Job Announcement: Wireless Generation
Computational Linguistics: Computational Linguist, Wireless Generation, New York, USA
| Employer: |
Wireless Generation
New Curriculum http://www.wirelessgeneration.com/ |
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| Job Location: | New York, USA | ||
| Rank or Title: |
Computational Linguist |
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| Linguistic Field(s): | Computational Linguistics | ||
| LL Issue: | 23.4109 | ||
| Date Posted: | 03-Oct-2012 | ||
| Job Description: |
Please note: the application URL has been modified. Wireless Generation creates innovative tools, systems and services that help educators teach with excellence. With its solutions, educators can easily apply research-based, proven practices such as frequent progress monitoring and needs diagnosis, data-informed decision-making, differentiated instruction, and professional collaborations across classrooms, grades, and schools. The company has helped educators address and solve some of the most pressing challenges in teaching and learning. Wireless Generation currently serves more than 200,000 educators and three million students. Title: Computational Linguist Description: The Computational Linguist will work as a key member of Wireless Generation's Automated Reasoning team. The Automated Reasoning team is tasked with researching, prototyping, and evaluating algorithmic approaches to the scoring of all forms of student work, be it written compositions, constructed responses, activity in micro worlds and games, as well as more traditional exercise tasks. The computational linguist will assist in evaluating and selecting among existing commercial NLP systems and in developing novel text evaluation and scoring algorithms. The work involves all aspect of typical NLP applications, such as constructing digital corpora; building processing pipelines from raw text to complex linguistic representations; analyzing and annotating those representations with respect to educational goals; implementing, evaluating and revising supervised or unsupervised scoring algorithms. In addition, the computational linguist will explore new forms of proficiency measurement that are enabled by machine scoring. Responsibilities of the Computational Linguist: - Evaluate commercial and open-source text analysis systems, with particular focus on automatic essay scoring (AES) systems. - Develop precise characterizations of novel linguistic scoring tasks and develop annotation schemes. - Research, prototype and evaluate tools for novel scoring tasks. - Construct digital corpora for a wide variety of tasks. - Work closely with internal and external software development teams to support the implementation of NLP scoring tools in production-grade software. - Develop and maintain expertise in the current state of the art of NLP methods and technologies. - Create and write research papers and presentations, for internal and external consumption. - Provide generalized expertise in language and linguistics to the curriculum teams. Requirements of the Computational Linguist: - PhD (preferred) or MA/MSc in Linguistics or Computer Science. A Master's level candidate must hold a degree focused on computational linguistics (e.g. as an area of specialization within a degree in Linguistics.) - 3+ years of experience developing software, either commercially or within publicly-visible open source projects. - Fluency of the English language is a must. - Proficiency in at least one other natural language, preferably Spanish. - Strong programming knowledge: minimally Java and Python, preferably also a modern JVM language (Scala, Clojure), Prolog, and C/C++. - Teaching experience is a plus. This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds Wireless Generation is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V |
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| Application Deadline: | Open until filled | ||
| Application URL: | http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH14/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=WIRELESSGENERATION&cws=1&rid=2469 | ||
| Contact Information: |
Olga
Thompson
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