Principal NLP Research Engineer - Healthcare
Company: Nuance Communicaions, Inc.
Location: Burlington, MA
Posted on: October 9, 2017
Job Description:
Position: Principal NLP Research Engineer - Healthcare
(Burlington, MA) Duties: Design and develop clinical language understanding (CLU)
systems for Computer Assisted Medical Billing Coding (CAC) and Computer
Assisted Clinical Documentation Improvement (CACDI) products. Create
rule-based and machine learning systems using in-production (feedback) data.
Research and apply automatic rule learning methods for clinical language
understanding healthcare products. Utilize JAVA, Python, and PERL to develop
CLU systems that tune rules-based on new data, as well as evaluate
performance on mu multiple data sets. Leverage understanding of Natural Language
Processing me methods and Machine Learning algorithms to debug multiple
interacting co components and phases of rule application. Research automatic
rule di discovery, perform statistical analysis of data patterns,
perform error an analysis, and engage with CLU product development team. Lead
team of re researchers to run experiments for the development of new
models. Report te team results to management. Requirements: Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in
Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Electrical Engineering,
Information Systems, or a related field and three (3) years of experience
performing Natural Language Processing (NLP) research; or in the
alternative, a Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science,
Com Computational Linguistics, Electrical Engineering, Information
Systems, or a r a related field and five (5) years of experience as indicated
above. Also requires demonstrated expertise (DE): applying machine
learning a algorithms, including maximum entropy, and support vector
machines, to c create models of large, unstructured data sets; DE performing
software d development using Java, Python, and PERL to develop rule based
and machine l learning systems; DE analyzing statistical patterns in data and
performing e error analysis and debugging; and DE leveraging Bash and Unix
scripting to r run experiments on data, perform research, and automate
processes. To apply, submit resume referencing Job Code # 34575 to Jason
Hewitt, N Nuance Communications, 1 Wayside Road, Burlington, Massachusetts
01803.
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