What are the responsibilities and job description for the Linguist position at Ascendion Inc.?
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About Ascendion
About Ascendion
Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000 Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.
Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life
We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:
- Build the coolest tech for the world s leading brands
- Solve complex problems and learn new skills
- Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
- Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience
Experience a community of change makers!
Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.
About the Role
Job Title: Linguist
Location: Remote
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.
Minimum Qualifications
- 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.
- Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA and ToBI.
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.
Position Information
Salary Range:The salary for this position is between $80000 $90000 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
Benefits:The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year.
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Salary : $90,000
