Oferta de trabajo: Spanish; English & Computational Linguistics: Manager, LogicTree Corp., Bowie, MD, USA

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Oferta de trabajo:
Spanish; English & Computational Linguistics: Manager, LogicTree
Corp., Bowie, MD, USA
Web Address: http://www.logictree.com/content/home.htm
Job Rank: Manager, Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics,
Required Language(s): English (eng), Spanish (spa)
Información de: Halley <careers at logictree.com> distribuida por Linguist List:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/18/18-2359.html
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Description:

As Manager of UI Design, you will be responsible for the overall
quality of the Voice User Interface (VUI). You will manage a team of
talented UI designers in a hands-on fashion, focused on creating a
successful user experience through natural and compelling interfaces,
while meeting customers' goals of reducing costs and increasing
automation rates. You will apply industry-leading standards for user
engagement, expert knowledge
of linguistic principles and speech recognition, synthesis, and dialog
technology. The role requires people with an aptitude to consider the
bigger picture, an innovative nature, and the determination to deliver
quality & value to the customer. Successful candidates will possess
the ability to work effectively with employees, clients, contractors,
subject matter experts, & engineers.

Responsibilities:

- Provide managerial direction to UI Designers; mentoring, performance
reviews, resource allocation
- Manage both local & remote team members composed of designers,
translators, voice talents, studios, & test engineers
- Ensure that the groups produces UI Designs that exceed expectations
of quality, and are delivered on time, while also contributing to
effective speech user interface designs, specifying call flow,
dialogs, and prompts in a hands-on fashion when appropriate
- Assist in implementing designs, working with developers where
necessary, directing voice talents, processing audio, and performing
QA reviews of prompt inventories and applications
- Lead the development of processes and best practices in UI Design
- Work with managers of other groups to ensure effective
communication, workflow, and overall success to deliver internal
project deliverables on schedule
- Ensure implementation of desirable design changes discovered in
tuning, usability, and in the field
- Provide accurate & realistic estimates for budget and schedule for
upcoming projects

Required Skills:
- Advanced Degree in Linguistics, Cognitive Psychology, or Human
Computer Interaction
- 5+ years of experience in Voice User Interface Design in Interactive
Voice Response (IVR)
- 2+ years of management experience
- Dynamic and decisive leader, who creates clear goals, fosters
accountability and ownership, leads by example and builds loyalty
- Team player that works well with others, both within the UI group
and across other groups
- Experience designing voice dialogs for telephony applications,
including creating call flow diagrams, detailed dialog design
specifications, and prompts
- Must be able to communicate effectively, written and verbal, be
decisive, pay attention to detail, take ownership, and engage on
multiple levels across functional groups and follow through
- Ability to translate information architecture & business
requirements into Voice Interaction Designs
- Experience in usability testing & user research
- Understanding of speech recognition technologies

Past Experience:
- Design interactions and create voice prompts to elicit appropriate
successful responses
- Design usability studies and recommend improvements based on observations
- Write voice prompts, design call flows, and coach voice talent
- Design, implement and report usability assessments, including focus
groups, recognition testing, and usability testing
- Experience with coaching voice talents & audio editing
- Knowledge of existing & future technologies relevant to voice applications

Nice to have:
- Fluent in Spanish, English
- An understanding of Speech Recognition Application Lifecycle Development

Application Deadline: 30-Nov-2007

Email Address for Applications: careers at logictree.com
Contact Information: Michael Halley <careers at logictree.com<

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PDF Version of Chomsky's Original 1955-56 Thesis

Chomsky's thesis draft (1955-56), the one he was preparing for publication as "The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory" is freely downloadable (436MB):
http://alpha-leonis.lids.mit.edu/chomsky/

The full document contains chapters that were left out of the LSLT
published version, e.g., an information-theoretic method to construct
linguistic categories, that Chomsky developed in conjunction with Peter Elias.
Información de Prof. Bob Berwick, distribuida por Linguist List
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