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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.

Keywords: Nuance Communications, Inc., Providence , Senior Natural Language Understanding Engineer, Other , Burlington, MA, Rhode Island


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