Description:
The computational linguist will be responsible for research and development
to support Tegic's text input system in a variety of languages If you are
interested in working in the fast paced, exciting area of research and
development of commercial software at the "cutting edge" of technology, then
this is a job which will provide you with such opportunities. Tegic offers
many additional benefits, including health insurance, dental, 401K plan, and
(privately held) stock options.
Required:
Degree in computational linguistics with emphasis on lexicography,
knowledge extraction, morphological analysis and Statistical language
analysis
Experience with development of (commercial) software products
Experience with research in computational linguistics
Strong programming skills (preferably C/C++)
Desired:
Familiarity with a large number of languages (preferably Eastern
European/Semitic/Asian)
Familiarity with the analysis of large corpora
5+ years of experience in the field of computational linguistics
Active participation in the community of computational linguistics
Familiarity with C/C++, Perl, Windows NT operating system, compression
algorithms helpful
Company Background:
Tegic Communications (http:/www.tegic.com) is a fast growing company which
offers very competitive salaries.
Tegic Communications, has developed software which allows users to enter
text on wireless devices such as wireless phones or pagers in a fast and
efficient manner. We have been very successful in securing licenses with
most of the major cell phone manufacturers and many of the smaller
companies.
Unlike the "multi-tap' method in which the user has to tap the "2-ABC"-key
three times to get a "c" for instance, the user can just hit the "2-ABC" key
once. The software will determine which word the user is likely to be
typing. In order for this to work in a variety of languages we require an
understanding of how people actually use the language.
For this we have developed an extensive suite of tools to analyze large
amounts of text corpora. The contributions a computational linguist could
make here are numerous. We are dealing with issues of corpus selection,
corpus classification, performance analysis, morphological analysis and
generation, word compounding, syntactical analysis, text segmentation and
many more. We are offering an opportunity for the computational linguist to
do research in many areas. We are looking for someone who has research
experience as well as the ability to identify areas of improvement for our
products and deliver a solution, all in a timely manner.
We have developed our technology for a dozen languages as well as Chinese
(stroke and phonetic based) and Japanese. Each language has its own
challenges and we are expanding quickly into many additional languages.
We are also looking into expanding into new technologies to broaden our
product base. This will require identification of and research into many new
opportunities, research for which we need the contributions of a skilled
computational linguist.
If you have any additional questions please contact me via e-mail.
Pim van Meurs
Manager Computational Linguistics
Linguistic Research and Development Group
Tegic Communications
2001 Western Ave Suite 210
Seattle WA 98121
(206) 343-7001 Phone
(206) 343-7004 Fax
pvanmeurs@tegic.com
http://www.tegic.com