Description

We are looking for an experienced detail-oriented individual with demonstrated native-level language expertise in Greek and Latin, deep knowledge of historical genealogical documents, and demonstrated understanding of guidelines and principles to help us build high-quality training data for machine learning systems. Duties to include mentoring and reviewing the work of others to do likewise. This work will assist in making billions of records available in FamilySearch’s automation and machine learning platform.

Responsibilities

As a Machine Learning Historical Records Linguist II in the Records Product Group at FamilySearch you will be expected to demonstrate expertise in paleography, linguistics, technology, and historical records to build machine learning training datasets for historical genealogical documents in many languages. You will use paleography skills to accurately decipher historical documents, annotate language data with linguistic information to build natural language processing (NLP) datasets and model the way people naturally read historical documents. This will be accomplished by creating hierarchies of relationships between areas of text, precisely mapping the layout of historical documents, curating large amounts of data, reviewing datasets for errors, providing corrections in a timely manner and through other data modeling activities and duties as assigned.

Other primary duties include providing mentoring and timely feedback through review of peers' work, updating instructional materials, ensuring datasets are created accurately and modeling the truth of the underlying artifacts while following project guidelines. You will enable FamilySearch’s automation efforts by meeting aggressive deadlines and accomplishing work assignments with consistent quality output while helping others to do likewise.

Qualifications

Education:

BA/BS Linguistics, Family History, Instructional Design or other bachelor’s degree with related or equivalent experience required.

Experience:

4-5 years relevant or related experience

Skills & Abilities:

Native level fluency in Greek (circa 1500’s-present) and Latin (circa 1200’s-present)
Business level fluency in English
Demonstrated paleography skills to accurately decipher historical documents
Demonstrated linguistic skills to build NLP datasets
Demonstrated understanding of guidelines and best practices for creating different types of machine learning datasets from historical genealogical documents
Demonstrated ability to mentor and train others
Demonstrated ability to update instructional materials in a manner that is grammatically correct, concise, accurate, and easy to understand
Experience working with historical documents
Strong technical and analytical aptitude with a passion for data, efficiency, and accuracy
Independent worker who is self-motivated, dependable, detail-oriented, responsible, self-disciplined, and a team player with a record of timely delivery of requests
Willingness to support several projects at once and to reprioritize as necessary in a fast paced, constantly evolving environment
Comfortable with a high volume of work on a daily basis
High proficiency with MS Office tools: Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
Ability to quickly grasp technical concepts
Experience with multiple languages preferred

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