22.2916, Jobs: Various Languages: Computational Linguists, Oracle Corp.

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Subject: 22.2916, Jobs: Various Languages: Computational Linguists, Oracle Corp.

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Date: 15-Jul-2011
From: Louise de Jong [louise.kemp-de.jong at oracle.com]
Subject: Various Languages: Computational Linguists, Oracle Corp., District of Columbia, USA
 

	
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Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:45:07
From: Louise de Jong [louise.kemp-de.jong at oracle.com]
Subject: Various Languages: Computational Linguists, Oracle Corp., District of Columbia, USA

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University or Organization: Oracle Corp. 
Job Location: District of Columbia, USA 
Job Rank: Computational Linguists  

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                      French (fra) 
                      Korean (kor) 
                      Portuguese (por) 
                      Spanish (spa) 
                      Thai (tha) 

Description:

Computational Linguist 
Oracle ATG Search and Language Group Department 
Washington,DC (No Remote opportunities)

ATG is an e-Commerce company recently acquired by Oracle. ATG offers
commerce and knowledge applications which use the ATG Search product. This
product supports over 15 languages but will need to support 32 in the near
future. The ATG Search group develops the software and language
dictionaries and other linguistic data to support search.

Details:
We are seeking 2 computational linguists for research and development
related to a multi-language natural language processing system. 
  
Qualified candidates must be native or near-native speakers of at least one
of the following languages: 
-  Spanish
-  French
-  Portuguese
-  Chinese
-  Korean
-  Thai

Proficiency in at least one additional language is a strong plus. 
  
Further qualifications: 
-  Must have 2-5 yrs of professional experience as a computational linguistics
-  Academic degree or professional experience in computational linguistics
-  Experience with creating morphological rules for languages both familiar
and unfamiliar
-  Proficiency with regular expressions and basic Unix/Linux shell commands
-  Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
-  Strong analytical skills
-  Ability to work independently
-  Proficiency in a scripting language (Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.) is a plus

The candidates will be responsible for: 
-  Creating, developing, and maintaining lexicons and morphological rules
in a variety of languages
-  Quality assessment of existing language work
-  Ongoing testing and evaluation of language-related aspects of search product
-  Researching and evaluating alternative tokenization and morphological
analysis techniques
-  Collecting, evaluating, and maintaining training corporation

If interested, please send your resume to Louise de Jong at
louise.kemp-de.jong at oracle.com


Application Deadline: 15-Nov-2011 
	  
Email Address for Applications: louise.kemp-de.jong at oracle.com 
Contact Information:
	Louise de Jong 
	Email: louise.kemp-de.jong at oracle.com 






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