30.3760, Jobs: Arabic, Standard; Thai; General Linguistics: Linguist, Appen

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-3760. Fri Oct 04 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.3760, Jobs: Arabic, Standard; Thai; General Linguistics: Linguist, Appen

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Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 13:19:30
From: Jon Carlo Frayna [jcfrayna at appen.com]
Subject: Arabic, Standard; Thai; General Linguistics: Linguist, Appen, Menlo Park, California, USA

 
University or Organization: Appen 
Department: Recruitment
Job Location: California, USA 
Web Address: https://appen.com/
Job Title: Bilingual Linguist - Menlo Park, California
Job Rank: Linguist; Other

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)
                      Thai (tha) 

Description:

Appen is the world's leading innovative technology company, providing
high-quality language and data services for machine learning and artificial
intelligence. Appen has more than 20 years of experience in collecting and
processing a variety of data, including data types such as speech, text, and
images, etc.

We are seeking resumes of native level Arabic or Thai speakers with
linguistics background. This is an onsite full-time Appen employee position at
the client’s facility in the San Francisco Bay Area. The position is still
tentative but expected to start within 4-6 weeks. Successful candidates will
need to pass a screening test as well as a background check.

Key Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will be engaged in general responsibilities:
- Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses
- Annotate language data with linguistic information 
- Determine quality standards for annotation 
- Curate large amounts of annotated data by analyzing annotations, comparing
annotations to guidelines, and building gold analyses 
- Pilot new label sets to test their feasibility

Required Knowledge, Skills, Ablities:
- Degree in Linguistics or a related field 
- Native level speakers of Arabic (any dialect) or Thai 
- Interest in various areas of linguistics, including pragmatics, semantics,
syntax and morphology 
- Ability to formulate, articulate, and describe concepts and hypotheses that
are broad enough to capture high-level 
- concepts and specific enough to formalize as rules 
- Strong analytical language data skills 
- Collaborative and solution-oriented attitude 
- Eagerness to learn new skills and adapt to a changing environment 
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills 
- Enthusiasm for detail work and ability to focus for significant portions of
the work day 
- Ability to speak and write in English fluently and idiomatically 

Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced degree and/or industry experience 
- Fluency in two or more natural languages 
- Experience working with large ontologies and label sets 
- Familiarity with version control, unit tests, and other programming best
practices 
- Experience with basic programming techniques 
- Familiarity with languages such as Python, PHP, Perl, and C++

To apply, please see the application link provided below.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do
not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin,
gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability
status.



Application Deadline: 04-Nov-2019 
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://talent-appen.icims.com/jobs/4843/job?mode=job&iis=Jobposting&iisn=Linguistlist 
Contact Information:
	Recruitment Lead Jon Carlo Frayna 
	Email: jcfrayna at appen.com 


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