Immediate 2-3 month contract opening for a Linguistics Professional opportunity in Montreal, QC.
Job description:
Skilled business professional needed to help build linguistic relationships between business categories and search terms. The work will be done in our Montreal office, with minimal supervision provided by an onsite engineering team and remote (CA) project manager. The project entails following a set of instructions to create mappings on a large number of terms. The work is very detailed and requires a high level of precision. Project will last between 8 and 10 weeks.
Project goal: Build a local category scheme
Day to day duties:
* Use internal tools to review business and local points of interest category names
* Research and document category types
* Develop business taxonomy for local users
* Analyze query terms
* Work under an NDA with access to proprietary data
Requirements:
* BA/BS degree (Master of Library Science, linguistics, comparative literature, social science, biology) - Desired but not required - we will test for these skills during interviews.
* Bilingual (spoken and written) in English and Canadian French
* Experience with translating from English
* Extensive experience with daily life in French Canada (i.e., has lived there for 3+ years)
* Computer Savvy: familiarity with search engines, word processors and spreadsheets
* Experience with indexing, categorization or language study
* Detail oriented
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