28.3431, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Senior Research Scientist, Nuance Communications

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-3431. Wed Aug 16 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.3431, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Senior Research Scientist, Nuance Communications

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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 12:59:45
From: Lea Mencner [lea.mencner at nuance.com]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Senior Research Scientist, Nuance Communications, Aachen, Germany

 
University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Job Location: Aachen, Germany 
Web Address: www.nuance.com
Job Title: Senior Research Scientist - NLP/ Machine and Deep Learning
Job Rank: Other; Researcher; Scientist

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 


Description:

As a Senior Research Scientist you will work on applying machine / deep
learning to challenging natural language understanding research problems that
have concrete impact on exciting real-world applications. Application areas
include increased automation of clinical documentation improvement, expediting
the creation of structured medical reports from physician-patient interactions
and increasingly intelligent, dialog-enabled virtual assistants /
collaborators for automotive and healthcare domains.
 
Responsibilities:
- Conduct research and experimentation to solve problems related to Natural
Language Processing (NLP)
- Implement prototypes to test new ideas and algorithms
- Participate in the productization of NLP algorithms
- Analyze and improve performance of NLP algorithms
- Discussing and presenting ideas and results within the team, reporting
progress on a regular basis

Qualifications:
- Machine and deep learning (neural network)
- Natural Language Processing
- Strong programming and debugging skills; able to efficiently prototype
research ideas
- Experience assessing, analyzing and incrementally improving system
performance
- Ability to take initiative but also follow a plan and work well within a
team
- Good written and oral communication (English)
- Comfortable working in a Unix/Linux compute environment

Preferred Skills:
- Extensive experience in C++ and Python
- Experience with TensorFlow or Theano
- Experience in clinical language understanding
- Experience in research management

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



Application Deadline: 30-Nov-2017 
	  
Email Address for Applications: lea.mencner at nuance.com 
Contact Information:
	Lea Mencner 
	Email: lea.mencner at nuance.com 


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