Japanese Linguistic Consultant

Job title: Japanese Linguistic Consultant

Contract type: Independent contractor

Compensation: $38 CAD/hour

Work Location: Remote

Who are Cambridge Cognition and what do we do?
We are a talented global team based in the UK, Canada and USA. Backed by over 30 years of scientific discovery and validation, Cambridge Cognition offers the end-to-end platform for CNS clinical trials. Our technologies are reliable in-clinic or at home for an improved patient experience and accelerated drug development.

We aim to make an extraordinary impact by improving the health of people worldwide with innovative assessments and digital biomarkers that provide researchers with precise measures of patients’ symptoms. We lead in CNS research and are broadening our impact across therapeutic areas.

Are you interested in working for a company whose main goal is to make a difference to the health of current and future generations, through the knowledge and experience of our passionate team?

Role Summary:

We are seeking a Linguistic Consultant to provide expert guidance and support to our engineering team in the implementation of automated lexical, syntactic, and semantic analysis of various languages in our AI platform. We’re currently seeking a Linguistic Consultant for Japanese. This person will play a key role in consulting on the verification and validation of our methodology for linguistic analysis to improve the quality and scientific validity of our software.

Role & Responsibility:

• Develop test case annotations to enable analytical validation of natural language processing tools, including tokenizers, lemmatizers, part-of-speech taggers, constituency parsers, and dependency parsers for Japanese.

• Collaborate with software engineers, science leads, clinical operations, and product teams to identify, document, and resolve methodological issues or ambiguities in our linguistic analysis.

• Provide guidance and recommendations for improving our extraction and analysis of linguistic information.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Linguistics, or equivalent experience.

• Demonstrated ability to annotate text (sample data from transcripts) in Japanese.

• High level of attention to detail.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency in or academic experience with Japanese.

• Exposure to, or interest in, natural language processing tools (mentioned above) and machine learning.

• Exposure to, or interest in, neuropsychological and cognitive testing, and changes in language as they relate to pathology such as dementia, aphasia, depression and other conditions

Other:

We're not currently able to sponsor employees. This means we’re unable to consider applications from candidates who are not eligible to work in the country our roles are based.

Cambridge Cognition is an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and application from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, marriage, and civil partnerships.