29.3652, Jobs: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology: Language Engineer, Amazon

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Subject: 29.3652, Jobs: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology: Language Engineer, Amazon

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Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2018 13:47:35
From: Yakov Kronrod [kronrod at amazon.com]
Subject: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology: Language Engineer, Amazon, Massachusetts, USA

 
University or Organization: Amazon 
Department: Alexa Data Services
Job Location: Massachusetts, USA 
Web Address: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/teams/alexa-data-services
Job Title: Language Engineer
Job Rank: Programmer; Researcher

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 


Description:

Interested in Amazon Echo? Get excited thinking about how to represent and
utilize language knowledge to build complex systems? Alexa Data Services is
looking for a Language Engineer to join our team in the area of speech and
language data processing. We are seeking a candidate with strong experience in
formal linguistics, linguistic annotation, ontologies, taxonomies, semantic
schemas. You will support new feature development, extend existing annotation
schemas to cover new concepts, help a variety of teams better utilize language
data to create the next great utilities, and find creative ways to improve our
language data processing pipelines by diving deep on language and linguistics
concepts in practice.

In the role, you will:
- Contribute to the design of new features by extending existing annotation
schemas to cover new areas
- Design the natural language processing components of new Alexa experiences
and features by writing grammars and annotation specifications
- Write grammars and build FSTs
- Use modeling tools to bootstrap new functionalities
- Collaborate with scientists and other Language Engineers in developing
coherent and comprehensive meaning representation frameworks
-Utilize knowledge of formal linguistics to inform tool development for
language data processing
- Lead annotation efforts to test and solidify new representations
- Provide day-to-day coordination of data collection efforts, including
planning, scheduling, and reporting
- Measure and analyze accuracy and throughput of annotated data
- Handle competing requests from a range of data customers
- Collaborate with other Language Engineers, Data Specialists, and Data
Scientists in data analysis

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g. linguistics, psychology,
computational linguistics)
- 2+ years experience in computational linguistics, language data processing,
semantics, philosophy of language (or equivalent Graduate research work
experience)
- Experience with language annotation and other forms of data markup
- Experience with ontologies and other semantic meaning representation schemas
- 1+ years experience working with speech and text language data in multiple
languages
- Experience in Perl, Python, or another scripting language
- 2+ years experience with data analysis processes (R, Matlab, etc...)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD in a relevant field
-1+ years experience with data selection utilizing database queries (SQL)
- Deep expertise in building ontologies, taxonomies, and semantic meaning
representation frameworks
- Experience in writing grammars and building FSTs
- Experience with statistical language modeling
- Practical knowledge of version control and agile development
- Strong attention to detail
- Exceptional level of organization
- Fluency in a foreign language a plus
- Excellent communication, strong organizational skills and very detailed
oriented
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work
environment
- Willingness to support several projects at one time, and to accept
reprioritization as necessary
- Must be able to think creatively and possess strong analytical and problem
solving skills

To apply, please see the application link below. 

Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority /
Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation



Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/688890/language-engineer 
Contact Information:
	Dr. Yakov Kronrod 
	Email: kronrod at amazon.com 
	Phone: 508-410-0846 


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