29.3472, Jobs: Indo-Aryan Central Zone; Indo-European; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax: Computational Linguist, Amazon

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Subject: 29.3472, Jobs: Indo-Aryan Central Zone; Indo-European; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax: Computational Linguist, Amazon

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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 08:11:24
From: Snehal Meshram [snl1910 at gmail.com]
Subject: Indo-Aryan Central Zone; Indo-European; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax: Computational Linguist, Amazon, India

 
University or Organization: Amazon 
Job Location: Bengaluru, India 
Job Title: Computational Linguist
Job Rank: Computational Linguist/Language Engineer

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Required Language(s): Indo-Aryan Central Zone
                      Indo-European 

Description:

Amazon is looking for a Computational Linguist/Language Engineer to join our
Natural Language Processing (NLP) team. We are seeking a candidate with strong
analytical skills and language technology experience to help us develop
language components for a variety of Kindle products. 

As a Computational Linguist at Amazon, you will:
- Create sample language data for the target language
- Develop NLP components: write rules, build grammars/FSTs, create annotation
systems or mappings for the target language
- Contribute to the design of new features by extending existing annotation
schemas to cover new areas in the target language
- Use modeling tools to bootstrap and test new functionalities
- Analyze system performance and identify areas for improvement
- Collaborate with other Language Engineers and Data Associate teams in data
collection and development efforts

Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or higher degree in a relevant field (linguistics or language)
- 2+ years experience in computational linguistics, language data processing,
semantics, or syntax
- Experience with language annotation and other forms of data markup
- Experience working with speech and text language data in multiple languages
- Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (SQL, R,
Matlab, etc.), and Unix
- Experience programming in Perl, Python, or another scripting language 

Preferred Qualifications: 
- Expertise in building ontologies, taxonomies, and semantic relation
frameworks
- Experience in writing grammars and building FSTs
- Experience with statistical language modeling
- Practical knowledge of version control and agile development
- Excellent communication, strong organizational skills and very detailed
oriented
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work
environment
- Willingness to support several projects at one time, and to accept
reprioritization as necessary

To Apply:
Please send resumes to the application email provided below.



Application Deadline: 30-Nov-2018 
	  
Email Address for Applications: aruk at amazon.com 
Contact Information
	Arun Kumar 
	Email: aruk at amazon.com 


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