27.4802, Jobs: Morphology; Phonetics; Phonology; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology: Computational Linguist, Amazon Alexa

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Subject: 27.4802, Jobs: Morphology; Phonetics; Phonology; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology: Computational Linguist, Amazon Alexa

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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 14:42:40
From: Marco Nicolis [nicolism at amazon.com]
Subject: Morphology; Phonetics; Phonology; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology: Computational Linguist, Amazon Alexa, Gdansk, Poland

 
University or Organization: Amazon Alexa 
Department: TTS
Job Location: Gdansk, Poland 
Job Title: Language Modeling Linguist
Job Rank: Computational Linguist; Other

Specialty Areas: Morphology; Phonetics; Phonology; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 

Required Language(s): French (fra)
                      Italian (ita) 
                      Spanish (spa) 

Description:

TTS linguist (Italian OR French OR Spanish)

Come join us, we build TTS voices that help developers revolutionize the way
people interact with devices and services!

At Ivona, an Amazon company, 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.

All the positions are based at the Amazon office 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. 

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
- Contribute to the formalization of language models through in depth
knowledge of phonological and morphosyntactic aspects of the target language.
- Annotating lexicon entries according to guidelines.
- Producing / validating phonetic transcriptions.
- QA of TTS voices and linguistic data.

Basic qualifications:

- Solid knowledge of phonetics/phonology.
- Native-level proficiency in the target language.
- Solid knowledge of regular expressions.
- Ability to create / fix phonetic transcriptions in the target language.
- Knowledge of Unix/Linux command line tools.

Preferred qualifications:

- Knowledge of scripting languages (e.g. Perl, Python).
- Degree in Linguistics, with specialization in Phonology, Computational
linguistics or similar.
- 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.



Application Deadline: 31-Dec-2016 
	  
Email Address for Applications: nicolism at amazon.com 
Contact Information:
	Marco Nicolis 
	Email: nicolism at amazon.com 


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