Connectionists: Job opening @ Yahoo!: Research Scientist, Yahoo! Search Content Analysis Team

[Dmitry Pavlov]

Research Scientist, Yahoo! Search Content Analysis Team

Location . Sunnyvale, CA

Essential Responsibilities

We are looking for a highly motivated research scientist experienced in 
machine learning to help develop algorithms and software systems for 
analyzing web content. You will be part of Yahoo's content analysis team, 
an advanced development group responsible for web scale document 
classification, clustering, attribute extraction and matching applications 
that push the frontiers of text mining. The content analysis team is 
focused on lexical, syntactic and semantic analysis of text documents. As 
part of the team you will have access to Yahoo's enormous amount of data 
including query logs, product description, and web page index.

Qualified candidates should be proficient in C/C++ development, have a 
solid knowledge of machine learning, data mining and information 
retrieval, including the hands on experience with data clustering, 
classification, regression, recommender systems, optimization, text 
mining, natural language processing, analysis, pattern recognition, etc. A 
PhD degree in computer science or related areas is also required.


Required Qualifications/Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Mathematics, Computational Linguistics, or 
related field. Experience in: C/C++, Unix operating system and development 
tools, scripting languages. Knowledge of text mining, natural language 
procecessing, information retrieval, statistical analysis, or machine 
learning. Understanding of algorithm efficiency issues. Excellent 
communication and problem solving skills.

Keywords: data mining, machine learning, text mining, document 
classification, document clustering, natural langauge processing, 
regression analysis, support vector machine, neural network, decision 
tree, collaborative filter, statistics, information retrieval

Please send your resumes to Dr. Dmitry Pavlov at dpavlov at yahoo-inc.com and 
reference Research Scientist position.