22.3250, Jobs: NLP: Research Engineer, Nuance Communications

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LINGUIST List: Vol-22-3250. Mon Aug 15 2011. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 22.3250, Jobs: NLP: Research Engineer, Nuance Communications

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Date: 15-Aug-2011
From:  Recruitment Team [careers at nuance.com]
Subject: Natural Language Processing: Research Engineer, Nuance Communications, MA, USA
 

	
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Subject: Natural Language Processing: Research Engineer, Nuance Communications, MA, USA

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University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Job Location: Massachusetts, USA 
Web Address: http://www.nuance.com
Job Rank: Research Engineer  

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Processing


Description:

Nuance is a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses 
and consumers around the world. Our technologies, applications and services 
make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people 
interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. 
Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses, experience 
Nuance by calling directory assistance, getting account information, dictating 
patient records, telling a navigation system their destination, or digitally 
reproducing documents that can be shared and searched. Making each of 
those experiences productive and compelling is what Nuance is all about.

As a contributing member of Nuance, you will work within a dynamic team 
environment to develop, support, market and sell our award-winning software 
applications. We offer competitive compensation packages; including stock 
options, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, 401(k), full health and welfare 
benefits and a challenging technical but casual work environment. Join our 
dynamic, entrepreneurial team that operates worldwide (Europe, US, Canada, 
APAC). Be a part of our fast growing track of continuing success.

Nuance is an equal opportunity employer.

Nuance has licensed a large Natural Language Process (NLP) research 
project from IBM Research (DeepQA). The technology extracts precise 
answers to natural language questions from unstructured text - text meant for 
human consumption. The candidate will be part of a team responsible for the 
core DeepQA technology at Nuance. Responsibilities include improving and 
extending the NLP, knowledge engineering, reasoning and machine learning 
technology in DeepQA as required by the use cases of interest to the Nuance 
business units.

Responsibilities:
-  Understand and be able to tune and diagnose the existing question 
answering software
-  Extend the existing technology to cover new use cases
-  Develop brand new NLP, knowledge, reasoning and machine learning 
technology to improve question answering accuracy and efficiency for the 
various Nuance use cases
-  Develop processes to turn raw data feeds into updated NLP models in an 
unsupervised fashion
-  Develop processes to automatically use field data to improve performance

Qualifications:
1)  Number of Years of Work Experience: PhD or 5 years relevant experience
 
2)  Required Skills:
Significant statistical or symbolic NLP/question answering experience. At 
least some statistical NLP or machine learning background. Strong 
algorithmic and software (Java) skills. Good problem solving and analytical 
skills are essential, as is a desire to tackle hard problems and work with 
large, complex software systems. Experience running accuracy experiments 
and systematically improving performance. Should be able to take initiative, 
but also follow a plan and work well as part of a team.
 
3)  Preferred Skills:
Both statistical and symbolic natural language processing. Knowledge 
engineering, reasoning, parsing, and machine learning. UIMA, Prolog and 
C++, Python/Perl, unix.
 
4)  Education:
Advanced degree in computer science, computational linguistics or related 
field. PhD or significant research experience.


Application Deadline: 15-Nov-2011 
	  
Web Address for Applications: http://jobs-nuance.icims.com/jobs/6601/job 
Contact Information
	Recruitment Team 
	Email: careers at nuance.com 






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