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American Sign Language (ASL) - Freelance AI Trainer Project
World Wide - Remote. Posted 17 months ago
The role
ASL specialists will converse with language models on real-world communication scenarios and theoretical questions in signed language linguistics. You will verify linguistic accuracy and cultural appropriateness and suggest improvements to prompt engineering and evaluation metrics.
What you will do
- Converse with the model on real-world ASL communication scenarios and theoretical questions in signed language linguistics
- Verify linguistic accuracy and cultural appropriateness
- Capture reproducible error traces
- Suggest improvements to prompt engineering and evaluation metrics
- Challenge advanced language models on topics like ASL-to-English translation, classifier usage, receptive and expressive skills, facial expressions in ASL, and spatial grammar
Required qualifications
- Clear, metacognitive communication
Nice to have
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Deaf Studies, Sign Language Interpreting, Linguistics, or a related field
- RID certification
- Teaching experience
- Community interpreting projects
Before you apply
- As a contractor you’ll supply a secure computer and high-speed internet
About the company
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