24.2436, Jobs: Multiple Languages; Comp Ling: Programmer, Oracle US

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Subject: 24.2436, Jobs: Multiple Languages; Comp Ling: Programmer, Oracle US

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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:53:10
From: Heather Arnold [heather.arnold at oracle.com]
Subject: Multiple Languages; Computational Linguistics: Programmer, Oracle US, District of Columbia, USA

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University or Organization: Oracle US 
Department: Oracle Language Technology Group (LEXER)
Job Location: District of Columbia, USA 
Web Address: http://www.oracle.com
Job Rank: Programmer

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Finnish (fin)
                      Indonesian (ind) 
                      Malay (zlm) 
                      Urdu (urd) 
                      Vietnamese (vie) 

Description:

Join the Oracle Language Technology team and be a part of developing
multi-lingual natural language component software used in a variety of search
and analysis products and applications.

Our language software supports 35 languages and is currently developing 10
additional languages.
   
We are seeking a computational linguist for research and development related
to a multi-language natural language processing system.

Qualified candidates must possess a bachelors degree and be native or
near-native speakers in at least one non-English language.

We are especially interested in native or near-native speakers of at least one
of the following languages:
-  Urdu
-  Indonesian
-  Vietnamese
-  Malay
-  Finnish
-  Any other non-European languages are a plus.

Computational linguistic background: 
-  Must have at least 2 years of professional experience
-  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 corpora
 
Please send resumes to Heather Arnold at the contact email address below.

Location: Oracle DC Office 

As part of Oracle’s employment process candidates will be required to complete
a pre-employment screening process, prior to an offer being made. This will
involve identity and employment verification, salary verification,
professional references, education verification and professional
qualifications and memberships (if applicable).



Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: heather.arnold at oracle.com 
Contact Information:
	Sr. Recruiter Heather Arnold 
	Email: heather.arnold at oracle.com 
	Phone: 678-873-6206 





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