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The Research and Development group at Vredenburg, a private
company located near Washington D.C. in the U.S., is seeking
applicants for an opening on its research staff.
Description:
Conduct research and development projects in natural
language processing, computational linguistics, speech
processing, multimedia, and document processing. Specific
areas of research may include text extraction, document
classification and routing, information retrieval and
filtering, visualization, document structure finding,
duplicate document detection, document analysis and
processing, name matching, thesaurus building, controlled
vocabulary, and others.
Work includes problem analysis, literature search, software
and database design and development, and product evaluation,
as well as reporting and publishing, for all phases of the
group's work. Incumbents will write and present their
research plans and results to internal audiences and
external sponsors. Software development work includes any
or all of the following: writing shell scripts, data
preparation using sed, awk, Perl and similar tools, writing
and testing, programs in C, C++, Java or other high-level
languages. Incumbent is expected to become familiar with
and use desktop software tools such as spreadsheets, slide
presentation software, and word processing. S/he is
expected to learn, use, and develop software for the
HighView computing environment, including applications
and, potentially, additions to the HighView product itself.
Qualifications:
- MS / MA or PhD in computer science, linguistics,
mathematics, or related area(s),
- At least two years of research and/or development in any
area of natural language processing (NLP), computational
linguistics, document analysis, or allied area(s).
Experience may be in university, government, and/or
private industry.
- Writing, including proposals, reports, papers.
- Familiarity with basic statistics and data graphing tools.
- U.S. citizen; eligible to apply for clearance to work with
classified material.
- Competence in programming in one or more of the following:
C/C++, Perl, Java.
- Relational database knowledge (SQL, PLSQL) helpful.
- Familiarity with sed, awk, Perl, and similar tools
helpful.
- Operating systems (Windows NT, Linux) commands.
- Ability to learn new software languages and tools quickly
Vredenburg is an equal opportunity employer. The company's
web site is www.vredenburg.com.
If interested, please contact Mark Turner at
mturner@vredenburg.com.
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