31.566, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Consultant, Cerence GmbH

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Subject: 31.566, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Consultant, Cerence GmbH

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Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2020 03:27:40
From: Lea Mencner [lea.mencner at cerence.com]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Consultant, Cerence GmbH, Aachen, Germany

 
University or Organization: Cerence GmbH 
Job Location: Aachen, Germany (Telecommute)
Web Address: https://www.cerence.com
Job Title: Swedish NLU Consultant
Job Rank: Consultant; Other

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 


Description:

Cerence’s Natural Language Understanding (NLU) department is currently looking
for computer scientists or (computational) linguists as freelancers who could
extend and improve the NLU system for their respective language. Candidates
should be available for 20-40 hours per week, ideally during European business
hours. Our Machine-Learning-based NLU systems are AI (Artificial Intelligence)
components integrated into products used by millions of people all over the
world. The work will involve the development of grammars and lexical
resources, the correction of annotated data, and other adjustments of the
system as well as error analysis.

Tasks:

- Revision and extension 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 the respective language

Requirements:

- Bachelor or Master in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science,
Statistics, General Linguistics, or other relevant field
- (Near-)native speaker of Swedish
- Sound knowledge of regular expressions
- Fluency in English (written and oral)

Preferred skills:

- Solid Unix skills (bash)
- Affinity with statistics and Machine Learning
- Programming skills in a scripting language such as Python or Perl
- Familiarity with version-control software (ideally Git)



Application Deadline: 18-Apr-2020 (Open until filled)
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://cerence.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Cerence/job/Aachen/Swedish-NLU-Consultant_R0000799 
Contact Information:
	Lea Mencner 
	Email: lea.mencner at cerence.com 


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