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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: Data Processing Engineer, Nuance Communications, MA, USA Message 1: Natural Language Processing: Data Processing Engineer, Nuance Communications, MA, USA Date: 15-Aug-2011 From: Recruitment Team <careersnuance.com> Subject: Natural Language Processing: Data Processing 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: Data Processing 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. 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 integrate medical data sources, run experiments, perform error analysis, to 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. Since it will leverage large corpora and external medical data sources, this position will be responsible for augmenting the existing corpora and training and test set development. - Another aspect of this work is to identify and prepare data for training and testing different components of natural language processing systems, including segmenting and document structuring, POS tagging, syntactic parsing, word sense disambiguation, semantic tagging and interpretation, normalizing extracted facts to standard code systems with or without underlying hierarchies and system confidence estimation. - Content acquisition and analysis 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. - In addition to data processing some amount of work would be required in acquisition and processing of knowledge sources such as lists, catalogs, drug data bases, Ontologies, semantic networks etc. Qualifications: 1) Number of Years of Work Experience: 2+ 2) Required Skills: - Experience working with processing large data corpora and information retrieval is required - Programming experience in one of these languages is required: JAVA, C++, PERL, Python - Bash/Unix scripting skills are required - SQL or other Database knowledge is highly desirable 3) Preferred Skills: - Experience in medical text analytics and/or clinical information retrieval is a definite PLUS - In addition to the above techniques, research experience in machine learning, stochastic parsing, semantic tagging, rule based and expert systems, logic programming and confidence estimation techniques is desirable - Experience working with UIMA is a definite PLUS 4) Education: - Masters in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or equivalent Application Deadline: 15-Nov-2011 Web Address for Applications: http://jobs-nuance.icims.com/jobs/6597/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.