31.1009, Internships: Clinical Ling; Cog Sci; Comp Ling; Ling Theories: Linguistic Engineer Intern, Nuance Communications, Aachen, Germany

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Subject: 31.1009, Internships: Clinical Ling; Cog Sci; Comp Ling; Ling Theories: Linguistic Engineer Intern, Nuance Communications, Aachen, Germany

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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 16:51:41
From: Sadaf Samim [sadaf.samim at hotmail.com]
Subject: Clinical Ling; Cog Sci; Comp Ling; Ling Theories: Linguistic Engineer Intern, Nuance Communications, Aachen, Germany

 

University or Organization: Nuance Communications
Web Address: https://jobs.nuance.com/

Linguistic Field(s): Clinical Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories

Voluntary
Internship Location: Aachen, Germany
Minimum Education Level: MA
Special Qualifications: Currently pursuing MS or PhD in Linguistics or Computational Linguistics. 


Description:
Nuance ist Pionier und Marktführer im Bereich der dialogorientierten
Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) für alle Arbeits- und Lebensbereiche. Wir liefern
Lösungen, die verstehen, analysieren und das Ziel verfolgen, die menschliche
Intelligenz zu bereichern und die Produktivität und Sicherheit zu erhöhen. Wir
besitzen jahrzehntelange Erfahrung in der Entwicklung und Anwendung von KI.

Nuance Communications is a software solutions company specialising in AI
powered technologies, premier voice and natural language Solutions. We have
over 8,500 employees across 48 offices around the world. We provide a service
to Large Global Enterprise customers.

Job Summary:

Full-time Linguistic Engineering / Speech Science internship for summer 2020
for students who pursue a postgraduate degree in Linguistics or Computational
Linguistics at the time of the internship. The successful applicant will have
strong coding and analytical skills, as well as experience with Natural
Language Processing (NLP) techniques. The student will report to one of our
senior staff, with oversight from a linguistic engineer manager. The intern
will meet at least 2 times per week with supervisor, and daily via e-mail & ad
hoc sessions. Work assignments will have duration of 2 to 4 weeks, and formal
feedback sessions will be given at half way and completion points.

Principal duties and responsibilities:

- Evaluating and improving design and quality of pronunciation and
morphological dictionaries for DTV
- Improving current approach for automatic generation of pronunciations of DTV
English named entities in Spanish
- Analysing DTV customer ASR bug reports and fixing issues
- Analysing product usage data to identify ASR DTV bugs and areas of possible
improvement of language modelling process
- Programming in Python
- Discussing and presenting ideas, progress, and results within the research
team

Required skills:

- Excellent programming skills (Python)
- Significant experience using Unix/Linux and shell scripting
- Solid written and oral communication skills in English
- Background in phonetics and phonology, speech technology, or natural
language processing
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- Education: Currently pursuing MS or PhD in Linguistics or Computational
Linguistics

Preferred skills:

- Professional development experience
- Proficiency in a Slavic language and/or Spanish is ideal but not required
- Industry or academic experience with large vocabulary speech recognition
- Experience in one or more of the following areas: machine learning,
statistical modelling


Application Deadline: Open until filled.

Web Address for Applications:https://jobs.nuance.com/job/aachen/linguistic-engineer-intern/843/15629863
Contact Information:
	Miss Sadaf Samim 
	Email: sadaf.samim at nuance.com
	Phone: +44 208 1325 848


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