Linguistics Expert with FRENCH CANADIAN

Role: Linguistics Expert

Location: Dublin

Cognizant has been a tremendous success story globally over the last 20+ years.

It is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 2000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.

We run a multilingual Customer Support and Content Review Centre onsite one of our Technology Clients in Dublin. It is an instantly recognizable, global iconic brand and a place where employees learn, collaborate and help improve a digital product used by over a billion people worldwide!

Linguists working on an exciting Natural Language Processing Program. Understanding that language data is the underpinning of all current language technologies. Involve in practical language analysis as well as theoretical. Learn and implement new label sets. 

You will join our growing team of associate linguists working on an exciting Natural Language Processing Program. You understand that language data is the underpinning of all current language technologies. You love practical language analysis as well as theoretical. You're quick to learn and implement new label sets. You are a native-level speaker of the required language and fluent in English.

What you will do:

- Annotate linguistic data and contribute to grammar development work

- Process and regress Field annotators defects

- Identify and address gaps in annotations

- Evaluate, update, and distribute annotation guidelines

- Monitor data acquisition and curation

- Develop and/or review gold data in consultation with the client

Qualifications:

- Advanced/Post Graduate degree in Linguistics, Speech Science, or related field

- Some experience annotating data with linguistic, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, phonetic, phonological, or prosodic information, depending on the requirements of the project and your area of linguistic specialization

- Native-level proficiency in the target language and fluency in English

- Desirable (but not a must) Python language programming

Skills:

- Collaborative and solution-oriented attitude

- Ability to adapt to changing requirements, priorities, and revisions

- Strong attention to detail and good communication style 

Work Experience:

- Preferred 1year+ working experience (can be internship)

- Freshers may apply