Language Resource Manager

TIH | IIT Bombay; Mumbai Suburban; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology research organization in Mumbai is seeking a Linguistics expert to provide linguistic support and manage freelance language resources. Candidates must have a Master's or PhD in Linguistics, a minimum of 3 years' NLP project experience, and skills in team management. The role involves collaboration with machine learning engineers and evaluating model outputs. This full-time position is ideal for professionals who excel in linguistic analysis and problem-solving.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience in NLP projects with language data annotation.
• Experience in project coordination with team management skills.
• Experience creating guidelines for language resources.

Responsibilities

• Provide linguistic support for LLM, ASR, and TTS model development.
• Collaborate with machine learning engineers for data integration.
• Evaluate linguistic quality of model outputs and provide feedback.

Skills

Linguistic Analysis

Problem-Solving

Collaboration

Management

Education

Master's or PhD in Linguistics or Computational Linguistics

Job description

Overview

We are looking for Linguistics experts with team management experience, extensive experience working on NLP projects and proficiency in 2 or more languages from any one of the following language groups:

The Language Resource Manager will have two-fold responsibility:

• Support development and improvement of our LLM, ASR, and TTS models by providing linguistic expertise
• Manage the work of freelancing language resources for the assigned group of languages.

Key Responsibilities

• Linguistic support
• Collaborate with machine learning engineers to understand data requirements and to identify opportunities to integrate linguistic knowledge into model development
• Create guidelines for data annotation/validation projects based on data requirements
• Evaluate the linguistic quality of model outputs and provide feedback for improvement
• Management
• Collaborate with data sourcing team to understand data processing timelines and operational constraints
• Set up operational pipelines for processing sourced data and delivering processed data to model development team
• Source freelancing resources for various tasks for languages from the assigned language group, assign them data annotation task and track and manage their work

Education Qualifications & Experience

• Master\'s or PhD in Linguistics or Computational Linguistics.
• At least 3 years of experience working on NLP projects, providing language data annotation for Machine Learning or GenAI projects.
• Experience creating guidelines to be followed by language resources preferred.
• Project co-ordination experience with 2+ years of team/project management experience preferred.
• Experience working with low resource languages is a plus.

Technical Skills

• Linguistic Analysis: Strong understanding of linguistic principles and the ability to analyze linguistic data.
• Problem-Solving: Ability to identify and solve linguistic challenges related to language technology.
• Collaboration: Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with machine learning engineers and other team members.
• Management: Ability to set up processes and pipelines, track and manage work of language resources

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Other

Industries

• Research Services

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