11 January: fyi -- nlp, WA

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Computational Linguist - Text Processing

Job Description:

The successful candidate will assist in the creation, maintenance and
extension of a text/language processing component for multiple
languages used by Conversay's proprietary text-to-speech and automatic
speech recognition engines.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (including education):

- Thorough understanding of phonology and morphology.
- Basic C programming skills and/or experience with scripting
languages such as Perl.
- Advanced degree in linguistics or computer science (Ph.D. a strong
plus).
- Knowledge of other areas of linguistics and natural language
processing a strong plus.
- Familiarity with text normalization/tokenization issues a strong
plus.
- Knowledge of multiple languages a strong plus (especially
Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, German, Korean, Japanese,
Mandarin or Cantonese Chinese).
- Previous experience with speech applications a plus.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

- Extend current text/language processing component to adapt it to
different languages, focusing on the following areas: character
processing, written word and sentence boundary detection, text
normalization, tokenization, text-to-pronunciation, phonology,
morphology, lexical access.
- Create, extend and maintain new text/language processing modules in
the same areas listed above.
- Perform any other duties which may be assigned or necessary.

Supervision:

- Position does not involve supervision duties.

Decision Making:

- Must be able to work with limited supervision.
- Must be independent, self-motivated and responsible.

Interaction:

- Must be able to interact with linguists, programmers and speech
scientists.

Equipment:

- Position does not require knowledge of any specific equipment.

Physical Requirements:

- Sustain movements of the fingers, wrists, hands or arms (keyboard
work).
- Must have the ability to receive, express, and exchange detailed
information through oral and written communication.

Additional Information:

- Must be willing to relocate to the Seattle/Bellevue/Redmond (WA)
area.


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Email us at: SpeechTechnologistsCareers@conversay.com
Please be sure to specify the job title of interest.

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