1 February: fyi -- nlp, NJ

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This is a hands-on development (non-management) position.

Job Description:

Responsible for designing, developing and improving solutions
including but not limited to IVR, Voice Reco, and Speaker Verification
applications. Work closely with software development team to ensure
coordination of linguistic and technical requirements; as well as work
with them through the full life cycle of development from design,
development, coding, documentation, testing, installation, and
maintenance.

Job Responsibilities:
- To design, implement and test components of applications as assigned,
and according to defined application requirements.
- Prepare algorithms for segmentation
- Analyzing parts of speech that will be integrated into a multilingual
text-based linguistic analysis system.
- Provide expertise of methods for testing the grammar rules to ensure
adequate coverage and quality.
- To participate in group application design activities.
- To work closely w/ QA team and to spend a proportion of time
developing test scripts using an automated test tool.
- To work w/ the Documentation team and to spend a proportion of time on
systems documentation.

Job Requirements:
- Advanced degree in Linguistics
- --- Linguistic theory: theory (phonology, syntax, semantics,
pragmatics, acoustic phonetics.
- --- Computational Linguistics.
- --- Application area: Machine Translation, Information Retrieval,
Speech Process, Text Mining.
- Proficiency in procedural programming language (C, C++, Java)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Self-Initiative to set and accomplish goals consistent with the
organization's mission statement
- Ability to interact effectively with customers and other team members
- 2-5 years of experience in computational linguistics
- Foreign language knowledge is beneficial

While working in speech recognition, linguistic knowledge is used to:
- Collect text data
- Decide on "normal" forms
- Provide acoustic data
- Improve dictionary
- Create rewrite rules for formatting
- Use part-of-speech info to improve recognition
- Develop algorithms to compare input & models
- Write morphological analyzers
- Transcribe new words phonetically

Code: ling
Resume to: randy@safaristaffing.com

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