Some kind soul forwarded my Behav-AN posting to the Verbalbeh discussion list. My group at AOL will almost certainly end up hiring a traditional cognitive NLP person. I believe the opportunities will grow with the Internet. It is fairly certain that whomever we hire as our NLP person within my search group will be a multi-millionaire within two to ten years. At minimum, it involves Behavior Analysis and Computer Science.
Few people are interested in both.
Fewer still are competent in both, and the competencies can be difficult to develop. That has been one of the difficulties in finding even a traditional cognitive NLP person. There is quite a bit of linguistic software out there. It all works, to a degree. Few, if any, software engineers have all the skills we want, so there is a lot of learning on the job, classes, etc.