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Senior Natural Language Understanding Engineer

Company: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Location: Burlington, MA
Posted on: June 20, 2017

Job Description:

Duties: Develop language resources for NLU, focusing on building linguistic

grammars for synthetic data creation. Develop and tune tools to allow other

NLU developers to create NLU systems. 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. Develop statistical Natural Language Understanding

(NLU) systems that can interpret and respond to spoken word commands in the

English and Mandarin languages using machine learning algorithms. 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, Electrical Engineering, Computational Linguistics, or a related

field and three (3) years of experience in design and development of NLP

systems; or in the alternative, a Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent)

in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computational Linguistics, or

a related field and five (5) years of experience as indicated above.

Also requires demonstrated expertise (DE): designing and developing bi-

lingual or multi-lingual voice-control real-time applications; DE

performing machine learning, text mining, clustering, and knowledge

representation; DE leveraging JSpeech Grammar Format (JSGF), and building

statistical models including linear regression, hidden markov models (HMM),

and conditional random field (CRF) models; and DE programming in Python,

Java, and shell scripting on Unix and Linux operating systems.

To apply, submit resume referencing Job Code # 31275 to Jason Hewitt,

Nuance Communications, 1 Wayside Road, Burlington, Massachusetts 01803.

Keywords: Nuance Communications, Inc., Peabody , Senior Natural Language Understanding Engineer, Other , Burlington, MA, Massachusetts


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