Job Announcement: AskZiggy, Inc.
Statistical Natural Language Processing: Associate Computational Linguist, AskZiggy, Inc., California, USA
| Employer: |
AskZiggy, Inc.
http://www.ask-ziggy.com |
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| Job Location: | California, USA | ||
| Rank or Title: |
Associate Computational Linguist |
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| Linguistic Field(s): |
Computational Linguistics
Statistical Natural Language Processing |
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| LL Issue: | 23.3915 | ||
| Date Posted: | 20-Sep-2012 | ||
| Job Description: |
AskZiggy, Inc. is hiring an Associate Computational Linguist to add to our growing team. AskZiggy is a leader in intent-driven voice-activated multimodal interface utilizing natural language understanding. We are working closely with a growing number of large publically-traded corporate partners to provide customized domain-aware agents that converse naturally and efficiently with their users. We are: - A growing, dynamic, and harmonious team of software developers. - All techies here, really. From the CEO down we are software developers, first and foremost, who lead by example and give self-starting, engaged employees the independence and room for creativity they need. - Passionate and knowledgeable about developing useful and flexible applications that use natural language to help users accomplish tasks. - Located in Rocklin, CA near Sacramento. We offer: - Competitive pay and benefits, including a comprehensive health care plan and stock options. - Equipment and infrastructure that developers need to develop products. You definitely have: - Both the independence to contribute to design decisions and the ability to implement software designs on a deadline. - Excellent multitasking, troubleshooting, and communication ability. - The ability to rapidly absorb information and self-teach. - The ability to take guidance and compromise. - A BS or graduate degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or Computational Linguistics. - Expertise programming in one or more of C, C++, C#, or Java. - Coursework or equivalent experience in one of the following: Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, or Human Language Technologies. - Experience with probabilistic sequence tagging and information extraction. It would be highly desirable for you to have: - Experience programming in one or more of: Python, Scala, Clojure or other languages targeting the JVM or .NET. - Experience with Information Retrieval, Named Entity Recognition, MaxEnt classifiers or logistic regression. |
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| Application Deadline: |
01-Nov-2012
Open until filled |
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| Application Email: |
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| Contact Information: |
Kyle
Grove
click here to access email Phone: 916-435-0444 |
