Position

Research and Development Engineer: NLP and Computational Linguistics

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..

Requirements:

    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.

Application deadline: 30 May 2015

Duration: 6 months

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.

Type of contract

Fixed term: 6 months


Application instructions

To apply, please send a CV and cover letter to
xrce-candidates@xrce.xerox.com and to caroline.privault@xrce.xerox.com
clearly stating "ADL Short-term position in Natural Language
Engineering" in the subject line.