28.2938, Jobs: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics: NLU Speech Scientist, Nuance Communications

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Subject: 28.2938, Jobs: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics: NLU Speech Scientist, Nuance Communications

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Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2017 11:47:38
From: Lea Mencner [lea.mencner at nuance.com]
Subject: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics: NLU Speech Scientist, Nuance Communications, Ulm, Germany

 
University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Job Location: Ulm, Germany 
Web Address: www.nuance.com
Job Title: NLU Speech Scientist - Speech Dialog Systems
Job Rank: NLU Speech Scientist

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics 


Description:

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to NLU (Natural Language
Understanding) development in automotive projects with well-known automotive
customers. As a NLU Engineer you will supervise and execute the development of
NLU models for the US English and German language. You will also participate
in the activities on all the projects related to NLU data procurement and act
as a coordinator between NLU and UI development teams within the customer
project.
 
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 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 UI and application development engineers and QA teams within the
scope of one or more customer projects to realize the project deliverables.
- Act as a reference point and coordinate all NLU related tasks in the
project.
 
Qualifications:
- Very good linguistic skills 
- Good basic knowledge of computer science (use of spreadsheets, command line
shell, version control, web tools, programming, particularly Python and
regular expressions) 
- Effective communication and good organization skills
- Native or near-native proficiency in German
- Very good oral and written knowledge of the English language.

Preferred Skills:
- Background in speech technology or language processing.
- Experience with Natural Language Understanding or statistical / semantic
language modelling.
- Advanced user of Windows and Linux platforms.
- Engineering practices in design, coding, and testing.
- Skills in further languages

Education: Master University degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics,
Computer Science, Information technology or a comparable field.



Application Deadline: 30-Sep-2017 
	  
Email Address for Applications: lea.mencner at nuance.com 
Contact Information:
	Lea Mencner 
	Email: lea.mencner at nuance.com 


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