Text Analyst, Reed Business Information, Norcross GA

Posted January 13, 2014

It is Reed Construction Data’s vision to provide our insight in every decision, through employing the most innovative technologies to produce products that deliver actionable intelligence.

This position plays a fundamental role in fulfilling that vision by enabling Reed to glean relevant content from highly diverse raw source data and transform it into value-added information that is easily vended through our products & solutions.  This is accomplished through:

·         Systematically identifying and extracting relevant information from a wide range of input documents and source data

·         Augmenting and enriching Reed’s portfolio of construction project and industry information with this extracted data

·         Driving efficiencies and reducing the time required to make this intelligence available to our customers

 

Responsibilities:

·         Design and develop advanced information extraction solutions and transforming text from a wide range of both structured and unstructured sources.

·         Develop taxonomies, text classification and  information extraction algorithms

·         Perform data extraction, transformations, cleaning, analysis, data mining

·         Participate in business discussions.  Effectively identify and convey the business implications of text analytics to technical and business audiences

 

Requirements:

·         In depth knowledge and experience in text mining, analytics and content extraction

·         2+ years of experience using SAS Enterprise Content Categorizer or similar tools

·         2+ years of hands on experience extracting / tagging targeted content from unstructured documents

·         2+ years  of direct experience in metadata design and implementation

·         Working knowledge of HTML/CSS, XML, ASCII/CSV, TIFF, METS/ALTO, PDF, and OCR

·         Bachelor’s Degree in Library Science, IT, Computer Information Systems, or related field of study/relevant experience

·         Excellent verbal/written communication and presentation skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical professionals. 

·         Familiarity with Agile Software Development

·         Ability to work under aggressive deadlines

 

RBI is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

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