30.3155, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Scientist, Educational Testing Service

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Subject: 30.3155, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Scientist, Educational Testing Service

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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 12:27:18
From: Dave Yanchuk [dyanchuk at ets.org]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Scientist, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

University or Organization: Educational Testing Service 
Job Location: New Jersey, USA 
Web Address: https://www.ets.org/
Job Title: Associate Research Scientist, Speech
Job Rank: Scientist

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Description:

Associate Research Scientist, Speech

Educational Testing Service (ETS), with headquarters in Princeton, NJ, is the
world’s premier educational measurement institution and a leader in
educational research. With more than 3,400 global employees, we develop,
administer and score more than 50 million tests annually in more than 180
countries at more than 9,000 locations worldwide.

ETS's Research & Development division has an opening for an associate research
scientist in the Speech area of the NLP & Speech research center. The projects
in this research group focus on the application of NLP, speech, dialogue, and
multimodal processing algorithms in automated scoring capabilities for
assessment and learning tasks involving constructed responses (such as essays
and spoken responses). In addition to its signature automated scoring systems
for text and speech assessments, the group is actively pursuing technology
innovation in education and learning spaces by performing foundational
research, prototyping next-generation capabilities, and collaborating with
academic and industry partners. The NLP & Speech research group currently
comprises around 20 PhD-level research scientists, 10 research engineers, and
10 research assistants and administrative staff.

This is an excellent opportunity to be part of a world-renowned research and
development team and have a significant impact on existing and next-generation
NLP, speech, dialogue, and multimodal systems and their use in educational
applications.

Responsibilities:
- Conceptualizing, proposing, obtaining funding for, and directing small
projects in the area speech processing for educational applications and
assisting in moderate-to-major research projects.  
- Assist in generating or contributing to new knowledge or capabilities in the
field of speech processing and in applying that new knowledge and capabilities
to existing and/or new ETS products and services.  Some speech processing
research areas that are relevant to ETS R&D include (but are not limited to)
automatic speech recognition for non-native speakers of English, voice
biometrics, computer-assisted pronunciation training, and automated speech
scoring.
- Participate in setting substantive research and development goals and
priorities for a group or initiative within a vice presidential area.
- Develop proposals and budgets for small projects and/or assist in
development for moderate-to-major ones. 

Requirements:
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Electrical
Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Linguistics, or a similar area with
major education in speech processing.
- At least one year of independent substantive research experience in speech
processing is required. Experience can be gained through doctoral studies.
- Practical expertise with speech processing tools (e.g., kaldi), experience
with machine learning toolkits (e.g., Weka, scikit-learn), and fluency in at
least one major programming language (e.g. Java, Python).
- Practical experience with deep learning paradigms and toolkits (e.g.,
TensorFlow, pytorch, Keras) is highly desirable.

We offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, possible relocation
assistance and excellent opportunities for professional and personal growth.

For a full list of position responsibilities and to apply please visit the
application link provided below.

Educational Testing Service is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action
Employer of Women, Minorities, protected Veterans, Individuals with
Disabilities and is a Drug-free workplace.

Application Deadline: 12-Feb-2020 

Web Address for Applications: http://www.Click2Apply.net/bz8hk472qv5b4qdm 
Contact Information:
	Dave Yanchuk 
	Email: dyanchuk at ets.org 

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