Korean language tagger / translator

Summary

Join our team as a Korean teacher or translator to enhance our interactive reader tool! This remote contract position involves improving our Korean passage development tools by automating grammar tagging. The work primarily includes basic translation and grammatical feature identification. You will also participate in a limited number of meetings for feedback and discussions. The project is estimated to take 5-10 hours per week over 3 months, with potential for future phases. We seek a native Korean speaker with advanced English proficiency and experience identifying grammatical features. Familiarity with Google Suite and the ability to attend occasional meetings during EST hours are also required.

Requirements

• Native speaker/writer of Korean
• Advanced proficiency in English
• Able to identify grammatical features like part of speech, person/number/gender, tense, etc. in Korean with the help of some guidelines
• Good familiarity with google suite (sheets, docs, filesharing, etc.)
• Able to attend occasional meetings on Google Meets during EST work hours
• Ability to learn new technologies

Responsibilities

• Help improve the tools we use to develop new Korean passages by automating some of our grammar tagging
• Your work will mostly involve basic translation and some identification of grammatical features (e.g. part of speech, person/number/gender, etc.) with the aid of our guidelines
• We will also request that you attend a limited number of meetings to provide feedback and discuss the results with the rest of the team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience teaching Korean to English speakers
• Experience working on natural language processing tagging projects or something similar
• Degree in language teaching, applied linguistics, or similar
• Writing or editing experience in Korean or in another language
• Experience or expertise in teaching writing or reading