LINGUIST List 22.3279 Thu Aug 18 2011 Jobs: Portuguese; NLP: Senior Knowledge Engineer, Artificial Solutions Editor for this issue: Kristen Dunkinson <kristenlinguistlist.org> The LINGUIST List strongly encourages employers to engage in non-discriminatory hiring practices. We urge employers not to discriminate on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. However, we have no means of enforcing these standards. Job seekers should pay special attention to language in ads regarding employment requirements and are encouraged to consult our international employment page at http://linguistlist.org/jobs/jobnet.html. This page has been set up so that people can report on the employment standards of various countries. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/posttolinguist.cfm Directory         1.     Johan Ahlund , English; Spanish; Portuguese; Natural Language Processing; Dialogue Systems: Senior Knowledge Engineer, Artificial Solutions Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Message 1: English; Spanish; Portuguese; Natural Language Processing; Dialogue Systems: Senior Knowledge Engineer, Artificial Solutions Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Date: 16-Aug-2011 From: Johan Ahlund <johan.ahlundartificial-solutions.com> Subject: English; Spanish; Portuguese; Natural Language Processing; Dialogue Systems: Senior Knowledge Engineer, Artificial Solutions Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil E-mail this message to a friend University or Organization: Artificial Solutions Brazil Job Location: Rio de Janeiro, São Carlos or Porto Alegre, Brazil Web Address: http://www.artificial-solutions.com Job Rank: Senior Knowledge Engineer Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Natural Language Processing; Dialogue Systems Required Language(s): English (eng)                             Portuguese (por)                             Spanish (spa) Description: Artificial Solutions develops and implements the worlds most humanlike, intelligent and capable Virtual Assistants, that allow intelligent conversations between people and computers to be held in 21 different languages across multiple channels. Our team of 110 employees in Europe helps organizations improve customer experience and reduce the cost of online service. Our clients include many blue chip companies and organizations such as IKEA, Orange, Telenor, Slovenian Tax Department, Swedish Social Security Agency, Scandinavian Airlines, Credit Suisse, WeBank Italy and NTT Japan. The Opportunity: The founder and previous CEO is now expanding the business into Latin America, with focus on Brazil, and is currently recruiting the initial core team to be led by a Senior Knowledge Engineer. The Senior Knowledge Engineer will play a key role in developing the Brazilian-Portuguese knowledge bases and making the company as successful in Brazil and the rest of Latin America as we are in Europe. The successful candidate should have a strong computational linguistics background, native Brazilian-Portuguese and fluent English. Programming skills and fluency in Spanish are important advantages. The location of our Knowledge Engineering center in Brazil is not yet decided but will likely be either in Rio de Janeiro, São Carlos or Porto Alegre. Job Mission: With the help of your team, build and deliver high quality and easily maintainable Knowledge Bases that is the base for allowing our solutions to be humanlike, intelligent and capable. As a key building block for these client specific Knowledge Bases, you will develop a high quality, well structured and relevant Basic Brazilian- Portuguese (in the future also Latin American Spanish and English) Knowledge Base and domain specific knowledge libraries. Tasks and Tools: - Together with the business consultants, work with the client to identify what knowledge and what functions need to be included in the knowledge base in order to meet the project goals. - Design the knowledge structure in order to ensure smooth implementation and maintainability. - Draw up the knowledge structure with knowledge flows and dialogue flows that also include the answer strategy to be applied to each issue and flow. - Build the interpretation capability for each knowledge node by combining already existing language objects and by coding new language objects. - Manage the quality assurance process with help of our various QA tools. - Manage the communication and interaction with the client during the building process. - Using tools such as Teneo Insight to analyze dialogue logs in order to identify where the knowledge must be improved or where new knowledge must be added. - Structure, build and test such improved or added knowledge. - Identify knowledge and functions that should be included in our basic knowledge base and in domain specific knowledge bases. - Design the knowledge structures. - Build the interpretation capability. - Develop new language objects - Develop special functions and features with the purpose of making the NLI solutions more intelligent, humanlike and capable. - Assist in the recruitment of Knowledge Engineers. - Manage and develop the team of Knowledge Engineers. - Train and coach the Knowledge Engineers in linguistic work and in the Artificial Solutions tools and methodology. - Support and supervise the Knowledge Engineers in their project work. Application Deadline: (Open until filled) Mailing Address for Applications: CEO Johan Ahlund Rua General Danton Teixeira 27 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 22610-350 Brazil Email Address for Applications: johan.ahlundartificial-solutions.com Contact Information: CEO Johan Ahlund Email: johan.ahlundartificial-solutions.com Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 18-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.