LINGUIST List 30.4182

Tue Nov 05 2019

Jobs: Germanic; German (Standard); Norwegian; Dutch; Swedish; Danish; Computational Linguistics; Morphology; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Senior Developer, Oracle Corporation

Editor for this issue: Becca Morris <beccalinguistlist.org>

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Date: 05-Nov-2019
From: George Krupka <george.krupkaoracle.com>
Subject: Germanic; German (Standard); Norwegian; Dutch; Swedish; Danish; Computational Linguistics; Morphology; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Senior Developer, Oracle Corporation, Reston, Virginia, USA
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University or Organization: Oracle Corporation
Department: Oracle Language Technology
Job Location: Virginia, USA
Web Address: https://www.oracle.com
Job Title: Senior Computational Linguist

Job Rank: Other; Senior Developer

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Morphology; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Required Language(s): Danish (dan)
                            Dutch (nld)
                            German (deu)
                            Norwegian Bokmål (nob)
                            Norwegian Nynorsk (nno)
                            Swedish (swe)
                            Germanic

Description:

We have a team of computational linguists that work with engineers to develop natural language processing software. The linguists develop, manage, and test lexical data that drives linguistic analysis at various levels from tokenization to lemmatization to sentiment assignment.

We are seeking a computational linguist for research and development related to a multi-language natural language processing system.

Qualified candidates have native or near-native proficiency in at least one of the following languages:
- German
- Norwegian
- Dutch
- Swedish
- Danish

Proficiency in other languages is a strong plus, such as:
- Turkish

Computational linguistic background:
- An academic degree and 2-5 yrs of professional experience as a computational linguist
- Experience with creating morphological rules for languages both familiar and unfamiliar
- Experience with language corpora
- Proficiency with regular expressions and basic Unix/Linux shell commands
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to work independently
- Proficiency in a scripting language (Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.) is a plus

The candidates will be responsible for:
- Creating, developing, and maintaining lexicons and morphological rules in a variety of languages
- Assessing the quality of existing language work
- Ongoing testing and evaluation of language analysis software
- Researching and evaluating tokenization, morphological, and higher level analysis techniques

Application Deadline: 31-Mar-2020

Web Address for Applications: https://oracle.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=19001DC9&tz=GMT-05%3A00&tzname=America%2FNew_York
Contact Information:
Senior Director, Software Development George Krupka
Email: george.krupkaoracle.com

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