PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Ph.D. holder in English Linguistics (syntax and morphology), with experience in basic NLP: tokenization, lemmatization, POS labeling, NER labeling, span, and slot annotation, and phonetic/phonemic transcription (IPA). Python programming at beginner level.
SKILLS
Expert: Linguistics, Linguistic Annotation, English, Spanish, MS Office
Advanced: Translation, Time management, Communicative skills
Intermediate: Project Management
EXPERIENCE
Linguist, Sense StreetOct 2021 – Apr 2022
Exceeded in annotating POS, NER, spans, and slots for highly specialized texts to be implemented into ML models. Succeeded in delivering results promptly.
Built a custom tokenizer using Python and spaCy, to meet specific requirements of the company’s data, and to improve results thrown by ML models.
Spanish Linguistic Consultant, Amazon UK (via Appen)May 2021 – Sept 2021
Achieved ample experience in phonetic and phonemic transcription and annotation using IPA and X-Sampa phonetic systems.
Redesigned annotation guidelines, to reorganize, clarify and ensure annotation consistency and quality across teams.
Developed sets of logical rules to be applied to scripts, to perform consistent sentence segmentation for Spanish corpora.
Language Technology Coordinator, RWSSept 2020 – Sept 2021
In charge of the preparation, pre-translation, and update of the translation memories of SDL Trados.
Editing Assistant, RWSMay 2019 – Sept 2020
In charge of editing patent translations for top-tier international technological companies.
English lecturer and researcher, Universidad de La RiojaOct 2016 – Jan 2019
Guided and mentored small teams of pre and post-doctoral linguistics, to carry out research projects
Explored and analyzed the intricacies of English Linguistics, and applied that knowledge to my work in my research group.
Authored several journal articles and international conference presentations during this time.
EDUCATION
BA, English Linguistics and Literature (2:1)June 2010
Universidad de La Rioja (Spain)
MA, English Linguistics (1st)July 2011
Universidad de La Rioja (Spain)
Ph.D., English Linguistics (summa cum laude)July 2015
Universidad de La Rioja (Spain)
