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Wordnik — Computational Linguist

Title:Computational Linguist
Type:Job
Brief Description:NLP various
Company:Wordnik
Location:CA, USA
Posted On:Sep 01, 2011
Application Deadline:
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Position: Computational Linguist

At Wordnik, we\'re working on fun problems. Wordnik R&D uses empirical
methods to extend and improve our Word Graph, and we employ
statistical, machine-learning, and deep-learning methods to exploit
that prior knowledge for the modeling of text. We are a coding shop;
developers in addition to researchers.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- named entity recognition and resolution
- document similarity search (auto-encoders, similarity hashing)
- topic modeling
- auto-summarization
- information extraction
- idiom identification
- sequence alignment
- sentiment analysis
- distributional semantic modeling
- word sense induction and disambiguation

Desired Skills & Experience:
- software engineering, especially in working with large data
- machine learning
- experience with statistics, information theory, and probability theory
- strong linguistic intuitions

Apply at: http://www.wordnik.com/jobs
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