LINGUIST List 22.3251 Mon Aug 15 2011 Jobs: Speech Recognition: Research Engineer, Nuance Communications Editor for this issue: Kristen Dunkinson <kristenlinguistlist.org> The LINGUIST List strongly encourages employers to engage in non-discriminatory hiring practices. We urge employers not to discriminate on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. However, we have no means of enforcing these standards. Job seekers should pay special attention to language in ads regarding employment requirements and are encouraged to consult our international employment page at http://linguistlist.org/jobs/jobnet.html. This page has been set up so that people can report on the employment standards of various countries. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/posttolinguist.cfm Directory         1.     Recruitment Team , Automatic Speech Recognition: Research Engineer, Nuance Communications, MA, USA Message 1: Automatic Speech Recognition: Research Engineer, Nuance Communications, MA, USA Date: 15-Aug-2011 From: Recruitment Team <careersnuance.com> Subject: Automatic Speech Recognition: Research Engineer, Nuance Communications, MA, USA E-mail this message to a friend University or Organization: Nuance Communications Job Location: Massachusetts, USA Web Address: http://www.nuance.com Job Rank: Research Engineer Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Processing Description: Nuance is a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Our technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses, experience Nuance by calling directory assistance, getting account information, dictating patient records, telling a navigation system their destination, or digitally reproducing documents that can be shared and searched. Making each of those experiences productive and compelling is what Nuance is all about. Nuance is an equal opportunity employer. We are looking for a highly motivated individual with an appetite for problem solving to improve the post-speech-recognition text processing components of the eScription system. Responsibilities: - eScription ASR has some unique and state-of-the-art technology that converts spoken language transcription into formatted document * As part of improving this technology, the new researcher will work on formatting and post-processing of Speech Recognition output using various models including those created from feedback/corrections by medical transcriptionists - Candidate will be part of a small group of Speech and Text processing researchers in eScription ASR reporting to the ASR manager Specific duties include: - Understanding the difference between spoken language input and written form (document) output and the required transformation/translation - Converting unstructured text to structured documents using techniques derived from topic boundary detection and tracking - Implementing formatting techniques derived from HMM modeling, transformation based modeling or spoken language translation techniques to improve current formatting technology Qualifications: 1) Number of Years of Work Experience: 3 years (Research done in graduate school may be counted as Work) 2) Required Skills: - Research Experience: Hands on research experience in at least one of these areas is required: * HMM modeling, TBL, Language Modeling, Topic Detection * Spoken Language Translation, Statistical NLP * Machine Learning, speech and/or language model adaptation * Information Retrieval, Data mining, search algorithms - Exposure to Automatic Speech Recognition algorithms - such as acoustic and language modeling, decoding, adaptation etc is required - Programming expertise in one or more of these is essential: PERL, Python, JAVA, C++, shell scripting skills in Linux environment - A strong desire and skill towards "Applied" research, turning known techniques and algorithms into useful product features in a production environment are required 3) Preferred Skills: - Prior research experience in Computer Aided Medical Transcription using Speech Recognition and NLP is preferred - SQL and/or other Database related experience is a PLUS 4) Education: - M.S. or Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, EE or Mathematics (Ph.D. preferred) Application Deadline: 15-Nov-2011 Web Address for Applications: http://jobs-nuance.icims.com/jobs/6598/job Contact Information: Recruitment Team Email: careersnuance.com Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 15-Aug-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.