LINGUIST List 11.355

Fri Feb 18 2000

Jobs: Comp Ling/ NLP, Comp Ling/ Armenian

Editor for this issue: Lydia Grebenyova <lydialinguistlist.org>

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1. Alexander Franz, Comp Ling: NLP at Sony US Research Labs, San Jose, CA USA
2. Pierre Eggermont, Comp Ling: Armenian/ Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, Belgium

The Spoken Language Technology group at Sony's US Research
Laboratories, located in San Jose, CA, has an immediate opening for a
natural language processing specialist. The successful applicant will
perform research and development in robust language analysis and
spoken language translation.

Applicants should be creative problem solvers, strong team players,
and good communicators, and they should be self-motivated and
flexible.

Desired qualifications include experience in NLP, MT, search,
statistical language modelling, and speech recognition-NLP
integration. Applicants should hold an advanced degree (ideally PhD)
in NLP, CS, Computational Linguistics, or a related field.

Desired skills include strong programming skills in C/C++, and
familiarity with Unix, UNIX/Windows cross-platform development, and
software engineering.

Please send inquiries or resumes to:

Alexander Franz
Sony US Research Labs
Email: amfslt.sel.sony.com
Fax: +1 (408) 955-6848
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Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is the world's leading provider of
speech and language technology products, solutions, and services to businesses
and individuals worldwide. It is our mission to break down language barriers
through advanced translation technology and to enable people to interact by
voice in any language with the machines that empower them. Founded in 1987 L&H
has revolutionized the development and application of advanced speech and
language technologies. The company delivers the broadest array of consumer,
business, and industry offerings in automatic dictation, translation, sound
compression, voice synthesis, and industrial documentation.
As a NASDAQ and EASDAQ quoted company and headquartered in Ieper (Belgium), L&H
maintains offices in more than forty nations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East,
North America, and South America. With over 2000 employees - mainly linguists,
scientists and engineers - we generated an annual revenue of $344 million in
1999.
For the development of language and speech technology, L&H currently has an
opening in its International Headquarters in Ieper (Belgium) for a (m/f):


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 Language Specialist Armenian
 Speech and Language Technology
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Function:
* You will work within a multi-disciplinary team of linguists, engineers and
programmers on the development of software systems in the field of Speech,
Artificial Intelligence and Language.
* In the startup phase, your tasks will typically include: basic phonetic and
language study in view of technology development and assessment of third party
providers of data and/or technology.
* You will be involved in all aspects of the development life cycle and focus 
on system specification and design, implementation of linguistic rule sets,
creation of acoustic and lexical databases, grapheme to phoneme conversion,
prosodic analysis, software testing and quality control, preparation of
documentation.
* Training is given both on-the-job and through lectures and technical
documentation.
* Dedicated development environments are provided which allow language
specialists to focus on their content: formalizing linguistic knowledge.
* You will report to the group or project manager.

Profile:
* university degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent;
* (near) native Armenian speaker with a conversational level of English;
* solid grounding in linguistic theory;
* good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following areas:
speech processing, natural language processing (NLP), computational 
linguistics, programming, other languages;
* ability to work in a team and independently;
* IT literate;
* perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness;
* good social and communicative abilities;
* willingness to travel abroad for limited periods of time.


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If you are interested in this job opportunity and you believe to fulfill the
required profile, we have to meet each other.
 Please send your application letter and detailed resume to:


 Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
 Personnel Department

 Mailto:job-announcelhs.be

 attn. Mr. Pierre Eggermont
 Flanders Language Valley 50
 B-8900 Ieper
 BELGIUM
 Fax: int+ 32 (0)57.20.84.89


To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our homepage:
http://www.lhsl.com