LionbridgeAssociate Linguist (outsourced for Google)
Aug. 2016 - Jul. 2021São Paulo e Região, BrasilThe role of the Associate Linguist is to annotate and review linguistic data in Brazilian Portuguese, provide linguistic analysis and to support NLU and NLG projects. The Associate Linguist also contributes to a a variety of NLP projects to improve natural language processing. The tasks include: - NLU grammar development; - Annotating and reviewing linguistic data; - Deriving NLP data for new and on-going projects; - Labeling text for disambiguation, expansion, and text normalization; - Response modeling; - Annotating lexicon entries according to guidelines; - Evaluating current system outputs; - Providing phonetic/phonemic transcription of lexicon entries; - Analyzing acoustic data to evaluate speech synthesis; - Working with TTS system and performing/managing speech tasks; - Evaluating and analyzing data quality; - Creating guidelines; - Evaluating voice talent casting; - Script proofreading and recording quality control; - Providing annotation for the developing of TTS system and performing/managing speech tasks; - Research, development and experimental projects; - Be able to work independently with confidence and little oversight