LINGUIST List 12.343

Fri Feb 9 2001

Jobs: Knowledge Engineer at WebTone Tech, GA, USA

Editor for this issue: Michael Appleby <michaellinguistlist.org>

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1. Felton Ransby, Knowledge Engineer at WebTone Technologies, GA, USA

Rank of Job: 
Areas Required: Knowledge Engineer
Other Desired Areas: Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer
Science, Information Sciences.
University or Organization: WebTone Technologies
Department: 
State or Province: GA
Country: United States
Final Date of Application: April 1 2001
Contact: Felton Ransby fransbywebtonetech.com

Address for Applications:
3390 Peachtree Rd Ste 600
Atlanta
GA 30326
US

Candidate will be responsible for developing, implementing and testing
e-mail classification strategies for new customers in existing and
targeted domains.

You will work closely with project managers, the Artificial
Intelligence team and customers in an on-going effort to enhance and
maintain a growing number of proprietary knowledge bases and other
information models for use in internet enabled customer care
solutions. You will be responsible for gathering and documentation of
business process requirements, maintenance and customization of
knowledge bases and other information models as relevant to specific
client engagements and development of new domains, and testing and
evaluation of knowledge base performance.

The successful candidate will be presentable to customers and have a
strong command of the English language. Multi-lingual candidates are
encouraged to apply.

Required Skills: 

- A solid understanding of English grammar, including the ability to
categorize words (parts of speech)
- Good organizational skills and excellent attention to detail.
- Outstanding communication and language skills
- Broad, relevant knowledge of technology 
- Experience working across multiple teams 
- Basic working knowledge of OO class hierarchy principles, design and
implementation 

Desired Skills: 

- Any background in Computer Science, Information Sciences, Linguistics,
or Artificial Intelligence 
- Knowledge of external information modeling efforts 
- Previous knowledge of engineering or business analyst experience. 
- Domain expertise or technical background in insurance and/or on-line
retail domains 
- Experience with any of the following: Ms Access, Prolog or LISP,
ontology browsers/editors.