23.4655, Jobs: English; NLP; Semantics: Researcher, North Side Inc.

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Subject: 23.4655, Jobs: English; NLP; Semantics: Researcher, North Side Inc.

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Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:44:18
From: Christian Hogan [info at northsideinc.com]
Subject: English; Natural Language Processing; Semantics: Researcher, North Side Inc., Montreal, Canada

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University or Organization: North Side Inc. 
Department: Computational Linguistics
Job Location: Montreal, Canada 
Web Address: http://www.botcolony.com
Job Rank: Researcher  

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Lexicography; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Natural Language Processing

Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

North Side Inc. is developing Bot Colony (www.botcolony.com), an online 
adventure game that supports intelligent dialogue between the player and the 
characters. 
 
We're looking for a linguist to join us and help develop linguistic resources 
used in our dialog pipeline. These are critical in our language pipeline, in 
areas like disambiguation, co-reference resolution, paraphrasing, etc.
 
Desired Skills and Experience:
-  Experience in lexicography, WSD (word sense disambiguation), familiarity 
with dictionary structure, exposure to taggers, parsers
-  Excellent knowledge of English 
-  Strong knowledge of English grammar (syntax and semantics)
-  Ability to interpret parse trees and diagnose correctness

Desirable:
-  Exposure to video games
-  Experience in teaching English as a second language desirable

Projects:
-  Curating synonymy resources
-  Helping evaluate precision and recall of our software disambiguation 
module
-  Auditing game log file to assess and remedy situations of the IA (intelligent 
agent) not understanding
-  Game testing with a view to ensure robust language support
-  Back story development for the game
-  Development of domain vocabularies
 
Company Description:
At North Side Inc., we develop server-based software capable to support real-
time intelligent dialogue between a person and a computer in unrestricted 
English. The company has developed technology that integrates 3D graphics 
with our language technology though client-server communications.
 
The first application of our technology will be the Bot Colony online adventure 
video game.


Application Deadline: 31-Dec-2012 (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: info at northsideinc.com 
Contact Information:
	Christian Hogan 
	Email: info at northsideinc.com 





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