Corpora: Job for Computational Linguists at SRA International, Inc

From: Mila Ramos-Santacruz (mila@verdi.iisd.sra.com)
Date: Tue Jan 23 2001 - 23:18:55 MET

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    SRA International, based in Fairfax, Virginia, is currently seeking
    computational linguists who are interested in working on information
    extraction and other Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies in
    an exciting, dynamic, collegial, advanced technology organization.

    Specific Requirements:

    Bachelors, Masters, or Ph.D. in computational linguistics or
    theoretical linguistics with exposure to NLP. NLP work experience is
    substitutable as appropriate. Excellent analytical and communications
    skills required. Foreign language knowledge is a plus. Programming
    skills in Unix/Windows environments and knowledge of XML are also
    desirable.

    Who is SRA?

    SRA International (Fairfax, Virginia; http://www.sra.com) is a premier
    developer of information systems and provider of a full range of
    information technology services for both commercial and federal
    clients. For the second year in a row, Fortune magazine lists SRA as
    one of the 100 Best Companies to work for in America (January
    2000&2001), and Business Week lists SRA as one of the 20 leading
    private information technology companies (June 2000&2001).

    SRA is an industry leader in the research, development and application
    of advanced NLP technologies. SRA has a continuing commitment to
    advancing the state of the art in a number of areas which are key to
    analyzing large volumes of textual data. Areas include:

      - multilingual information extraction
      - multilingual information retrieval
      - summarization
      - clustering
      - categorization
      - visualization
      - speech recognition applications
      - text and data mining.

    SRA's best-known linguistics-based products are Assentor(R) and
    NetOwl(TM):

      - NetOwl (www.netowl.com) is a best-of-breed information extraction
    product used by numerous clients including Lexis-Nexis, NewsEdge, and
    Edgar Online. NetOwl finds key phrases in text automatically, such as
    company names, personal names, product names, dates, and monetary
    expressions.

      - Assentor is an award-winning, intelligent e-mail message screening
    and archiving solution that helps securities firms meet industry
    regulations. It is built on SRA's information extraction technology
    which performs accurate email tagging and categorization. Assentor
    won "the Best in Practical Innovations of Intelligent Systems
    Applications" awarded by the American Association for Artificial
    Intelligence (AAAI) in 2000. Over 85 firms use Assentor on a daily
    basis, among them A.G. Edwards & Sons; Friedman, Billings, Ramsey &
    Co., Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance; Scott & Stringfellow; and
    First Union Securities.

    Salaries are dependent on qualifications and are highly competitive.
    We are an equal opportunity employer, m/f/d/v and maintain a drug-free
    work force. Job location is at SRA's headquarters in the Washington DC
    metropolitan area.

    Send your resume to careers@sra.com and indicate Source Code:
    ICORPORA



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