28.2315, Jobs: English; French; Morphology; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax: Project Manager, Pygmalion

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Subject: 28.2315, Jobs: English; French; Morphology; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax: Project Manager, Pygmalion

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Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 13:13:19
From: Vikki Ha [AdvancedLinguistics at gmail.com]
Subject: English; French; Morphology; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax: Project Manager, Pygmalion, Montreal, Canada

 
University or Organization: Pygmalion 
Department: Natural Language Understanding
Job Location: Montreal, Canada 
Job Title: Analytic Linguistic Project Manager [French-Canada]
Job Rank: Manager

Specialty Areas: Morphology; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax; Natural Language Processing

Required Language(s): English (eng)
                      French (fra) 

Description:

The role of the Linguistic Project Manager is to consult with Natural Language
Understanding Researchers on creating guidelines and setting standards for a
variety of NLP projects, with a strong orientation toward semantic and
syntactic analysis. The project manager will also lead and manage the work of
a team of junior linguists to achieve high quality data output. 
 
This includes:
 
- Reviewing and annotating linguistic data
- Developing phonetic/phonemic transcription rules
- Analyzing acoustic data to evaluate speech synthesis
- Deriving NLP data for new and on-going projects
- Training, managing, and overseeing the work of a team of junior linguists
- Creating guidelines for discourse, semantic, syntactic and morphological
projects
- Consulting with researchers and engineers on the development of linguistic
databases
- Identifying and assigning required tasks for a project
- Tracking and reporting the team's progress
- Monitoring and controlling quality of the data annotated by the team
- Providing linguistic/operational guidance and support to the team
- Delivering final output
 
Job Requirements:
 
- Native speaker of French (CA) and fluent in English.
- Master's degree or higher in Linguistics or Computational Linguistics, with
experience specializing in semantics, syntax, morphology or lexicography.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Good organizational skills.
- Previous project management and people management experience.
- Ability to quickly grasp technical concepts; should have an interest in
natural language processing.
- Keen interest in technology and computer-literate (should feel comfortable
using in-house tools and should have an interest in linguistics and linguistic
resources)
 
Project Duration: Approximately 6 months (with a possible extension), starting
as soon as possible. 
 
This is not a permanent position but a full-time contract position.
 
How to Apply:
 
For immediate consideration, please email your CV and cover letter (PDF format
preferred) with "Analytic Linguistic Project Manager [French CA]" in the
subject line.



Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: AdvancedLinguistics at gmail.com 
Contact Information:
	Vikki Ha 
	Email: AdvancedLinguistics at gmail.com 


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