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Novator Systems (http://www.novator.com) is looking to hire an MSc or PhD in Natural Language Understanding. Novator is a web company based in Toronto, that specializes in electronic retail. One of the areas in which we have developed software is in automatically responding to customer inquiries over the web, using artificial intelligence techniques. We are currently beta-testing version 1 of our software on one of our customer's sites (http://www.ftd.com) - we can automatically respond to about 55% of the comments we receive with about 2.3% false positives. Our next phase of R&D requires strong Natural Language Understanding skills. We are looking to hire an MSc or PhD in Natural Language Understanding for this next phase. Please send applications to intelliserveMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuenovator.com.