Linguist II

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1. Christy Vimala
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2. Sandeep Bisane
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Job Title: Linguist II
Location: Remote
Duration: 3 Months+
Years of Experience: 5+ Years
Required Hours/Week: 40 Hours/Week

Job Overview:

• Linguist II provides linguistic expertise to support speech and language technology projects by analyzing phonetics, dialects, and transcription data.
• The role involves linguistic annotation, transcription quality evaluation, and developing text normalization processes for multilingual language datasets.

Duties and 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.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Native-level fluency in Tamil/Marathi/Arabic.
• Familiarity with command-line, scripting, and versioning systems.
• Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA and ToBI.
• 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.

Preferred Skills:

• Python
• Data Analysis
  
  Education/Experience:

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

Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation.