Corpora: job for lang. modelling consultant

[Lex Olorenshaw]

Hi,

To seek additional candidates, Sony has extended the following opening
beyond the original Jan. 15. timeline.

Job Title:  Language Modeling Consultant

Job Decription:

The Spoken Language Technology group at Sony in San Jose, CA, is seeking
candidates to fill a full-time (40 hours/week) temporary (6 months) position
in Language Modeling for Speech Recognition.  Primary work centers around
various tasks needed to develop statistical language models for a Hidden
Markov Model based Continuous Speech Recognizer developed by Sony.  You will
work in Sony Electronics' main building in San Jose, in an R&D environment
with flexible working hours.

Skills:

- Experience in grammar formalisms for natural language modeling
- Experience in statistical language modeling techniques for continuous
  speech recognition.
- Programming experience in C/C++, Perl, Tcl/Tk.
- Knowledge of text corpora, including corpus generation and processing.
- Well-versed in UNIX (Solaris)
- Working knowledge of the CMU Language Modeling Toolkit or similar is
  a strong plus.
- Prefer exposure to real-time search techniques for HMM-based recognizers.
- Prefer Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computational Linguistics and/
  or Computer Science with emphasis in Language Technology.

Pay:

- Based on experience ($40-$70/hour).

Contact:

- Bob Bonomo, Sony Electronics, (415)955-6083, email: Bob.Bonomo at adecco.com

Start Date:

- Position is currently open.  Preferable start date is no later than
  January 15.  Possible extension of contract based on needs.