Appalachian English Annotator

About the Job

WORK TYPE: remote work/work from home

WORK LOCATION: USA

WORK SCHEDULE: up to 10 hours per week

WORK TIMELINE: 3-4 weeks

LANGUAGE: Appalachian English

JOB TYPE: Hourly, Part-time

TELUS International is looking for Appalachian English Linguists for an English Transcreation and Annotation project.

Task description: the task is a two-step process including transcreation and annotation, depending on the availability, the linguist will be assigned to only one step of the process.

Transcreation phase: transcreate given texts into Appalachian English. Please note that the source will be in English. The sentence (about 10 words) or passage (about 40-50 words) should be transcreated in a way that’s most natural for a native speaker of Appalachian English.

Annotation phase: take prompts and outputs in Appalachian English and annotate them based on a series of questions aimed to measure responsiveness.

For example, in US versus UK standard English there are many examples of lexical differences (lorry vs truck; rubbish vs garbage, etc), but it does require some thought to introduce syntactical structure:

In the US, the answer to “Did Frank love it?” is “He must have”; in the UK is “He must have done”.

US: “the film was very good” vs UK: “the film was well good”

UK: “The New York Red Bulls are an American Soccer team”; UK: “FC Red Bull Salzburg is an Austrian association football club”.

Requirements:

Native or near-native speaker of Appalachian English
Currently located in the USA
Degree or experience in a language-related discipline, such as linguistics, language teaching, translation, creative writing, journalism or proofreading, etc.
Degree in English Linguistics or English language is good to have
Experience of annotation or similar tasks is a plus
Over 18 years old
Access to a computer (desktop/laptop) and stable Internet connection
Estimated start date: Immediately

Estimated workload: up to 10 hours per week

Project duration: 1-2 weeks

Compensation:

$25.00 per hour
Payments are made via TELUS International AI Community Portal
Assessment: a project-specific writing test will be administered as part of the screening for this project after you have confirmed your availability.

How to Apply:

Please complete the application via the following link:

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Our team will contact you with next steps.

If you have any questions or would like more details about this project, please contact us at [HIDDEN] and please include “Appalachian English” in the body of the mail or the subject line.



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