Senior Taxonomy

Pay Rate: $165/hr on w2

An ontologist and taxonomist with 5+ years experience applying the Web Ontology Language (OWL) to problems in financial and economic analysis.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Maintain the Research Ontology (msRo) and Trending Topics Taxonomy, adding definitions of new concepts and entities as they arise in the world of financial analysis. Coordinate these artifacts with existing reference data within company and imported from external providers.
• Consult with the business on projects involving natural-language processing and related ontology and taxonomy data.
• Work as a bridge between business stakeholders and technology implementers to ensure that requirements are accurately transmitted to implementers and accurately fulfilled in our systems.
• Aid in the manual and automatic validation of results from large-language models (LLMs) and other models, using automated testing tools and techniques and your own knowledge.
• Educate business and technology stakeholders on semantic technologies, ontologies, and taxonomies, including related developments in the industry.
• Work with the data science team to integrate quantitative results into unstructured content.
• Work with technologists supporting the Mondeca vendor platform for named-entity recognition and document tagging. Ensure that that system's rules apply NER correctly based on the ontology and taxonomy.
• Work with technologists supporting the Elasticsearch index of hundreds of thousands of financial analysis reports. Work to ensure that the tag output of the Mondeca system is properly applied to searches and documents in order to enhance search result accuracy.