24.1126, Jobs: Comp Ling; Text/Corpus Ling: Language Modeling Researcher, Nuance Communications, Aachen

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Subject: 24.1126, Jobs: Comp Ling; Text/Corpus Ling: Language Modeling Researcher, Nuance Communications, Aachen

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Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:15:48
From:  EMEA Jobs [emeajobs at nuance.com]
Subject: Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Language Modeling Researcher, Nuance Communications, Aachen, Germany or Burlington/Seattle, USA or Montreal, Canada

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University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Job Location: Aachen, Germany 
Job Rank: Language Modeling Researcher

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Description:

Company Profile:
At Nuance Communications, everything we do is focused on developing the most
human, natural, intuitive ways to use your voice to take command of
information. Our people and our technology have pioneered the highest
functioning speech software in the world, ceaselessly perfecting the ability
for machines to recognize and emulate the human voice. We design and deliver
technologies that intuitively link man, machine and the global storehouse of
knowledge to help companies and consumers work seamlessly and intelligently
with the world.

Job Reference: 8117
Job Title: Language Modeling Researcher
Role Type: Permanent
Job Location: Candidates could be based in Germany- Aachen /  USA – Burlington
or Seattle /  Canada - Montreal

Role Description:
Nuance is looking for LM Researchers to help with rolling out Dragon
technology for mobile speech recognition in various applications.The
responsibilities of this position will include gathering and processing of
appropriate text data, building and releasing statistical language models,
evaluating emerging systems, and assisting with research experiments aimed at
iterative improvements. This will be accomplished with the help of existing
tools and technologies but will require customization per application and data
source along with the creation of new software.

An LM Researcher will work closely with the LM Research Scientists, LM
Linguists and LM Engineers on the team. They will leverage LM Linguist
expertise to aid in processing, cleaning and conditioning data to be used for
training and updating models. They will use tools provided by LM Engineers for
general data processing and model building. The LM Research Scientists will
provide guidance on the recipes to use for building models, variations that
need to be evaluated and related experiments that need to be run and analyzed.
It is expected that over time, LM Researchers will gain intuition in proper
experiment design and that provided research specifications will require less
fleshing out. Additionally they will gradually gain expertise in using our
modeling toolkit.

An LM Researcher will be working predominantly in a Linux environment making
use of command line tools. They will create new scripts for processing data
and for gluing together existing tool

Skills and Experience Required:
-  The qualified candidate should strong working in a UNIX/Linux environment
and solid scripting skills (shell, Perl, Python).
-  The candidate must be well-organized and responsible and capable of working
efficiently as part of a group and independently with only moderate
supervision.
-  Working knowledge of C/C++ is a plus.
-  Candidates should minimally have a bachelor’s degree in computer science or
related field; a master's degree in computer science or related field or
equivalent industry experience preferred.
-  A background, courses, and/or knowledge in the fields of statistics,
machine learning, speech, corpus processing and/or linguistics are helpful.

Application Deadline: 06-May-2013 

Email Address for Applications: emeajobs at nuance.com 
Contact Information
	EMEA Jobs 
	Email: emeajobs at nuance.com 

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