Senior Linguist

Senior Linguist

 Remote Job  

 Job Description

PROLIM Global Corporation (www.prolim.com) is currently seeking Senior Linguist for location Remote, United States for one of our Top clients. 

Job Description:

The main function of a Linguist is to determine language and visual data needs for data based model and product improvements. 

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:

-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

Good to have skills:

-Programming experience such as python, PHP, or Javascript Education/Experience

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