30.937, Jobs: Chinese, Yue; English; Computational Linguistics: Scientist, Nuance Communications

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-937. Wed Feb 27 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.937, Jobs: Chinese, Yue; English; Computational Linguistics: Scientist, Nuance Communications

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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 15:01:56
From: Martin Forst [martin.forst at nuance.com]
Subject: Chinese, Yue; English; Computational Linguistics: Scientist, Nuance Communications

 
University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Department: Mobile/NLU
Job Location: , ---------------- (Telecommute)
Web Address: https://www.nuance.com/index.html
Job Title: NLP Consultant (Cantonese)
Job Rank: Scientist

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Chinese, Yue (yue)
                      English (eng) 

Description:

The job will consist of extending and improving our Machine-Learning-based
Cantonese NLU projects. The candidate will be developing grammars and lexical
resources, correcting annotated data, and tuning the system or tools in other
ways. The ideal availability of the consultant is 30-40 hours per week.

Responsibilities: 
- Building up Cantonese language resources to be used for Speech Recognition
and Natural Language Understanding software 
- Developing grammars for Natural Language Understanding 
- Enhance 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 Cantonese

Qualifications: 
- Master in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Statistics, or
Engineering
- (Near-)native speaker of Cantonese
- Solid Unix skills (bash) 
- Sound knowledge of regular expressions and a scripting language (e.g.
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) 

To apply, please send your CV to the application email provided below.



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


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