Linguist II

Job Description:

Summary: 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. Run speech recognition models and evaluate output quality. Skills: Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics. Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language. Excellent communication skills both verbal and written. Ability to manage multiple projects and organize people across teams • Comfortable with basic coding practices for data analysis using SQL, Python, etc. Education/Experience: Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.

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