28.5375, Jobs: Hindi; Malayalam; Tamil; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics: Linguist, Lionbridge

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Subject: 28.5375, Jobs: Hindi; Malayalam; Tamil; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics: Linguist, Lionbridge

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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 16:32:46
From: Terris Daily [terris.daily at lionbridge.com]
Subject: Hindi; Malayalam; Tamil; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics: Linguist, Lionbridge, Massachusetts, USA

 
University or Organization: Lionbridge 
Department: GSMI
Job Location: Massachusetts, USA 
Web Address: http://www.lionbridge.com
Job Title: South Indian Linguists Needed for Voice Recognition Project
Job Rank: Linguist

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Speech/Text Data

Required Language(s): English (eng)
                      Hindi (hin) 
                      Malayalam (mal) 
                      Tamil (tam) 

Description:

Lionbridge is currently seeking linguists in the Greater Boston area for
linguistic work related to voice recognition products. Languages currently
needed:
- Tamil (with fluency in English India and Hindi)
- Malayalam (with fluency in English India and Hindi)
- Hindi (with fluency in English India)

Work Location:  Work-From-Home within the Greater Boston area
Job Status: Employment, Hourly, Full-time, Temporary (candidates must reside
and be authorized to work in the United States)
Duration of Assignment: 9 months (Full-time, 40 hours/week)

Training:
3 weeks of on-site training is required at the beginning of the assignment at
a designated location in the greater Boston area. Actual work will begin once
training is complete. 

Requirements:
- Native speaker fluency in Malayalam, Tamil or Hindi. All speakers must have
fluency in English India and Hindi
- Cultural knowledge of Indian habits
- Degree in Computer Science, an advantage
- Previous experience working on lexicons, helpful
- Experience in machine learning is a plus
- Comfortable working under pressure to meet deadlines
- Experience working in a global team environment
- Demonstrated linguist experience required

Primary Task Focus:
Linguistic work for the development of a personal assistant related to voice
recognition products.

Responsibilities Include:
- Supporting the development of lexica 
- Large linguistic data review, corpus work; different tasks related to
guidelines (provided by Lionbridge)
- Annotations to parts of speech
- Creating dictionaries to improve speech recognition
- Tagging, improvements/QA of lexica

Deliverables:
Word lists, lexical contents, spelling and grammar rules, languages specific
guidelines, dictionaries

To Apply for this Position:
Please send us your complete resume in English to the email address below,
including:
- Your availability to start the project
- Current location (city/state) 
- Hourly rate expectations



Application Deadline: 26-Jan-2018 
	  
Email Address for Applications: jobs.gsmi at lionbridge.com 
Contact Information:
	Recruiting Manager Terris Daily 
	Email: terris.daily at lionbridge.com 
	Phone: 978.964.1459 


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