3 September: fyi -- lexicography, CA

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Compile and maintain lexical and knowledge resources for
language-oriented components of Yahoo search engine. This includes:
- defining, building and using software infrastructure to maintain
large (tens of millions) list of phrases with attributes
- identifying and acquiring sources of lists of phrases demoting
concepts or objects of certain kind: e.g. company names, medical
terms, song titles, etc.
- extracting phrases and attributes from these sources and merging
them into a single master representation.

Requirements:
- MS/PhD (in CS or related area)
- experience in data processing (databases, scripting languages, text
processing algorithms)
- (at least some) understanding and strong interest in natural
language, data models, knowledge representation.
- detail-oriented: The jobs may involve a lot of ad hoc steps in order
to achieve good coverage.

Address for Applications:

Attn: Steve Shirley
Yahoo, Inc.
701 First Ave.
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
United States of America

Position is open until filled.

Contact Information:

Steve Shirley
Email: sshirley@inktomi.com
Tel: 408-349-7649
Website: http://careers.yahoo.com

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