Danish Language Linguist

3 Weeks ago • All levels • Localization

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Linguist for the linguistics team, you will be responsible for proficiency in multiple languages to manage, develop, and optimize linguistic resources. Your role involves fostering and developing languages for various products delivered to customers, ensuring they meet Lightcast standards. You will also contribute to the development of new features. The ideal candidate is dynamic and multilingual, capable of quickly learning the role and integrating into a multicultural team. Key responsibilities include analyzing and improving data quality of multilingual text classifiers, translating taxonomies (Skills, Titles, Occupations), and annotating data for model training and validation.
Must have:
  • Proficiency in multiple languages
  • Analyze and improve data quality
  • Translate various taxonomies
  • Annotate data for model training
  • Strong linguistics knowledge
  • Microsoft Excel experience
  • Data analysis using tools
Good to have:
  • Competency in Danish
  • Knowledge of RegEx

Job Details

The primary expectation for this role as a Linguist for the linguistics team is proficiency in multiple languages, enabling you to effectively manage, develop, and optimize linguistic resources. You will be assigned languages based on fluency and your role will be to foster these languages and develop them for a multitude of products delivered to customers. Your job will be to build and maintain these languages per our Lightcast standards and help in the development of further features. 

To fill this role we are looking for a dynamic and multilingual person that will quickly learn the ins and outs of the role in order to become an active part of a multicultural team. 


Major Responsibilities:

  • Analyze and improve data quality of multilingual text classifiers
  • Translate various taxonomies such as Skills, Titles, and Occupations.
  • Annotate data used for model training and validation

Education and Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics, Data Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Artificial Intelligence, NLP or similar. 
  • Strong linguistics knowledge

Skills/Abilities:

  • Competency in any of the following languages:  Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese.
  •  (Preference will be given to candidates that possess multiple)
  • Understanding of syntax and structural analysis of languages
  • Microsoft Excel experience (including vlookups, data cleanup, and functions)
  • Experience with data analysis using tools such as Excel
  • Knowledge of RegEx is preferred

Lightcast is a global leader in labor market insights with headquarters in Moscow (ID) with offices in the United Kingdom, Europe, and India.  We work with partners across six continents to help drive economic prosperity and mobility by providing the insights needed to build and develop our people, our institutions and companies, and our communities.

 
Lightcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Lightcast has always been, and always will be, committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We seek dynamic professionals from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.

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