29.1590, Jobs: Gulf Arabic; Computational Linguistics: Consultant, Nuance Communications

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Subject: 29.1590, Jobs: Gulf Arabic; Computational Linguistics: Consultant, Nuance Communications

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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 12:02:34
From: Martin Forst [martin.forst at nuance.com]
Subject: Gulf Arabic; Computational Linguistics: Consultant, Nuance Communications, Aachen, Germany

 
University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Department: Mobile / NLU
Job Location: Aachen, NRW, Germany (Telecommute)
Web Address: http://www.nuance.com
Job Title: NLP Consultant (Arabic)
Job Rank: Consultant

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; NLP

Required Language(s): Arabic, Gulf (afb)

Description:

Our Natural Language Understanding (NLU) Department is currently looking for
computer scientists or computational linguists as freelancers who could add
(Gulf) Arabic to the languages supported by our NLU system. Candidates should
be available for 20-40 hours per week, ideally during European business hours.
The job will consist of porting from English or other languages to Arabic
resources used by our Machine-Learning-based NLU system, which is an AI
(Artificial Intelligence) component integrated into products used by millions
of people all over the world, and to improve them over time. The work will
involve the development of grammars and lexical resources, the correction of
annotated data, and other adjustments of the system. 

Tasks: 
- Creation of resources to be used for Speech Recognition software 
- Development of grammars for Natural Language Understanding 
- (Re)Training of Machine Learning models for NLU, including evaluation and
error analysis 
- Text manipulation and data processing
- Localization of data, online surveys, etc. into (Gulf) Arabic

Requirements: 
- Bachelor or Master in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics,
Computational Linguistics, or other relevant technical field
- (Near-)native speakers of (Gulf) Arabic
- Affinity with statistics and Machine Learning 
- Solid Unix skills (bash)
- Sound knowledge of regular expressions and a scripting language such as
Python or Perl
- Familiarity with version-control software (git, svn)
- Fluency in English (written and oral) 

We offer: 
- Suitable training in interesting NLU projects 
- Adequate compensation
- Flexible working hours 
- Great team in an international working environment 

Nuance is a great place to be -- at the cutting edge of Machine Learning for
Natural Language Processing. 

Does this sound interesting to you? 

Please send a short CV by email to the address below.



Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: martin.forst at nuance.com 
Contact Information:
	Dr. Martin Forst 
	Email: martin.forst at nuance.com 


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