Linguist II

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.
• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, and other areas of linguistics
• Experience with SQL, spreadsheets, and other data tools
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Programming experience such as Python, PHP, or JavaScript
• Experience with data annotation or labeling
• Programming SQL; like to have Python experience
• Technical Writing skills
• Design and conduct experiments for evaluating data quality
• Quality assurance
• Chatbot system

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, or related field. occasion