Linguistic Programmer

Overview

About EnglishHelper™:

EnglishHelper™ (EH) is a global education company that offers innovative, technology-enabled solutions to improve English proficiency.
EnglishHelper™ is seeking to make a difference by helping people improve English skills as relevant to their context.

The company is committed to providing technology-enabled learning, in an affordable way, to large numbers of people across a range of user groups. 
Customers of EH products and solutions include individuals, schools, companies, and training and skill building organisations. The unique research-based products of EH are powered by expertise in the areas of artificial intelligence and computational linguistics.

Job Title: Linguistic Programmer

EnglishHelper™ is seeking an English linguistics programmer to join our team to work on WritingAssistant™ – a revolutionary tool designed to help people improve their written English. The ideal candidate has a strong grasp of English and experience writing programs analyzing natural language and working with a learner corpus. She/he should be able to test, explain and document the work for others and work closely with a team. 

The selected candidate’s job responsibilities will include, but not be limited to: 

• Expand the scope of the WritingAssistant™ error detection and correction capabilities by using real-world data to build the rule-based intelligence. This involves altering existing rules, building new rules, and optimizing existing structures.
• Work with other members in the team to improve product performance and user experience.  You can get a feel for the tool and its capabilities at: www.englishhelper.com/writingassistant 

Skills and qualifications: 

Required:

• Min. 4 -5 years of work experience in related field
• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in computational linguistics, computer science, linguistics or other related field. 
• Experience writing code for linguistic tasks.
• Strong grasp of English grammar and style.
• Knowledge of English syntax and preferably another language.

Preferred:

• Experience working with English language learners or with ESL tools.
• Familiarity with the following pertinent NLP concepts: anaphora resolution, named entity recognition, part-of-speech tagging, parsing, word sense disambiguation, and natural language understanding.
• Familiarity with multiple dialects of English.
• Familiarity with Java programming. 
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• Good analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.

Language requirements:

Native-like fluency in English.

Tagged as: english, Natural Language Processing, natural language understanding