29.286, Jobs: German; English; Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics: Speech Scientist, Nuance Communications

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Subject: 29.286, Jobs: German; English; Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics: Speech Scientist, Nuance Communications

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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:14:15
From: Lea Mencner [lea.mencner at nuance.com]
Subject: German; English; Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics: Speech Scientist, Nuance Communications, Ulm, Germany

 
University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Job Location: Ulm, Germany 
Web Address: http://www.nuance.com
Job Title: Speech Scientist - NLU (German and English)
Job Rank: Scientist

Specialty Areas: Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics 

Required Language(s): English (eng)
                      German (deu) 

Description:

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to NLU (Natural Language
Understanding) development in automotive projects with well-known automotive
customers. As a Speech Scientist you will supervise and execute the
development of NLU models for the US English and German language. You will
also participate in the activities on all the projects related to NLU data
procurement and act as a coordinator between NLU and UI development teams
within the customer project.

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 UI and application development engineers and QA teams within the
scope of one or more customer projects to realize the project deliverables.
- Act as a reference point and coordinate all NLU related tasks in the
project.
 
Qualifications:
- Very good linguistic skills 
- Good basic knowledge of computer science (use of spreadsheets, command line
shell, version control, web tools, programming, particularly Python and
regular expressions) 
- Effective communication and good organization skills
- Native or near-native proficiency in German. 
- Very good oral and written knowledge of the English language.

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.
- Skills in further languages e.g. French

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



Application Deadline: 31-Mar-2018 (Open until filled)
	  
Contact Information
	Lea 
	Email: Mencner 


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