27.3184, Jobs: German; Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology: Computational Linguist, Amazon

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Subject: 27.3184, Jobs: German; Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology: Computational Linguist, Amazon

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Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2016 13:02:12
From: Marco Nicolis [nicolism at amazon.com]
Subject: German; Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology: Computational Linguist, Amazon, Gdansk, Poland

 
University or Organization: Amazon 
Department: TTS
Job Location: Gdansk, Poland 
Web Address: http://gdansk-amazon.com/
Job Title: TTS Linguist
Job Rank: Computational Linguist; Other

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology 

Required Language(s): German (deu)

Description:

Want to work on one of the coolest and most innovative pieces of technology in
the recent years? We built Amazon Alexa, the Amazon cloud service that powers
devices such as Amazon Echo, FireTV, Amazon Tap and Echo Dot. And this is just
the beginning. We’re on to build the Star Trek computer and you have a chance
to be part of this. Come join us, together we will revolutionize the way
people interact with devices and services! We are inventing the future.

At Amazon, we take pride in building complete end-to-end solutions, staring
from researching a problem, implementing the solution, building a scalable and
reliable service and ensuring the service is there when you need it.

This position is based at IVONA headquarters in Gdansk, Poland.

As a TTS 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 linguistics, in particular 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 natural language test cases for natural language processing
modules.
- Labeling text with semantic, syntactic and morphological features
- Annotating lexicon entries according to guidelines.
- Producing / validating phonetic transcriptions for German.
- QA of TTS voices and linguistic data.

Basic qualifications:

- Native-level proficiency in German.
- Degree in Linguistics, with specialization in Phonology, Computational
linguistics or similar.
- Solid knowledge of regular expressions.
- Solid knowledge of phonetics and phonology.
- Ability to create / fix phonetic transcriptions for German.
- Knowledge of Unix/Linux command line tools.

Preferred qualifications:

- 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.

*Please notice that the text in the application page linked below may differ
slightly from the one displayed here.



Application Deadline: 31-Dec-2016 (Open until filled)
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/344916 
Contact Information:
	Marco Nicolis 
	Email: nicolism at amazon.com 


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