28.737, Jobs: German; Computational Linguistics;Text/Corpus Linguistics: Application Developer, Nuance Communications

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-737. Tue Feb 07 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.737, Jobs: German; Computational Linguistics;Text/Corpus Linguistics: Application Developer, Nuance Communications

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Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 16:13:10
From: Lea Mencner [EMEAjobs at nuance.com]
Subject: German; Computational Linguistics;Text/Corpus Linguistics: Application Developer, Nuance Communications, Aachen, Germany

 
University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Job Location: Aachen, Germany 
Web Address: http://www.nuance.com/
Job Title: NLU Application Developer
Job Rank: Other

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Required Language(s): German (deu)

Description:

As a NLU Application Developer you will contribute to NLU development in
automotive projects by supervising and/or executing the development of NLU
Vocon buffers for the German and/or English language. You will be
participating in activities on all the projects related to NLU data
procurement.
 
Responsibilities:
 
- Analysis of customer requirements for realizing NLU on embedded platforms
- In accordance to customer requirement analysis, specifying data needed to
train NLU models.
- Collect, analyze, and process text and audio data in the target language in
order to build a target language model.
- Contribute to the development of tools and procedures with the scope of
optimize and simplify the activities of NLU data procurement and NLU contexts
development.
- Work with application development engineers and QA teams within the scope of
one or more customer projects to realize the project deliverables.
- Support our customers’ speech software teams to help them evaluate and
integrate Nuance NLU technology into successful products in an efficient way.
 
 
Qualifications:

- Customer focus.
- Native or near-native proficiency in German.
- Very good oral and written knowledge of the English language.
- Experiences in programming (particularly Python and regular expressions).
- Team player.
- Ability to manage external part time workers.
- Good listener and communicator, who can represent Nuance professional
services at the customer’s premises or in written and oral communications with
customers.
- Positive "can-do" attitude, well organized, focusing on achieving results
cost-effectively.
- Willingness to travel.
- Ability to work independently, including at customer premises, but always as
part of the PS NLU team.
- Self-learner, with sense of initiative, and perseverance to deliver high
quality work.
 
Preferred Skills:
- Background in speech technology or language processing.
- Native or near native proficiency in one additional language is preferable.
- Experience with Natural Language Understanding or statistical / semantic
language modelling.
- Advanced user of Windows and Linux platforms.
- Engineering practices in design, coding, and testing.
- Knowledge of Automotive SPICE or similar process assessment standard
 
Education: Master University degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer
Science, Information technology or a comparable field.



Application Deadline: 15-Apr-2017 
	  
Email Address for Applications: EMEAjobs at nuance.com 
Contact Information:
	Lea Mencner 
	Email: EMEAjobs at nuance.com 


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