Senior Natural Language Understanding Engineer
Company: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Location: Burlington, MA
Posted on: June 20, 2017
Job Description:
Duties: Develop language resources for NLU, focusing on building
linguistic grammars for synthetic data creation. Develop and tune tools to
allow other NLU developers to create NLU systems. Perform grammar and data
engineering to bootstrap statistical NLU systems. Process and adapt user
data to improve the performance of NLU models. Perform error analysis
and work on creative solutions to increase NLU system accuracy. Understand
project- specific requirements regarding language resource coverage and
performance. Explore and implement new technologies for linguistic data
processing and annotation. Enhance techniques for rapid language development
for new languages and domains. Develop statistical Natural Language
Understanding (NLU) systems that can interpret and respond to spoken word
commands in the English and Mandarin languages using machine learning
algorithms. Analyze field data to develop new approaches as well as analyze
shortcomings, identify areas of improvement and enhancement of the state of
the art of NLU modeling process. Requirements: Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in
Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computational Linguistics, or a
related field and three (3) years of experience in design and
development of NLP systems; or in the alternative, a Bachelor’s degree (or foreign
equivalent) in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computational
Linguistics, or a related field and five (5) years of experience as indicated
above. Also requires demonstrated expertise (DE): designing and
developing bi- lingual or multi-lingual voice-control real-time applications;
DE performing machine learning, text mining, clustering, and
knowledge representation; DE leveraging JSpeech Grammar Format (JSGF), and
building statistical models including linear regression, hidden markov
models (HMM), and conditional random field (CRF) models; and DE programming in
Python, Java, and shell scripting on Unix and Linux operating
systems. To apply, submit resume referencing Job Code # 31275 to Jason
Hewitt, Nuance Communications, 1 Wayside Road, Burlington, Massachusetts
01803.
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