29.2694, Jobs: Indonesian; Malay; Computational Linguistics: Consultant, Nuance Communications

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-2694. Thu Jun 28 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.2694, Jobs: Indonesian; Malay; Computational Linguistics: Consultant, Nuance Communications

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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 11:34:15
From: Martin Forst [martin.forst at nuance.com]
Subject: Indonesian; Malay; Computational Linguistics: Consultant, Nuance Communications

 
University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Department: Mobile/NLU
Job Location: Aachen, NRW, Germany (Telecommute)
Web Address: https://www.nuance.com/en-gb/index.html
Job Title: NLP Consultant (Indonesian/Malaysian)
Job Rank: Consultant

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Indonesian (ind)
                      Malay (mly) 
                      Malay (zlm) 

Description:

Our Natural Language Understanding (NLU) Department is currently looking for
computer scientists or computational linguists as freelancers who could add
Indonesian and/or Malaysian to the languages supported by our NLU system.
Candidates should be available for 20-40 hours per week, ideally during
European or North American business hours. The job will consist of porting
from English or other languages to Indonesian and/or Malaysian resources used
by our Machine-Learning-based NLU system, which is an AI (Artificial
Intelligence) component integrated into products used by millions of people
all over the world, and to improve them over time. The work will involve the
development of grammars and lexical resources, the correction of annotated
data, and other adjustments of the system. 

Tasks: 
- Creation of resources to be used for Speech Recognition software 
- Development of grammars for Natural Language Understanding 
- (Re)Training of Machine Learning models for NLU, including evaluation and
error analysis 
- Text manipulation and data processing 
- Localization of data, online surveys, etc. into Indonesian and/or Malaysian

Requirements: 
- Bachelor or Master in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics,
Computational Linguistics, or other relevant technical field 
- (Near-)native speaker of Indonesian and/or Malaysian
- Affinity with statistics and Machine Learning 
- Solid Unix skills (bash) 
- Sound knowledge of regular expressions and a scripting language such as
Python or Perl 
- Familiarity with version-control software (git, svn) 
- Fluency in English (written and oral) 

We offer: 
- Suitable training in interesting NLU projects 
- Adequate compensation 
- Flexible working hours 
- 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 a short CV by email to the address below.



Application Deadline: 29-Jul-2018 
	  
Email Address for Applications: martin.forst at nuance.com 
Contact Information:
	Dr. Martin Forst 
	Email: martin.forst at nuance.com 


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