Hi all,

My company, Thomson Legal and Regulatory (the parent company for West  
Publishing, FindLaw, and other legal information services) is looking  
for a good Natural Language Processing person.  Our R&D group is about  
20 or so people, about 10 of whom are Research Scientists (including  
me).  Since so much of our business is in text data, our entire group  
specializes in NLP.

This position is certainly not perl-specific, but as researchers we can  
generally choose the tools that we want to use.  Personally I tend to  
choose perl a lot, but as you'll note below, we also use Java, C, or  
whatever is appropriate to our tasks - sometimes prolog or python or  
smaller niche languages.  Thus I thought it would be appropriate to  
post in this forum.

This position has also been posted on various public job boards,  
including Monster.com and our company's career web site:

  http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=37099311
   
http://www.thomsoncareercenter.com/search/view_job_xml.asp? 
src=rs&jobID=154545&loc=Ext

Note that I am not the hiring manager or an HR person, I'm a fellow  
Research Scientist.

Eagan is a suburb of Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Thanks,

  -Ken

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Research Scientist â?? Opportunities at Thomson Legal and Regulatory

The Research & Development department for Thomson Legal and Regulatory  
would like to invite qualified applicants to apply for an open Research  
Scientist position in their Eagan, MN offices. The Research &  
Development department performs applied research in natural language  
processing, document retrieval, information extraction, text  
classification, summarization, and named entity recognition. The ideal  
candidate would have significant expertise in one or more of these  
research areas.

Preference will be given to candidates with research and work related  
experience in the area of named entity recognition and resolution.

Principal duties:
â?¢	Conducting applied research in information retrieval, information  
extraction, text categorization, text mining, or related areas in the  
context of large online delivery environments, such as Westlaw.
â?¢	Execution of such projects, including
â?¢	implementation of prototypes and the design of experiments to  
evaluate them
â?¢	performing of experiments to validate key algorithms and  
architectures associated with such prototypes, followed by written  
reports
â?¢	liaison with other departments concerning transition of prototypes  
into production
â?¢	collaboration with software engineers engaged in the construction of  
prototypes.
â?¢	Custom development for other TLR departments on key projects with a  
research component.
â?¢	Monitoring of research literature through reading.

Prerequisites:
â?¢	Applicants should have a graduate degree in Computer Science or a  
related discipline.
â?¢	Relevant experience in one or more of the following areas: natural  
language processing, machine learning, information retrieval,  
information extraction, document classification, summarization, and  
named entity extraction and resolution (Applicants with Masters degree  
must have some additional work related experience).
â?¢	Substantial experience with UNIX or Windows environment.
â?¢	Proficiency in a programming language such as Java or C++.
â?¢	Good oral and written communication skills (as demonstrated through  
prior technical publications).
â?¢	Relevant publications in Journals and (refereed) conferences a plus.

Reports to: Director of Research.
Contact: Khalid Al-Kofahi <Khalid.Al-Kofahi@[...].com>