32.3910, Jobs: Danish; English: Computational Linguistics: Computational Linguist, Cerence

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Subject: 32.3910, Jobs: Danish; English: Computational Linguistics: Computational Linguist, Cerence

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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 17:59:47
From: Thomas McDonnell [tom.mcdonnell at cerence.com]
Subject: Danish; English: Computational Linguistics: Computational Linguist, Cerence, Remote

 
University or Organization: Cerence 
Department: NLU
Web Address: https://www.cerence.com/#Earnings
Job Title: Computational Linguist
Job Rank: Rank Open

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Danish (dan)
                      English (eng) 

Description:

Cerence’s Natural Language Understanding (NLU) department is currently looking
for computer scientists or (computational) linguists as freelancers who could
extend and improve the NLU system for their respective language. Candidates
should be available for 20-40 hours per week, ideally during European business
hours. Our Machine-Learning-based NLU systems are AI (Artificial Intelligence)
components integrated into products used by millions of people all over the
world. The work will involve the development of grammars and lexical
resources, the correction of annotated data, and other adjustments of the
system as well as error analysis.

Tasks:
 - Revision and extension 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 the respective language

Requirements:
 - Bachelor or Master in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science,
Statistics, General Linguistics, or other relevant field
 - (Near-)native speaker Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German,
or Hebrew
 - Sound knowledge of regular expressions
 - Fluency in English (written and oral)

Preferred Skills:
 - Solid Unix skills (bash)
 - Affinity with statistics and Machine Learning
 - Programming skills in a scripting language such as Python or Perl
 - Familiarity with version-control software (ideally Git)

If you're interested in learning more about the position, please email your CV
to the application email provided below.



Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: tom.mcdonnell at cerence.com 
Contact Information:
	Thomas McDonnell 
	Email: tom.mcdonnell at cerence.com 


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