11.872, Jobs: Comp Linguist (Italian/Danish/Cantonese) at L&H
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Subject: 11.872, Jobs: Comp Linguist (Italian/Danish/Cantonese) at L&H
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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:55:29 +0200
From: "Pierre Eggermont" <Pierre.Eggermont at lhs.be>
Subject: Comp Linguist (Italian) at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H)
2)
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:18:19 +0200
From: "Pierre Eggermont" <Pierre.Eggermont at lhs.be>
Subject: Comp Linguist (Danish) at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H)
3)
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:23:27 +0200
From: "Pierre Eggermont" <Pierre.Eggermont at lhs.be>
Subject: Comp Linguist (Cantonese Chinese) at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:55:29 +0200
From: "Pierre Eggermont" <Pierre.Eggermont at lhs.be>
Subject: Comp Linguist (Italian) at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H)
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is the world's leading
provider of speech and language technology products, solutions, and
services to businesses and individuals worldwide. It is our mission to
break down language barriers through advanced translation technology
and to enable people to interact by voice in any language with the
machines that empower them. Founded in 1987 L&H has revolutionized the
development and application of advanced speech and language
technologies. The company delivers the broadest array of consumer,
business, and industry offerings in automatic dictation, translation,
sound compression, voice synthesis, and industrial documentation. As
a NASDAQ and EASDAQ quoted company and headquartered in Ieper
(Belgium), L&H maintains offices in more than forty countries in
Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North America, and South America. With
over 2.000 employees - mainly linguists, scientists and engineers - we
generated an annual revenue of $344 million in 1999. For the
development of language and speech technology, L&H currently has an
opening in its International Headquarters in Ieper (Belgium) for a
(m/f):
******************************************
Computational Linguist Italian
Speech and Language Technology
******************************************
Function:
* You will work within a multi-disciplinary team of linguists, engineers and
programmers on the development of software systems in the field of Speech,
Artificial Intelligence and Language.
* In the startup phase, your tasks will typically include: basic phonetic and
language study in view of technology development and assessment of third
party providers of data and/or technology.
* You will be involved in all aspects of the development life cycle and focus
on system specification and design, implementation of linguistic rule sets,
creation of acoustic and lexical databases, grapheme to phoneme conversion,
prosodic analysis, software testing and quality control, preparation of
documentation.
* Training is given both on-the-job and through lectures and technical
documentation.
* Dedicated development environments are provided which allow language
specialists to focus on their content: formalizing linguistic knowledge.
* You will report to the group or project manager.
Profile:
* university degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent;
* (near) native Italian speaker with a conversational level of English;
* solid grounding in linguistic theory;
* good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following areas:
speech processing, natural language processing (NLP), computational
linguistics, programming, other languages;
* ability to work in a team and independently;
* IT literate;
* perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness;
* good social and communicative abilities;
* willingness to travel abroad for limited periods of time.
**********************************************************
If you are interested in this job opportunity and you believe to fulfill the
required profile, we have to meet each other.
Please send your application letter and detailed resume to:
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
Personnel Department
Mailto:job-announce at lhs.be
attn. Mr. Pierre Eggermont
Flanders Language Valley 50
B-8900 Ieper
BELGIUM
Fax: int+ 32 (0)57.20.84.89
To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our homepage:
http://www.lhsl.com
-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:18:19 +0200
From: "Pierre Eggermont" <Pierre.Eggermont at lhs.be>
Subject: Comp Linguist (Danish) at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H)
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is the world's leading
provider of speech and language technology products, solutions, and
services to businesses and individuals worldwide. It is our mission to
break down language barriers through advanced translation technology
and to enable people to interact by voice in any language with the
machines that empower them. Founded in 1987 L&H has revolutionized the
development and application of advanced speech and language
technologies. The company delivers the broadest array of consumer,
business, and industry offerings in automatic dictation, translation,
sound compression, voice synthesis, and industrial documentation. As
a NASDAQ and EASDAQ quoted company and headquartered in Ieper
(Belgium), L&H maintains offices in more than forty countries in
Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North America, and South America. With
over 2.000 employees - mainly linguists, scientists and engineers - we
generated an annual revenue of $344 million in 1999. For the
development of language and speech technology, L&H currently has an
opening in its International Headquarters in Ieper (Belgium) for a
(m/f):
******************************************
Linguist Danish
Speech and Language Technology
******************************************
Position:
As a Linguist you will:
* be responsible for creation, extension, improvement and conversion of Lexical
Databases for one or more languages. Your lexical databases will be an
important building block for the development of speech synthesis and speech
recognition technologies.
* contribute to maintaining an overview of what lexical databases and text
corpora exist and contributes to the acquisition of these if necessary;
* contribute to maintaining and consolidating all linguistic resources
available within L&H;
* assist other L&H divisions and third parties in creating lexical databases
with training, follow-up and QA;
* document your methods, conventions and tools and the related Database
evolutions;
* formulate proposals for improving working methods and supporting tools;
* report to and work closely with the team leader or group manager.
Required Skills:
* (near) native speaker of Danish and a good working knowledge of English;
* university degree in linguistics, or equivalent;
* experience with relational databases is an advantage;
* strong interest in linguistics and phonetics;
* IT-literate with a good working knowledge of Windows based applications;
* have a logic and structured, problem solving approach;
* able to work accurately in a consistent manner;
* able to work independently and in a team;
* a positive attitude.
**********************************************************
If you are interested in this job opportunity and you believe to fulfill the
required profile, we have to meet each other.
Please send your application letter and detailed resume to:
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
Personnel Department
Mailto:job-announce at lhs.be
attn. Mr. Pierre Eggermont
Flanders Language Valley 50
B-8900 Ieper
BELGIUM
Fax: int+ 32 (0)57.20.84.89
To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our homepage:
http://www.lhsl.com
-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:23:27 +0200
From: "Pierre Eggermont" <Pierre.Eggermont at lhs.be>
Subject: Comp Linguist (Cantonese Chinese) at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is the world's leading
provider of speech and language technology products, solutions, and
services to businesses and individuals worldwide. It is our mission to
break down language barriers through advanced translation technology
and to enable people to interact by voice in any language with the
machines that empower them. Founded in 1987 L&H has revolutionized the
development and application of advanced speech and language
technologies. The company delivers the broadest array of consumer,
business, and industry offerings in automatic dictation, translation,
sound compression, voice synthesis, and industrial documentation. As
a NASDAQ and EASDAQ quoted company and headquartered in Ieper
(Belgium), L&H maintains offices in more than forty countries in
Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North America, and South America. With
over 2.000 employees - mainly linguists, scientists and engineers - we
generated an annual revenue of $344 million in 1999. For the
development of language and speech technology, L&H currently has an
opening in its International Headquarters in Ieper (Belgium) for a
(m/f):
***************************************************
Computational Linguist Cantonese Chinese
Speech and Language Technology
***************************************************
General Description:
* You will work within a multi-disciplinary team of linguists, engineers and
programmers on the development of software systems in the field of Speech,
Artificial Intelligence and Language.
* In the startup phase, your tasks will typically include: basic phonetic and
language study in view of technology development and assessment of third
party providers of data and/or technology.
* You will be involved in all aspects of the development life cycle and focus
on system specification and design, implementation of linguistic rule sets,
creation of acoustic and lexical databases, grapheme to phoneme conversion,
prosodic analysis, software testing and quality control, preparation of
documentation.
* Training is given both on-the-job and through lectures and technical
documentation.
* Dedicated development environments are provided which allow language
specialists to focus on their content: formalizing linguistic knowledge.
* You will report to the group or project manager.
Required Skills:
* university degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent;
* (near) native Cantonese Chinese speaker with a conversational level of
English;
* solid grounding in linguistic theory;
* good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following areas:
speech processing, natural language processing (NLP), computational
linguistics, programming, other languages;
* ability to work in a team and independently;
* IT literate;
* perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness;
* good social and communicative abilities;
* willingness to travel abroad for limited periods of time.
**********************************************************
If you are interested in this job opportunity and you believe to fulfill the
required profile, we have to meet each other.
Please send your application letter and detailed resume to:
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
Personnel Department
Mailto:job-announce at lhs.be
attn. Mr. Pierre Eggermont
Flanders Language Valley 50
B-8900 Ieper
BELGIUM
Fax: int+ 32 (0)57.20.84.89
To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our homepage:
http://www.lhsl.com
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