Job Description

Job Title: Linguist II
Job ID : 58456-1
Pay : $40-50/hour
Location: Remote (Anywhere in US but prefer Redmond, Burlingame, or NYC for occasional onsite visits)
Duration: 12-month contract starting M-F, full-time (40 hours); W2,
*Opportunity for extension or conversion based on performance and business needs*
Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision) + PTO

The main function of a Linguist is to determine language and visual data needs for data based model and product improvements. The team is needing additional support in their department as they are rapidly growing! In this role you would be developing guidelines to produce data with nuance requirements, auditing data that has been labeled, driving quality metrics and reporting those out, and may be doing some things natural lounge understanding development role and model based.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide linguistic expertise, especially in the areas of syntax, semantics, taxonomies, and NLU
• Develop strategies for labeling visual and language data together
• Create guidelines in support of labeling projects that allow vendor labelers to consistently label language, visual, and motion data at quality
• Analyze labeling quality and adjust guidelines as necessary to ensure labeling quality. Enforce labeling standards

Skills:

• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, and taxonomies
• Ability to work in ambiguous space and develop norms and processes
• 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.

Top 3 must-have HARD skills:

• Experience with data annotation or labeling
• Experience with SQL, spreadsheets, and other data tools
• Programming experience such as python, PHP, or Javascript
• design and conduct experiments for evaluating data quality

Good to have skills:

• Quality Assurance
• Chat bot system

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, or related field

Tailored Management

Job Tags

Full time, Contract work, Remote job,

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