LINGUIST List 28.1810

Thu Apr 13 2017

Jobs: Danish; Finnish; Norwegian Bokmål; Swedish; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax: Lionbridge Tampere

Editor for this issue: Amanda Foster <amandalinguistlist.org>


Date: 13-Apr-2017
From: Elena Pirttisalo <elena.pirttisalolionbridge.com>
Subject: Danish; Finnish; Norwegian Bokmål; Swedish; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax: Lionbridge Tampere
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University or Organization: Lionbridge Tampere
Department: Machine Intelligence team
Job Location: , ---------------- (Telecommute)
Web Address: http://www.lionbridge.com/
Job Title: Linguists and computational linguists, Nordic languages

Job Rank: Other

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax

Required Language(s): Danish (dan)
                            Finnish (fin)
                            Norwegian Bokmål (nob)
                            Swedish (swe)

Description:

** This position has been filled.

Join our multi-cultural team working on the cutting edge Machine Intelligence projects! We are looking for native speakers of Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish for our ongoing and future projects. We are looking for both general linguists and computational linguists for different roles in these projects.

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s or Master’s in general linguistics or related studies
Or
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computational Linguistics or Bachelor’s or Master’s in general linguistics and studies in Computational Linguistics

- Native language: Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish
- Strong linguistic comprehension
- Experience in annotation (POS)/syntax (grammar dependency) related work is a plus
- Programming skills are a plus
- Great attention to detail while working efficiently
- Good organizational and analytical skills
- Good communication skills
- Excellent English skills, other language skills are a plus
- Possibility to work part-time (around 30 hours/week) on freelancer basis.

Projects description: miscellaneous projects starting from POS annotation or annotation of syntactic dependencies in sentences to language engine development
Projects schedule: differs for different languages

Please send the application with the hourly rate request and your CV to the application email below.

Lionbridge enables more than 800 world-leading brands to increase international market share, speed adoption of products and effectively engage their customers in local markets worldwide. Using our innovative cloud technology platforms and our global crowd of more than 100,000 professional cloud workers, we provide translation, digital marketing, global content management and application testing solutions that ensure global brand consistency, local relevancy and technical usability across all touch points of the customer lifecycle. Based in Waltham, Mass., Lionbridge maintains solution centers in 28 countries.

Application Deadline: This position has been filled.

Email Address for Applications: jobs.tamperelionbridge.com
Contact Information:
Resource coordinator Elena Pirttisalo
Email: elena.pirttisalolionbridge.com

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