29.1607, Jobs: Italian; Portuguese; Computational Linguistics: NLU Specialist, Nuance Communications

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-1607. Fri Apr 13 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.1607, Jobs: Italian; Portuguese; Computational Linguistics: NLU Specialist, Nuance Communications

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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:11:15
From: Lea Mencner [lea.mencner at nuance.com]
Subject: Italian; Portuguese; Computational Linguistics: NLU Specialist, Nuance Communications, Turin, Italy

 
University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Job Location: Turin, Italy 
Web Address: http://www.nuance.com
Job Title: NLU Specialist Italian
Job Rank: Other

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Italian (ita)
                      Portuguese (por) 

Description:

As a NLU Specialist you will contribute to NLU development in automotive
projects: supervision and/or execution of the development of NLU Vocon buffers
for the Italian language. Participation to the activities on all the projects
related to NLU data procurement.

Responsibilities:
- Analysis of customer requirements for realizing NLU on embedded platforms.
- In accordance to customer requirement analysis, specifying data needed to
train NLU models.
- Collect, analyze, and process text and audio data in the target language to
build a target language model.
- Contribute to the development of tools and procedures with the scope of
optimize and simplify the activities of NLU data procurement and NLU contexts
development.
- Work with application development engineers and QA teams within the scope of
one or more customer projects to realize the project deliverables.
- Support our customers’ speech software teams to help them evaluate and
integrate Nuance NLU technology into successful products in an efficient way.
- Perform tasks related to securing and keeping the products, tools, and
processes that you are responsible for security

Qualifications:
- Number of Years of Work Experience: 1+, promising graduates are encouraged
to apply!
- Costumer focus.
- Native proficiency in Italian. Very good oral and written knowledge of the
English language.
- Experiences in programming (particularly Python and regular expressions).
- Team player.
- Ability to manage external part time workers.
- Good listener and communicator, who can represent Nuance professional
services at the customer’s premises or in written and oral communications with
customers.
- Positive "can-do" attitude, well organized, focusing on achieving results
cost-effectively.
- Willingness to travel.
- Ability to work independently, including at customer premises, but always as
part of the PS NLU team.
- Self-learner, with sense of initiative, and perseverance to deliver high
quality work.

Preferred Skills:
- Background in speech technology or language processing.
- Experience with Natural Language Understanding or statistical / semantic
language modelling.
- Advanced user of Windows and Linux platforms.
- Engineering practices in design, coding, and testing.
- Portuguese (PTP or PTB) as first or second language

Education: Master University degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer
Science, Information technology or a comparable field.



Application Deadline: 31-Jul-2018 (Open until filled)
	  
Contact Information:
	Lea Mencner 
	Email: lea.mencner at nuance.com 


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