ANNOTATOR

Job Description:

Umbria Inc. is growing and hiring top-notch annotators as members of the Umbria science team to address creation of datasets for training and testing advanced machine learning algorithms for web mining. We work on cutting-edge text analysis of vast amounts of data, scalable information retrieval, learning semantic concepts, sentiment and demographic analysis, and lots of cool new stuff.

Requirements:

• Native English speaker;
• Excellent reading comprehension;
• Strong experience with Microsoft Office Applications: MS-Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint;
• Experience with using search engines (Google, Yahoo! Search, Live Search, Ask, A9, IceRocket, Technorati);
• Effective communication skills;
• Analitical thinking;
• Able to work idependently and in a team environment;
• Knowledge of linguistics and English grammar is a plus;
• Prior annotation experience is a plus;
• Enthusiam for solving challenging problems.