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Principal NLP Research Engineer - Healthcare

Company: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Location: Burlington, MA
Posted on: October 6, 2017

Job Description:

Duties: Design, experiment and evaluate highly innovative models for

clinical natural language understanding. Research latest modeling

techniques. Understand trade-offs between competing approaches, and

identify the ones that are likely to have real impact on customers.

Create statistical machine learning systems using in-production

(feedback) data. Research and apply machine learning techniques for

clinical language understanding healthcare products. Utilize JAVA,

Python, and PERL to develop CLU systems that are scalable, and

efficient. Establish efficient and automated processes for large scale

data analyses, model development, model validation and model

implementation. Present and discuss ideas and results with fellow

researchers and management within and beyond the team. Work closely with

software engineering teams to support implementations of the models.

Work closely with product management to optimize product customer

experience.

Requirements: Master's degree (or foreign education equivalent) in

Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Electrical Engineering,

Information Systems or related field plus three (3) years of experience

performing Natural Language Processing (NLP) research or, alternatively,

a Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of experience as noted above.

Also requires demonstrated expertise (DE): applying machine learning

algorithms, including maximum entropy, support vector machines and deep

learning, to large, unstructured data sets; DE performing software

development using Java, Python, or PERL to develop rule based and

machine learning systems; DE analyzing statistical patterns in data and

performing error analysis and debugging; and using clinical ontologies

or knowledge bases, such as MeSH or SNORMED CT.

To apply, submit resume referencing Job Code # 34590 to Jason Hewitt,

Nuance Communications, 1 Wayside Road, Burlington, MA 01803.

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