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Institution/Organization: LMU
Department: Graduate School Language & Literature
Web Address: http://www.lipp.lmu.de

Level: PhD

Duties: Research

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics

Description:

The Class of Language of the new Graduate School Language & Literature Munich
at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität is offering two doctoral student positions
in the doctoral program „Theory of Language and Applied Linguistics“ (TV-L
E13, 50%, 2,5 years with evaluation after the first year; start of employment
October 2013) for excellent candidates to work on a linguistic research
project in one of the program’s research fields: ‘Phenomenology of Language’,
‘Empirical study of natural languages and its methodology’ ‘Language and
Society’, ‘Language Theory and Language Modelling’.

Doctoral students enjoy excellent conditions in an interdisciplinary
environment with around 50 participants working on a broad variety of
linguistic topics. The program is research oriented and has a systematically
structured interdisciplinary curriculum. It offers an individual and intensive
advisory program for doctoral candidates, an international guest-speaker
program, financial support for international research projects as well as a
variety of courses to strengthen personal and analytical skills.
Double-degrees within the framework of ‘Cotutelle de Thèse’ are supported.
Application requirements are a university degree with a grade above average
(Magister Artium, diploma, state board examination, Master of Arts (‘with
thesis’), Maîtrise, Laurea, etc.) in a linguistic subject, very good knowledge
of German (courses are held in German), working knowledge of English and at
least one other language.

We especially welcome students with degrees from outside of Germany. Students
are expected to participate actively in the program and to have a good ability
to work in teams.

Application Deadline: 15-Jun-2013

Web Address for Applications: http://www.lipp.lmu.de/Bewerbung

Contact Information:
Dr. Caroline Trautmann
trautmann@lipp.lmu.de

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4th Brazilian Colloquium on Speech Prosody

Date: 16-Oct-2013 – 24-Oct-2013
Location: Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
Contact: Miguel Oliveira
Contact Email: miguel@fale.ufal.br
Meeting URL: http://www.fale.ufal.br/posgraduacao/ppgll/ivcbpf/eng/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Meeting Description:

The Brazilian Colloquium on Speech Prosody biannual series started with the
goal of bringing together a growing community of Brazilian researchers
interested in the interdisciplinary field of prosody. Together with the
parallel event series Brazilian Prosody School, the Colloquium has been
establishing itself as an important venue for presenting original research
results to an audience of interdisciplinary researchers. Now, in its fourth
edition, the Colloquium will take place in Maceió, located in beautiful
northeastern Brazilian coast, in an effort to bring together more established
research groups to emergent groups from this area. In this edition, the
Colloquium will host, for the first time, a satellite event dedicated to offer
12-hour courses taught by internationally acclaimed researchers in nine areas
that have an interface with speech prosody, such as language teaching,
forensic science, and emotion research, among others. With this edition, the
Organizing Committee hopes to reinforce the Colloquium’s position as the most
important event in the field of speech prosody in Brazil and hopes to attract
international attention to the research in the field of speech prosody
developed in Brazil.

Colloquium: October, 16-18
Each day will start with a keynote lecture, followed by presentation sessions in both the mornings and afternoons, organized by topic. There will be overlap between sessions so that participants can attend all presentations.

Satellite event: October, 21-24
The satellite event will host nine 12-hour courses on interdisciplinary topics. The target audience includes, but is not limited to, students in Linguistics, Speech Therapy, Law and Computer Science graduate programs. A maximum of 30 places will be available for each course.

Course 01: Prosody and Conversation

Instructor: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

Syllabus: This course will introduce students to a perspective on prosody as a resource for conducting everyday conversation. Readings will deal with, e.g., manipulations of pitch, loudness, sound and syllable length, rhythm, tempo, pause, voice quality and phonation as they are deployed in the production of talk-in- interaction for dealing with four conversational tasks: turn construction, turn-taking, action formation and sequence organization. The focus will be on English prosody, with isolated examples from German and Finnish.

Keywords: phonetics, pragmatics, conversation analysis, sociology, social communication, human-machine interaction.

Course 02: Prosody and Discourse

Instructor: Anne Wichmann

Syllabus: the course will cover the following subjects: (i) prosody and text structure – cohesion, topic structure and parentheticals; (ii) prosody and information structure, prosody and pragmatic implicature and discourse  markers and grammaticalisation processes; (iii) Variation – speaking styles and social and regional variation and (iv) applications of discourse prosody – speech technology (ASR), clinical (a.g. autism, hearing impairment) and forensic (e.g. conflict resolution, courtroom).

Keywords: phonetics, discourse analysis, text linguistics, pragmatics, linguistic variation, social communication, sociology, speech technology, law and healthcare.

Course 03: Audiovisual prosody in Human-Human and Human-Machine Interactions

Instructor: Marc Swerts

Syllabus: Prosody, including features like intonation, rhythm and pause, are used by speakers and listeners for a whole range of communicative functions.  In addition, it has been shown that facial expressions and other forms of nonverbal communication, can serve similar purposes as well.  Indeed, in most of their spoken interactions, dialogue partners can both hear and see each other.  Therefore, it is only natural that interlocutors not only pay attention to information they exchange through the auditory channel, but also take into account visual cues.  In this course, I will present results of research that show how audiovisual expressions (prosodic cues in combination with facial expressions) are exploited for highlighting important pieces of information, for signaling whether a dialogue is running smoothly or not, for marking emotionally sensitive information and even for trying to deceive other people.  These results are primarily based on studies of human-human intera!
ctions, where specific techniques were used that ensure that the analysed data were ecologically valid.  In addition, I will discuss how audiovisual expressions are useful for improving the naturalness and efficiency of human-machine interactions, as an interface between the human and the machine.

Keywords: phonetics, visual prosody, emotion, expressiveness, conversation analysis, pragmatics, speech technology, telecommunication engineering, human-machine interaction.

Course 04: Prosody-Syntax Interface in a Laboratory Phonology Approach

Instructor: Mariapaola d’Imperio

Syllabus: The goal of this course is to prepare to engage in experimental investigations of questions related to linguistic theory, focusing on the prosody/syntax/information structure interface.  This course will deal with major aspects of prosody/syntax interface in Romance languages, with a special look at Italian and French.  Both phonological and phonetic aspects of phrasing will be presented.  Different phonetic and psycholinguistic studies on prosody and parsing will also be presented.  Information structure (Focus and Contrastive Topic) will also be covered in this course.  Hands-on activities will be conducted with the students, such as prosodic break annotation and resynthesis, with the aim to give them the tools to perform independent research on the production and perception of phrasing.  The minicourse will consist of 4 2-hour lectures, followed by 1-hour hands-on exercises (we will mainly use Praat and R).

Keywords: syntax, speech technology, speech synthesis, telecommunication engineering, automatic speech recognition.

Course 05: Prosody and Emotions/Attitudes

Instructor: Albert Rilliard

Syllabus: This course will address different aspects of prosodic variation linked to expressive behaviours during face-to-face communication. Starting with the description of acoustic parameters found in expressive voice, and the code that ties these parameters to meaning, the course aims at distinguishing between different levels of affects that have increasingly stronger ties with languages. Thus the influence of language on social affects is reviewed.  Cross-cultural studies are described in order to give an overview of the complexity of prosodic expressivity. Finally, a few experimental paradigms are detailed, in order to show how they can help scientists to evaluate the performance of a given function in prosodic variations. Having a computer, with the R and PRAAT software installed, may help for demonstrations.

Keywords: phonetics, visual prosody, emotion, expressiveness, social communication, linguistic variation, telecommunication engineering, speech technology, human-machine interaction.

Course 06: Prosody and Typology

Instructor: Carlos Gussenhoven

Syllabus: The course will be divided in four parts: (i) introduction to the autosegmental-metrical model (phonology and phonetics, tones and targets, targets and interpolations, lexical and intonational tones); (ii) word prosody, stress and tone in word prosodic structures (only stress, only tone, and both stress and tone), two meanings of pitch accent (only one of which is meaningful), pitch accents assigned to the phrase; (iii) languages with little or no prosodic structure (there are different ways of having no word prosody. French appears to have more structure than Malay. Lack of contrastive word prominence and experimental ”stress deafness”. Languages with minimal prosodic structure); (iv) language with both stress and tone (are languages that have both word word stress and lexical tone restricted to contact languages? The case of European stress-and-tone languages).

Keywords: phonology, typology, lignuistic theory, linguistic description and linguistic variation.

Course 07: Prosody and Law

Instructor: Lorna Fadden

Syllabus: In this four-part program on prosody and law, Fadden will discuss areas of her own research as well as that of her colleagues in forensic linguistics, focussing on the prosodic properties of speech as it occurs in legal discourse. Part I: prodosy and deception; part II: prosody and police interviews; part III: prosody and sociolinguistic variation and part IV: prosody and courtroom discourse.

Keywords: phonetics, law, criminal investigation, discourse analysis, sociolinguistic variation, sociology, social communication, speech technology.

Course 08: Prosody and Speech Therapy (in Portuguese)

Instructor: Zuleica Camargo

Descrição: Este curso tem como objetivo ilustrar, por meio de registros de fala, a importância da descrição clínica da qualidade vocal com base em correlações das esferas acústica, perceptiva e fisiológica, respaldada em modelo de natureza fonética. Desta forma, reforça a importância do entrelaçamento da Prosódia e da Fonoaudiologia no detalhamento dos eventos pertinentes à fascinante condição de sonorização do aparelho fonador humano e ao esforço por compreensão das variadas manifestações que se fazem presentes no ambiente clínico. Entre os conteúdos estão os seguintes tópicos: (i) qualidade de voz como elemento prosódico; (ii) o modelo fonético de descrição da qualidade vocal e o roteiro VPAS; (iii) os ajustes de qualidade de voz: (iv) aspectos perceptivos, acústicos e fisiológicos de manifestações presentes na clínica fonoaudiológica. A metodologia consistirá em aula expositiva com demonstração de áudios e vídeos com ajustes de q!
ualidades vocais; ilustração com dados de técnicas instrumentais e vivência na produção de ajustes e na análise perceptiva.

Keywords: phonetics, phonology, speech disorders, healthcare, social communication

Course 09: Prosody and Intonation in the teaching of Foreign Languages (English, French and Spanish) in the Brazilian Context (in Portuguese)

Instructor: Juan Sosa

Syllabus: This course is intended for Brazilian instructors and learners of foreign languages such as English, French and Spanish and will establish the most relevant prosodic features of these languages in contrast with Brazilian Portuguese. The focus will be on those aspects that convey semantic and pragmatic meanings as well as speaker’s attitude, such as intonational structure, melodic patterns and tone of voice. The course is practical in nature and will consist of 12 hours of contact. Some topics to be discussed include the modal distinction between statements and questions in those languages, the analysis and description of recurrent tunes and contours in greetings and dialogue, and the notation systems that have been proposed from a theoretical as well as a pedagogical perspective. The course will be given in Portuguese.

Keywords: second language teaching, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics variation

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University or Organization: University of Zurich
Department: University Research Priority Program on Language and Space
Job Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Web Address: http://www.spur.uzh.ch
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Geographic Information Systems

Description:

The newly-established URPP on Language and Space at the University of Zurich
invites applications for the position of Director of the GISLab (post-doctoral
fellow).

The URPP explores the interface between language and space with regard to (a)
the distribution of languages and linguistic structures in geographical and
social space; and (b) the embedding of speech in the spatial environment as
shaped by perception, motion and action. The URPP combines insights from
dialectology, typology and interactional linguistics. A key goal of the URPP
is the foundation of three new labs: one for GIS-based linguistics (GISLab),
one for corpus linguistics (CorpusLab), and one for video-based linguistics
(VideoLab). The labs are expected to develop and apply advanced methods and
technologies in their area of specialization.

The GISLab will be hosted within the GIScience Center of the Department of
Geography. The GIScience Center encompasses several research groups working on
diverse topics including language and space, geographic information retrieval,
digital terrain modeling, environmental geoinformatics, movement analysis,
digital cartography, geovisual analytics, and spatial cogni tion. For more
information, see http://www.geo.uzh.ch/gis.

In coordination with the URPP Board and the GIScience members of the URPP, the
prospective director will build up the GISLab as a center for the development
and use of GIScience methods that support research in the URPP. The director
will develop his or her own profile and research agenda, and will conduct
research on the language and space interface in collaboration with members of
the URPP (e.g. on spatially related questions of language contact, areal
diffusion, or language in landscape description). The prospective director is
also expected to apply for third-party funding. The position includes the
option of teaching in graduate courses. The director will also coordinate
services, support and training for linguistic researchers of the URPP who seek
to use GIScience methods in their work. In this task, s/he will be supported
by student assistants and PhD students affiliated with the lab.

We are looking for a highly motivated, original thinker with coordination
skills, who might still be rather junior but has the ambition to build up a
successful research and service group. Applicants will have a PhD in GIScience
or related field and a keen interest to collaborate with linguists of very
diverse backgrounds (e.g. dialectology, areal typology, interactional
linguistics, computational linguistics, general linguistics). Applicants with
a PhD degree in computational linguistics or (geographic) information
retrieval will also be considered, as long as they have experience in GIS
techniques, and the willingness to work on research topics with an important
geographic and GIScience dimension. A strong publication record as well as
demonstrated experience in interdisciplinary research is expected. A record of
successful grant writing and programming skills are considered assets.
Applicants must have a very good standard of written and spoken English.
Fluency in one or more of Switzerland’s national languages would also be an
advantage.

Send CV and publication list, an outline of the research agenda you would
propose for the GISLab, and contact details for three referees (incl. e-mail
addresses) in a single PDF document, and with reference “GISLabDirector”, to
the application email by 15 June 2013. The position will start on 1 Aug 2013.
It is initially limited until 31 Dec 2016, with an optional extension.

Application Deadline: 15-Jun-2013

Email Address for Applications: annica.mandola@geo.uzh.ch
Contact Information:
Prof. Robert Weibel
Email: robert.weibel@geo.uzh.ch

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Call for Workshop Proposals

ISLE, the International Society for the Linguistics of English, and the
English Department of the University of Zurich are pleased to announce the
society’s third conference, which will take place in Zurich, Switzerland,
24-27 August 2014.

http://www.isle3.uzh.ch/index.html

The thematic focus of this conference is inter- and intra-disciplinary
research.

The following keynote speakers have agreed to participate:

Prof. Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University
Prof. Joan Bresnan, Stanford University
Prof. David Britain, University of Berne
Prof. Susan M. Fitzmaurice, University of Sheffield
Prof. William Foley, University of Sydney

Workshop Proposals should include

- a thematic outline of the workshop (max. 2 pages, including references);
- an estimate of the likely number of papers;
- a list of participants and their affiliations (if possible);
- length of the workshop (half-day or full day)
- contact details of workshop organizers

Deadline: 31 July 2013

Contact details: isleweb@es.uzh.ch

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

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University or Organization: Heidelberg University
Department: Department of Computational Linguistics
Job Location: Heidelberg, Germany
Web Address: http://www.cl.uni-heidelberg.de
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics

Description:

The Department of Computational Linguistics at Heidelberg University announces
one PostDoc position in the Computational Linguistics research group of Prof.
Dr. Anette Frank.

The Computational Linguistics Department at Heidelberg University hosts a
young and dynamic team conducting cutting-edge research in Natural Language
Processing. With three full professorships, a growing number of PhD students
and researchers the department is one of the important centres of
Computational Linguistics in Germany.

Research in the Computational Linguistics group focuses on corpus-based
statistical methods for semantic natural language processing. Topics include
multilingual lexical semantics and knowledge acquisition, discourse-level
semantic processing and NLP applications built upon these methods.

Job Requirements:
The post-doctoral researcher holds a PhD in Computational Linguistics or
related fields and has demonstrated high-quality research in statistical
Natural Language Processing. The successful candidate has a very good
background in statistical NLP and machine learning, excellent programming
skills and a proven publication record. The person holding this position
participates in the research of the group and conducts independent research
related to the group’s research themes.

Salary: German scale TV-L 13
Duration: Initially two years with possible extension
Starting Date: October 1st, 2013

Job Description:
Four hours (PostDoc) of teaching per term in the department’s Computational
Linguistics Bachelor and Master Programs, and participation in administrative
duties. Next to English, a good command of German is required.

Applications should be sent to the application email and include a motivation
letter including:
- A statement of research and teaching interests
- CV
- Copy of degree certificate and study transcript
- List of publications, as well as names of references

All applications sent by June 7, 2013 will receive full consideration. The
positions are open until filled. The University of Heidelberg is an equal
opportunity employer.

Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)

Email Address for Applications: applications@cl.uni-heidelberg.de
Contact Information:
Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
Email: frank@cl.uni-heidelberg.de

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University or Organization: Higher School of Economics
Department: Faculty of Humanities
Job Location: Nizhny Novgorod / Moscow / St.Petersburg, Russia
Web Address: http://www.hse.ru/en/
Job Rank: Researcher

Specialty Areas: Applied Linguistics; Corpus Linguistics

Description:

The Faculty of Humanities at the Higher School of Economics (Nizhny Novgorod,
Russia) is planning to apply for a grant of the Russian Ministry of Education
and Science in order to establish a research laboratory in Applied
Linguistics. To win the grant we need an experienced and established foreign
researcher working in the field of Applied and/or Corpus Linguistics to head
the research laboratory planned in the framework of the grant.

The Higher School of Economics (HSE) is the largest higher education and
research institution of social sciences in Eastern Europe. The Faculty of
Philology (HSE-Moscow) in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities
(HSE-Nizhny Novgorod) carries out researches in the different aspects of
computational linguistics.

The laboratory is planned for two calendar years (2013-2015). The members of
the laboratory will be researches of different branches of humanitarian
knowledge (mainly linguists) employed in 3 campuses of the Higher School of
Economics (Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow, St. Petersburg). According to the grant
documentation, the foreign scientist should be physically present in Russia
for a total or at least 4 months in each calendar year with possible intervals
or continuously. The monthly salary is planned up to €8.000.

The applicant should meet the following requirements:
- High citation index
- Experience in managing research
- Experience in training research and teaching

Application Deadline: 31-May-2013

Email Address for Applications: vzusman@hse.ru
Contact Information:
Dr. Valery Zusman
Email: vzusman@hse.ru
Phone: 007 910 885 79 90; 007 831 416 98 24
Fax: 007 831 416 96 50

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University or Organization: Bangor University
Department: School of Linguistics & English Language
Job Location: Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom
Web Address: https://www.bangor.ac.uk
Job Rank: Lecturer

Specialty Areas: Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Language and Cognition, Grammar

Description:

As part of an exciting expansion of the School of Linguistics & English
Language, applications are now invited for a permanent lecturer in
psycholinguistics. Outstanding applicants are sought who will have an emerging
or established research programme in this area, whose research relates to one
of the School’s research specialisms, bilingualism or cognitive linguistics,
and who has evidence of producing research outputs that are judged to be
internationally excellent. Candidates will be able to contribute to a wide
range of undergraduate teaching in Linguistics, and English Language Studies,
as well as more specialist topics in one or more of the School’s MA and MSc
programmes. The ability to offer undergraduate teaching in the areas of
psycholinguistics, language and cognition, language development and
acquisition, and grammar will be important. Information on Linguistics &
English Language, including its staff and their research interests can be
found at http://www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/

Overview:
The School of Linguistics & English Language is the only School of Linguistics
in Wales, one of the oldest in the UK, and Bangor University is the only Welsh
institution to offer a degree in Linguistics. At present, the School has
approximately 230 undergraduate and around 20 MA students and 15 PhD students.
We offer single honours degrees in Linguistics, and English language plus
combined degree programmes with other schools. We also have a number of
Masters programmes, including an MA in Linguistics, an MA in Bilingualism, an
MA in Cognitive Linguistics, a Masters by Research (MRes), with various
pathways (including one in Welsh Linguistics), and two new MSc schemes, one in
Forensic Linguistics, and one in Language Development.   The School has a
vibrant research community and culture and is particularly known for its
research in the areas of Cognitive Linguistics, and Bilingualism. In terms of
the latter, the School leads an interdisciplinary Bilingualism Research
Centre, which involves collaboration with the Schools of Psychology and
Education (www.bilingualism.bangor.ac.uk), and is involved in the All-Wales
ESRC-funded doctoral training centre with the Bilingualism pathway coordinated
from Bangor. Information on Linguistics & English Language, including its
staff and their research interests can be found at the following URL:

http://www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/

To receive full consideration, applicants are requested to provide i) a
completed standard Bangor application form, ii) a curriculum vitae including a
full listing of publications, iii) a separate statement of research interests
and plans, and iv) a separate statement of teaching experience, including
details of which modules at undergraduate and MA levels the applicant is able
and willing to teach, and how they could contribute to the BA in English
Language Studies. Visit the link below for further information:

http://www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/overseas.php?menu=13&catid=3907&subid=0.

Purpose of the Job:
The present post is part of the ongoing development of the School including an
ambitious internationalisation agenda. In addition to enhancement of the
taught postgraduate programme, such as two new MSc schemes, the School has
developed a new BA degree scheme in International English Language that is
specifically aimed at the international student market. It has also
inaugurated a series of highly successful international summer schools (in
bilingualism and cognitive linguistics); and it aims to consolidate its world
leading status in its areas of academic specialism.

Application Deadline: 07-Jun-2013

Web Address for Applications: https://jobs.bangor.ac.uk/index.php.en
Contact Information:
Dr Christopher Shank
Email: c.shank@bangor.ac.uk

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University or Organization: Google
Department: Speech
Job Location: California, USA
Job Rank: Speech Data Evaluator

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics

Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

As a Speech Data Evaluator and a native-level speaker of US English, you will
be part of a team based in an office location in Mountain View, CA, processing
large amounts of linguistic data and carrying out a number of tasks to improve
the quality of Google’s speech synthesis and speech recognition in your own
language.

This includes:
- Classifying and annotating linguistic data
- Transcription
- Labeling text for disambiguation, expansion, and text normalization
- Providing phonetic transcription of lexicon entries according to given
standards and using in-house tools

Job Requirements:
- Native-level speaker of US English (with good command of the standard
dialect)
- Passion for language with good knowledge of orthography and grammar in the
target language
- A degree in a language-related field such as linguistics, language teaching,
translation, editing, writing, proofreading, or similar
- Keen interest in technology and computer-literate (should feel comfortable
using in-house tools and should have an interest in current speech, mobile and
online technology)
- Attention to detail and good organizational skills

Project duration: 9-12 months. This is a contract position working though a
staffing agency and we cannot offer visa sponsorship or relocation package.

For immediate consideration, please email your CV and cover letter in English
(PDF format preferred) with “Speech Data Evaluator [US English]” in the
subject line.

Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)

Email Address for Applications: DataOpsMan@gmail.com
Contact Information:
Ara Kim
Email: DataOpsMan@gmail.com

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University or Organization: Google
Department: Speech
Job Location: California, USA
Job Rank: Speech Data Evaluator

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics

Required Language(s): Spanish (spa)

Description:

As a Speech Data Evaluator and a native-level speaker of MX Spanish, you will
be part of a team based in an office location in Los Angeles, CA, processing
large amounts of linguistic data and carrying out a number of tasks to improve
the quality of Google’s speech synthesis and speech recognition in your own
language.

This includes:
- Classifying and annotating linguistic data
- Transcription
- Labeling text for disambiguation, expansion, and text normalization
- Providing phonetic transcription of lexicon entries according to given
standards and using in-house tools

Job Requirements:
- Native-level speaker of MX Spanish (with good command of the standard
dialect) and fluent in English
- Passion for language with good knowledge of orthography and grammar in the
target language
- A degree in a language-related field such as linguistics, language teaching,
translation, editing, writing, proofreading, or similar
- Keen interest in technology and computer-literate (should feel comfortable
using in-house tools and should have an interest in current speech, mobile and
online technology)
- Attention to detail and good organizational skills

Project duration: 9-12 months. This is a contract position working though a
staffing agency and we cannot offer visa sponsorship or relocation package.

For immediate consideration, please email your CV and cover letter in English
(PDF format preferred) with “Speech Data Evaluator [MX Spanish]” in the
subject line.

Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)

Email Address for Applications: DataOpsMan@gmail.com
Contact Information:
Ara Kim
Email: DataOpsMan@gmail.com

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University or Organization: Google
Department: Speech
Job Location: California, USA
Job Rank: Manager

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics

Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

As a Linguistic Project Manager and a native-level speaker of US English, you
will oversee and manage all work related to achieving high data quality for
speech projects in your own language.

You will be based in an office location in Mountain View, CA, managing a team
of data evaluators and working on a number of projects towards speech
research: ASR, TTS, and NLP.

This includes:
- Training, managing and overseeing the work of your team
- Creating verbalisation rules, such as expanding URLs, email addresses,
numbers
- Creating annotation conventions
- Evaluating data quality
- Providing expertise on pronunciation and phonotactics
- Working with QA tools according to given guidelines and using in-house tools

Job Requirements:
- Native-level speaker of US English (with good command of the standard
dialect)
- Must have attended elementary school in the country where the language is
spoken
- Keen ear for phonetic nuances and attention to detail; knowledge of the
language’s phonology
- Ability to quickly grasp technical concepts; should have an interest in
current speech, mobile and online technology
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Good organizational skills
- Previous project management and people management experience
- Previous experience with speech/NLP-related projects a plus
- Advanced degree in Linguistics preferred; experience with Computational
Linguistics a plus (also a plus: proficiency with HTML, XML, and some programming language;
previous experience working in a Linux environment)

Project duration: 9-12 months. This is a contract position working though a
staffing agency and we cannot offer visa sponsorship or relocation package.

For immediate consideration, please email your CV and cover letter in English
(PDF format preferred) with “Speech Linguistic Project Manager [US English]”
in the subject line.

Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)

Email Address for Applications: DataOpsMan@gmail.com
Contact Information:
Ara Kim
Email: DataOpsMan@gmail.com

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