30.222, Jobs: Japanese; Korean; Computational Linguistics: Scientist, Nuance Communications

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-222. Tue Jan 15 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.222, Jobs: Japanese; Korean; Computational Linguistics: Scientist, Nuance Communications

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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 11:54:20
From: Lea Mencner [lea.mencner at nuance.com]
Subject: Japanese; Korean; Computational Linguistics: Scientist, Nuance Communications

 University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Job Location: Germany, Aachen; UK, Marlow or Teddington; Canada, Montreal 
Web Address: https://www.nuance.com/index.html
Job Title: Research Application Scientist - Japanese and/or Korean NLU
Job Rank: Scientist

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Japanese (jpn)
                      Korean (kor) 

Description:

As a Research Application Scientist you will support us in the R&D in natural
language understanding (NLU) for Japanese and/or Korean. You will assist in
all aspects of planning, developing and maintaining high-quality NLU systems
for customers. The job includes new feature development, accuracy improvement,
project maintenance, and language-targeted research for improvements.

Responsibilities:
- Contribute to development of the NLU pipeline, especially for Japanese
and/or Korean
- Development of new features in NLU
- NLU accuracy improvements
- Responding to QA and customer reported issues
- Accuracy checking of annotations
- Contribute to team effort to improvement of entire NLU system

Qualifications:
- Knowledge of NLP and/or Machine Learning
- Programming skills (especially scripting to support research experiments)
- Native or high proficiency in Japanese and/or Korean 

Preferred Skills:
- Natural Language Understanding
- Machine learning;
- Python, Java

Education: 
Master’s in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or related field (or
similar work experience)

To apply, please send your CV to the application link provided below.



Application Deadline: 31-Mar-2019 (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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