29.1231, Jobs: Japanese; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Language Engineer, Amazon

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-1231. Tue Mar 20 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.1231, Jobs: Japanese; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Language Engineer, Amazon

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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:36:29
From: Kayoko Yanagisawa [yakayoko at amazon.com]
Subject: Japanese; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Language Engineer, Amazon, Cambridge, UK

 
University or Organization: Amazon 
Job Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom 
Job Title: Language Engineer (Japanese)
Job Rank: Language Engineer

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; NLP

Required Language(s): Japanese (jpn)

Description:

Come join us, we build TTS voices that help developers revolutionize the way
people interact with devices and services! 

At Amazon, we take pride in building complete end-to-end solutions, starting
from researching a problem, implementing the solution, building a scalable and
reliable service and ensuring the service is there when you need it. 

The position is based at the Amazon office in Cambridge, UK. 

As a TTS Language Engineer you will work alongside Software Developers who are
subject matter experts in speech synthesis and related fields. You are
expected to have solid knowledge of linguistics, in particular knowledge of
phonetics/phonology. You will be working on a variety of tasks to improve
natural language processing of TTS (text-to-speech). You will actively
collaborate with Software Developers with linguistic expertise throughout the
whole language and voice building process at Amazon. 

The tasks include: 
- Normalizing textual resources through regular expressions 
- Creating natural language test cases for natural language processing modules
- Labeling text with semantic, syntactic and morphological features 
- Contribute to the formalization of language models through in depth
knowledge of phonological and morphosyntactic aspects of the target language 
- Annotating lexicon entries according to guidelines 
- Producing / validating phonetic transcriptions 
- QA of TTS voices and linguistic data 

Basic Qualifications: 
- Native-level proficiency in Japanese
- Solid knowledge of phonetics/phonology 
- Solid knowledge of regular expressions 
- Ability to create / fix phonetic transcriptions in the target language 
- Knowledge of Unix/Linux command line tools 

Preferred Qualifications: 
- Knowledge of scripting languages (e.g. Perl, Python) 
- Degree in Linguistics, with specialization in Phonology, Computational
linguistics or similar 
- Familiarity with software version control tools (e.g. Git) 
- Solid communication skills 
- Strong personal interest in learning, researching, and creating new
technologies related to foreign languages, linguistics, phonetics, phonology
and language technology 
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work
environment



Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: langton at amazon.co.uk 
Web Address for Applications: http://bit.ly/2G9vqRy 
Contact Information:
	Dr Kayoko Yanagisawa 
	Email: yakayoko at amazon.com 


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