27.4222, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Senior Research Scientist, Nuance Communications

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Subject: 27.4222, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Senior Research Scientist, Nuance Communications

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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 11:46:27
From: Lea Mencner [EMEAjobs at nuance.com]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Senior Research Scientist, Nuance Communications, Aachen, Germany OR Montreal, Canada

 
University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Job Location: Aachen, Germany OR Montreal, Canada, Germany 
Web Address: www.nuance.com
Job Title: Senior Research Scientist, Language Modeling
Job Rank: Other; Programmer; Researcher; Scientist

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 


Description:

Nuance Communications seeks a researcher/programmer to understand the usage
patterns of Nuance customers via big data analysis; build models to improve
core ASR accuracy of individual products; contribute to the model building
codebase, including our deep learning toolkit; and stay current on
state-of-the-art algorithms in related fields.
 
Responsibilities:
- Conducting experiments to assess the quality of language models and study
the effect of language modeling variants and ancillary natural language
processing technology (such as auto-punctuation) on speech recognition
accuracy.
- Identifying, optimizing, and clustering training data.
- Analyzing product usage data in order to identify areas of possible
improvement or 
enhancement of language modeling process, method, and NLP techniques.
- Implementation of improved training recipes and NLP prototypes utilizing
C/C++, Perl, and Python.
- Discussing and presenting ideas and results within the team, reporting
progress on a regular basis
- Improving language modeling performance in multiple languages

Qualifications:
 
Required Skills:
- Background in speech technology, statistical machine translation, or natural
language processing
- Excellent programming skills (C/C++, Python) with knowledge of standard data
structures and algorithms
- Experience using Unix/Linux and shell scripting
- Solid written and oral communication skills (English)

Preferred Skills:
- Explicit (industry or academic) experience with large vocabulary speech
recognition
- Expertise in one or more of the following areas: machine learning,
statistical modeling, deep learning, numerical optimization, data mining,
algorithm design, software engineering, computational linguistics
- Experience in research management

Education: Advanced degree (PhD) in computer science, computational
linguistics, applied mathematics, or a related field.



Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Web Address for Applications: EMEAjobs at nuance.com 
Contact Information:
	Lea Mencner 
	Email: EMEAjobs at nuance.com 


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