29.29, Jobs: English; Spanish; computational Linguistics: NLU Consultant

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Subject: 29.29, Jobs:  English; Spanish; computational Linguistics: NLU Consultant

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Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2018 18:38:42
From: Martin Forst [martin.forst at nuance.com]
Subject: English; Spanish; computational Linguistics: NLU Consultant, Montreal, Canada

 
University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Department: Mobility
Job Location: Montreal, QC, Canada (Telecommute)
Web Address: http://www.nuance.com
Job Title: NLU Consultant
Job Rank: Consultant

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Required Language(s): English (eng)
                      Spanish (spa) 

Description:

Our Natural Language Understanding (NLU) team is currently looking for a
computational linguist with (near-)native language skills in European Spanish
and another one native in American English as full time contractors.
Candidates should be available for 40 hours per week, ideally in the EST time
zone. The job will consist of extending and improving our
Machine-Learning-based NLU projects by developing grammars and lexical
resources, by correcting annotated data, and by tuning the system or tools in
other ways. 

Tasks: 
- Building up language-specific resources to be used for Speech Recognition
software 
- Developing grammars for Natural Language Understanding
- Enrich the coverage of data or dictionaries
- Working on Machine Learning models for NLU, including training, evaluation
and error analysis 
- Text manipulation and data processing 
- Localization of data, online surveys, etc. into European Spanish

Requirements: 
- Bachelor or Master in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics,
Computational Linguistics or other relevant technical field
- Native speaker of American English / European Spanish
- Solid Unix skills (bash)
- Sound knowledge of regular expressions
- Sound programming skills (preferably in Java or Python)
- Familiarity with version-control software (git, svn)
- Background knowledge or some experience in NLU or supervised Machine
Learning 
- Fluency in English (written and oral) 

We offer: 
- Suitable training in relevant NLU projects
- Adequate compensation 
- Great team in an international working environment

Nuance is a great place to be -- at the cutting edge of Machine Learning for
Natural Language Processing. 

Does this sound interesting to you? 

Please send your (short) CV by email to the address below.



Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: martin.forst at web.de 
Contact Information:
	Dr. Martin Forst 
	Email: martin.forst at nuance.com 


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