British Sign Language (BSL) - Freelance AI Trainer Project

The role

You will converse with a model on real-world BSL communication scenarios and theoretical questions in signed language linguistics. You will verify linguistic accuracy and cultural appropriateness, capture error traces, and suggest improvements to prompt engineering and evaluation metrics.

What you will do

• Converse with the model on real-world BSL 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 BSL-to-English translation, classifier usage, receptive and expressive skills, facial expressions in BSL, and spatial grammar
• Document failure modes to harden model reasoning

Required qualifications

• BSL fluency
• Deaf culture knowledge
• Visual linguistics knowledge
• BSL grammar and syntax knowledge
• Non-manual markers knowledge
• Fingerspelling knowledge
• Regional variations knowledge
• 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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