Systems Engineer IV (ASR) (onsite), United States, MA, Needham

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Posted: January  9, 2007

Job title: Systems Engineer IV (ASR)

Company name: eScription

Location: United States, MA, Needham

Pay rate: DOE

Travel: 0%

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
Statistical NLP, language modeling, machine translation 

The Automatic Speech Recognition Group is looking for a bright NLP engineer
to focus on developing and implementing algorithms and features that
enhance capabilities, quality, automation and efficiency of our production
system.

This individual will work on a variety of research and development projects
and will be exposed to many aspects of natural language processing, machine
translation and distributed computing.	

This position requires broad expertise in many aspects of research and
development:

 
Analyzing large corpora for statistics and trends. 
 
Maintaining and enhancing specific NLP components.
 
Developing new data mining techniques
 
Analyzing user interaction with the product.
 
Explore applicability of machine translation techniques to our application
 
Optimizing our NLP code for efficiency. 

All of these projects will require careful written specification,
incremental development, testing and monitoring. 

The ideal candidate will possess: 
 
A Masters with relevant thesis work or a PhD  Computer Science,
Engineering, Math or related field 
 
Hands on experience or academic background on either statistical NLP
techniques, Machine Translation, Language modeling or other applied
Statistical Modeling techniques.  Direct involvement on large corpora
investigations a big plus.  
 
Extensive experience with Perl and/or shell scripting (bash) 
 
Experience with Unix/Linux 
 
Knowledge of one or more of the following: C/C++, SQL, Java, CVS/SVM
 
Excellent analytical skills 
 
Good oral and written communication skills 
 
Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment 
 
Desire to learn new technologies, work hard, excel and make a difference 


Required skills:
Extensive experience with perl and/or shell scripting

URL for more information: http://www.escription.com/

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/5161#contact
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