LINGUIST List 9.1407

Fri Oct 9 1998

Jobs: Computational Ling

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  • Richard Sproat, Computational Ling at Lucent Technologies
  • Richard Sproat, Text-to-Speech Language Development Manager

    Message 1: Computational Ling at Lucent Technologies

     Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 10:20:41 -0400
    From: Richard Sproat <rwsresearch.bell-labs.com>
    Subject: Computational Ling at Lucent Technologies


    Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies is interested in hiring qualified candidates with a background in Computational Linguistics to expand its research effort in its Dialogue Systems Research and Language Modeling Research departments.

    Bell Labs has an active research program in areas related to human-machine communication including: automatic speech recognition and understanding; human-machine dialogue; text-to-speech synthesis; document image analysis and conversion; media conversion (e.g. fax-to-speech). All of this work is done at the main Bell Labs facility in Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA.

    We are particularly interested in interviewing candidates with research experience in the following areas.

    - Statistical language modeling - Parsing - Text summarization

    WE ANTICIPATE HAVING ABOUT 3 OPENINGS.

    CV's and letters of interest can be sent to:

    Joseph Olive, Department Head Language Modeling Research Department Room 2d-437 Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA FAX: +1-908-582-3306 E-mail: jpobell-labs.com

    Lucent Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer

    Message 2: Text-to-Speech Language Development Manager

     Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 10:25:27 -0400
    From: Richard Sproat <rwsresearch.bell-labs.com>
    Subject: Text-to-Speech Language Development Manager


    Lucent Technologies is seeking applicants for the position of

    Text-to-Speech Language Development Manager

    in its newly formed Lucent Speech Solutions organization. This organization has a range of responsibilities including advanced product development, product support, sales, and marketing for Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) products.

    The key responsibilities of the Manager will including managing:

    - Development of TTS systems for new languages, dialects and voices including:

    a) development of concatenative inventories for the new language/dialect/voice

    b) development of models of prosody (segmental duration, intonation)

    c) development of text-analysis modules for the new languages/dialects

    - Continued development and maintenance of TTS systems that are already included in Lucent's product line (including, or soon to include: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese, Russian)

    Naturally it is understood that no individual will have both the technical skills required plus sufficient mastery of all of the present or future languages supported in the product line. It is therefore anticipated that part-time consultants with the necessary linguistic knowledge will be hired to work under the guidance of the Manager. This guidance will include training the language specialist to use our suite of tools (including tools for segmental duration analysis, concatenative inventory construction and lexical/text analysis), and supervising the specialist's work.

    While knowledge of a specific language or languages is therefore not required, the following skills are essential:

    - A broad knowledge of many areas of linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology and computational linguistics.

    - A good "feel" for language. The Manager will often be called upon to provide guidance with linguistic problems in a language that he or she does not know: he or she must therefore be able to ask the right kinds of questions of the language specialist in order to be able to suggest approaches towards a solution.

    - Excellent computational skills, including knowledge of scripting languages (awk, perl ...). A knowledge of C or C++ is a definite bonus.

    - The ability and willingness to learn new tools.

    - Excellent interpersonal skills, and the ability to supervise others.

    A PhD in Linguistics or a related discipline is required.

    The Manager will work closely with members of the research staff at Bell Laboratories both in the initial phase when he or she is learning to use our tools, and at later phases when it is hoped that he or she will help contribute to the further development of our toolset.

    Applicants should send CV's and statements of interest to

    Joseph Olive, Department Head Language Modeling Research Department Room 2d-437 Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA FAX: +1-908-582-3306 E-mail: jpobell-labs.com

    Interested candidates are encouraged to familiarize themselves with our approach to Text-to-Speech synthesis. Technical information, a subset of our research papers, and on-line demos of some of our systems, can be found at our website: http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts.

    It is generally agreed that speech and natural language technology is going to be a major growth area during the next decade. The Lucent Speech Solutions organization is well-positioned to capitalize on that growth. This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled and highly motivated individual to secure a future for him- or herself in this growing field.

    Lucent Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer