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Human Language Technology Specialist
Company | Leidos |
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Location | Bethesda, MD, USA |
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Salary | $85150 – $153925 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
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Requirements
- Active TS/SCI CI Poly clearance
- Achieve a minimum score of 2 in respective foreign language (reading and listening) and a minimum score of 3 in English (reading, listening, speaking, and writing) on the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) scale
- Three (3) years of experience working with human language technology and computer programming
- BA degree and 4 – 8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 2 – 6 years of prior relevant experience.
Responsibilities
- Assist in the management, development, and configuration of HLT tools, including machine translation engines, text classification models, transliteration, and optical character recognition
- Identify and address issues with the integration of technology
- Facilitate the use of Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) tools such as SDL Trados, including creating translation memory projects, and managing translation memory and termbase files
- Leverage customer tools to generate reports and metrics
- Review results generated by tools to assess accuracy and effectiveness
- Work with various team members (e.g., systems engineers, triage specialists, and linguists) to identify products of potential value
- Provide training to other team members on the use of translation memory and CAT tools
- Create and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the use of HLT
Preferred Qualifications
- Formal education in data science, computational linguistics, and/or computer programming
- Experience with translation memory and translations management, certification preferred.
- Familiarity with linguistics and foreign language concepts, including morphology, orthography, and semantics, and computational approaches to modelling them
- Advanced degree in computer programming, computational linguistics and/or linguistics
- Familiarity with Document and Media Exploitation (DOMEX) processes and specialized tools
- Trados certification for Project Management or Translation
- Training or certification in Translation Memory and Terminology Management