Sr. NLP Research Engineer Job Listing at Nuance in Burlington, MA

Computer scientist in the Healthcare Research organization who will be working on a state of the art clinical language understanding system for CAC (computer assisted coding) and related applications such as clinical documentation improvement. Major duty is to conduct research on rule-based systems with minimum data annotation effort and also in improving rule-based systems using in-production (feedback) data.

• The research will focus on creating a state of the art rule-based system for Computer Assisted Coding and other related applications.
• This includes research into existing and new rule engines, evaluating performance on a large set of rules.
• There is opportunity for research into automatic rule discovery and learning from labeled and weakly labeled data both during system development and in production, based on user feedback.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience conducting research in large corpus-based classification or information retrieval techniques is required. Research in graduate school or post-doctoral position qualifies as experience.
• In addition to the above, experience doing research in rule engines, rule-based systems including grammar based systems and automatic learning of rules/grammars from data such as Transformation-Based Learning or decision trees is highly desirable.
• Research experience in using Ontologies or any other knowledge base is desirable.
• Programming experience in one of these languages is required: JAVA, C++, PERL, Python.
• Bash/Unix scripting skills are required.

Preferred:

• Experience working with or knowledge of rules engines such as OPS5, Drools or Ontology editors like Protégé or expert system tools like CLIPS is desirable.
• Experience in machine learning is desirable.
• Experience in medical text analytics and/or clinical information retrieval is a definite PLUS.
• Experience working with UMLS components (MeSH, Specialist etc) and/or SNOMED CT is a definite PLUS.

Education:

M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Electrical Engineering or equivalent

We offer a competitive compensation package; including stock options, employee stock purchase plan, 401(k), full health and welfare benefits and a casual yet technically challenging work environment. Join our dynamic, entrepreneurial team and become part of our fast growing track of continuing success. Nuance is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Nuance Healthcare, a division of Nuance Communications, is the market leader in providing clinical understanding solutions that accurately capture and transform the patient story into meaningful, actionable information. Thousands of hospitals, providers and payers worldwide trust Nuance speech-enabled clinical documentation and analytics solutions to facilitate smarter, more efficient decisions across the healthcare enterprise. Nuance Healthcare has been recognized as “Best-in-KLAS” 2004-2011 for Speech Recognition.