27.2706, Jobs: Japanese; Computational Linguistics: Language Engineer, Amazon

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Subject: 27.2706, Jobs: Japanese; Computational Linguistics: Language Engineer, Amazon

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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 11:57:58
From: Emma Bounty [ebbounty at amazon.com]
Subject: Japanese; Computational Linguistics: Language Engineer, Amazon, Massachusetts, USA

 
University or Organization: Amazon 
Job Location: Massachusetts, USA 
Job Title: Japanese Language Engineer
Job Rank: Japanese Language Engineer; Other

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Japanese (jpn)

Description:

Amazon is looking for a Japanese Language Engineer to join our data
engineering team in the area of speech and language data processing. We are
seeking a candidate with strong analytical skills and language technology
experience. In this role, you will support a range of data collection efforts,
monitor accuracy and throughput standards, and be a key member in new feature
development.

Specifically, the Language Engineer will:

- Provide day-to-day coordination of Japanese data collection efforts,
including planning, scheduling, and reporting
- Measure and analyze accuracy and throughput of annotated data
- Contribute to the design of new features by extending existing annotation
schemas to cover new areas
- Write grammars and build FSTs
- Use modeling tools to bootstrap new functionalities
- Collaborate with other Language Engineers in data collection and feature
design efforts

Basic Qualifications

- Native speaker of Japanese
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
- 2+ years experience in computational linguistics or language data processing
- Experience in Japanese Natural Language Processing or Japanese Linguistics
- Experience with Perl, Python, or other scripting language
- Comfortable working with speech and text language data in multiple languages
- Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (SQL, R,
Matlab, etc.)
- Excellent communication, strong organizational skills and very detailed
oriented
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work
environment
- Must be able to think creatively and possess strong analytical and problem
solving skills

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in writing grammars and building FSTs
- Experience in statistical language modeling
- Experience with annotation and other forms of data markup
- Practical knowledge of version control and agile development
- Strong attention to detail
- Exceptional level of organization
- Fluency in another foreign language a plus



Application Deadline: 31-Aug-2016 (Open until filled)
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/409716 
Contact Information:
	Emma Bounty 
	Email: ebbounty at amazon.com 
	Phone: 2407517036 


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