29.4537, Jobs: Danish; Norwegian Bokmål; Norwegian Nynorsk; Computational Linguistics: Scientist, Nuance Communications

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Subject: 29.4537, Jobs: Danish; Norwegian Bokmål; Norwegian Nynorsk; Computational Linguistics: Scientist, Nuance Communications

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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:39:56
From: Martin Forst [martin.forst at nuance.com]
Subject: Danish; Norwegian Bokmål; Norwegian Nynorsk; Computational Linguistics: Scientist, Nuance Communications

 
University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Department: Mobile/NLU
Job Location: Aachen, NRW, Germany (Telecommute)
Web Address: https://www.nuance.com/index.html
Job Title: NLP Consultant (Danish and/or Norwegian)
Job Rank: Scientist

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Danish (dan)
                      Norwegian Bokmål (nob) 
                      Norwegian Nynorsk (nno) 

Description:

Our Natural Language Understanding (NLU) Department is currently looking for
computer scientists or computational linguists as freelancers who could add
Danish and/or Norwegian 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
Swedish to Danish/Norwegian 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 Danish/Norwegian

Requirements: 
- Bachelor or Master in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics,
Computational Linguistics, or other relevant technical field 
- (Near-)native speakers of Danish and/or Norwegian 
- 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 application email 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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