracuse, NY 13202
United States of America
Application Deadline: 01-Jan-2005
Contact Information:
Marybeth Finnigan
Email: marybeth at textwise.com
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