22.3279, Jobs: Portuguese; NLP: Senior Knowledge Engineer, Artificial Solutions

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Subject: 22.3279, Jobs: Portuguese; NLP: Senior Knowledge Engineer, Artificial Solutions

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Date: 16-Aug-2011
From: Johan Ahlund [johan.ahlund at artificial-solutions.com]
Subject: English; Spanish; Portuguese; Natural Language Processing; Dialogue Systems: Senior Knowledge Engineer, Artificial Solutions Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 

	
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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:23:06
From: Johan Ahlund [johan.ahlund at artificial-solutions.com]
Subject: English; Spanish; Portuguese; Natural Language Processing; Dialogue Systems: Senior Knowledge Engineer, Artificial Solutions Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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University or Organization: Artificial Solutions Brazil 
Job Location: Rio de Janeiro, São Carlos or Porto Alegre, Brazil 
Web Address: http://www.artificial-solutions.com
Job Rank: Senior Knowledge Engineer  

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Natural Language Processing; Dialogue Systems

Required Language(s): English (eng)
                      Portuguese (por) 
                      Spanish (spa) 

Description:

Artificial Solutions develops and implements the worlds most humanlike, 
intelligent and capable Virtual Assistants, that allow intelligent conversations 
between people and computers to be held in 21 different languages across 
multiple channels. Our team of 110 employees in Europe helps organizations 
improve customer experience and reduce the cost of online service.

Our clients include many blue chip companies and organizations such as 
IKEA, Orange, Telenor, Slovenian Tax Department, Swedish Social Security 
Agency, Scandinavian Airlines, Credit Suisse, WeBank Italy and NTT Japan.

The Opportunity:
The founder and previous CEO is now expanding the business into Latin 
America, with focus on Brazil, and is currently recruiting the initial core team 
to be led by a Senior Knowledge Engineer. 

The Senior Knowledge Engineer will play a key role in developing the 
Brazilian-Portuguese knowledge bases and making the company as 
successful in Brazil and the rest of Latin America as we are in Europe.

The successful candidate should have a strong computational linguistics 
background, native Brazilian-Portuguese and fluent English. Programming 
skills and fluency in Spanish are important advantages.

The location of our Knowledge Engineering center in Brazil is not yet decided 
but will likely be either in Rio de Janeiro, São Carlos or Porto Alegre.

Job Mission:
With the help of your team, build and deliver high quality and easily 
maintainable Knowledge Bases that is the base for allowing our solutions to 
be humanlike, intelligent and capable.

As a key building block for these client specific Knowledge Bases, you will 
develop a high quality, well structured and relevant Basic Brazilian-
Portuguese (in the future also Latin American Spanish and English) 
Knowledge Base and domain specific knowledge libraries.

Tasks and Tools:
-  Together with the business consultants, work with the client to identify what 
knowledge and what functions need to be included in the knowledge base in 
order to meet the project goals.
-  Design the knowledge structure in order to ensure smooth implementation 
and maintainability.
-  Draw up the knowledge structure with knowledge flows and dialogue flows 
that also include the answer strategy to be applied to each issue and flow.
-  Build the interpretation capability for each knowledge node by combining 
already existing language objects and by coding new language objects.
-  Manage the quality assurance process with help of our various QA tools.
-  Manage the communication and interaction with the client during the 
building process.
-  Using tools such as Teneo Insight to analyze dialogue logs in order to 
identify where the knowledge must be improved or where new knowledge 
must be added.
-  Structure, build and test such improved or added knowledge.
-  Identify knowledge and functions that should be included in our basic 
knowledge base and in domain specific knowledge bases.
-  Design the knowledge structures.
-  Build the interpretation capability.
-  Develop new language objects
-  Develop special functions and features with the purpose of making the NLI 
solutions more intelligent, humanlike and capable.
-  Assist in the recruitment of Knowledge Engineers.
-  Manage and develop the team of Knowledge Engineers.
-  Train and coach the Knowledge Engineers in linguistic work and in the 
Artificial Solutions tools and methodology.
-  Support and supervise the Knowledge Engineers in their project work.


Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
Mailing Address for Applications:
	CEO Johan Ahlund 
	Rua General Danton Teixeira 27 
	Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 22610-350 
	Brazil  
Email Address for Applications: johan.ahlund at artificial-solutions.com 
Contact Information:
	CEO Johan Ahlund 
	Email: johan.ahlund at artificial-solutions.com 






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