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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: Senior Research Engineer, Nuance Communications, MA, USA Message 1: Natural Language Processing: Senior Research Engineer, Nuance Communications, MA, USA Date: 15-Aug-2011 From: Recruitment Team <careersnuance.com> Subject: Natural Language Processing: Senior 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: Senior Research Engineer Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Processing Description: 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. Responsibilities: - Computer scientist in the Heathcare Research organization working on a state of the art evidence based medicine and clinical decision support system in collaboration with IBM based on the Watson technology. - Major duty is to conduct research on applying Watson technology to Nuance Healthcare applications, run experiments, perform error analysis, engage with Nuance Watson Core team, IBM Watson JDA team and Nuance application development teams. - Research objective is to build a state of the art evidence based medical decision support system as part of the Nuance DeepQA healthcare team in collaboration with IBM Research. - This research will focus on how to transform the IBM Watson DeepQA Question and Answer architecture to applications in healthcare. Therefore this position will be responsible for conducting research on these aspects of Watson technology: semantic analysis, candidate answer generation and (evidence) scoring and error analysis. - This research will focus on using traditional medical data (text books, web resources) as well as de-identified data from real case studies, which requires techniques that scale across non-homogeneous information sources. - This research is to be conducted in the context of building a scalable, commercializable medical decision support systems on top of available in- house resources and technologies - such as Ontologies, parsers, taggers etc. - This work will involve identifying weaknesses of existing components and improving them, as well as inventing new algorithms to enable the system to automatically learn from user feedback in a production environment. - There is also an opportunity to make the system robust to errors in system input, such those introduced by speech recognition systems while converting speech to text. Qualifications: 1) Number of Years of Work Experience: 3+ 2) Required Skills: - Minimum of 5 years of experience conducting research in one or more of these areas is required: statistical natural language processing, spoken language translation and information retrieval. Research experience in graduate school or post-doctoral position is acceptable. - In addition to the above, research exposure in one of these areas is required: machine learning, stochastic parsing, semantic tagging and confidence estimation techniques. - Programming experience in one of these languages is required: JAVA, C++, PERL, Python. - Bash/Unix scripting skills are required 3) Preferred Skills: - SQL or other Database knowledge is highly desirable - Experience in medical text analytics and/or clinical information retrieval is a definite PLUS - Experience working with UMLS components (MeSH, Specialist etc) is a definite PLUS - Experience working with UIMA a definite PLUS 4)Education: - Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Electrical Engineering or equivalent Application Deadline: 15-Nov-2011 Web Address for Applications: http://jobs-nuance.icims.com/jobs/6595/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.