Title: Linguist II (Brazilian Portuguese)

Duration: 09 months

Location: Burlingame, CA

Summary:

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of p honetics, 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:

Nice-to-have Skills

Education/Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.