28.5246, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Language Engineer, Nuance Communications

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Subject: 28.5246, Jobs:  Computational Linguistics: Language Engineer, Nuance Communications

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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:58:23
From: Lea Mencner [lea.mencner at nuance.com]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Language Engineer, Nuance Communications

 
University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Job Location: Belgium, Merelbeke OR Germany, Aachen OR Turin,, Italy 
Web Address: http://www.nuance.com
Job Title: Language Engineer (m/f)
Job Rank: Language Engineer

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 


Description:

As a Language Engineer within the TTS R&D team you will create and manage
linguistic data components powering Nuance’s text-to-speech and ASR systems.
You will create and/or maintain linguistic components performing tasks such as
text normalization, morphological analysis, syntactic analysis, language
identification, cross-lingual mapping, phonetic transcription generation or
symbolic prosody prediction. You will also advance the state of the art by
leveraging large corpus analysis, machine learning, semantic tagging, document
structure analysis, and crowd-sourcing.
 
Work location will be preferably Turin, Italy; alternatively Merelbeke,
Belgium or Aachen, Germany.
 
Responsibilities:
- Creation and maintenance of linguistic data components for the Vocalizer
text-to-speech system and the Vocon embedded ASR system
- Use of data-driven techniques and NLU approaches to refine or replace
rule-based approaches 
- Testing and evaluation of linguistic data components
- Responding to issues reported from deployed systems: debugging,
understanding and enhancing linguistic rules and lexica.
- Development of tools and metrics to track and drive progress in text
analysis accuracy
 
Qualifications:
- Two or more years of work experience are considered as a strong plus, but
promising new graduates are also encouraged to apply. 
- Computational linguistics or other speech/language data mining related
experience
- AI and NLU techniques
- Scripting and programming skills in Python, Perl, or an equivalent
programming language
- Ability to work in distributed teams
- Strong communication and analytical skills

Preferred Skills:
- The successful candidate is a team player and a fast learner with an
analytical mindset and a pragmatic approach to problem solving
- Mathematical background and theoretical understanding of machine learning
techniques
- Experience with voice technologies such as automatic speech recognition
(ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and natural language understanding (NLU)
- Experience with version control systems (e.g. hg, svn).
- Native proficiency in one of the following languages: German, American
English, French, Czech, Polish, Turkish or Arabic

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



Application Deadline: 01-Mar-2018 (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: lea.mencner at nuance.com 
Contact Information:
	Lea Mencner 
	Email: lea.mencner at nuance.com 


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