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Defined.ai

Senior Computational Linguist ( Japanese )

Defined.ai, Seattle, Washington, us, 98127

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Description Who is Defined.ai? From a technical point of view, we leverage the power of a global crowd to provide some of the world’s biggest companies with the high-quality data they need to power their artificial intelligence.

From a personal point of view, we’re a group of big thinkers, high achievers and creative problem solvers. We bond over our shared love of software engineering, data science, and strong coffee. We celebrate authenticity and diversity and we’re invested in what we do. Our mission? World domination, obviously!

About the role At Defined.ai, we make machines smarter for Fortune 500 companies. Our focus is on improving Artificial Intelligence technologies through natural language processing – and we need linguists to train new models. We are looking for Senior Computational Linguists

native/fluent in Japanese

to work in a project with Meta.

Start Date Start date is as soon as possible.

Location On site in Burlingame (SF) or Redmond (Seattle) or New York.

Weekly scope General:

Linguists will help build out the NLU workflows and workstreams required by defining and delivering data annotation pipelines, annotation guidelines, golden datasets, training datasets, evaluation criteria, process improvements, upskilling programs, etc. You would be working on the following work streams:

building test and evaluation training sets

evaluation and analysis of product features

rules engine, tweaking the engine for the model outputs

triage

multimodal features, chatbot experiences, packing the AI into glasses

The role of the computational linguist is to help develop and improve our client’s NLP/NLU systems. Tasks may include but are not limited to:

Annotating and reviewing linguistic data – part of speech annotation, semantic annotation, phonetic transcription

Collect data and perform data analysis

Labelling text for disambiguation, and (inverse) text normalization

Evaluating current system outputs, detect incidental and systemic errors and provide solutions

Translation and localization tasks

Creating and evaluating training and test sets

Native speaker on one of the target language and fluent in English.

Experience in using, adapting and creating scripts in python

Knowledge of relational databases and using, adapting and creating SQL queries

Experience in annotation work

Knowledge of semantics, syntax, morphology or lexicography

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Attention to detail and good organizational skills

Be able to work independently with confidence and little oversight

Desired Skills

Degree in Linguistics or Computational Linguistics, or a degree in computer science with a minor in linguistics

Ability to quickly grasp technical concepts; learn in-house tools

About Us Defined.ai offers a platform with multiple data delivery options that leverages machine learning technology and human intelligence to deliver quality-guaranteed training data for AI systems. The platform offers self-service and fully customizable solutions that deliver high-quality project-specific training data, enabling AI products to reach market quicker. Defined.ai was founded in Seattle and has an office in Lisbon.

Seniority level

Associate

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology

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