LINGUIST List 30.1183
Thu Mar 14 2019
Jobs: Computational Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Semantics; Syntax: Language Engineer II, Amazon
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Date: 13-Mar-2019
From: Kathryn Hubbard Burr <kathburramazon.com>
Subject: Computational Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Semantics; Syntax: Language Engineer II, Amazon, Massachusetts, USA
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University or Organization: Amazon
Department: Alexa Entertainment
Job Location: Massachusetts, USA
Web Address: https://tinyurl.com/yxlunrdv
Job Title: Language Engineer II
Job Rank: Language Engineer II; Other
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Semantics; Syntax; Language Data Processing; Machine Learning Science
Description:
Are you a linguist with technical aptitude? Or are you an engineer with a passion for (human) languages and linguistics? Do you want to transform the way people enjoy music, radio, books and video? Come join the team that made Prime Music, Spotify, Pandora, Live radio, Audible books, Kindle books, Podcasts, Alexa on Fire TV and more available to Alexa customers. We are innovating on and changing the way our customers interact with media services and devices by building the speech and language solutions behind Amazon Echo and other Amazon products and services.
Alexa Music is looking for a Language Engineer with experience in linguistic annotation, ontologies, taxonomies and/or semantic schemas. In this role, you will support new feature development by extending existing annotation schemas to cover new concepts.
Specifically, the Language Engineer will:
- Design the natural language processing components of new Alexa experiences and features by writing grammars and annotation specifications
- Collaborate with scientists and other Language Engineers in developing coherent and comprehensive meaning representation frameworks
- Lead annotation efforts to test and solidify new representations
· Provide day-to-day coordination of data collection efforts, including planning, scheduling, and reporting
- Measure and analyze accuracy and throughput of annotated data
- Handle competing requests from a range of data customers
- Write grammars and build FSTs
- Use modeling tools to bootstrap new functionalities
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
- 3+ years experience in computational linguistics, language data processing, semantics, philosophy of language
- Experience with language annotation and other forms of data markup
- Experience with ontologies and other semantic meaning representation schemas
- Experience in Perl, Python, or another scripting language
Preferred Qualifications:
- Deep expertise in building ontologies, taxonomies, and semantic meaning representation frameworks
- Comfortable working with speech and text language data in multiple languages
- Experience in writing grammars and building FSTs
- Experience with statistical language modeling
- Practical knowledge of version control and agile development
- Familiarity with database queries and data analysis processes (SQL, R, Matlab, etc.)
- Excellent communication, strong organizational skills and very detailed oriented
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
- Willingness to support several projects at one time, and to accept reprioritization as necessary
- Able to think creatively and possess strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Exceptional level of organization
To apply, please see the application link provided below.
Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age
Application Deadline: This position has been filled.
Web Address for Applications: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/781598/language-engineer-ii
Contact Information:
Kathryn Burr
Email: kathburr
amazon.com Page Updated: 13-May-2019