29.228, Jobs: German; Computational Linguistics: Language Engineer, Nuance Communications

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Subject: 29.228, Jobs: German; Computational Linguistics: Language Engineer, Nuance Communications

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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:48:39
From: Lea Mencner [lea.mencner at nuance.com]
Subject: German; Computational Linguistics: Language Engineer, Nuance Communications

 
University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Job Location: Aachen, Germany OR Turin, Italy OR Merelbeke, Belgium 
Web Address: http://www.nuance.com
Job Title: Language Engineer - German (1 year fixed term contract)
Job Rank: Language Engineer

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Required Language(s): German (deu)

Description:

Nuance Communications offers a dynamic international work environment with
stable growth and a global customer base. You will learn about the latest
innovations in speech technology and work on Nuance’s flagship text-to-speech
system, Vocalizer, which is deployed in most cars and mobile devices sold
today and supports over 50 languages.

To strengthen its text-to-speech research and development team in Merelbeke
(Belgium), Turin (Italy) or Aachen (Germany), Nuance Communications is looking
for a computational linguist or a data scientist with a strong background in
data driven text analysis techniques and linguistic tools development.

You will work on one or more linguistic data components such as text
normalization, morphological analysis, syntactic analysis, language
identification, cross-lingual mapping, phonetic transcription generation or
symbolic prosody prediction. You will advance the state of the art by
leveraging large corpus analysis, machine learning, semantic tagging, document
structure analysis, and crowd-sourcing. A part of the job is also to maintain
legacy systems. That may include debugging, understanding and enhancing
linguistic rules or a coordination of lexicon and other language resources
collection projects.

Responsibilities:
- Creation and maintenance of linguistic data components for the Vocalizer
text-to-speech 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 
- Development of tools and metrics to track and drive progress in text
analysis accuracy
- Continued learning to stay up-to-date with latest trends in speech
technology and beyond

Qualifications:
- 2+ years of work experience is 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
- Native proficiency in German
 
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: American English,
French, Czech, Polish, Turkish or Arabic
 

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



Application Deadline: 31-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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