Senior Natural Language Understanding Engineer
Company: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Location: Burlington, MA
Posted on: July 24, 2017
Job Description:
Duties: Develop statistical Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
systems that can interpret and respond to spoken word commands in the
English and French languages using machine learning algorithms. Develop and
tune tools to allow other NLU developers to create NLU systems. Develop
language resources for NLU, focusing on building linguistic grammars for
synthetic data creation. Perform grammar and data engineering to
bootstrap statistical NLU systems. Process and adapt user data to improve
the performance of NLU models. Perform error analysis and work on
creative solutions to increase NLU system accuracy. Understand
project-specific requirements regarding language resource coverage and
performance. Explore and implement new technologies for linguistic data processing
and annotation. Enhance techniques for rapid language development
for new languages and domains. Analyze field data to develop new
approaches as well as analyze shortcomings, identify areas of improvement and
enhancement of the state of the art of NLU modeling process. Requirements: Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in
Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related field and three
(3) years of experience building and delivering statistical models for
Natural Language Understanding processing; or in the alternative, a
Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science,
Computational Linguistics, or a related field and five (5) years of experience
as indicated above. Also requires demonstrated expertise (DE): leveraging Python,
Java, and Groovy to develop voice-control applications; DE designing
ontologies adapted to specific NLU tasks, building statistical models for
NLU, and improving performance through iterative error analysis and
feature tuning; DE performing shell scripting on Linux and Unix operating
systems; and DE performing machine learning, text mining, clustering, and
knowledge representation for the development and performance enhancement
of statistical models for NLU. To apply, submit resume referencing Job Code # 34078 to Jason
Hewitt, Nuance Communications, 1 Wayside Road, Burlington, Massachusetts
01803.
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