Egyptian Arabic Linguist

Remote • Posted 1 hour ago • Updated 1 hour ago
Contract Independent
No Travel Required
Remote
$50 - $60/hr
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Job Details

Skills

  • Arabic
  • Linguistics
  • Scripting
  • Regular Expression

Summary

  • Provide expertise in phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.

  • Offer native speaker input and feedback on product quality.

  • Design and conduct experiments to evaluate transcription quality.

  • Develop manual and automated processes for multiple concurrent projects, including:

    • High-quality label alignments

    • Prosodic classification

    • POS identification and disambiguation

    • Targeted modeling data collection

    • User feedback integration

  • Create and refine text normalization and inverse text normalization processes.

  • Manage lexical and phrasal transcriptions with associated metadata.

  • Develop/evaluate large-scale labeled datasets (language ID, text normalization, G2P, audio alignments).

  • Analyze system metrics (user opinion, lexicon coverage, POS tagger performance) and implement remedies for identified issues.

 

Must-Have Skills

  • Native-level fluency in Egyptian Arabic; familiarity with Modern Standard Arabic.

  • Familiarity with command-line, scripting, and versioning systems (e.g., Git).

  • Phonetics/phonology expertise with IPA or SAMPA transcription OR regex experience.

 

Good-to-Have Skills

  • Python programming.

  • Data analysis and pipeline development.

  • Prosody classification, dialectology, sociolinguistics.

 

Candidate Value Proposition

  • Opportunity to directly influence voice quality for Egyptian Arabic users.

  • Varied tasks leveraging native speaker insights for cutting-edge linguistic applications.

  • Freedom to shape user experience by ensuring natural, expressive, and accurate speech synthesis.

 

Typical Day in the Role

  • Provide linguistic expertise in phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.

  • Offer native speaker input and feedback on product quality.

  • Develop/evaluate large-scale labeled datasets for NLP applications.

  • Create/refine text normalization processes.

  • Manage lexical/phrasal transcriptions and metadata.

  • Analyze system metrics and implement remedies.

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
  • Dice Id: 10378866
  • Position Id: 8903500
  • Posted 1 hour ago
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