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1/ From: "Richard Willis (richard.willis at reuters.com)"
   Subject: Natural Language Engineering Positions at Reuters

2/ From:  Kenan Rappuchi <eng-jobs at xigo.com>
   Subject:  Information Extraction: Xigo, Inc., California USA
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1/ From: "Richard Willis (richard.willis at reuters.com)"
   Subject: Natural Language Engineering Positions at Reuters


Natural Language Engineering Positions at Reuters
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Reuters seeks energetic, and highly motivated Language Engineers to join the
Research and Standards Group within Reuters Chief Technology Office.

The major function of the Research and Standards Group is the investigation
and
evaluation of new technologies and software products, identifying those
which
can have a major impact on the business, and assisting in the transfer of
these
technologies into the business units.

These positions would suit candidates with a NLP background who are
interested
in diversifying or alternatively, candidates who have an IR background but
who
have interest and knowledge in NLP techniques.
We seek candidates with good fundamental knowledge who wish to broaden their
interests and see their expertise applied in a practical business context.

Candidates with a PhD are preferred although those with a Masters degree in
a
relevant subject would be considered.

Areas of interest include;

* Topic categorisation
* Text summarisation
* Machine translation
* Information retrieval, including cross language information retrieval, and
filtering
* Information extraction
* Statistical language understanding
* Multi-media searching and access
* Question answering
* Speech recognition
* Document structuring using XML

You must be a good team-worker, a good communicator, self-motivated and
eager
to learn. Good programming experience and ability, flexibility and a
willingness to tackle a wide range of problems are essential.

Successful candidates will join a close knit group of highly motivated and
qualified individuals and will be expected to establish themselves as
experts
in the Language Engineering area within Reuters.

The positions are based in London.

Letters of application together with a CV should be sent to,
Bella Hawkes, Reuters Ltd., 85 Fleet Street, London EC4 4AJ, UK
Or preferably by e-mail to bella.hawkes at reuters.com

Richard A Willis
Head of Research and Standards,
Chief Technology Office,
Reuters Ltd.,

richard.willis at Reuters.com

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2/ From:  Kenan Rappuchi <eng-jobs at xigo.com>
   Subject:  Information Extraction: Xigo, Inc., California USA


Rank of Job:
Areas Required: Information Extraction
Other Desired Areas:
University or Organization: Xigo, Inc.
Department:
State or Province: California
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: August 31, 2000
Contact: Kenan Rappuchi eng-jobs at xigo.com

Address for Applications:
249 Shipley St. #4
San Francisco
CA 94107
USA

Information Extraction at Xigo, San Francisco, CA

Xigo, a pre-IPO startup specializing in information for online
investors, is looking for someone with a background in information
extraction (IE), computational linguistics, or natural language
processing to join our text analysis team.  The position would be a
combination of applied research and software engineering, involving
anything from evaluating possible IE techniques to implementing
components of our system.  The ideal candidate will be equally
comfortable browsing the research literature, writing the code, and
designing the experiment to evaluate it.  An M.S. or equivalent is
required for this job.

Xigo is a rapidly growing, well-funded company that offers a
competitive salary, terrific benefits, and an excellent stock option
plan.  For more information about Xigo, visit our web site at
http://www.xigo.com

If you wish to apply for this position, please send your resume to
eng-jobs at xigo.com and include the phrase "linguist" in the subject line.



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