| More Information: | University or Organization: Pygmalion
Department: Natural Language Understanding
Job Location: Montreal, Canada
Job Title: Analytic Linguistic Project Manager [French-Canada]
Job Rank: Manager
Specialty Areas: Morphology; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax; Natural Language
Processing
Required Language(s): English (eng)
French (fra)
Description:
The role of the Linguistic Project Manager is to consult with Natural Language
Understanding Researchers on creating guidelines and setting standards for a
variety of NLP projects, with a strong orientation toward semantic and
syntactic analysis. The project manager will also lead and manage the work of
a team of junior linguists to achieve high quality data output.
This includes:
- Reviewing and annotating linguistic data
- Developing phonetic/phonemic transcription rules
- Analyzing acoustic data to evaluate speech synthesis
- Deriving NLP data for new and on-going projects
- Training, managing, and overseeing the work of a team of junior linguists
- Creating guidelines for discourse, semantic, syntactic and morphological
projects
- Consulting with researchers and engineers on the development of linguistic
databases
- Identifying and assigning required tasks for a project
- Tracking and reporting the team's progress
- Monitoring and controlling quality of the data annotated by the team
- Providing linguistic/operational guidance and support to the team
- Delivering final output
Job Requirements:
- Native speaker of French (CA) and fluent in English.
- Master's degree or higher in Linguistics or Computational Linguistics, with
experience specializing in semantics, syntax, morphology or lexicography.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Good organizational skills.
- Previous project management and people management experience.
- Ability to quickly grasp technical concepts; should have an interest in
natural language processing.
- Keen interest in technology and computer-literate (should feel comfortable
using in-house tools and should have an interest in linguistics and linguistic
resources)
Project Duration: Approximately 6 months (with a possible extension), starting
as soon as possible.
This is not a permanent position but a full-time contract position.
How to Apply:
For immediate consideration, please email your CV and cover letter (PDF format
preferred) with "Analytic Linguistic Project Manager [French CA]" in the
subject line.
Application Deadline: (Open until filled)
Email Address for Applications: AdvancedLinguistics@gmail.com
Contact Information:
Vikki Ha
Email: AdvancedLinguistics@gmail.com |