Computational Linguist Job at SPECTRAFORCE, Burlingame, CA

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  • SPECTRAFORCE
  • Burlingame, CA

Job Description

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.

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