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We are spinning off a company from Indiana University School of
Medicine that will be focused on improving healthcare using natural
language processing. We are looking for computational linguists with a
background in Head Phrase Structure Grammar. I would appreciate your
passing on the information below to those students who may be looking
for jobs in a great working environment where they could have a major
creative impact. Thanks for your help.

Medical Reporting Solutions is a new start up company focused on using
natural language processing to improve medical reporting. We offer great
opportunities to maximally challenge your creative talents that will
substantially improve healthcare.

We currently have openings for computational linguists.

Position Description (Job Code CL1):
* Perform linguistic and statistical analysis of a large
corpus of medical reports
* Develop specialized grammars to extract key concepts from
medical narratives
* Participate in the development and testing of basic
components of our language system
Required Qualifications:
* Bachelors or Masters degree in linguistics or computer
science
* Familiarity with Head Phrase Structure Grammar
* Knowledge of one or more of the following areas: natural
language processing, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics
* Ability to work in either Visual Basic or Visual C++
Desired Qualifications:
* Familiarity with the medical domain
* Commercial experience in an area of linguistic technology or
computational linguistics
* Knowledge or experience with XML, SQL, and Internet
technologies

We offer competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefit package, and generous
stock options, in a great city with affordable living.

Medical Reporting Solutions
Indianapolis, Indiana
Respond to (with above job code): pjamieso@iupui.edu
fax: 317-715-6380

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