Job: Researcher/Engineer at Alibaba DAMO Academy — Singapore Center

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Lidong Bing

► R&D Center Singapore, Alibaba DAMO Academy
The R&D Center Singapore of Alibaba DAMO MIT Lab (https://damo.alibaba.com/?lang=en) is an international R&D team with the focus on developing cutting edge speech and language processing technologies, including speech recognition, speech synthesis, natural language processing (NLP), and machine translation. To serve Alibaba's globalization strategy, the R&D Center Singapore is paying special attention to the technology developments related to the areas of multilingual speech and language processing. For example, we are working on speech recognition and synthesis of multiple languages, NLP technology and machine translation systems for Southeast Asian languages, speech-to-speech translation, and knowledge-enhanced NLP techniques.

► Position 1: NLP Researcher/Engineer
■ Job Duty:
- Take the key role of developing knowledge-empowered NLP techniques, including but not limited to: knowledge acquisition and representation, applying knowledge into different NLP tasks etc.
- Conduct research on how to utilize the real world knowledge (such as Knowledge Graph, Ontology, Domain Knowledge, and Commonsense Knowledge) to understand natural languages, and how to generate natural text that does not contradict with the real world knowledge.
- Conduct research in the area of natural language inference with knowledge-empowered approaches, such as recognizing textual entailment, emotion cause identification, stance classifications, etc.
- Explore the next generation of natural languages understanding technology. Explore how to integrate the symbolic knowledge/logic with the neural network models.

■ Qualification:
- PhD degree from related areas, and 3+ years relevant working experience is preferred.
- Experience in research and developments of related NLP topics, such as information extraction, knowledge base, natural language understanding, natural language inference, reading comprehension, text generation/summarization, etc.
- Strong publication records in top tier related conferences, such as ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, SIGIR, KDD, WWW, NIPS, AAAI, IJCAI, etc.
- Good programming skills in Python/C++/Java, and one shell script. Familiar with deep learning models and major deep learning programming frameworks.
- Self-driven, innovative, collaborative, good communication and presentation skills.

► Position 2: Machine Translation Researcher/Engineer
■ Job Duty:
- Take the key role of developing Machine Translation techniques for low-resource languages, such as Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, etc.
- Develop Machine Translation modules to support specific business scenarios and products for Alibaba globalization strategy. Adapt and develop the current Machine Translation techniques to achieve good translation performance between low resource languages and English/Chinese, and vice versa.
- Conduct research and develop algorithms for low resource language translation with monolingual corpora. Plan and prepare parallel corpora between English/Chinese and low resource languages.

■ Qualification:
- Master or PhD degree from related areas, and 3+ years working experience in NLP, Deep Learning, etc. Theoretical foundations or industry experiences in Machine Translation/Text Generation/Summarization will be a plus.
- Strong programming skills in Python/C++/Java, and one shell script. Familiar with deep learning models and major deep learning programming frameworks.
- Publication records in related conferences, such as ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, SIGIR, KDD, WWW, NIPS, AAAI, IJCAI, etc.
- Working experience for Southeast Asian languages is a plus, and speakers of these languages are preferred.
- Self-driven, innovative, collaborative, good communication and presentation skills.

► CV or inquire to Lidong Bing via: l.bing@alibaba-inc.com