Senior Researcher – NLP Advisor more… ▼
| Location: | Newark, NJ |
| Company: | AKRAYA Inc |
| First posted: | March 31, 2015 |
Position Senior Researcher – NLP Advisor Duration 9 Months Location Newark, NJ An Amazon company and perpetual innovator is seeking a talented CS PhD with experience in NLP Linguistics to help lead NLP technology and research solutions for new language learning product initiatives.
This position will work closely with our product and development teams to evaluate and build key modules in our game changing learning products.
The Senior Researcher NLP Advisor will leverage hishers NLP and machine learning expertise to provide key input to the team and work independently to help build different learning modules of the product.
You will have the unique opportunity to influence innovative products in the global education market.
Key Accountabilities Lead NLP technology and research in support of the creation of learning modules in new Ed-Tech products Develop machine learning approaches to help define and refine the best ,methods for acquiring language fluency Provide written and verbal feedback on product concepts and features, with scientifically backed opinions Run analysis on large data sets to derive insights needed for building our learning modules Suggest changes to product concepts and features to better address customer needs, and support these solutions with data analysis and scientific research Participate in Academic Advisory Board for educational products in development, to solicit additional feedback and perspectives Job Requirements PhDP hD student in Computer Science.
5+ years experience in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Linguistics, or related filed Experience in building ML models for text classification, labeling and parsing Experience in developing prototypes and applications with NLP pipelines such a Stanford Core NLP or similar tools.
Can work on site in the Newark office in a part-time capacity a few days a week.
Flexible hourspartial telecommuting available.
Preferred Qualification Experience in automatic Automatic Stylistics Text Forensics Analysis or Authorship Detection.
Familiarity with trends in ESL and other self-directed learning products.
Experience teaching English as a Foreign Second Language a plus.
Experience managing or assisting in designing learning products is desirable.
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