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lhs.be>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 countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North America, and South America. With over 2.000 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): ****************************************** Computational Linguist Italian Speech and Language Technology ****************************************** 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 Italian 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. ********************************************************** 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-announceMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
lhs.be>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 countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North America, and South America. With over 2.000 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): ****************************************** Linguist Danish Speech and Language Technology ****************************************** Position: As a Linguist you will: * be responsible for creation, extension, improvement and conversion of Lexical Databases for one or more languages. Your lexical databases will be an important building block for the development of speech synthesis and speech recognition technologies. * contribute to maintaining an overview of what lexical databases and text corpora exist and contributes to the acquisition of these if necessary; * contribute to maintaining and consolidating all linguistic resources available within L&H; * assist other L&H divisions and third parties in creating lexical databases with training, follow-up and QA; * document your methods, conventions and tools and the related Database evolutions; * formulate proposals for improving working methods and supporting tools; * report to and work closely with the team leader or group manager. Required Skills: * (near) native speaker of Danish and a good working knowledge of English; * university degree in linguistics, or equivalent; * experience with relational databases is an advantage; * strong interest in linguistics and phonetics; * IT-literate with a good working knowledge of Windows based applications; * have a logic and structured, problem solving approach; * able to work accurately in a consistent manner; * able to work independently and in a team; * a positive attitude. ********************************************************** 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-announceMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
lhs.be>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 countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North America, and South America. With over 2.000 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): *************************************************** Computational Linguist Cantonese Chinese Speech and Language Technology *************************************************** General Description: * 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. Required Skills: * university degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent; * (near) native Cantonese Chinese 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. ********************************************************** 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-announceMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue