Computational Linguist

Job Description:

• 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.

Must-Have Skills:

• Regex/python experience.
• Experience with version control.
• Language data experience.

Nice-to-have Skills:

• Experience with syntax.
• Experience with NLP/ML.
• Experience in ontology/typology.

How many rounds of interviews? - 2 Rounds