35.779, Jobs: Mandarin Chinese, Indonesian, Malay, Tagalog; Computational Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax: Linguistics Consultant, smartKYC

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Subject: 35.779, Jobs: Mandarin Chinese, Indonesian, Malay, Tagalog; Computational Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax: Linguistics Consultant, smartKYC

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Date: 05-Mar-2024
From: Katja Goldring [katja.goldring at smartkyc.com]
Subject: Mandarin Chinese, Indonesian, Malay, Tagalog; Computational Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax: Linguistics Consultant, smartKYC


University or Organization: smartKYC
Job Location: , ----------------
Web Address: https://smartkyc.com/
Job Title: Linguistics Consultant
Job Rank: Consultant

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax;
Mathematical Linguistics; Mathematics

Required Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                      Indonesian (ind)
                      Malay (zlm)
                      Tagalog (tgl)

Description:

smartKYC is looking for qualified linguists to support software
designed to extract information from news media in different
languages.


Responsibilities:
 - Translate keywords from English to requested languages
 - Create semantic rules to capture relevant results from news media
in requested languages
 - Test results


Who we are:
smartKYC helps financial institutions automate KYC (Know Your
Customer) checks. These are background checks that banks are obliged
to carry out on potential customers to verify their wealth was not
amassed illegally. smartKYC consolidates checks in various databases
as well as news media, extracts the relevant information and
categorizes it to ease the work of the financial institution’s
analysts.


smartKYC associates:
 - Have great communication skills
 - Are motivated to work alone or in small groups
 - Are interested in improving the product and suggest possible
enhancements
 - Are interested in the intricacies and ambiguities of language


Qualifications:
 - Fluency in: Arabic or Chinese or Hindi or Italian or Portuguese or
Spanish or Thai
 - Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, mathematics, or computer science
 - Able to work 15-20 hours per week
 - Able to work remotely
 - Knowledge of syntactical and semantical analysis of languages
 - Knowledge of formal (e.g. mathematical) languages (preferred but
not required)
 - Knowledge of regular expressions (preferred but not required)
 - Knowledge of any programming language (preferred but not required)


Location:
smartKYC is based out of London. Linguists will be working remotely.

Mailing Address for Applications:
Email Address for Applications: katja.goldring at smartkyc.com
Web Address for Applications: https://smartkyc.com/
Contact Information:
        Katja Goldring
        Email: katja.goldring at smartkyc.com



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