21.4941, Jobs: English & Computational Linguistics: Programmer, North Side Inc.

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Subject: 21.4941, Jobs: English & Computational Linguistics: Programmer, North Side Inc.

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Date: 06-Dec-2010
From: Eugene Joseph [eugene at northsideinc.com]
Subject: English & Computational Linguistics: Programmer, North Side Inc., Montreal, Canada

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Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:17:00
From: Eugene Joseph [eugene at northsideinc.com]
Subject: English & Computational Linguistics: Programmer, North Side Inc., Montreal, Canada

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University or Organization: North Side Inc. 
Department: Language and AI R&D
Job Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada 
Web Address: http://www.botcolony.com
Job Rank: Programmer  

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

Our company, North Side Inc., is developing the Bot Colony online adventure
video game. Bot Colony is the first intelligent conversation game ever.
Please Google and watch the Bot Colony E3 video, and look up Bot Colony on
Wikipedia. 

Our company is developing a full natural language dialogue pipeline that
includes parsing, disambiguation, co-reference resolution, reasoning and
dialog management. 

We have several openings for Computational Linguists in our Montreal
facility. Requirements:

- Computational Linguistics background (M.Sc. or Ph.D.) 
- Strong Java skills (mandatory requirement) 
- Good general understanding of syntax, semantics and pragmatics issues and
a good knowledge of English grammar 
- Some database exposure (object-oriented or SQL)

Experience in one or more of the following fields: 
- Ontology building and validation 
- Disambiguation 
- Co-reference resolution
- Reasoning
- Corpus mining
- Automated knowledge acquisition 
- Dialogue management

While applied research is an important part of the work, we're very focused
on developing a natural language pipeline that works well in real-time.
Candidates who are interested to help build sophisticated software are
encouraged to apply.

Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)

Email Address for Applications: eugene at northsideinc.com 
Contact Information:
	CEO Eugene Joseph 
	Email: eugene at northsideinc.com 
	Phone: 514-935-4566 

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