25.5081, Jobs: English; Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology: Linguist, Amazon.com / IVONA Software

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Subject: 25.5081, Jobs: English; Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology: Linguist, Amazon.com / IVONA Software

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Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 21:17:11
From: Marco Nicolis [nicolism at amazon.com]
Subject: English; Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology: Linguist, Amazon.com / IVONA Software

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University or Organization: Amazon.com / IVONA Software 
Job Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom 
Web Address: http://www.ivona.com
Job Title: UK English computational linguist
Job Rank: Computational linguist; Other

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology 

Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

As a Computational Linguist you will work alongside Software Developers who
are subject matter experts in speech synthesis and related fields. You are
expected to have solid knowledge of computational linguistics as well as
knowledge of phonetics/phonology. You will be working on a variety of tasks to
improve natural language processing of TTS (text-to-speech). You will actively
collaborate with Software Developers with linguistic expertise throughout the
whole language and voice building process at Ivona/Amazon. 

Project duration: 9-18 months, with the possibility of turning the position
into a permanent one.

The tasks include:
- Normalizing textual resources through regular expressions.
- Creating accurate phonetic transcriptions for UK English. 
- Creating natural language test cases for natural language processing
modules. 
- Labeling text with semantic, syntactic and morphological features 
- Annotating lexicon entries according to guidelines. 
- QA of TTS voices and linguistic data. 

Essential skills:
- Native speaker of UK English. 
- Degree in Computational Linguistics or similar.
- Solid knowledge of regular expressions. 
- Solid knowledge of English phonetics and phonology. 
- Knowledge of command line tools under Unix. 
- Knowledge of scripting languages (e.g. Perl, Python). 
- Familiarity with software version control tools (e.g. Git). 
- Solid communication skills. 
- Strong personal interest in learning, researching, and creating new
technologies related to foreign languages, linguistics, phonetics, phonology
and language technology.  
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work
environment. 
- Comfort with multiple computing platforms (Unix, Mac, Windows), and in
particular ability to use the command line interface.

The job location can be carried out either from our Cambridge, UK offices or
our Gdansk, Poland offices.



Application Deadline: 31-May-2015 (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: recruitment at ivona.com 
Contact Information:
	Marco Nicolis 
	Email: nicolism at amazon.com 





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