LINGUIST List 11.501

Wed Mar 8 2000

Jobs: NLP Research Scientist at Dragon Systems Inc.

Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara <naomilinguistlist.org>

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1. Shira Blumenstein, NLP: Research Scientist at Dragon Systems, Inc., Massachusetts USA

Rank of Job: PhD
Areas Required: Natural Language Processing
Other Desired Areas: Computational Linguistics
University or Organization: Dragon Systems, Inc.
Department: Research
State or Province: MA
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: open
Contact: Shira Blumenstein resumesdragonsys.com

Address for Applications:
320 Nevada Street
Newton
MA 02460
USA

Senior Research Scientist (NLP)

Responsibilities:
- Join an exciting new effort in Natural Language Processing
 (NLP)/Natural Language Understanding (NLU). 
- Major focus on developing the capability to reliably infer the intent
 behind a variety of types of utterances and commands. 
- Focus on bringing higher level linguistic knowledge to bear in speech
 recognition and speech synthesis. 

Requirements:
- Candidate should be conversant with all stages of language processing,
 from morphological analysis through discourse, including knowledge of a
 broad array of parsing techniques and grammar formulations, both
 deterministic and probabilistic. 
- A strong programming background in C/C++ is essential. 
- The ideal candidate will be comfortable with the idea of automatically
 extracting linguistic information via the statistical analysis of
 corpora, and eager to assist in the design and collection of such
 corpora. 
- More junior candidates are also invited to apply. 

If you are interested in joining an exciting, cutting edge company that
is changing the way we use technology, please email your resume (MS Word
format or text) with job code "NLP-ll" and last name in the subject line
to: resumesdragonsys.com. EOE. Visit our website at
http://www.dragonsys.com.