7 March: fyi -- text analysis, San Francisco
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(http://www.dfj.com/) funded company located in San Francisco's financial
district. As the leader in the emerging market for automated document review,
electronic discovery and litigation services, records retention and management,
regulatory compliance, and risk management solutions, H5 has consistently
outperformed alternative approaches to document review on price, speed, and
above all, quality. Our patented technology, which replicates and automates
human relevance assessments, along with our advanced linguistic analysis enables
the review of massive document collections with unparalleled results. H5 has
successfully delivered its automated document review solutions to Fortune 500
corporations and AmLaw 200 law firms in the context of high-profile, high-stakes
litigation, document retention, and regulatory compliance.
Overview
Our Professional Services Group consults with litigants and their legal teams to
devise a classification scheme and then trains our patented software engine to
automatically classify documents in the collection. H5 is seeking linguists to
join us for several upcoming large projects.
Primary Responsibilities
- Analyzing linguistic data
- Researching large corpora for linguistic patterns
- Interviewing subject matter experts
- Rapidly developing an understanding of new fields
- Reading a wide variety of documents, from email to academic articles;
synthesizing large amounts of information into a coherent picture of the
community that produced and used it
- Researching factual issues in complex litigation
- Identifying and modeling processes and relationships in a community
- Designing, building, and testing H5's unique and proprietary knowledge bases
Key Competencies
- A demonstrated understanding of role of semantics and syntax in natural language
- Mastery of the English language
- An interest in researching and modeling another community's structure,
and the interests, goals, and constraints that shape the actions of members
of that community
- Experience in ethnography or anthropology a plus
- Leadership skills, personal incentive and a demonstrated ability to
initiate, develop, and successfully conclude projects.
- A sharp eye for detail, precise thinking, ability to make close, analytical
judgments, and a practiced sense of order and organization
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines, both autonomously and
collaboratively
- Basic computer and software competency in a PC/Windows environment,
including Microsoft Office applications
- Basic familiarity with Unix and PERL - programming skills a plus
- Experience in a software development environment a plus
Minimal Qualifications
- Solid academic credentials: advanced-undergraduate and/or graduate-level
coursework in linguistics or other academic areas that require critical
discourse analysis
- Experience applying linguistic expertise to real language data
- Experience in corpus analysis, text analysis, conversational analysis, or
computational linguistics a plus.
H5 Technologies fosters a culture that rewards personal excellence in the
pursuit of our common goals and is extraordinarily respectful of the individual
and of the creative, intellectual, and cultural diversity of our team. Our
culture has allowed us to attract and retain talented individuals who are driven
by a vision of the way we will transform the practice of litigation.
H5 Technologies is an equal opportunity employer.
To Apply: Send resume and cover letter to dajobs@h5technologies.com
Address for Applications:
Barbara Saunders
55 2nd St. Suite 200
San Francisco, CA 94105
USA
Application Deadline: 31-Mar-2006
Contact Information:
Barbara Saunders
Email: bsaunders@h5technologies.com
Phone: 415-625-6724
Website: http://www.h5technologies.com
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