Linguist III
Location: Remote
Duration: 12 plus months contract with possibility of extension.
Start: Targeting September 2024
Benefits: Medical, dental, vision. Sick leaves based on local laws
Summary:
The main function of a Linguist is to determine speech data needs and setting strategic vision for data-based model and product improvements.
Job Responsibilities:
• Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.
• Design and conduct experiments for evaluating transcription quality.
• Develop manual and automated processes for multiple concurrent projects including ensuring high-quality label alignments, prosodic classification, POS identification and disambiguation, targeted modeling data, and user feedback.
• Create and perfect text normalization and inverse text normalization processes.
• Manage lexical and phrasal transcriptions and related metadata.
• Analyze system metrics such as user opinion, lexicon transcription coverage, and POS tagger performance and remedy pain points.
Skills:
• Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics.
• Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.
• Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA and ToBI.
Education/Experience:
• Bachelor's degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.
Location: Anywhere
Posted: Sept. 30, 2024, 4:53 p.m.
Apply Now Company Website