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To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/posttolinguist.cfm Directory         1.     Recruitment Team , Natural Language Processing: Research Engineer, Nuance Communications, MA, USA Message 1: Natural Language Processing: Research Engineer, Nuance Communications, MA, USA Date: 15-Aug-2011 From: Recruitment Team <careersnuance.com> Subject: Natural Language Processing: Research Engineer, Nuance Communications, MA, USA E-mail this message to a friend University or Organization: Nuance Communications Job Location: Massachusetts, USA Web Address: http://www.nuance.com Job Rank: Research Engineer Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Processing Description: Nuance is a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Our technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses, experience Nuance by calling directory assistance, getting account information, dictating patient records, telling a navigation system their destination, or digitally reproducing documents that can be shared and searched. Making each of those experiences productive and compelling is what Nuance is all about. As a contributing member of Nuance, you will work within a dynamic team environment to develop, support, market and sell our award-winning software applications. We offer competitive compensation packages; including stock options, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, 401(k), full health and welfare benefits and a challenging technical but casual work environment. Join our dynamic, entrepreneurial team that operates worldwide (Europe, US, Canada, APAC). Be a part of our fast growing track of continuing success. Nuance is an equal opportunity employer. Nuance has licensed a large Natural Language Process (NLP) research project from IBM Research (DeepQA). The technology extracts precise answers to natural language questions from unstructured text - text meant for human consumption. The candidate will be part of a team responsible for the core DeepQA technology at Nuance. Responsibilities include improving and extending the NLP, knowledge engineering, reasoning and machine learning technology in DeepQA as required by the use cases of interest to the Nuance business units. Responsibilities: - Understand and be able to tune and diagnose the existing question answering software - Extend the existing technology to cover new use cases - Develop brand new NLP, knowledge, reasoning and machine learning technology to improve question answering accuracy and efficiency for the various Nuance use cases - Develop processes to turn raw data feeds into updated NLP models in an unsupervised fashion - Develop processes to automatically use field data to improve performance Qualifications: 1) Number of Years of Work Experience: PhD or 5 years relevant experience 2) Required Skills: Significant statistical or symbolic NLP/question answering experience. At least some statistical NLP or machine learning background. Strong algorithmic and software (Java) skills. Good problem solving and analytical skills are essential, as is a desire to tackle hard problems and work with large, complex software systems. Experience running accuracy experiments and systematically improving performance. Should be able to take initiative, but also follow a plan and work well as part of a team. 3) Preferred Skills: Both statistical and symbolic natural language processing. Knowledge engineering, reasoning, parsing, and machine learning. UIMA, Prolog and C++, Python/Perl, unix. 4) Education: Advanced degree in computer science, computational linguistics or related field. PhD or significant research experience. Application Deadline: 15-Nov-2011 Web Address for Applications: http://jobs-nuance.icims.com/jobs/6601/job Contact Information: Recruitment Team Email: careersnuance.com Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 15-Aug-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.