29.5012, Jobs: General Lingusitics: Consultant, Babelscape S.r.l.

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Subject: 29.5012, Jobs: General Lingusitics: Consultant, Babelscape S.r.l.

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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 23:06:02
From:  Tucci [tucci at babelscape.com]
Subject: General Lingusitics: Consultant, Babelscape S.r.l., Rome, Italy

 
University or Organization: Babelscape S.r.l. 
Department: Linguistic Resources
Job Location: Rome, Italy (Telecommute)
Web Address: http://babelscape.com/
Job Title: Creation of a Package of Annotations to Enhance Automatic Language Analysis
Job Rank: Consultant; Consultant; Linguist; Free-lance Language Expert

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Czech (ces)
                      Greek, Modern (ell) 
                      Lithuanian (lit) 
                      Maltese (mlt) 
                      Romanian (ron) 

Description:

Requirements: 
- Knowledge of the Office package or equivalent; 
- Mother tongue speaker of Romanian, Greek, Lithuanian, Czech, Maltese.

Subtasks list includes:
- Laudatory terms and prefixes
(the annotator will be required to translate a list of English prefixes into
the target language, providing them with semantics and marking those that
convey a complimentary or superlative meaning);
- Slang and Netspeak
(the annotator will manually compile a comprehensive list of informal language
words and web-peculiar lexicon as used in the target language);
- Written pronunciation
(the annotator will work closely with a computer scientist in order to create
a set of rules indicating how a target language speaker would read words from
an English repository);
- Alternative spelling
(the annotator will provide a list of common alternative writings as used in
the target language);
- Potentially offensive words/meanings
(the annotator will translate a list of English lemmas, associating them to
the pertaining domain, i.e. derogatory, sexual, vulgar, violent, or
culturally-delicate);
- Expectation dataset 
(the annotator will be provided with a list of trademarks among which the ones
which have a meaning in the target language should be highlighted.

To apply and to see other languages and open positions, please see the
application link provided below.



Application Deadline: 28-Feb-2019 
	  
Email Address for Applications: jobs at babelscape.com 
Web Address for Applications: http://babelscape.com/job/linguistic-annotations 
Contact Information:
	Federico Martelli 
	Email: jobs at babelscape.com 


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