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.

Skills:
• 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.
• Native or near-native speaker of at least 2 languages.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA and ToBI.

Education/Experience:
• Bachelor's degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.

Custom Fields:
Name: Does this role deal with graphic and/or objectionable content to any extent?
Value: No

Name: Good to have skills
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Name: Story Behind the Need - Business Group & Key Projects
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Name: If yes, approximately how often might CW's engaged by your team encounter graphic or objectionable content (imagery, video, or written) in the course of their work with your team?
Value: None

Name: Typical Day in the Role
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Name: Top 3 must-have HARD skills
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Name: Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition
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Name: How will performance be measured
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Name: Team Name
Value: None