9 April: fyi -- computational linguistics, London

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Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 16:51:34 +0100
From: Luca Cappelletta
Subject: Junior Computational Linguist @ RecordSure, London
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Dear Carl

I'm and speech scientist at RecordSure and former student of the Department
of Electronic & Electrical Engineering at TCD.

RecordSure is looking for a Junior Computational Linguist for its
headquarters in London.
I'm wondering if you could circulate this email among your students and
former students.
Application should be sent to Dr Danica Damljanovic, danica@recordsure.com

Attached you have the full job descriptions,
Regards,
Luca


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Role: Junior Computational Linguist

About RecordSure
RecordSure builds leading global, first-­to-­market products for the
compliance auditing of Financial Services conversations.
RecordSure was formed in 2012 and is a ‘sister company’ of The Consulting
Consortium, the UK’s leading independent consultancy providing compliance
services to the financial services sector, both nationally and globally.
Primarily privately funded, both The Consulting Consortium and RecordSure
are also in­-part owned by the Business Growth Fund, backed by Barclays,
HSBC, Lloyds, RBS and Standard Chartered banks.

Our Culture
We are a dynamic startup, who, although still relatively small, have gained
significant traction at board level in many of the world’s largest
financial service institutions.
Passionate about technology, we love solving hard problems; and as
individuals we are each as eager to learn as we are to help each other to
do so.
RecordSure is committed to safeguarding our Client Data and our
Intellectual Property and expects all staff to share this commitment.

The Role
RecordSure requires a Junior Computational Linguist ​to join our Language
Science Team working on cutting­-edge text-­analytics and machine learning
solutions in order to enhance the RecordSure platform.
The role includes a very close collaboration with the Speech and Data
science teams, as well as with the development team and would suit a recent
graduate.
The role revolves around building, refining and maintaining a knowledge
base of speech within the finance industry and requires a candidate who has
experience working with lexical databases.
Experience in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Information
Extraction is desired, but not required. Basic programming skills are
essential.

Responsibilities:
- Building and maintaining a lexical database
- Working alongside the development team to build tools for database
management
- Extracting, adapting and evaluating domain specific terminologies
- Be aware of the company processes relating to ISO 27001 and maintain an
awareness of the importance of secure handling of Client data and
RecordSure Intellectual Property
- Comply with internal policies, in particular raising any concerns over
security issues

Your Attributes
You’re an intelligent, enthusiastic and highly motivated hands­-on
candidate with a solid base in coding.
You are driven by:
- Learning about new technologies every day
- Solving challenging problems
- Quality people in your team

The Candidate

- BSc/MSc degree or equivalent in Computational Linguistics, Computer
Science or related discipline
- Experience in corpus building
- Experience in phonetic transcriptions and localization process
- Experience using scripting languages for manipulation of data e.g. Shell,
Python

How to Apply
Please send your CV to danica@recordsure.com and we will get in touch.


--
Luca Cappelletta
Speech Scientist



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