10 May: fyi -- NLP, Canada
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interface solutions to enhance the user experience of wireless and
consumer technologies. Zi's product portfolio dramatically improves
the usability of mobile phones, PDA's, gaming devices and set-top
boxes and the applications on them. Zi supports their strategic
partners and customers from offices in Asia, Europe and North
America. A publicly traded company, Zi Corporation is listed on the
Nasdaq National Market (ZICA) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (ZIC).
Linguistics Team Leader
Reporting to the Manager - Linguistics, this position located in Calgary,
Alberta, Canada involves the professional application of skills and
knowledge to both direct the work of colleagues and act as an individual
contributor to develop information structures and formal algorithms for
language processing.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Provide guidance and direction for the linguistics team to meet a
dynamic delivery schedule
- Provide accurate and realistic estimates for budget and schedule
- Plan and allocate resources for existing and new projects
- Formalize, review and document linguistic practices and processes to
ensure traceability and quality
- Fulfill internal and external information and/or product requests
- Define and work with language characteristics and behavior across the
full spectrum of language types in order to guide the development of
language databases and software which processes written and spoken text
- Participate in further developing the intelligence of and applications
of the linguistic databases
Skills and Qualifications:
- Minimum Masters degree in Linguistics. PhD is preferred.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
- Supervisory experience in an academic or professional setting
- Demonstrated research and professional experience in Corpus Linguistics,
Computational Linguistics and Lexicography, with published articles in any
of these fields
- Strong background in theoretical linguistics
- Documentation and business communication skills in English
- Demonstrated research / professional experience with languages of varied
families; a specialty in Indic or African languages would be advantageous
- Exposure to non-Latin writing systems such as Arabic and CJK languages
- Strong computer skills (especially Microsoft, Access and Excel)
- Exposure to project management concepts
- Relocation is provided
The Zi culture is constantly evolving, highly entrepreneurial and
multi-cultural. We offer our employees the freedom to grow their
skills. We invest in our employees; we promote from within, and we
provide competitive compensation.
Application Deadline: (Open until filled)
Application Address:
Zi Corporation, Attn: Human Resources
Suite 2100, 840 - 7 Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta T2P 3G2
Canada
Email Address for Applications: employment@zicorp.com
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