28.1810, Jobs: Danish; Finnish; Norwegian Bokmål; Swedish; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax: Lionbridge Tampere

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Subject: 28.1810, Jobs:  Danish; Finnish; Norwegian Bokmål; Swedish; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax: Lionbridge Tampere

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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 13:48:18
From: Elena Pirttisalo [elena.pirttisalo at lionbridge.com]
Subject: Danish; Finnish; Norwegian Bokmål; Swedish; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax: Lionbridge Tampere

 
University or Organization: Lionbridge Tampere 
Department: Machine Intelligence team
Job Location: , ---------------- (Telecommute)
Web Address: http://www.lionbridge.com/
Job Title: Linguists and computational linguists, Nordic languages
Job Rank: Other

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax 

Required Language(s): Danish (dan)
                      Finnish (fin) 
                      Norwegian Bokmål (nob) 
                      Swedish (swe) 

Description:

Join our multi-cultural team working on the cutting edge Machine Intelligence
projects! We are looking for native speakers of Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian,
or Danish for our ongoing and future projects. We are looking for both general
linguists and computational linguists for different roles in these projects.

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s or Master’s in general linguistics or related studies
Or
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computational Linguistics or Bachelor’s or
Master’s in general linguistics and studies in Computational Linguistics

- Native language: Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish 
- Strong linguistic comprehension
- Experience in annotation (POS)/syntax (grammar dependency) related work is a
plus
- Programming skills are a plus 
- Great attention to detail while working efficiently 
- Good organizational and analytical skills
- Good communication skills 
- Excellent English skills, other language skills are a plus 
- Possibility to work part-time (around 30 hours/week) on freelancer basis.

Projects description: miscellaneous projects starting from POS annotation or
annotation of syntactic dependencies in sentences to language engine
development
Projects schedule: differs for different languages

Please send the application with the hourly rate request and your CV to the
application email below.

Lionbridge enables more than 800 world-leading brands to increase
international market share, speed adoption of products and effectively engage
their customers in local markets worldwide. Using our innovative cloud
technology platforms and our global crowd of more than 100,000 professional
cloud workers, we provide translation, digital marketing, global content
management and application testing solutions that ensure global brand
consistency, local relevancy and technical usability across all touch points
of the customer lifecycle. Based in Waltham, Mass., Lionbridge maintains
solution centers in 28 countries.



Application Deadline: 31-Jul-2017 (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: jobs.tampere at lionbridge.com 
Contact Information:
	Resource coordinator Elena Pirttisalo 
	Email: elena.pirttisalo at lionbridge.com 


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