JOB DESCRIPTION
XRCE is looking for a Research and Development Engineer in the field of natural language engineering and computational linguistics to work in ADL - the Advancement Development Lab. The position is a short-term contract of 6 months.
The Text processing & Interaction group in ADL brings together competencies in text mining, user interaction & design, and advanced engineering, in order to prototype and transfer technologies to Xerox business groups and customers. The group participates in a number of research transfer projects in data mining, machine translation and parsing with a focus on advanced user interaction systems such as Tangible Interfaces and Virtual Reality. Applications are primarily in the areas of Legal, Finance and Human Resources.
Job description:
- Designing language resources and methods for the analysis of natural language texts, based on the combination of linguistic knowledge and methods possibly including machine learning, rule-based methods and statistical analysis.
- Implementation or integration of related natural language processing tools and resources.
- Preparing presentations and demos.
- Writing reports, invention proposals, etc..
Application deadline: 30 May 2015
Duration: 6 months
Type of contract: Fixed term: 6 months
Application instructions: To apply, please send a CV and cover letter via the email "APPLY" button, clearly stating “ADL Short-term position in Natural Language Engineering” in the subject line.
DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Proven knowledge and practice of Natural Language Processing tools such as Named Entity Recognizers, Syntactic Parsers, Part-of-Speech Taggers, etc
- Experience in the development of linguistic resources such as grammar rules, lexicons, resources for syntactic and semantic parsing of texts, etc.
- Good knowledge of a scripting language, ( e.g. Perl).
- Knowledge of a programming language such as Java.
- Very good English language skills.
- Knowledge of Git, SVN, Gira, Agile methodologies a plus.
- Enthusiastic approach to applied research and technology transfer.
- Experience in working in a multidisciplinary team.
Experience/diploma required: Master's or engineering degree in computational linguistics or NLP, but we do not exclude candidates holding a PhD degree and wanting to work in technology transfer and applied research for business applications.