30.2470, Jobs: Korean; Computational Linguistics: NLU Specialist, Nuance Communications

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-2470. Tue Jun 18 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.2470, Jobs: Korean; Computational Linguistics: NLU Specialist, Nuance Communications

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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 13:25:48
From: Lea Mencner [lea.mencner at nuance.com]
Subject: Korean; Computational Linguistics: NLU Specialist, Nuance Communications, Merelbeke, Belgium

 
University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Job Location: Merelbeke, Belgium 
Web Address: https://www.nuance.com/index.html
Job Title: NLU Specialist (Automotive) - 12 months' contract
Job Rank: NLU Specialist; Other

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Korean


Description:

This is an exciting opportunity for a NLU Specialist to contribute to NLU
development in automotive projects: execution of the development of NLU Vocon
buffers for the Korean language, and possibly contributing to development in
other languages.

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 in
order 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 project team members, application development engineers and QA
teams within the scope of one or more customer projects to realize the project
deliverables.
- Support our customers’ speech software teams to help them evaluate and
integrate Nuance NLU embedded technology into successful products in an
efficient way.

Qualifications: 
- Minimum years of work experience: 0-1 years
- Ideally (near) native proficiency in Korean language.
- Good oral and written knowledge of the English language.
- Experiences in programming with Python and regular expressions.
- Team player, good listener and communicator,
- Positive "can-do" attitude, well organized, focusing on achieving results
cost-effectively.
- Ability to work independently, but always as part of the NLU models team.
- Self-learner, with sense of initiative, and perseverance to deliver high
quality work.

Preferred skills:
- Computational linguistics knowledge.
- Any background in speech technology or language processing.
- Knowledge (even basic) of other Asiatic languages (Thai, Mandarin,
Cantonese,…).

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

To apply, please see the application link provided below.



Application Deadline: 31-Aug-2019 (Open until filled)
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://jobs.nuance.com/job/merelbeke/nlu-specialist-12-months-contract-automotive/843/12233119 
Contact Information:
	Lea Mencner 
	Email: lea.mencner at nuance.com 


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