Corpora: job for lang. modelling consultant

From: Lex Olorenshaw (lexo@slt.sel.sony.com)
Date: Sat Jan 15 2000 - 02:06:21 MET

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    Hi,

    To seek additional candidates, Sony has extended the following opening
    beyond the original Jan. 15. timeline.

    Job Title: Language Modeling Consultant

    Job Decription:

    The Spoken Language Technology group at Sony in San Jose, CA, is seeking
    candidates to fill a full-time (40 hours/week) temporary (6 months) position
    in Language Modeling for Speech Recognition. Primary work centers around
    various tasks needed to develop statistical language models for a Hidden
    Markov Model based Continuous Speech Recognizer developed by Sony. You will
    work in Sony Electronics' main building in San Jose, in an R&D environment
    with flexible working hours.

    Skills:

    - Experience in grammar formalisms for natural language modeling
    - Experience in statistical language modeling techniques for continuous
      speech recognition.
    - Programming experience in C/C++, Perl, Tcl/Tk.
    - Knowledge of text corpora, including corpus generation and processing.
    - Well-versed in UNIX (Solaris)
    - Working knowledge of the CMU Language Modeling Toolkit or similar is
      a strong plus.
    - Prefer exposure to real-time search techniques for HMM-based recognizers.
    - Prefer Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computational Linguistics and/
      or Computer Science with emphasis in Language Technology.

    Pay:

    - Based on experience ($40-$70/hour).

    Contact:

    - Bob Bonomo, Sony Electronics, (415)955-6083, email: Bob.Bonomo@adecco.com

    Start Date:

    - Position is currently open. Preferable start date is no later than
      January 15. Possible extension of contract based on needs.



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