Appen (listed on the ASX) develops high quality speech and language technology solutions namely used in car navigation systems, mobile phones, word processing packages, directory assistance, speaker verification tools and hand-held machine translation devices. Our staff comprises Linguists, IT professionals and Project Managers who collaborate to produce quality work in over 100 different languages for many of the world’s leading companies.

We are looking for Linguists/Computational Linguists who are native speakers of Japanese, for flexible or full-time home-based role.

The project is an exciting and challenging opportunity to help develop world-class linguistic software.

Project Information:
• Location: Global
• Linguistic skills should include grammar, syntax, morphology, computational.
• The candidates should be familiar with linguistic tools, and language technology applications.

Tasks:
• Development using Lexicon Creator: create template structure, populate templates, document templates, use functions.
• Grammar design (for grammar checker and other components): create high-level structure, such as level design and chunking approach. Give guidance to linguists working on complex implementation.
• Lead triage process, write specs, invokes project management best practices.


How to apply:
Please include with your application: your CV/resume; details of any language qualifications you hold; your availability http://bit.ly/2nG5xzq

• Advanced degree in Linguistics or Computational Linguistics
• Native speaker of one or more of the above languages
• High proficiency in English
• Excellent technical skills
• Linguistic skills should include morphology and syntax
• Excellent organisational skills with attention to detail
• Capable of managing or performing computational linguistic work in several languages.
• An individual with a computational linguistics degree and proven
experience (syntax, morphology, lexicography) on multiple languages.
• Must be capable of working across multiple languages, leveraging deep
linguistic knowledge and computational experience with other languages.

Location: Remote/Global/Work from home