Senior Research Coordinator, Linguistic Data Consortium

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Senior Research Coordinator, Linguistic Data Consortium

Job Profile Title

Research Coordinator Senior

Job Description Summary

The Senior Research Coordinator will support multiple, concurrent, revenue-generating linguistic resource creation projects for a variety of languages, annotation methods and data types including text, video, images, speech and mixed media.

Job Description

Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is a not-for-profit organization hosted by the University of Pennsylvania that creates and distributes data and other linguistic resources to universities, laboratories, companies and libraries around the world in support of language-related education, research and technology development. Visit https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ to learn more.

Within LDC, the Annotation/Collection group creates labeled data sets for high-stakes, externally sponsored human language technology and artificial intelligence research programs. Working as part of this team, the Senior Research Coordinator will support multiple, concurrent, revenue-generating linguistic resource creation projects for a variety of languages, annotation methods and data types including text, video, images, speech and mixed media.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in development of data collection and linguistic annotation methods for human language technology projects; research existing approaches and propose new ones; test new methods by producing labeled data and analyzing results; document methods for internal and external stakeholders.
• Assist in development of project timelines, milestones and budgets; manage tasking assignments and workflows within and across projects to ensure regular progress towards external and internal milestones; report progress to senior project staff and external sponsors and research collaborators.
• Evaluate, hire, train and supervise a fluctuating staff of part-time, temporary annotators including remote workers, student workers and independent contractors; coordinate activities involving external data vendors and subcontractors; monitor progress, assess quality and perform annotation and collection to address team shortfalls and emergent requests.
• Research, develop and implement appropriate quality assurance practices to support project goals; review collected and labeled data against requirements to ensure quality and completeness; assist in preparation of resulting data for publication.
• Work with project managers and software developers to design, specify and test user interfaces, data processing pipelines and other technical infrastructure required to meet project demands.

Qualifications:

A Bachelor's degree and 3 to 5 years of experience supporting externally funded language data collection and annotation projects or equivalent combination of education and experience is required. The successful candidate will have strong problem solving and analytical capabilities and outstanding organization/information management skills. The position requires flexibility and initiative in the face of fluctuating project requirements as well as the ability to juggle multiple demands and prioritize tasking effectively in a deadline-driven environment. Preferred qualifications include an advanced degree in linguistics or another language-related discipline, experience with linguistic annotation, and experience with human subjects data collection.

*For consideration, please submit a cover letter as well as a resume in the CV section of your application. You can upload multiple documents to the "Resume/CV" section.