The Natural Language Group (NLG) is the central organization for developing
and shipping advanced linguistic technology in Microsoft products. This
strategic and growing group is critical for making software easier for
customers to use, and is central to the company’s future. Our features ship
in all of Microsoft’s key applications and systems products, including
Office, Windows, and several consumer applications.
COMPUTATIONAL LINGUIST (LOGICAL FORM)
Responsibilities include working with the existing MS English team within
the Natural Language Group. These responsibilities can be broadly described
as maintaining and improving semantic representations for use in information
retrieval and database query applications for English, in accordance with
the overall architecture of the Microsoft Natural Language Understanding
system. There are various stages of this system, ranging from syntactic
through deeply semantic. For this position, we are looking for candidates
with fairly diverse linguistic interests, including syntax and semantics.
The grammarian's qualifications should include experience in linguistic
research and software development; familiarity with natural language
processing; a flexible approach to linguistic theory; and an advanced degree
in linguistics, computer science, or a closely related discipline. Native
proficiency in English is assumed. Practical experience with, and interest
in, NLP implementation issues and product development are other highly
desirable attributes. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and
supports workforce diversity.
COMPUTATIONAL LINGUIST (LEXICOGRAPHER)
Responsibilities include working with the existing MS English team within
the Natural Language Group, and will consist primarily of maintaining and
extending the lexical representations used in syntactic parsing, grammar
checking, semantic analysis, information search and retrieval, and database
query applications. For this position, we are looking for candidates with
fairly diverse linguistic interests, including syntax and semantics, with an
emphasis on lexical semantics. The grammarian's qualifications should
include experience in linguistic research and software development;
familiarity with natural language processing; a flexible approach to
linguistic theory; and an advanced degree in linguistics, computer science,
or a closely related discipline. Native proficiency in English is assumed.
Practical experience with, and interest in, NLP implementation issues and
product development are other highly desirable attributes. Microsoft is an
equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity.
COMPUTATIONAL LINGUIST (SEARCH)
The Search linguist is responsible for the application of statistical and
NLP techniques to improve results of information retrieval, and will
identify problems to address in order to move toward information analysis.
Qualifications should include experience (industry or research) in
information retrieval or linguistics, and software development; familiarity
with natural language processing; and an advanced degree in linguistics,
computer science, or a closely related discipline. Practical experience
with, and interest in, data analysis, statistical tools, IR techniques, NLP
implementation issues, and product development are highly desirable
attributes. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and supports
workforce diversity.
Please send your CV in ASCII text or as a Word attachment to
nljobs@microsoft.com <mailto:nljobs@microsoft.com> .