[Job Posting] Research Scientist, Eagan MN

Hi all,

My company, Thomson Legal and Regulatory (the parent company for West =20=

Publishing, FindLaw, and other legal information services) is looking =20=

for a good Natural Language Processing person.  Our R&D group is about =20=

20 or so people, about 10 of whom are Research Scientists (including =20
me).  Since so much of our business is in text data, our entire group =20=

specializes in NLP.

This position is certainly not perl-specific, but as researchers we can =20=

generally choose the tools that we want to use.  Personally I tend to =20=

choose perl a lot, but as you'll note below, we also use Java, C, or =20
whatever is appropriate to our tasks - sometimes prolog or python or =20
smaller niche languages.  Thus I thought it would be appropriate to =20
post in this forum.

This position has also been posted on various public job boards, =20
including Monster.com and our company's career web site:

  http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=3D37099311
  =20
http://www.thomsoncareercenter.com/search/view_job_xml.asp?=20
src=3Drs&jobID=3D154545&loc=3DExt

Note that I am not the hiring manager or an HR person, I'm a fellow =20
Research Scientist.

Eagan is a suburb of Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Thanks,

  -Ken

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Research Scientist =96 Opportunities at Thomson Legal and Regulatory

The Research & Development department for Thomson Legal and Regulatory =20=

would like to invite qualified applicants to apply for an open Research =20=

Scientist position in their Eagan, MN offices. The Research & =20
Development department performs applied research in natural language =20
processing, document retrieval, information extraction, text =20
classification, summarization, and named entity recognition. The ideal =20=

candidate would have significant expertise in one or more of these =20
research areas.

Preference will be given to candidates with research and work related =20=

experience in the area of named entity recognition and resolution.

Principal duties:
=95	Conducting applied research in information retrieval, =
information =20
extraction, text categorization, text mining, or related areas in the =20=

context of large online delivery environments, such as Westlaw.
=95	Execution of such projects, including
=95	implementation of prototypes and the design of experiments to =20=

evaluate them
=95	performing of experiments to validate key algorithms and =20
architectures associated with such prototypes, followed by written =20
reports
=95	liaison with other departments concerning transition of =
prototypes =20
into production
=95	collaboration with software engineers engaged in the =
construction of =20
prototypes.
=95	Custom development for other TLR departments on key projects =
with a =20
research component.
=95	Monitoring of research literature through reading.

Prerequisites:
=95	Applicants should have a graduate degree in Computer Science or =
a =20
related discipline.
=95	Relevant experience in one or more of the following areas: =
natural =20
language processing, machine learning, information retrieval, =20
information extraction, document classification, summarization, and =20
named entity extraction and resolution (Applicants with Masters degree =20=

must have some additional work related experience).
=95	Substantial experience with UNIX or Windows environment.
=95	Proficiency in a programming language such as Java or C++.
=95	Good oral and written communication skills (as demonstrated =
through =20
prior technical publications).
=95	Relevant publications in Journals and (refereed) conferences a =
plus.

Reports to: Director of Research.
Contact: Khalid Al-Kofahi <[email protected]>