26.5598, Jobs: Computational Linguistics; Morphology; Phonology; Syntax: Language Engineer, Nuance Communications

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-5598. Thu Dec 17 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.5598, Jobs: Computational Linguistics; Morphology; Phonology; Syntax: Language Engineer, Nuance Communications

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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 15:00:34
From: TJ Leahy [tj.leahy at nuance.com]
Subject: Computational Linguistics; Morphology; Phonology; Syntax: Language Engineer, Nuance Communications

University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Job Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Web Address: http://www.nuance.com
Job Title: Language Engineer
Job Rank: Language Engineer; Other

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Morphology; Phonology; Syntax 

Description:

Language Engineer

Overview:

Nuance's Mobility Division builds innovative, intelligent and intuitive touch and speech interfaces to simplify and enhance the way people interact with mobile devices, applications, and services.  Nuance Mobile solutions make mobile devices and in-car systems easier to use, automate customer self-service, and optimize the access and discovery of even the most advanced mobile applications and content - regardless of technical know-how, location, environment, or physical and literacy capabilities. 

Job Responsibilities:

To strengthen our Research and Development team we are looking for a junior computational linguist. The ideal candidate has an outstanding academic record, experience with language technologies, and enjoys product oriented work. You will develop language and voice data for Nuance’s flagship text-to-speech system, Vocalizer. The technology you will work on is deployed in the majority of cars and speech-enabled mobile devices on the market today, and is used by global enterprises and healthcare providers. The position will be initially for 12 months and can be in Ghent (Belgium) or as a student internship in Zürich (Switzerland).

- Development of linguistic components for various languages and tasks, including text normalization, morphological analysis, syntactic analysis, and prosody prediction
- Adoption of data-driven techniques and NLU approaches to refine or replace rule-based approaches
- Improvement of processes for testing and evaluation of linguistic components
- Responding to reported issues reported from deployed systems, analyzing, fixing and releasing
- Managing improvement and customization projects of various scope and team sizes

Qualifications:

Number of Years of Work Experience:  Recent MSc graduates are encouraged to apply 

Required Skills:

- The successful candidate is a team player and a fast learner with an analytical mindset and a pragmatic approach to problem solving
- Computational linguistics
- Phonetics and phonology
- Ability to work in distributed teams
- High proficiency in written and spoken English
- Must be native German or native North American 

Preferred Skills:

- Mathematical background and understanding of statistical learning techniques
- Experience with text-to-speech (TTS), automatic speech recognition (ASR), natural language understanding (NLU), statistical machine learning techniques
- Experience with version control systems (e.g. hg, svn)
- Scripting and programming skills in Python
- Near-native proficiency in several languages

Education: MSc in linguistics, computational linguistics, computer science, or equivalent

Nuance Communication Inc.  is an equal opportunity employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here: http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please call 781-565-5000 – Human Resources Department and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Application Deadline: 31-Jan-2016 

Email Address for Applications: emeajobs at nuance.com 
Contact Information:
	TJ Leahy 
	Email: tj.leahy at nuance.com 

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