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Job Title: Research Scientist - Natural Language Processing (NLP)
ID: 18030125
Location: Morrisville, NC
Type: Fulltime
Research Scientist - Natural Language Processing for the world's largest provider of diversified BPO services
Wouldn’t it be great to use your Natural Language Processing (NLP) experience to improve the lives of citizens, patients, and employees around the world? At Conduent, we’re building algorithms and tools that do exactly that. If you’re interested in an exciting, innovative position that allows you to leverage these skills, then you’re just the kind of person we’re looking for. Conduent is enhancing its platforms in transportation, healthcare, financial services and customer care with predictive and prescriptive analytics. Because of the broad range of fields we provide services for, you can be assured of not being pigeonholed into a narrow domain and continue to be challenged by applying the latest advances in the field. We work with both government and commercial customers in assisting them to deliver quality services to the people they serve. At Conduent you will use your knowledge and training to take the everyday services that our clients are using and add analytics, automation, intelligence to make these more efficient, more usable, more exciting and more functional.
More About Us:
Conduent Labs works closely with Conduent business groups to addresses real world challenges such as the rising cost of healthcare, mobility in urban society and payment card fraud in financial welfare programs. We adopt a multidisciplinary approach that combines techniques from diverse domains such as machine learning, statistical modeling, simulation, optimization and multimedia analysis, and use big data technologies to consolidate and analyze volumes of data from multiple sources in a scalable manner. Our work is guided by insights from ethnographic analysis and deep domain knowledge from both in-house and external experts.
Position Description:
The Research Scientist will apply their skills to work at the leading edge of automation in industries such as customer care, healthcare, social media, education, and legal and compliance solutions. Our call centers support a diverse set of clients where automating understanding of the intent, the topics, and the sentiment of the conversation will lead to a better customer experience. In our education services we seek to understand the training needs of our clients and evaluate their effective delivery through free text analysis. Content Moderation is a growing problem and being able to automate the process of determine if text and other content posted to social media violates policies would have great value. The NLP scientist will identify use cases, create demonstrations of capabilities, and identify new opportunities in these and other Conduent businesses.
Responsibilities:
· The Natural Language Processing research scientist will be of the subject matter expert in innovative projects where natural language processing analytics will lead to increased efficiencies in businesses where Conduent operates.
· Apply machine learning and other techniques to design and prototype intelligent, real-world applications that intelligently extract understanding from text and/or audio sources.
· Keep abreast of the latest developments in the field by participating in conferences and other venues and can champion promising, new methods to explore.
· Proactively identify new areas of research and in partnership with business groups develop value-based proposals for investment.
· Work with “Intrapreneurial” business teams to develop and commercialize user-centric, adaptive and robust systems.
· Contribute to the external community through conference participation and journal articles.
Qualifications:
· MS with 3+ years of experience or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computation Linguistics or a related field.
· Experience with the various aspects of Natural Language Processing including named entity recognition, sentiment analysis, content summarization, intent recognition, and experience with an understanding of the algorithms by which these are implemented
· Must be a self-driven problem solver, capable of implementing innovative solutions to problems, performing experiments to show feasibility of their solutions and working to refine the solutions into a real-world context and demonstrated experience of working with teams to solve problems.
· Interdisciplinary skills: big data analytics, modeling and simulation, systems design and prototyping.
The ideal candidate will possess
Experience and knowledge in services domains such as business process outsourcing systems, transportation systems, healthcare systems and financial services.