Subject: Language Specialist Japanese -- Linguistic Engineering Division - - L&H
From: Serge Vanden Bussche <Serge.Vanden.Bussche@lhs.be>
To: elsnet-list@let.ruu.nl
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 09:52:14 +0100





Lernout  &  Hauspie is an international company based in Flanders, Belgium,
developing  various  speech  technologies  since  1987.  Lernout  & Hauspie
develops   technology   for   speech   coding,   speech   recognition   and
text-to-speech,  in  several  languages  and for a wide variety of hardware
platforms.  Lernout  &  Hauspie has over 700 employees worldwide. Lernout &
Hauspie  went  public  on  NASDAQ  in  December 1995, and established joint
ventures in Japan, China and Egypt to extend its international presence and
to expand its product line.

For  the  further  development  of the German text-to-speech system and the
development of dialogue systems, Lernout & Hauspie is currently looking for

For  the development of the Japanese dialogue systems, Lernout & Hauspie is
currently looking for a

                       Language Specialist Japanese
                  for the Linguistic Engineering Division
                        located in Ieper (Belgium)


Function:
This  person will work on the development of grammars for dialogue systems,
the  further  development  of text-to-speech and speech recognition systems
for  Japanese  and/or  on  other  projects in the field of natural language
processing and speech synthesis.
He/she will work in a language development group and report to the group or
project manager.

Profile:
¡¤    university degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent
¡¤    excellent knowledge of Japanese
¡¤    interest in other languages and their linguistic aspects
¡¤    at least a basic experience with and interest in computers
¡¤    good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following
areas are considered an asset:
     - speech processing
     - phonetics
     - computer linguistics
     - natural language processing (NLP)
     - spoken dialog systems
     - computer technology
     - standard software packages
     - programming
     - other languages than the target language
¡¤    ability to work in a team and independently
¡¤    perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness
¡¤    good social and communicative abilities
¡¤    fluent in English
¡¤    willingness to travel abroad for limited periods of time




If you are interested in this job opportunity and you believe to fulfil the
required  profile,  we  have  to meet each other. Please send your hardcopy
application and detailed resume to:

                  Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
                  Personnel Department
                  attn. Mr. Patrick Thomas
                  Sint-Krispijnstraat, 7
                  B-8900 Ieper
                  BELGIUM

or send your electronic application and detailled resume to :

To  learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our homepage
.