What are the responsibilities and job description for the Computational Linguist position at SPECTRAFORCE?
Title: Linguist II Brazilian Portuguese
Duration: 12 months
Location: Burlingame, CA
Summary:
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
- Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP for the language of expertise.
- Create and perfect text normalization and inverse text normalization processes.
- 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.
- 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.
Skills:
- Native speaker of Brazilian Portuguese or demonstrated near-native fluency
- Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics.
- Command line/scripting/coding skills (Python, bash, regexes)
- Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
- Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA and ToBI.
Must-Have Skills:
- Coding and scripting
- Command line/ /coding skills (Python, bash, regexes)
- Phonology transcription
- Brazilian and Portuguese
- Native speaker
Nice-to-have Skills
- Python - scripting
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.
Salary : $50 - $55
